Old Barns of Appalachia are slowly disappearing
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- The old barns are slowly disappearing across rural America as weather and age takes it's toll on them. Here is a look at some of them and how they were made back in the day. Thanks for watching. NOTE: Some pictures are just to tell the story and not the actual pictures. SUBSCRIBE:: LIKE AND SHARE:: HELP GROW YOUR CHANNEL THIS CHANNEL COVERS 9 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS !!! ( CHECK IT OUT) 1. Metal Detecting 2. Wildlife Videos 3. History & Mountain Culture 4.The Unexplained 5. Home projects 6. Hunting & Fishing 7. Nature Videos 8.Mining History 9. Video Shorts
My grandmother passed away this year at 92 years old. She was raised on a dairy farm in southern Ontario, Canada. She always had a big black and white photo of her family farm from probably the 1930s, and a picture of the barn raising with all the family and neighbors helping out. The men did backbreaking work raising that barn, but the women had to feed everyone with only a wood fired oven and no microwave or refrigerator. Pretty amazing if you think about that.
One thing that struck me was a story she told me about how hard life was but how everything was so much simpler. My great grandparents farmed that land until well into the 50s without any modern machinery, no running water or electricity. They were hard working, church going, community and family people.
Thanks for telling this story.
That's so awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories. Your very welcome. God bless you.
Where about in southern Ontario? I'm originally from Union, near Port Stanley.
@@alexc.3455 ...and I'm in NIagara!
I am in my 60's. I remember great grandma telling me about her life as her only great grandson. She told me people was lot happier. Lots of hard work but you had everything you needed right there on the farm.
My mother was also raised on a farm in southern Ontario. Near Mount Forest. She died 6 years ago but would have been 92 if she had lived. They had no running water or heat, other than a wood stove. They just cut a hole in the floor to let heat up to the second level. They raised their own meat and grew their own vegetables. A one room schoolhouse was just about 4 miles down the road and when they were old enough she would triple up with her two sisters on the horse to get their. But only if their daddy didn't need it to work that day. What a life.
My Grandparents had a dairy farm in upstate NY right on the Canadian boarder.I spent many hours playing and working in the barn,milking,haying shoveling out the gutters.My Grandfather was born in 1914, his father built the barn in the late 1800s.Growing up on a farm was a great way to grow up.I think everyone should grow up on a farm.You learn about hard work,you learn where your food comes from,how it's raised and how it's butchered,you learn about life and death(the circle of life). You definitely learn how to fix and build all kinds of things.Growing up on a farm was just a great way to grow up,hunting,fishing,swimming in the river after bailing hay all day,the whole family eating dinner together every night(there were 8 of us at the table)Great memories!
Awesome my. Thanks for sharing your memories. God bless you.
I live in Wisconsin so I have an appreciation for old barns. The barns of the Appalachian region are really special, and the landscapes outstanding, second to none. Thanks for the video.
Our family farm became a Centennial Farm in 1994. It is no longer a working farm, but the barn, silos, chicken and wood sheds are still there. The corncrib is gone, and there are no chickens or other farm animals, but we still hold our family reunions there (we had the 86th on Labor Day Weekend). We always go through the barn and reminisce about haying, cranky cows, pigs, chickens, dogs, barn cats.......Thank you for sharing this with us......we appreciate the work that you put into these, and I treasure them along with the memories they bring back. 💖💖💖
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless.
Brings back memories, I remember the old barns with mail pouch tobacco painted on the side. When these old barns are gone I for one will feel a carton loneliness at the los of these monuments of the past. Thanks Donnie for sharing those old memories.
Me to my friend. Thanks for sharing. Your very welcome.
I have a photo of one of the mail pouch barns. It's in Indiana or Illinois I think. I take photos while we are motor homing through. It's a really neat barn with age old lettering.
I love the quiet of the old barns. See the morning sun coming through with the dust particles floating in the air. Still smell the hay in the bins by the stanchions. Such fond memories of long ago. Thank you for this video today.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories. Your very welcome.
The barns were definitely the heartbeat of the farm. I love to see the ones being preserved. The log barns are so very beautiful, with their shake roofs. Thanks for sharing, Donnie.💖
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome.
