The workshop IS a blacksmith shop. The stump with 4 spikes in it was where the anvil was attached. The "thing" with a crank on it was the blower for the forge. The square block structure with the cast iron pot, which is called a tuyere, in the center of the forge is where the fire would be . The barrel is most likely the slack tub the held water for quenching and other uses. That was very cool seeing the shop , I am a blacksmith.
Yup...... my grandfather had a blacksmithing shed outside his motel in Sonora CA.... I recognized all the pieces.... Unfortunately, my grandfather, the blacksmithing equipment, and the motel are long gone...... looking at that took me back....
Yup. Those old counsel TVs were heavy and you had to pay someone to haul it away, plus you would need to buy a stand for the new TV, so use the old one as a stand. Problem solved.
My family did that trick twice! Left both when they moved to two new homes. The second came from the neighbor when she past, replaced several tubes from the Garland Drugstore, loved those olde vacuum tube testor repair stations! Took three trips too complete the repair, our second color TV loved CTO set there! On Top!
You finally got it all right. The forge, the stump for the anvil, they probably made their own branding irions. Yes on the dish washing room. She had to cook for everyone. Every day. No wonder she left. Yes that was a big concrete mount for the generator. They probably moved out about 15 years ago. Bet they live a few miles away in a nice new mansion. They still own the land and the cows. Maybe? Or they sold out and bought an RV and lived on the road the rest of thier lives.
Camped in Eden, Vermont in the 80s...1985 or 86. Nearly froze to death. Being from Connecticut I figured Vermont was similar when camping outdoors in January. Uh, no..............
A really amazing find! The upper woodwork is outstanding. I surmise that the ranches heyday would have been in the 40'-50's. Following the death of the original owners, it began a descent that continued through the occupation be son(s), nephews etc. The last inhabitants were possibly squatters or transients. A snowglobe with bits of lives long past. Thank You.
I've always admired how people who come upon these really cool abodes, that they respect the premises and history and leave pretty much everything AS IS.....and Kudos to The WH for always addressing this "unofficial" Rule of Discovery!! Love The field Trips with The Best Tour Guide Ever....Cheers From Ohio
Oh my goodness!!! I have worked for Estee Lauder for years. Seeing the old magazine with the ad for Lucidity foundation (which was discontinued quite a while ago) was really awesome. I took pictures to show my co workers. I love your videos and I want your glasses😘
The shop was a blacksmiths shop. That was a hand cranked air furnace to get the coals hot enough to forge iron. And the 30 gallon barrel was to quench what he was working on. You can go through the records and find out who was there by those brand marks on the forge! Cool find! Glad you stopped by this one!
00:05:42 That is a forge, the crank thing was a hand crank bellows, the stump with spikes likely had the anvil on it. It was probably a shoeing station to be specific, given the small size of the coal pit.
The main home looked well built. Lots of interior woodwork and wallpaper. Was probably a very successful rancher with a lot of vow hands and equipment sheds and such. Good find. Thanks for making time for this video. Amazing 👍
At 6:13, there is what looks like a large hornet's nest in the overhang outside of the forge shed. Hopefully, it is empty. Things like that can really ruin a good site to explore. If you run into it accidentally.
the handle thing is the forge air supply and the square thing with the hole is where the fire would of been .. know more the first try then you think!!! have a blast out there stayin safe
Well I have some catching up to do, sorry I missed the last few weeks. Love seeing old places like this, as you pand around the living room I could see a place where the men gathered to watch TV and the women get thing ready for dinner. Cigarettes in hand beer cans in the other still dusty from a hard day on the trail and yes time took its toll on all. We all will look like that old ranch someday, hopefully we will have someone beside us. Happy Birthday Sarah Jane your a wonderful storyteller. 👍❤🇺🇸😀
the thing with a crank on it is a hand powered blower. It blows air through the tube into the bottom of the coal fire to make high heat for blacksmithing.
About 5:00 is a pan forge with a hand crank blower to get it going really hot. The barrel may have held quenching (cooling) water. The tree stump had an anvil held down with the railroad spikes. No...bats don't pick fights with people. The neat thing about that Norman Rockwell calendar is, it will eventually line up and match for another year down the road. I'm not one to advocate taking something from a site, but if I was to ever take something, it would be like that calendar. Great video, Darlin'. Thanks for taking the side trip. Well worth the effort far as I'm concerned.
