One can not truly appreciate the talent that is on display here until they sit at the sticks for more than a few hours at a time. We turned a 40 hour rental in today after using it to clear almost 2 acres and take down an old house. It would be thought that simply sitting in a chair pulling levers is simple, easy, and in no way tiresome. That would be WRONG! No matter how gentle the operator tries to be they will still be bucked around more often than they will enjoy. As a heavy equipment mechanic I have more than a few hours at the controls but after the 3rd day of clearing in green briars, grapevines and kudzu grown extensively through hedge, sweet gum and oaks I assure you all, I was wishing I had only rented that thing for 20. There is a mental side to this work that will wear one out as though they were doing it by hand. Lol. Hats off to Chris, and all you operators out there who do this all day, day in and day out! RESPECT!
Sadly the old ways are disappearing like smoke in the wind, a new home you are clearing out the land for begins a new chapter.Keeping busy taking any kind of work running the machines is a great way to run a company and be successful.You and your Uncle have a nice thing going , Bravo . 👍.
Thank you for explaining about the barns Chris. I love how gentle you were with the old farm equipment. I would definitely use them as decorations for my yard if I had that place. It's a beautiful old farm.
If you watch Jay Leno garage he basically says he can buy any car but he buys cars with stories. Sometimes the stories are better then the cars or jobs.
You almost made me cry when you rescued the old farm equipment the 80 year old rode on years ago. You are such a thoughtful and compassionate man. Now where can I find me one like you?
It's a good thing to clean out all the small trees around the big ones. They sap nutrients from the soil that the larger tree needs to grow healthy and have a longer life. Unlike most old barn wood. Those old tabacco barns the wood isn't salvageable because of the toxins in the wood from drying out the tabacco. Can't wait for the next installment.
@@ronaldheit196 - thanks for the information regarding the wood in the tobacco barns!! We don’t grow tobacco here in Alberta so no drying barns exist. Makes sense that if the barns retain all the odours, they would be loaded with the toxins and chemicals that exist in tobacco!! Interesting!
Thank you for saving that old machinery, Chris. To most people that stuff is just junk, but for others it's a life gone by. I for one would love to have those pieces of old iron to put around my homestead.
I helped a family friend clean up an old farmhouse and barn in Spud Florida where guess what, they raised potatoes since the 20s. The farm house had been empty about 15 years at that point, since the grandmother had went to the nursing home. Apparently the grandkids wanted the money so they sold the farm and property. The house wasn’t worth saving. It was made with old southern pine, no insulation, and would have cost four times what it was worth to fix. But it was chock full of old magazines, papers, and the detritus of life. I still have a old Standard Oil road map of Florida from the early 1950’s framed on my wall that we found. It was like walking into a time capsule. Like Chris said, they lived a hard but simple life.
You almost made me cry when you rescued the old farm equipment the 80 year old rode on years ago. You are such a thoughtful and compassionate man. Now where can I find me one like you?
Always pretty cool to listen to the "Old Timers" talk about how things was done way back in the day !! Just makes ya think just how much harder things was way back when, and all the time it must have taken to get something done... Those old barns was built to last too !! Can't hardly imagine having to use those old machines, being pulled by mules !! wasn't nothing fast ...lolol... That was a really good one Chris, with the stories to go with it !! Great as always . Have a Great Weekend, and a Great Evening Man !! On too the Next !!
Yard art my eye! Clean it up, put a pair of draft horses in front of it and use it!! Those disc cultivators are collectors items! Cant find them in my neck of the woods!
Thank you. Takes me back to my early years on the farm where there was no electricity, hot running water, telephones and tractors. Working draught horses, hard working men and women - daylight hours were for work. Weekends as kids playing on the old machinery, in the chaff shed or in the wool (shearing) shed. Some great stills of the 220 in this really good video.
I understand progress. still something a little sad in it. I bet the granddaughter has memories of the old place. maybe not too fond memories. who knows. I guess it's the finality of it all that pulls at me. you tell a good story, Chris.