Thank you for showing the beautiful old barns. It brought me to tears though, as I grew up on a 1000 acre farm in Western Kansas. I went back there 2 years ago with my son. The old barn I grew up playing and working in looks so sad. Falling to pieces along with our old house. Just breaks my heart seeing our way of life becoming nonexistent. Anyway, thanks again Donnie for doing what you do and showing and telling about one of my favorite places!!
So sad my friend. Thanks for sharing. Your very welcome.
Krissi57, I really don’t just have a rosy outlook on everything. I do believe tho that hard times are coming and I believe this lifestyle is actually going to make a resurgence. I know a lot of folks going back to homesteading. I just hope we will also rebuild some of those beautiful barns:)!
@@Snappypantsdance Agree, hard times are coming and there has been and is a big movement back to homesteading. Which is amazing! I just feel that the prices of lumber are so high now that rebuilding barns, the old style way, are to expensive. We will and do see many more metal framed barns going up. Just not the same in my eyes !
Thanks for the video, I love old barns. I bought where I live 21 years ago. A big reason I bought it was the old 2 story barn here. It has A lot more square footage than the house. There's time and money to keep it up but it's worth it.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, for caring enough to preserve our past.
The floods (2016 I think) took out Great-Grandma's barn outside Rainelle, WV. The timber supports were 16 inches through and the planks on the walls were a solid 2 inches thick. You can't even find those kinds of building materials anymore. Kinda sad. Nice to see people repurposing the wood though so a bit of them lives on.
Thanks for sharing this my friend. That's so sad.
Sorry for y'all's troubles. Rainelle has a priceless church made entirely of American chestnut.
@@accousticdecayWell, Great-Grandma has been gone for a while now. I just have a Great Uncle left in the area. It was just sad hearing about her old barn having to come down. She just had a little place with some cows and hens. Meant everything to her though. She lived into her 90s and was doing fine until she got too old to take care of her cow. Once she didn't have a cow to milk in the morning she faded fast. Weeks really. Funny how people are. Some of the barn wood was bought and repurposed, which is kind of nice.
When I was young when I would visit my grandma in Alabama and I remember always liking the old barns that we would pass on our way there this here content brings back those memories 😁
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Hi James
Such beautiful mountains! I too love those old barns. The log ones are really nice! The people were hard working - I see those logs and I can feel it.... That wagon should be in a museum!
Thank you friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks for sharing this. It is a tribute to the country and mountain folks who spent many hard days building and working in these barns. Brings back memories of days gone by living and traveling through the Appalachians.
Your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you brother Donnie for sharing these videos with us! It breaks my heart to see our history and heritage slip away and our children and grandchildren will never know much about our past. This brings back memories no one can take away. Blessings to you sir ✝️
Your very welcome my friend.
Donnie, I became interested in old barns by watching a TV show where they would take lumber from old barns and use it to build new homes or barns, etc. Then, my wife and i moved to NC and we see old barns all over the country side and i wonder about the people that used them years ago.
Sir, you really educate us on the history of the people and the overall history of Appalachia!!
Thank you. God Bless you.
Tim
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing. Your very welcome.
I never can understand why so many barns are left to fall and decay. They are all so beautiful to me. We had an elderly couple that went around our state sketching and watercolor painting old barns. His favorite were the round barns. He said he did those to preserve them in our memory. I still have one of his paintings on my living room wall. - from the dairy state Thanks again for another beautiful video
That's awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
We have a preserved octagonal apple barn nearby, really interesting.
Same here, when you see a cluster of trees in the middle of a field -you know something was once there.
That's so true my friend. Thanks for sharing Dave.
Thank you for sharing the beauty of the barns. I remember playing in the rafters and watching sparrow chicks hatching. So much fun!
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Hey Donnie, thank you for this one, old barns are near and dear to my heart. I didnt grow up on a farm but my relatives did, it was the old "family farm" for a few generations and had the big red barn common in Wisconsin, as kids we were always in the barn or down by the creek. I still get to drive past an old wooden silo, its right off Hwy 53 on the way north out of Eau Claire, the roof has been missing for a few years now but the silo still stands, if I won the lottery Id put a new metal roof on that thing just to preserve it. Down by Pepin theres a beautiful old round barn, really unique and good sized, that was a talented crew that put that sucker up. Keep up the great vids Donnie.