That is indeed a Forge. The handle turns a blower to increase airflow/heat to the centre filled with coal or charcoal. I never expected to see a Lawnmower there!
Anvil is missing from the stump in that FORGING Black Smith shop. That “drain” looking thing blew air up into the Coke/charcoal probably with a foot controlled air pump thingy.
There's a guy that lives in Prineville that has a UA-cam channel titled "Coyote Works" that goes out and finds these old places, too. The big difference between his and your channel is he COOKS!(:>) I must say that I really enjoy these videos of yours..........................probably because I was born and raised in Oregon.(;>)
We have been to many of the same places, you have the same interest as me. I have recently expanded my motorcycle adventure channel to now include abandoned places. I hope to bump into you sometime. Keep up the good work.
That blacksmith shop the thing with the handle was a forge with probably a GE fire box an the tree stump is where the anvil set-they worked hot iron.Also the ranch is probably a part of another ranch and they just run their cattle on it and They don’t use it headquarters is probably at the mane ranch.I like watching your Nevada tours an all the Ghost Town.
In the stone work shop was indeed a blacksmith forge. The device with the crank handle is a mechanical bellow . It pumped air into the fire base to heat the workpiece . The cut off drum is a fuel tinder . It was there to hold the coal or wood that was burned.
Great video Wonderhussy :>) Back around 5:00 in the blacksmith shop I saw 666 branded into the wood...hope those people didn't conjure up something evil which could account for the exit :>( Ha!
So sad, that was a beautiful house and with some work, tons, it could be again. Maybe it was large Marge's house! Seems about right! Thanks for the tour!
Wh, You mentioned Norman Rockwell, my dad had The Saturday Evening Post with Rockwell illustrations in some of them, from 1944 when we got our N.J. farm until 1959 when we lost it. I had the Boy Scout magazines, Scout headquarters were in New Brunswick,NJ, with Rockwell covers. I was a custom picture framer for many years and my boss restored the large original Rockwell paintings that were in the headquarters. I used to visit the Brandywine Museum in Chadds Ford ,PA which had original works by many Illustrators including, Rockwell, The Wyeths Pyle, Parrish Gibson and so many more, I loved Illustrators I always think of N.C. Wyeths' childrens book pictures like Blind Pew grabbing Jim Hawkins arm in Treasure Island, it scared the heck out of me! Cheers, Frederick "Rik" Spector RATS... I hate rats!!!
If you ever get a chance to study the design of a branding iron, it can be very informative. That was clearly a smithy's shop. This spontaneous video is wonderful, Wonderhussey!
You can indeed get rabies from a bat. It might be because you startled it, but a bat flying around in the daylight is usually sick, and if they're sick they can bite. My friend got bit on the foot a couple of years ago and had to get rabies shots. Another friend was in church one Sunday and a bat started flying around. Everyone started covering their heads and the minister told everyone to stay calm because bats don't fly into peoples' hair. He no more than said it and the bat flew into an old lady's hair.
Bats 100% can carry rabies !! I am almost 100 % certain that the KING unit started life as a large OIL fired space heater . Either it was converted for wood , or somebody just threw in wood to stay warm. The High/ Low knob , plus the appearance , almost for sure makes it OIL fired originally . Guess there "could " be one made with a Hi/Low draft damper !? I've never seen one made like that though. People may have left after the roof caved ? Also . Would have LOVED to have seen what that big pole was used for on the hill behind the first bldg . you went in . Pretty good possibility one of girls who lived there is still alive ... Nice one !!! gubs
That was a great video. Maybe you could do some googling and research this area. Then if you find anything informative do an update kind of video. That looks old enough to had rattled during the big earthquake if I'm right
Norman Rockwell also did the album cover for The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. It was the first, and I think the only, album that cover he did.
NOT aged out- new house watching the one Sarah Jane trespassed on. POSTED PRIVATE PROPERTY. How would someone like your property videoed without consent when you were at a different part of your property and then the video put on UA-cam?? Then audio telling the world your stuff is abandon and where to go take it??
@@cynthiafleiner6036 That was just my guess. And I don't go into houses that don't belong to me no trespassing signs or not. One thing I can say for Sara Jane is she never takes anything or causes any damage. Every old building has a story. it's kind of fun trying to figure it out. I can understand you being upset. I'm sorry I E-trespassed on your place.