Wow, took the old man 70 years to make it happen and took you one day and a half to make it look nice again .Sure glad the grand daugther is going to buid on the old place. Don't you just love to hear the old stories about places like that. Be Safe, See Ya
I used to live in NC when I was a kid. The subdivision I lived in was old tobacco country. Just outside were the original woods and mixed in were dozens of tobacco barns. They were long abandon but made awesome club houses for us! They were built so well that they still were solid and didn't leak water. We found the best one and it became our hideout. A lot of first experiences took place in that old barn. And like he said, there's a smell that never goes away. We burned incense and smoked weed in there and still that smell. Lot of memories came back when you walked inside...
Dayum! That old tobacco barn was well buit! When you were picking it up and dropping that wall it was just saying "Gotta try harder than that!" And of course you did LOL
Old Barns and houses and the stories they tell are a photographer's dream to capture. Love the stories that you tell as they return to the earth to hopefully live again.
Chris I really enjoy watching you operate that excavator. No motion lost, your bucket moves out, in, dig, dump, swing out, swing in. One continuous movement. Well done!!
I am of a age of your farm and like them old boards, have served what purpose I had. I never will see a second time around as I have had my share of "rebuilds" so just keep waiting to see what is on the other side of this soil. No hurry but no big expectations either.
Would love to have some of the lumber in those old tobacco Barnes it makes absolutely beautiful home interior and furniture. Those old barns are beautiful would be nice if they could restore them.
My aunt and uncle lived in Horry county South Carolina and were tobacco farmers and other crops during the 70-80s. Their farm is still there but they no longer farm it. I remember that smell of dried tobacco and the huge burlap looking sacks they filled to take to the sale. My grandfather was killed blowing up stumps with dynamite in the 40's there.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. When you walked into the tobacco barn it brought back the years that I spent summers on my grandfather’s tobacco farm in Reidsville. I can smell the tobacco cureing And the spankings I got with a “hickory”for continuing to open the door and letting the burners be blown out after I was told not too! Those were the days. Looks like a great job.
Those curing poles smell good when they’re cut up. Had a buddy down Wilson way who used to get them out of the old curing barns, chip them up and sell small burlap sacks of the chips.
Those barns turned into a giant game of pick up sticks! 😆 I bet if you were to cut those poles into firewood you could smell the history in that wood, I love the smell of old buildings that haven’t been renovated.
I love how you respect the old things and try so carefully to save them. Some people I watch just destroy everything. It's sad to see that level of disregard for history. Your way is so much nicer to watch.
Old post barn has stood longer than any new construction will ever last. But man it comes apart easy . Cool that the Daughter is going to keep the farm in the family and live on it. Too many Offspring these days are more interested in selling it and living in the city. I love having 240 Acres way away from fools lol
When I see farms growing up, I think of the back breaking labor it took to clear the land of trees and boulders. I saw a farm that was right beside my bus route go fallow and within twenty years, it is full woods again.
Oh the history those old barns and land could tell. If cigarettes smelled like those old barns. I had tied leaves hanging on my wall for years. They smelled so good.
Such a skilled operator .... and such enormous power created from pushing fluid through a tube. Hydraulics never cease to amaze me. Thank you Chris for sharing.
Chris you was talking about the old man that owned that place, I would love to sit on the front porch of his house with him and listen to all of his old stories that he could tell you about clearing that place and just about the old days when he grew up it’s amazing to what those old timers can tell you, but anyway brother another great video and can’t wait to the next one so you and John and yawls family stay safe and keep the videos coming my friend
Chris is like a surgeon with that Volvo machine. Light and precise touch to peel the metal roof off that old barn. Its a pleasure to watch him work. I do wonder if those old green shingles have asbestos in them.
Great video Chris, I loved how you pulled out the old farm equipment. It's still sad that the old tobacco barns had to be destroyed. Too bad they couldn't have been preserved even just for historical purposes. But progress usually takes over.
Its a pretty spot for a house Chris. And with you taking care of clearing, the trees that remain are will prosper, not suffer from root damage. Im a bit sad about the barns, but know that there is a point when they are just dangerous. So they have to go.