Awesome Thanks for sharing your memories with us my friend. Your very welcome. God bless you.
we love the old barns too, sometimes just wonder about how they were built, or how they were used and just the stories behind them, they are just beautiful parts of history. thanks for sharing
Awesome my friend..Thanks. for sharing this.
Donnie...I so much enjoy watching all of your videos, and I thank you for taking the time to record and preserve, so much of the beautiful Appalachian history from years gone by for all of us and for future generations to learn from. You bring back so many happy memories from my childhood sir, and I thank you for that!
Your very welcome my friend. Thank you so much for sharing this. God bless you.
I miss country roads and the grey weathered barns...thanks for reminding me about something from being a kid in the country, Donnie ❤
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome.
oh what a lovely reminder of my past, being on the farm, cattle and pmu (pregnent mare) horses, the kittens in the loft where i spent most of my spare time, how grateful am I to have been able to play in the lofts, feed horses and milk cows in the old barns, we had a new brand new one, but i am sorry the old red one seemed more cozy. The smell of horses and their whinnies....bah, tears to my eyes...no one wanted to carry on and the farm was sold, so very heartbreaking and sad, but the memories, the teachings, all good things i ever learned came from that farm how grateful am I ? thank you Donnie, how wonderful those old barns are!
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this story my friend. God bless you.
I went to a barn restoration workshop in AR that was taught by a man from OH. I can't think of his name right now, but it was good. He illustrated how changing farming practices, especially with hay, made old barns unusable with the new technology. I is sad to see our lanscape disappearing and few care. Eric Sloane wrote a book called Our Vanishing Landscape. Many old barns are being smashed and the timbers sold to mills that resaw them into flooring. I remeber playing in some old barns belonging to relatives. I used to see so many barns, and now so few. The way the world is going, we may wish we had them back, as we may need to use the old technology once again.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this information.
Thank you Mr. Laws for another great video. It makes me sad to see the old wooden barns disappearing. I myself love the old barns much more than the metal ones too. Thank you and God Bless you🙏🏻❤️
Thank you Donny. That brought back a lot of memories from my 78 years on this earth. I've lived pretty much all my life in Wisconsin. At one time there were a fair amount of round barns. Unfortunately they're getting to be more and more rare. God's blessings to you and your family, my friend.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing. Your very welcome. God bless you.
Such a beautiful video Donnie I enjoyed it. There is something when you are driving down the road and see an old barn that gives you such a warm feeling. I loved playing in my grandfathers barn as a kid. They are wonderful ! !
Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
I still love seeing old barns. Can still remember the sweet smell of the hay, in the loft we'd play in. Got my first kiss up there too. Such good times. Thanks for this Donnie. Brought back some good old memories.
Wish I could buy them all and preserve them for future generations. Some people still care about stuff like that. I know I do.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Great history again Donnie! We love to watch Barnwood Builders on the Magnolia Network. They reclaim old barns and cabins. The crew is from West Virginia.
Awesome my friend.
Barns used to be the pride of farms. Awesome examples of barns from your region. Excellent video. Thank you.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing.
My Dad built us a house back from the road kind of behind Grandpa and Grandma's house. The only way to get a car to our house was to drive through the barn. That meant somebody had to get out and remove the poles that kept the cow on the property and after the car got through put the poles back up. I hadn't thought of that in a very long time. Thanks Donnie.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
I recall playing in a barn up in my town... There were some farms still hanging on in the 60's... Until I saw your video Mr. Laws , I forgot all about that..... That barn was taken down for the expansion of Rt 95 in those early years. We don't recollect often enough to be reassured of our decisions on the future. That's education. Learning from the past. They're changing that now. Have been for some time. They all forgot about the Lord and Our Creator. They want to believe they come from a darn monkey. Silly and just plain ol dumb people. Bad choices there again. Hard times are coming again. God Bless.
Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
That not what evolution is. We have a common ancestor we don’t come from monkeys.
@@westproperty6178 huh?
@@westproperty6178 I don't. Some believe otherwise.
Have you accepted Jesus Christ into your life ?
Have you heard the Gospel of your Salvation? 1 Corinthians 15: 1-4
@@jonmason9360 yes, and I am practicing Christian. You need to understand evolutionary science better before you start talking about it.