ChrisNVegas thank you for acknowledging. Everyone here needs to know it this is like being violated. Got a call yesterday from someone from who knows where who was aggressive about wanting some of our things in the house!!! How did they get our location AND PHONE NUMBER?? Sarah Jane?? She may be nice but she needs to wake up to the fact everyone who sees this may not be so innocent. THIS is global exposure. This PRIVATE property is VERY CLEARLY POSTED!
The plastic containers with water that were labeled "faucets" was probably because they needed to boil their drinking water. I saw a satellite dish on the corner of the house and a mercury vapor light on the other building. The buildings all had surface mount light switches and power outlets indicating electricity was added *after* the buildings were built. They must have had a generator out there and maybe propane for the stove and water heater.
Thing w the crank is an air crank blower, the big box thing u called a drain thing is where the fire was, the forge. u turn & crank that thing to blow air into the fire to get a higher temp for black smithing... The barrel had water for tempering the metal... P.s that same vacume is sitting in my grandmother's closet...still works..
The workshop IS a blacksmith shop. The stump with 4 spikes in it was where the anvil was attached. The "thing" with a crank on it was the blower for the forge. The square block structure with the cast iron pot, which is called a tuyere, in the center of the forge is where the fire would be . The barrel is most likely the slack tub the held water for quenching and other uses. That was very cool seeing the shop , I am a blacksmith.
Then you should know that the tuyere is in the bottom of that cast iron fire pot...
The blower is better known as a "bellows"...but yep, it's a forge.
Yup...... my grandfather had a blacksmithing shed outside his motel in Sonora CA.... I recognized all the pieces.... Unfortunately, my grandfather, the blacksmithing equipment, and the motel are long gone...... looking at that took me back....
I would love to have a forge like that! Nice setup.
yep.......that bellows prob still works....Oil Burner heater
You can look at the chain link fence base and see they built everything with care. I’m it’s prime the ranch must have been beautiful.
The bottom TV died and became a stand for the new one. Lots of people had that arrangement going :)
My mom and dad did that. Had a od curtis mathis console tv great big cabinet. It died so put a new rca on top lol
Yup. Those old counsel TVs were heavy and you had to pay someone to haul it away, plus you would need to buy a stand for the new TV, so use the old one as a stand. Problem solved.
I did.......
My family did that trick twice! Left both when they moved to two new homes. The second came from the neighbor when she past, replaced several tubes from the Garland Drugstore, loved those olde vacuum tube testor repair stations! Took three trips too complete the repair, our second color TV loved CTO set there! On Top!
You finally got it all right. The forge, the stump for the anvil, they probably made their own branding irions. Yes on the dish washing room. She had to cook for everyone. Every day. No wonder she left. Yes that was a big concrete mount for the generator. They probably moved out about 15 years ago. Bet they live a few miles away in a nice new mansion. They still own the land and the cows. Maybe? Or they sold out and bought an RV and lived on the road the rest of thier lives.
Reason the kettle is on the space heater is because that kind of heat really drys things out and the water in the kettle put humidity back in the air.
That rug really ties the kitchen together.
Great find, that turquoise stove is circa 50-60's.. they make repro's now that cost a small fortune..
Yup! Blue Star ranges start at $4000!
Well, this family sure loved their calendars! 😆👌🏻
When we lived in Vermont, we heated with a wood stove. We placed a pot of water on the stove to keep the humidity up during the winter.
We had an off grid cabin in Vermont and did the same. Heated with wood stove and used a generator for power. Elmore, VT.
Camped in Eden, Vermont in the 80s...1985 or 86. Nearly froze to death. Being from Connecticut I figured Vermont was similar when camping outdoors in January. Uh, no..............
We had a TV console similar to that and when it went out we had the smaller portable black and white sitting on top just like that. 🤣
100%
That TV console now holds up the rest of the roof. Yes sir, they dont make TV's like that anymore!
The thing with the handle on it at 5:05 is a bellows to pump air into the fire to make it hotter.
Blacksmiths forge. Yup. barrel for water. stump for anvil ( missing).
YES
She got it. Stump was for the anvil. They probably not only fashioned their own horse shoes but also made their own branding irons.
Bellows were older tech , that was just a fan , bellows are just that , big leather or ? Flat bladder like dohickys .
It is a blower fothe forge...
A really amazing find! The upper woodwork is outstanding. I surmise that the ranches heyday would have been in the 40'-50's. Following the death of the original owners, it began a descent that continued through the occupation be son(s), nephews etc. The last inhabitants were possibly squatters or transients. A snowglobe with bits of lives long past. Thank You.