Hey nice job Chris!! As usual, of course. Between yourself and commenters, I have learned a lot about the tobacco barns (still nothing compared to what those who grew up with them know, of course). The equipment saved will be very nice in the farmyard. I had done that over the years carrying on what family did as well. It’s nice. I built raised gravel and stone beds around to help them not rot from the ground up, but nature was doing her best from above!! Hahaha. Several pieces had been restored by my parents and uncles/aunts and they were lasting very well. I saved a disc and cultivator that are restored and out front of my current acreage I have in retirement. I think I will start searching for some mining and logging machinery that’s not too big to display as I now live where those were the primary industries. I live on a granite outcropping now so lots of soil free area to display the items. I have some lodgepole pine shelters built over the two pieces I have saved from the ranch. They are small enough not to look gaudy and rustic enough to look awesome!! Heh heh. I am always floored by how very nice the country is around the area you live in Chris!! I guess we take where we live for granted as we are used to it, but I keep thinking of the centuries of history in your area with the European settlers!! We have maybe 150 years here where I live. Still cool, but different! Nice country out there indeed!! This will be a beautiful homestead again!!
Hearing you Chris talk about the farmers stuff that was stolen from his property reminded me of my great grandparents farm after they had passed. There are a lot of assholes out there that believe that if no one lives there, it is free for the taking. And they did for many years. But these days, the property doesn't have to be abandoned to be vandalized.
@@cathiwim My grandfather used to sit in that farm house with the lights off waiting for some one to return while holding a deer rifle. As far as I know they never came back while he was there.
Chris I used to go to my uncles farm in Limestone Tenn. and work tobacco in the summer time. Just over the Mnts. from NC. The worst part was cutting and sticking the stalks on wood strips to be loaded on a flat bed truck and hung in the barn for curing. Those nasty ole tobacco worms about six inches long would fall on you Great memories for me and my older brother. Seeing you work there in Nc makes me a bit homesick. Love the way you handle your equipment. You make it art work.
The first part of the video, where you're walking around the old barns, reminded me of someone playing a survival video game. You didn't find any shotgun shells or medi packs! lol
I've been enjoying your videos for several months now. I've always had a fascination with heavy equipment and I could sit for hours and watch. What the others say about the stories that go with the jobs is also true. You always have good knowledge of what has happened in the past on any of your job sites whether it's of historical value or just a thorough knowledge of the problem and then applying your experience to fixing the problem. Keep up the good work. Oh, I seem to be on the other end of North Carolina from you. It's always good to see you tubers from North Carolina. All the best to you and yours.
Those old tobacco barns are neat. It would be neat to have one of those old heaters to heat a small shop. More nostalgic than function but I'm sure I'd would put off enough heat for a small building. Those barns were definitely past their prime. Interesting video. 👍
My mom is from Durham and my father grew up on a farm in Stanly Country near Albemarle. I can remember as a kid all the tobacco fields in NC with the smell of tobacco wafting in the air. I remember my mom took us to the Winston cigarette factory for a tour as a kid. Good times!
Not concrete its lime mortar. Amazing stuff. If its moved it regrows crystals and closes up the crack, self healing. It wicks the moisture out of the wood so the wood does not rot where its in contact. You could probably get hold of some of that stuff whip it up with a little water and just use it again. Some of the medieval castles and Roman forts where the walls are really thick... it still has not even set in the middle. It also absorbs co2 unlike concrete which gives off co2. It even allows oxygen to pass through it so your walls become filters. Downsides slow to make, slow to use because it wont set up quick enough for modern builders. Its weaker. It can burn your skin or eyes. Its basically the stuff you had under the last pond.
Hi it is bit of a shame that these old Barnes Were left to rot it is part of history and it is a bit of a shame you have to knock them down , Love your videos keep up the hard work that you have a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year Cliff from Logan City Queensland Australia
This is a great video,very nostalgic,unfortunately all disappearing today,great looking farm.I like how you respect the farm,in your way of clearing it.good video as always.carry on for another day.😎😎😎😎👍👍👍👍
I think it's great to tell the old stories about the land and what it produced. When I see things like the 6 or so old burners, I wonder if Chris values them as much as the stories he tells. History is not just words, it is material things also, and while not as functional as a modern gas burner, there is historical value.
Those tobacco drying poles looked to be as strong as the day they were installed. Too bad somebody couldn't have used them as rafters for a sawmill shed or similar building.
That first piece of equipment was a mule drawn harrow and the other was a mule drawn sickle bar mower. I hate to see those old barns go too but what can you do. I'll bet the owner was thinking man If I had one of those when I was clearing this land...