Old barns, old memories, old days! Need to go back! Thanks ole friend.....ATB
Amen my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Oh DONNIE this was great and got me thinking about different signs / markings /decorations, traditions from the old country , that you’d see on BARNS ! I’d love a video on that sometimes in the way you make videos 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Mr. Donnie, I remember my grandads barn. So many memories and stories. God bless you and yours.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
35 years ago I lived in Tennessee out in the country. Friends from church asked me if I would help their family chop and hang tobacco one summer. I said yes not knowing what I was getting myself into, since I'm just a girl from Hawaii!🤣
But, I loved being out in the field and learning the history of the family I was helping. We became life time friends. I loved the old barns and working in them. It's all a part of my history and heritage as well since my mother's mother was from the hills of Tennessee. Thank you for the wonderful video. I love the old barns and the they could tell.
I love old houses and old barns! ❤️ my friend and I played around her parents little farm and at a horse stable barn that use to be on sugar Mtn.!
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you for the memory jog. I remember playing in an old barn. 3 stories high. We would balance on those old posts like we were in the circus. Climbing all over. Then we would ride the bus elevator up when it was time to stack hay. It was hot work, but we did it as a family. Those were the days. Thank you.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories.
Howdy Donnie- I sure have a soft spot for the old barns. Here, it’s like where you live, the old ones are slowly fading away. I sure hate to see it happening. There’s a lot of family history tied to them old barns. Take care and God bless y’all
I grew up on a dairy farm. This brought back a lot of memories. Thank you once again. you're not the only one who loves old barns. I'm speaking only for myself but I bet I'm not the only one.
Awesome my friend..Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
Ohhhhh 😥 its so sad when you happen upon history crumbling. This is America. True America. How special you're preserving and sharing what you can in your wonderful videos Mr. Donnie. We enjoy watching each one. Thank you, thank you. Absolutely gorgeous images too. ❤️🇺🇲💙👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
So true my friend. Thank you friend for sharing this. Your very welcome.
Those were barns that I thought of as _barns_ when I was a kid. Seeing them in drawings and cartoons, in movies, etc., I thought the country landscapes of my childhood would last forever. The new metal ones seem rather industrial. I wonder if these new ones get really hot inside when the summer sun hits them (unless there's an air conditioning system set up). As a fairly new owner of a 120 year old house, I know the upkeep of old buildings require lots of hard work, lots of TLC - and some money.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
I wish we had more old barns available hate that they're disappearing love abandon barns also
Thanks my friend for sharing this.
Your very welcome my pleasure Donnie always
I played in my grandpa's barn. It's no longer there.I sure love old barns. Thanks Donnie,loved the video.
There is a beautiful old barn down the road from my friends house. Also six covered wooden bridges around town. I love the history of the mountain farms. So much better than big city life.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Hi Donnie. Have you thought of doing a video on old barns that have been restored? I bought our little farm here on Leatherwood Hollow in 2016. Since that time we've restored the entire property, including the barn. It has been a labor of love. All the king posts have been replaced, a new stall area, drive-though center, a workshop, garden implement area, 2 new lofts with a catwalk adjoining the two, and a small cantilever deck off the east side of the barn. There is a large lean-to off the back as well. We added a shed off the left side for equipment last year, but that shed is now being renovated into a woodworking shop and handmade mosaic ceramic tile studio. It's all being done historically, to maintain that old Tennessee look and feel on the outside. I have seen a few other barns that have been restored, or are being restored in our area.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Much respect sir. I've been working on photo documenting each of the ole barns throughout my own county. In a similar vein, they're slowly fading away. I'm surprised how many i didn't know about.
If those historical walls could talk.... Thanks for sharing with us.
Awesome my friend. Keep up the good work. God bless you.
Such a neat video Donnie...I love the old barns and tractors ..and may God bless those that try to keep it all going...that looked like an old International tractor in that one picture ...My Dad grew up on my Grandparents dairy farm way back in the 1920's up untill Dad was drafted into WW2 ....but up until they sold it in the 1980's , we would have to go out there and hammer tin on the barn roofs and generally keep them up...hard work ...but such prescious memories ....Thank you for the video Brother.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing. Your very welcome.