That ranch house was really a nice place at one time. I love the stories you make up about who might have lived there lol.
I've always admired how people who come upon these really cool abodes, that they respect the premises and history and leave pretty much everything AS IS.....and Kudos to The WH for always addressing this "unofficial" Rule of Discovery!! Love The field Trips with The Best Tour Guide Ever....Cheers From Ohio
Bats can and do carry rabies because they are mammals. But if you leave them alone they leave you alone. What a cool place! Thank You.
Oh my goodness!!! I have worked for Estee Lauder for years. Seeing the old magazine with the ad for Lucidity foundation (which was discontinued quite a while ago) was really awesome. I took pictures to show my co workers. I love your videos and I want your glasses😘
The shop was a blacksmiths shop.
That was a hand cranked air furnace to get the coals hot enough to forge iron. And the 30 gallon barrel was to quench what he was working on. You can go through the records and find out who was there by those brand marks on the forge! Cool find!
Glad you stopped by this one!
The thing with a handle in the building with the brands at 5:11 is a Blacksmiths blower for heating up his metal to forge
With a lot of elbow grease and rebuilding, a nice ranch to reset.
00:05:42 That is a forge, the crank thing was a hand crank bellows, the stump with spikes likely had the anvil on it. It was probably a shoeing station to be specific, given the small size of the coal pit.
The main home looked well built. Lots of interior woodwork and wallpaper. Was probably a very successful rancher with a lot of vow hands and equipment sheds and such. Good find. Thanks for making time for this video. Amazing 👍
Awesome find! The teapot on the heater is to add moisture to the air. Original humidifier.
At 6:13, there is what looks like a large hornet's nest in the overhang outside of the forge shed. Hopefully, it is empty. Things like that can really ruin a good site to explore. If you run into it accidentally.
the handle thing is the forge air supply and the square thing with the hole is where the fire would of been .. know more the first try then you think!!! have a blast out there stayin safe
They probably made the branding iron on that forge.
Well I have some catching up to do, sorry I missed the last few weeks. Love seeing old places like this, as you pand around the living room I could see a place where the men gathered to watch TV and the women get thing ready for dinner. Cigarettes in hand beer cans in the other still dusty from a hard day on the trail and yes time took its toll on all. We all will look like that old ranch someday, hopefully we will have someone beside us. Happy Birthday Sarah Jane your a wonderful storyteller. 👍❤🇺🇸😀
the thing with a crank on it is a hand powered blower. It blows air through the tube into the bottom of the coal fire to make high heat for blacksmithing.
The Bullet Knife calendar is from 1997. It took a couple of looks, but the year is between the months. Neat video! Love the Hussy!
About 5:00 is a pan forge with a hand crank blower to get it going really hot. The barrel may have held quenching (cooling) water. The tree stump had an anvil held down with the railroad spikes.
No...bats don't pick fights with people. The neat thing about that Norman Rockwell calendar is, it will eventually line up and match for another year down the road. I'm not one to advocate taking
something from a site, but if I was to ever take something, it would be like that calendar. Great video, Darlin'. Thanks for taking the side trip. Well worth the effort far as I'm concerned.
Yup, that IS a blacksmith forge. The crank handle is an air blower to make the coals burn hotter.
That is indeed a Forge. The handle turns a blower to increase airflow/heat to the centre filled with coal or charcoal. I never expected to see a Lawnmower there!
That crank handle is called a bellows used to introduce more air into the coals for a hotter fire, to get your metal good and hot for forging
Anvil is missing from the stump in that FORGING Black Smith shop. That “drain” looking thing blew air up into the Coke/charcoal probably with a foot controlled air pump thingy.
... If it's wonderhussy, I'm going to like it, no matter what!
What a cool place 😎 wonder what happend to the family 👪
There's a guy that lives in Prineville that has a UA-cam channel titled "Coyote Works" that goes out and finds these old places, too. The big difference between his and your channel is he COOKS!(:>)
I must say that I really enjoy these videos of yours..........................probably because I was born and raised in Oregon.(;>)
We have been to many of the same places, you have the same interest as me. I have recently expanded my motorcycle adventure channel to now include abandoned places. I hope to bump into you sometime. Keep up the good work.
The item with the crank/handle is a bellows for the fire for the blacksmith/farrier .