One can not truly appreciate the talent that is on display here until they sit at the sticks for more than a few hours at a time. We turned a 40 hour rental in today after using it to clear almost 2 acres and take down an old house. It would be thought that simply sitting in a chair pulling levers is simple, easy, and in no way tiresome. That would be WRONG! No matter how gentle the operator tries to be they will still be bucked around more often than they will enjoy. As a heavy equipment mechanic I have more than a few hours at the controls but after the 3rd day of clearing in green briars, grapevines and kudzu grown extensively through hedge, sweet gum and oaks I assure you all, I was wishing I had only rented that thing for 20. There is a mental side to this work that will wear one out as though they were doing it by hand. Lol.
Hats off to Chris, and all you operators out there who do this all day, day in and day out! RESPECT!
Sadly the old ways are disappearing like smoke in the wind, a new home you are clearing out the land for begins a new chapter.Keeping busy taking any kind of work running the machines is a great way to run a company and be successful.You and your Uncle have a nice thing going , Bravo . 👍.
That tobacco barn smell is unforgettable. Thank you.
Dawns here☀️blessings to you and the family!
Thank you for explaining about the barns Chris. I love how gentle you were with the old farm equipment. I would definitely use them as decorations for my yard if I had that place. It's a beautiful old farm.
They are never just jobs. I love the stories that go along with them. Chris you do a great job at making each property look and sound different.
If you watch Jay Leno garage he basically says he can buy any car but he buys cars with stories. Sometimes the stories are better then the cars or jobs.
You almost made me cry when you rescued the old farm equipment the 80 year old rode on years ago. You are such a thoughtful and compassionate man. Now where can I find me one like you?
It's a good thing to clean out all the small trees around the big ones.
They sap nutrients from the soil that the larger tree needs to grow healthy and have a longer life.
Unlike most old barn wood.
Those old tabacco barns the wood isn't salvageable because of the toxins in the wood from drying out the tabacco.
Can't wait for the next installment.
@@ronaldheit196 - thanks for the information regarding the wood in the tobacco barns!! We don’t grow tobacco here in Alberta so no drying barns exist. Makes sense that if the barns retain all the odours, they would be loaded with the toxins and chemicals that exist in tobacco!! Interesting!
Thank you for saving that old machinery, Chris. To most people that stuff is just junk, but for others it's a life gone by. I for one would love to have those pieces of old iron to put around my homestead.
5:11 the grading bucket is also trained to sit, heel, roll over and fetch.
I helped a family friend clean up an old farmhouse and barn in Spud Florida where guess what, they raised potatoes since the 20s. The farm house had been empty about 15 years at that point, since the grandmother had went to the nursing home. Apparently the grandkids wanted the money so they sold the farm and property. The house wasn’t worth saving. It was made with old southern pine, no insulation, and would have cost four times what it was worth to fix. But it was chock full of old magazines, papers, and the detritus of life. I still have a old Standard Oil road map of Florida from the early 1950’s framed on my wall that we found. It was like walking into a time capsule. Like Chris said, they lived a hard but simple life.
Superb viewing and commentary. Thank you 👌👏👏👍
Pretty quick demo day. Not much left of that first barn. Enjoyed.
I am glad you are documenting these historic tobacco barns. This kind of history is something for future generations to know about.
You almost made me cry when you rescued the old farm equipment the 80 year old rode on years ago. You are such a thoughtful and compassionate man. Now where can I find me one like you?
Always pretty cool to listen to the "Old Timers" talk about how things was done way back in the day !! Just makes ya think just how much harder things was way back when, and all the time it must have taken to get something done... Those old barns was built to last too !! Can't hardly imagine having to use those old machines, being pulled by mules !! wasn't nothing fast ...lolol... That was a really good one Chris, with the stories to go with it !! Great as always . Have a Great Weekend, and a Great Evening Man !! On too the Next !!
If I could do it over, I can definitely see myself in your line of work. I appreciate your videos are longer than others. More to watch. Thanks
Yard art my eye! Clean it up, put a pair of draft horses in front of it and use it!! Those disc cultivators are collectors items! Cant find them in my neck of the woods!
Those black powder "wedges" were fun. In the early 1970's we were shown how to use them to split hardwood logs to make fence posts.
Thank you. Takes me back to my early years on the farm where there was no electricity, hot running water, telephones and tractors. Working draught horses, hard working men and women - daylight hours were for work. Weekends as kids playing on the old machinery, in the chaff shed or in the wool (shearing) shed. Some great stills of the 220 in this really good video.