Hey Mr Laws. Hope You are doing Good and Staying Safe. I hunted out of and lived in an old barn. Me and my Dog stayed warm and cooked with a wood stove. Good living.I helped build a great big old hay barn when I was young, but it's gotten old like me. I don't mind seeing an old barn go back into the earth. It reminds me that that's where we're all headed and that's alright. Circle of Life. God Bless You Brother and Thanks. 🙏👍🇺🇲🐶🪶🐦🙏
We used to have a dairy farm on third street in Daytona Beach. It always fascinated me. They used to sell ice cream there at one time. Last time I was there they were selling ice cream again. I was told by an old man that used to work there, the dairy farm went out of business when they had to get electric milking machines and the milk had to be sterilized, because they couldn't afford to get the machines to do that, to sterilize the milk. We used to see old barns with "See Rock City" on them on the roofs. Those were the days my friend. Thank you for sharing your story and pictures!
Awesome my friend..Thanks for your story. Your very welcome.
I've been watching a handful of your videos, and just wanted to say you're a good man. Thank you for sharing experiences from both your own life and history, the wisdom from what you've learned to appreciate, and core values that we should all strive for as people.
Thank you friend. God bless you.
Hi Donnie.
I enjoy drawing these old barns.
If they could talk, they'd have a lot to say about the people who built them and worked in them and what the animals they had.
I love old barns and the history they bear.
Thank you Donnie for another great story.
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome.
They used to be 3 or 4 of the old dairy farm barns within a 1/2 mile of our place, and you could buy new born bull calves for 5 or 10 dollars, sometimes free.Then we would raise them on a bottle.Now the milk cows are gone,and the old barns are falling down.Its sad but I guess you can build a new metal barn, for what it would cost to repair the old ones, but like you Donnie I like the Old Barns.Thanks for sharing Friend and Take Care 🙂.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing these memories.
In the town that I live in, there was an old turn of the century house from the early 1900s. I use to walk by it a lot during my walks across town. A couple weeks ago we had some storms with straight line winds that came through and took down a ton of limbs. Half a tree fell on it and they couldn’t save the building. I didn’t know about it until last week because I haven’t walked in that area for a while. I walked by the area yesterday and saw nothing but dirt to indicate where the house use to be.
Oh no! Hate to hear that my friend. God bless.
Love seeing those old barns across the county especially Cades Cove and surrounding area. Last trip up these outside of Chattanooga I saw a old barn I had been looking at for 25 years (one of my favorites) falling down. Made me sick to my stomach, it always had See Rock City painted on the sides.
Hello Donnie
Enjoy the pictures of the old barns and the beautiful country side the Lord has created. Enjoy riding the old back roads there is still things from time gone by. You might even come up on a Country Store. That don’t have them anymore them old drink boxes the lid open up and had cool water flowing through it around them drinks. Thanks
I grew up in Chattanooga and the SEE ROCK CITY signs on old BARNS is very sentimental me ! I love seeing them !!!!!
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
I love them old barns' thank you for sharing with us Donnie and God Bless y'all.
Your very welcome my friend.
I was fortunate to join a draft horse club in Montana. Annually, we would use teams and those old mowers (maintained and restored) - to mow a field at a good club member’s ranch. What skill & know how our farming ancestors had! It’s amazing how well those mowers do the job. The horses sure worked all out- each team was plenty tired after their turns around the field. It also demonstrated how fit those teams had to be - to complete mowing on a tall field, raking/turning & removing the cut. Hats off to those folks who made their living that way!
Awesome my friend..Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks Donnie for continuing to record history. It's sad to see those old barns disappear. The same thing is happening here in Canada. Love your videos and thank you for posting them.
This has to be one of my favorite videos…thank you SO much!! My husband and I take long rides around the countryside and I look for old barns…they sure tell a story! Thanks again for taking the time to put videos like this on here…🥰
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
Beautiful old barns my friend! I've rode the ole Buggy Rake and McCormack number 9 mowing machine many times!
We put our hay away loose, no bales, and I would get in the mow of the barn and get covered up with hay my Dad would throw off the wagon. I've fell down through the mow hole a few times! Good memories Mr. Donnie and thank you again! See you at the Supper table.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories. God bless you.
Love this video Mr. Donnie,old memories of summers in the country,thank you
Thank you friend.
Awesome. Your videos always struck a chord with me I hope you continue to upload Donnie.
Thank you friend.
Same as where I grew up in the Catskills, but post and beam construction with wood pegs holding them together. What craftsmanship...spent a lot of time in those barns, some of my fondest memories. Have a nice day.