Doesn’t take long for a home to fall into disrepair once there abandoned especially in a area of harsh climates.
I was heartbroken the old cottonwood trees were left behind to die. They looked really old.
Thank you! Back to abandoned adventures and no more fussy Hussy 😉💞😉💞💗💗🖒
That stove was a classic, what a shame it's left to rot
Great ranch!!!! Take Care and Stay Safe Wonderhussy!!!!
Yes that was a coal forge for blacksmithing. The unit with a handle Was The air supply. You cranked the handle and it forced air up through the coal
Bellow
@@JMACK1 thank you couldn't find the word. Old man mind fart
That blacksmith shop the thing with the handle was a forge with probably a GE fire box an the tree stump is where the anvil set-they worked hot iron.Also the ranch is probably a part of another ranch and they just run their cattle on it and They don’t use it headquarters is probably at the mane ranch.I like watching your Nevada tours an all the Ghost Town.
In the stone work shop was indeed a blacksmith forge. The device with the crank handle is a mechanical bellow . It pumped air into the fire base to heat the workpiece . The cut off drum is a fuel tinder . It was there to hold the coal or wood that was burned.
The building with the bat looked like a tack room with saddle stands against the wall when you walked in.
We have a vacuum cleaner like that in one of our hunting cabins. Yes, very old but works very good. 👣
Yup, the handle piece is the blower to get the fire hot enough to do their thing. Cool!
Yay! That was fun! Glad we stopped!! 😎
Great video Wonderhussy :>) Back around 5:00 in the blacksmith shop I saw 666 branded into the wood...hope those people didn't conjure up something evil which could account for the exit :>( Ha!
Happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday Miss hussy happy birthday to you
Omg I'd love to have that stove.
The handel is an air blower for the forge.
So sad, that was a beautiful house and with some work, tons, it could be again. Maybe it was large Marge's house! Seems about right!
Thanks for the tour!
Wh,
You mentioned Norman Rockwell, my dad had The Saturday Evening Post with Rockwell illustrations in some of them, from 1944 when we got our N.J. farm until 1959 when we lost it.
I had the Boy Scout magazines, Scout headquarters were in New Brunswick,NJ, with Rockwell covers.
I was a custom picture framer for many years and my boss restored the large original Rockwell paintings that were in the headquarters.
I used to visit the Brandywine Museum in Chadds Ford ,PA which had original works by many Illustrators including, Rockwell, The Wyeths Pyle, Parrish Gibson and so many more, I loved Illustrators
I always think of N.C. Wyeths' childrens book pictures like Blind Pew grabbing Jim Hawkins arm in Treasure Island, it scared the heck out of me!
Cheers,
Frederick "Rik" Spector
RATS... I hate rats!!!
13:16 that is Mork's vest from the 70s serie Mork & Mindy😉
Thats what I thought!
Definitely an Old Ranch that's a Cool Place
That was a really good find. I would really really really try to get that sink. I like that nice fence around the house.
Yes its a blacksmith shop, hand crank blower pumps air into thing you called a drain, barrel on floor is for water or oil to cool metal off.
I liked that blue stove
What the Sam Hill did they do with a lawn mower lol
Great salvage opportunity there.
Thank you for your videos Sarah, they bring out the wanderlust in me...
If you ever get a chance to study the design of a branding iron, it can be very informative. That was clearly a smithy's shop. This spontaneous video is wonderful, Wonderhussey!
The first building is definitely a Blacksmithing shot, I've used a hand wound forge just like the one in the. the background
looks cool old place like that becareful
Very cool.gind indeed! Thanks for sharing this with us! Peace to all .......💜⚘💜
Great exploration Sarah. Stay safe as you travel highways and byways.
You can indeed get rabies from a bat. It might be because you startled it, but a bat flying around in the daylight is usually sick, and if they're sick they can bite. My friend got bit on the foot a couple of years ago and had to get rabies shots. Another friend was in church one Sunday and a bat started flying around. Everyone started covering their heads and the minister told everyone to stay calm because bats don't fly into peoples' hair. He no more than said it and the bat flew into an old lady's hair.
Watching 'the proper people' has shown that every abandoned structure contains Christmas decorations.
Also: shango66 wants those TV's.
5:22 yes, thats a blacksmiths forge and the thing with the handle injects air into the forge...kinda like a hand operated turbocharger.
Another great old ranch house with a lot of history good job wonderhussy.