I enjoyed the history Chris I learned something new today
I understand progress. still something a little sad in it. I bet the granddaughter has memories of the old place. maybe not too fond memories. who knows. I guess it's the finality of it all that pulls at me. you tell a good story, Chris.
Wow, took the old man 70 years to make it happen and took you one day and a half to make it look nice again .Sure glad the grand daugther is going to buid on the old place. Don't you just love to hear the old stories about places like that. Be Safe, See Ya
Comes apart like a Lincoln Log Set.
I used to live in NC when I was a kid. The subdivision I lived in was old tobacco country. Just outside were the original woods and mixed in were dozens of tobacco barns. They were long abandon but made awesome club houses for us! They were built so well that they still were solid and didn't leak water. We found the best one and it became our hideout. A lot of first experiences took place in that old barn. And like he said, there's a smell that never goes away. We burned incense and smoked weed in there and still that smell. Lot of memories came back when you walked inside...
Dayum! That old tobacco barn was well buit! When you were picking it up and dropping that wall it was just saying "Gotta try harder than that!" And of course you did LOL
Your videos keep improving. Nice sounds and historical intrest as well. I am in South Carolina. It is amazing how prettier your state is than mine.
SALUDOS CHRIS ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO AS ALWAYS,
You and Jonny Jett shaving tin off roofs like shaving ice for snow cones . 👍👍 Talent never ending
Old Barns and houses and the stories they tell are a photographer's dream to capture. Love the stories that you tell as they return to the earth to hopefully live again.
Chris I really enjoy watching you operate that excavator. No motion lost, your bucket moves out, in, dig, dump, swing out, swing in. One continuous movement. Well done!!
I am of a age of your farm and like them old boards, have served what purpose I had. I never will see a second time around as I have had my share of "rebuilds" so just keep waiting to see what is on the other side of this soil. No hurry but no big expectations either.
Thank you I’m going to keep my progress going forward!!
Thanks for the background on the farm. That was cool to learn about the way they handled things. Love old yard art like that too.
Would love to have some of the lumber in those old tobacco Barnes it makes absolutely beautiful home interior and furniture. Those old barns are beautiful would be nice if they could restore them.
My aunt and uncle lived in Horry county South Carolina and were tobacco farmers and other crops during the 70-80s. Their farm is still there but they no longer farm it. I remember that smell of dried tobacco and the huge burlap looking sacks they filled to take to the sale. My grandfather was killed blowing up stumps with dynamite in the 40's there.
I absolutely love the old antique farming equipment or really anything that's antique
Thanks for sharing your conversation with the owner, when I was a kid I always love to hear the stories . Thanks Chris you are truly awesome
My favorite kind of video, tearing stuff up. Good story to go with it too.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. When you walked into the tobacco barn it brought back the years that I spent summers on my grandfather’s tobacco farm in Reidsville. I can smell the tobacco cureing And the spankings I got with a “hickory”for continuing to open the door and letting the burners be blown out after I was told not too! Those were the days.
Looks like a great job.
Those curing poles smell good when they’re cut up. Had a buddy down Wilson way who used to get them out of the old curing barns, chip them up and sell small burlap sacks of the chips.
Those barns turned into a giant game of pick up sticks! 😆
I bet if you were to cut those poles into firewood you could smell the history in that wood, I love the smell of old buildings that haven’t been renovated.
I love how you respect the old things and try so carefully to save them. Some people I watch just destroy everything. It's sad to see that level of disregard for history. Your way is so much nicer to watch.
Old post barn has stood longer than any new construction will ever last. But man it comes apart easy . Cool that the Daughter is going to keep the farm in the family and live on it. Too many Offspring these days are more interested in selling it and living in the city. I love having 240 Acres way away from fools lol
beautiful spot
Sad day that we lose some history but the good thing is that there are some examples still out there. Thank you very much and have a good day.
When you brought that machine around on 16:58 to drop that tree, that was the best, thanks for sharing.
Great to see your Effort of Saving this Old Farm Equipment. Today they’re using GPS equipment.🤔
Good evening Chris, thanks for the history. I might be from Canada but still love it the History
When I see farms growing up, I think of the back breaking labor it took to clear the land of trees and boulders. I saw a farm that was right beside my bus route go fallow and within twenty years, it is full woods again.