That's awesome my friend. They were craftsman. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks Donnie for sharing another great story about Appalachia lifestyle.
Your very welcome my friend.
Thank you Donnie for sharing these beautiful pictures. I guess I’m old school too I love the old barns. I swear I can smell the dirt floors & old wood! I made my playhouse in the corn crib of ours it had stairs to the loft & I had it “done up right “! Sure brings back wonderful memories!✌️
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
I noticed on global earth my grandparents barn in Tazewell is gone. My great grandfather built it and my dad and I used to check it out when we were down south. My mom's family barn was still standing last I seen it and was actually kept up. Thanks for bringing back the memories.
Your very welcome my friend. God bless you.
Thanks Donnie played in a many barn growing up then worked in them . Carl Johson City
Your mention of shakes brought it back for me....all that we used were split from cedar and great to install...and then there were the shingles from cedar which were split and then resawn on the angle. Popular for house exteriors especially by the beach...lots of fun if it was a two plus story home...but early in my career the shakes on the roof were declared a fire hazard and that was the end of them after the existing roofs deteriorated. Appreciate the video and still photo mix of this barn saga...very nice!
I grew up in Hancock county. I’ve been in the dairy, livestock and tobacco barns more times than I can count. Unfortunately it was a long time ago.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
You just made me cry. Every summer of my childhood was spent in Hancock County. Being free and running the hills with my cousin. It was the best of times. Most everyone is gone now. I was able to come back to visit. I took a piece of the barn home with me. It reminds me of the little girls who dreamed of their future up in that barn loft. Funny thing is I got most of those dreams but now I wish I was back in that barn loft.
Thank you friend for sharing your memories with us. God bless you.
These people had a distinct building style. They could put up a barn before you new it. Darns were used for storage and many other important things. Housing animals and sheltering grain, etc. Very nice to reach back into history and bring these different aspects to the forefront to ponder. You do wonderful work with this Donnie. Your friend, Louise
I love old barns. I remember playing in my grandparents barn. Precious memories. We enjoyed the video.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories.
I remember at age of 7, working around a ole tobacco barn, picking up tobbaco leaves that fell off the sticks.Thank you for great video.
Awesome my. Your very welcome.
Donnie Laws, what a neat subject matter, I've since a child thru now loved to nib and. Looked into those old barns,barns were ahave too have buildings for keeping horses and livestock out of bad weather, thank you for info
Godbless besafe Keep on Keeping on my friend 🙏 😊
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome. God bless.
There’s a old barn where I lived as a youngster that was supposedly built on a Indian graveyard. I’m not sure of that but I could sure find the arrowheads in the big fields around the barn after they plowed them and a big rain came. Washed the heads off so we could see them laying there
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
I love your channel, the stories, pictures, history, and even your voice! Soothes the soul. Ive been sharing your videos with my brother and friends
As the years go by we slip away from our roots and while that's just a part of growing, we can't help but have to remember these and whats left lest we forget a important part of our hearts and souls, to be forgotten is worse then decay, how this world has changed and not all for the better as we can see but for those who keep this simple sights in our sights of a forgotten past can pass down these stories so its not truly forgotten to time.
God bless ya Donnie
Well said my brother. Thank you for sharing this. God bless you.
I found this video so heartwarming. You are a wonderful storyteller. Thank you!
O"YET. GOOD OLD MEMORIES..
OLD BARNS LIKE MY GREAT GRANDFATHER. THOSE WERE THE BEST DAYS. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS
THANK YOU.
I love old barns like you said they are getting to be less of them. This little county we live in upper East Tennessee use to be home of lots of dairies. Gosh times have changed lol not all for the better. God bless have a great day.
Beautiful photos, I'm glad to hear at least some are being preserved
Great post Donnie, thank you. Love seeing those wonderful old barns.