Happy belated birthday 🎂
Bats 100% can carry rabies !! I am almost 100 % certain that the KING unit started life as a large OIL fired space heater . Either it was converted for wood , or somebody just threw in wood to stay warm. The High/ Low knob , plus the appearance , almost for sure makes it OIL fired originally . Guess there "could " be one made with a Hi/Low draft damper !? I've never seen one made like that though. People may have left after the roof caved ? Also . Would have LOVED to have seen what that big pole was used for on the hill behind the first bldg . you went in . Pretty good possibility one of girls who lived there is still alive ... Nice one !!! gubs
Gen shed for sure. We had one similar one place we worked
That was a great video. Maybe you could do some googling and research this area. Then if you find anything informative do an update kind of video. That looks old enough to had rattled during the big earthquake if I'm right
The thing with the handle and hose is an air pump. The drainage thing is the forge.
You found Morks puffer vest (Mork & Mindy). =-)
More like this, please, Sarah, I love 'em.
Norman Rockwell also did the album cover for The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. It was the first, and I think the only, album that cover he did.
People who lived there aged out and died. Family still owns the property but no one wants to live there. Roof was bad...
Excellent deduction.
NOT aged out- new house watching the one Sarah Jane trespassed on. POSTED PRIVATE PROPERTY. How would someone like your property videoed without consent when you were at a different part of your property and then the video put on UA-cam?? Then audio telling the world your stuff is abandon and where to go take it??
@@cynthiafleiner6036 That was just my guess. And I don't go into houses that don't belong to me no trespassing signs or not. One thing I can say for Sara Jane is she never takes anything or causes any damage. Every old building has a story. it's kind of fun trying to figure it out. I can understand you being upset. I'm sorry I E-trespassed on your place.
ChrisNVegas thank you for acknowledging. Everyone here needs to know it this is like being violated. Got a call yesterday from someone from who knows where who was aggressive about wanting some of our things in the house!!! How did they get our location AND PHONE NUMBER?? Sarah Jane?? She may be nice but she needs to wake up to the fact everyone who sees this may not be so innocent. THIS is global exposure. This PRIVATE property is VERY CLEARLY POSTED!
@@cynthiafleiner6036 I can understand that. I hope you didn't think I was being disrespectful. I never intended that.
Sara, I hope you keep a keen eye out for rattlesnakes.
Happy birthday wonderhussy.
You go to some interesting/ amazing places, I would love to visit USA one day....
Please do, howdy from Texas🤠
"Stump" was for the anvil
Super neat find
It was a blacksmith forge, the hand crank was to pump air to the forge where the hole was.
Yes and the stump at one time had the an anvil on it.
It was a hand crank bellow. The cool calendar was 1997.
@sarah Jane. The yellow private property signs you don’t see are on the fences and gates you drove through to get in.
MASK UP GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VERY COOL,,THIS WAS MY TOP 10 WH ADVENTURE VIDEO...YOU ROCK! STAY WELL
I am waiting for the day when Wonder Huss opens up a door and someone yells " get the eff outta my house"! It's gotta happen one of these days! 😉
Or "you got a purtty mouth"
@@IronmanV5 🤣🤣🤣
Go Beth Dutton on us. 🙂
I hope it's my house.
Always fun and interesting to explore with you. Thank you😄
The Remington guide calendar was from 1997. Also the yellow truck in the big rig calendar said dream chaser express, not dawn chaser express. 😆
2:39 Hobbles or mule bridle my guess.
Great video! Love seeing this history!
That was a forge and the thing with the handle is the blower.
Glad you stopped also, Interesting.
That's exactly what that was a black Miss shop probably for shoeing horses the thing with a crank on it is an air pump for the Firebox
The plastic containers with water that were labeled "faucets" was probably because they needed to boil their drinking water. I saw a satellite dish on the corner of the house and a mercury vapor light on the other building. The buildings all had surface mount light switches and power outlets indicating electricity was added *after* the buildings were built. They must have had a generator out there and maybe propane for the stove and water heater.
Thing w the crank is an air crank blower, the big box thing u called a drain thing is where the fire was, the forge. u turn & crank that thing to blow air into the fire to get a higher temp for black smithing... The barrel had water for tempering the metal... P.s that same vacume is sitting in my grandmother's closet...still works..
19:35
You're gonna kick yourself. Calendar has a 2 months on one page .................. look between the months. LOL