Oh the history those old barns and land could tell.
If cigarettes smelled like those old barns. I had tied leaves hanging on my wall for years. They smelled so good.
So much content in your video, thank you for taking the time to share your work with us.
Such a skilled operator .... and such enormous power created from pushing fluid through a tube. Hydraulics never cease to amaze me. Thank you Chris for sharing.
I like these before and after shots with the drone.
I'm probably not alone in that.
Looks great Going to be a real nice site to build a new house Thanks for sharing Chris 👍
Great video Chris
Chris you was talking about the old man that owned that place, I would love to sit on the front porch of his house with him and listen to all of his old stories that he could tell you about clearing that place and just about the old days when he grew up it’s amazing to what those old timers can tell you, but anyway brother another great video and can’t wait to the next one so you and John and yawls family stay safe and keep the videos coming my friend
Beautiful job I really enjoy your videos and the stories behind it
Chris is like a surgeon with that Volvo machine. Light and precise touch to peel the metal roof off that old barn. Its a pleasure to watch him work. I do wonder if those old green shingles have asbestos in them.
Love watching u do this kind of work
Love the aerials. When you picked the "old disc farm equipment" looked like a dangling earring. ha ha Good days work.
Great video Chris, I loved how you pulled out the old farm equipment. It's still sad that the old tobacco barns had to be destroyed. Too bad they couldn't have been preserved even just for historical purposes. But progress usually takes over.
Chris you are a pro at Lincoln logs.
Quick knock down. This should make for a very hot fire.
Congrats on 550 subs. Here’s to 1million!!!
Its a pretty spot for a house Chris. And with you taking care of clearing, the trees that remain are will prosper, not suffer from root damage. Im a bit sad about the barns, but know that there is a point when they are just dangerous. So they have to go.
When I was younger the house I grew up in had a barn like those . I have played many of days with my two brothers in that old barn
It was interesting seeing the propane burners, here in Kentucky we use to coke our tobacco to cure it. Thanks for sharing the info.
Hey nice job Chris!! As usual, of course.
Between yourself and commenters, I have learned a lot about the tobacco barns (still nothing compared to what those who grew up with them know, of course). The equipment saved will be very nice in the farmyard. I had done that over the years carrying on what family did as well. It’s nice. I built raised gravel and stone beds around to help them not rot from the ground up, but nature was doing her best from above!! Hahaha. Several pieces had been restored by my parents and uncles/aunts and they were lasting very well. I saved a disc and cultivator that are restored and out front of my current acreage I have in retirement. I think I will start searching for some mining and logging machinery that’s not too big to display as I now live where those were the primary industries. I live on a granite outcropping now so lots of soil free area to display the items. I have some lodgepole pine shelters built over the two pieces I have saved from the ranch. They are small enough not to look gaudy and rustic enough to look awesome!! Heh heh.
I am always floored by how very nice the country is around the area you live in Chris!! I guess we take where we live for granted as we are used to it, but I keep thinking of the centuries of history in your area with the European settlers!! We have maybe 150 years here where I live. Still cool, but different! Nice country out there indeed!! This will be a beautiful homestead again!!
Looking good brother, thanks for sharing Chris!👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
hope you keep some of them old logs
Very cool old barns
I love old barns and old farm equipment. I found a few things on the property that I bought. Back in the day it was a blueberry farm.
Hearing you Chris talk about the farmers stuff that was stolen from his property reminded me of my great grandparents farm after they had passed. There are a lot of assholes out there that believe that if no one lives there, it is free for the taking. And they did for many years. But these days, the property doesn't have to be abandoned to be vandalized.
Thats what Your friends Smith and Wesson are for!
@@cathiwim My grandfather used to sit in that farm house with the lights off waiting for some one to return while holding a deer rifle. As far as I know they never came back while he was there.
Those old pieces of farm equipment would look awesome in your front yard.
Chris I used to go to my uncles farm in Limestone Tenn. and work tobacco in the summer time. Just over the Mnts. from NC. The worst part was cutting and sticking the stalks on wood strips to be loaded on a flat bed truck and hung in the barn for curing. Those nasty ole tobacco worms about six inches long would fall on you Great memories for me and my older brother. Seeing you work there in Nc makes me a bit homesick. Love the way you handle your equipment. You make it art work.
love hearing the stories behind the work. it was harder work back in the day before you could afford a tractor. nice work. stay safe.