Tommy from Jonesboro another great video bring back a lot of good memories growing up on a farm thank you and god bless
Thank you friend. Your very welcome
You can still find a few standing comming out of Alabama heading into McMinnville up that way I remember seeing a really big ol barn thru there telling everybody SEE ROCK CITY..I always liked going there too or Fall Creek Falls.I REALLY miss Opryland.. Dollywood just ain't the same.I love her voice especially when she sangs Mule Skinner Blues.😊 Most old barns around my neck of the woods has been knocked down to clear the land to sell it. It kills me but it ain't my business But they still a few around in Woodbury , Tullahoma and headed on out Hwy70 eastwards.Alot of the local folks around me know how to save a dollar and instead of throwing good money away they fixed and repaired them old barns and they still standing.Thanks Donnie I really enjoy your videos..❤️ Love Socks and Old Yeller
Thank you for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
Enjoyed it Donny, boy if them old barns could talk they would tell a lot of story's. Take care see ya next time
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
I absolutely love old barns and if they're falling down I would hope someone would try to repair it or perhaps sell the old lumber. I just finished a 30x50 pole barn with rough cut 1x12 bat and board walls. I can't imagine the time and effort to build a barn back in their day. Much respect for the pioneers, farmers, ranchers, and the builders of our great nation.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
As a youngin, 13, I got my first job working on a dairy farm. It had a very large barn in which we could put up 4500 bales of hay a year. We had two very large old-time silos we put silage in to feed the cows. There was only 350 acres, but milking 45 to 55 cows twice a day, it made for a good living for the owner. When they got old, they sold it off to developers. It's all gone now, and fancy homes fill every inch of that farm. That was a good life back then, in the 60's, made a man out of me and taught me the importance of the American farmer.
Awesome story my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories.
Just beautiful, sir. Thank you and may God bless.
We had a big old barn on the farm we moved to in Sperry, Oklahoma when I was 4 years old. We used the barn for hay, cows and chickens. Time and weather raced with daddy keeping it up. Finally a man came along and bought most of the wood, he said folks liked using it in their houses. What he didn't buy and daddy couldn't use he burned. Lots of old memories went up in smoke. I've always had a love of old barns. Thanks for the video, great memories. Stay safe and GOD bless
Thanks for sharing your memories with us my friend. God bless you.
I love these old barns ...I used to play in ours and the feed room .drop hay to the cows...those were the good days ...why does things have to change...my family worked the land and it hurts to think my kids or grandkids will never know the beauty in the old barns....I've told my secrets a many atime in the old barn talking to the cows .....we were so blessed to have them ...I miss um so much...
Mr. Laws, you got me again in the soul with this video! My Grandparents had a small tobacco barn in Jonesville, Va. which has been torn down along with their little house. Many years ago on a visit I was able to snatch a piece of the barn that had fallen off, it's about 2 ft. long. What a treasure that piece of wood is to me! Do you have any suggestions on how I can preserve it? I keep it in a tote and everytime I handle it a little more dusting of it falls off. Any suggestion would be appreciated! Blessings...
Thank you sir for the great memories every time I watch and listen to one of your videos. I would love to meet you and hear some of your so valuable memories. Be safe my friend and GOD BLESS you and your family brother Amen 🙏
Thank you so much for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome. God bless you.
I really enjoyed seeing this videos. Bring back a lot of good memories growing up. Thank you
Your very welcome my friend. Thank you.
Thank you Donnie for yet again for presenting something that comforted me and made me think back to better days. I'm so disgusted at the shape of the world today and where we are headed as a country and civilization. I remember these old barns growing up as a kid and there is something special about these old buildings that no modern structures will ever be able to capture. Allot of hand work and sweat went into making them not like these modern steel buildings that are forged from molds, made by machines and shipped to a site from a factory usually with parts outsourced from overseas. Nothing special about new barn buildings anymore. In 100 years, these new buildings will just be a pile of rusted metal with no story to tell and nobody around who even cares anyway. This generation of youth today don't care one bit about history or culture. Its sad. These old barns would often be made by groups in a community who would come together as neighbors use to and should to help each other. Allot of time the wood came from nearby saw-mills or was cut and fashioned right on site. The nails might have been made from a blacksmith who hand made the nails, hinges and other metal items right in town from iron ore mined locally. Oh those were great times. Yeah they were hard but people worked together and got through them. Thanks again Donnie for documenting our history so beautifully.
Well said my friend. Thanks for sharing your story and thoughts. Your very welcome. God bless you.
Hey Donnie. Love the video. Time sure has gone by, and I don't think to much for the better. Have a good evening friend.
Thank you friend. God bless.
If those old barns could talk. Thanks for sharing Donnie!
Your very welcome my friend.
Love the old barns.
Ty , Donnie.
God bless.