The first part of the video, where you're walking around the old barns, reminded me of someone playing a survival video game.
You didn't find any shotgun shells or medi packs! lol
I've been enjoying your videos for several months now. I've always had a fascination with heavy equipment and I could sit for hours and watch. What the others say about the stories that go with the jobs is also true. You always have good knowledge of what has happened in the past on any of your job sites whether it's of historical value or just a thorough knowledge of the problem and then applying your experience to fixing the problem. Keep up the good work. Oh, I seem to be on the other end of North Carolina from you. It's always good to see you tubers from North Carolina. All the best to you and yours.
Chris, I appreciate how you respect the heritage of what happened on this property with this older gentleman
Those old tobacco barns are neat. It would be neat to have one of those old heaters to heat a small shop. More nostalgic than function but I'm sure I'd would put off enough heat for a small building. Those barns were definitely past their prime. Interesting video. 👍
My mom is from Durham and my father grew up on a farm in Stanly Country near Albemarle. I can remember as a kid all the tobacco fields in NC with the smell of tobacco wafting in the air. I remember my mom took us to the Winston cigarette factory for a tour as a kid. Good times!
You're 100 % countryboy Chris, I envy you. Love the accent and dialect. Real cool and relaxed man !! :-)
Not concrete its lime mortar. Amazing stuff. If its moved it regrows crystals and closes up the crack, self healing. It wicks the moisture out of the wood so the wood does not rot where its in contact. You could probably get hold of some of that stuff whip it up with a little water and just use it again. Some of the medieval castles and Roman forts where the walls are really thick... it still has not even set in the middle. It also absorbs co2 unlike concrete which gives off co2. It even allows oxygen to pass through it so your walls become filters.
Downsides slow to make, slow to use because it wont set up quick enough for modern builders. Its weaker. It can burn your skin or eyes.
Its basically the stuff you had under the last pond.
The 220 looked like a hungry prehistoric dinosaur🦖🤣 Good job Chris. Take care & cheers 🐨🦘🥰
Hi it is bit of a shame that these old Barnes Were left to rot it is part of history and it is a bit of a shame you have to knock them down , Love your videos keep up the hard work that you have a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year Cliff from Logan City Queensland Australia
I can't believe they really wanted to destroy those old drying sheds, they should be preserved.
Yes indeed explaining before his fine work is so interesting to!!! Great job Chris!!
This is a great video,very nostalgic,unfortunately all disappearing today,great looking farm.I like how you respect the farm,in your way of clearing it.good video as always.carry on for another day.😎😎😎😎👍👍👍👍
Thanks Chris, you are only 1 of 3 guy's that I know @ 63 that can do what you do!!
Chris, it's awesome how much care you take clearing around the trees you want to save,even when doing a clearing job like this.
Would love to have one of those burners out of the tobacco barn😊
Chris great video, a lot of history on the old homestead! Thanks for sharing! Kevin
Great video Chris 🇺🇲 I really enjoyed this video 🇺🇲
Man y’all need some rain bad! We’re dry here in Hickory NC but not that bad.
We use to save all the old burners out of the barns and used them in cookers. Those things sucked some propane but they were some hot flames.
that's a old tobacco barn for curing,,, the oil burners and the timbers above,, is a dead give away .. 👍😎👍
Channel is growing Chris, congratulations on almost breaking 550k subscribers
I think it's great to tell the old stories about the land and what it produced. When I see things like the 6 or so old burners, I wonder if Chris values them as much as the stories he tells. History is not just words, it is material things also, and while not as functional as a modern gas burner, there is historical value.
Those tobacco drying poles looked to be as strong as the day they were installed. Too bad somebody couldn't have used them as rafters for a sawmill shed or similar building.
Interesting to see the effects of time and culture change.
That first piece of equipment was a mule drawn harrow and the other was a mule drawn sickle bar mower. I hate to see those old barns go too but what can you do. I'll bet the owner was thinking man If I had one of those when I was clearing this land...
I have the same type tobacco barn. The barn that was torn down is in move in condition around here.