Cleaning Out Our 85 Year Old Tobacco Pack House | January 2024
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- Andys grandpa built this pack house about 85 years ago, it was once used as its name suggests, to pack tobacco until it was ready to be sold. In his later years it was used for storage for just about anything you could think of! We have lived here for 10 years and our goal has always been to make it usuable again! Come with us on our journey through history.
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Andy, I love your stories about your grandpa. They remind me of my dad. He was a mechanic and could fix any vehicle or piece of equipment. The best thing you mentioned was the Duct Tape. We have a phrase from our small town, and it is "If it can't be fixed with bailing wire, it can't be fixed!" Thank you for the stories of your grandpa.
The little wheel on a stick I used to use for tracing patterns when making dresses. I am 65 and I can remember getting ice cream out of old freezers like that when I was a kid. I had a walker like that for my kids. They are in their mid to late 40s now. Lot of fun looking at all the finds!
Y’all! Hitler was from the early 1930s to the 40s. He rose to fame after the parliament burned. It was very chaotic time in Germany. People fell for him. I’d put a piece of glass over that table top to preserve that paper that is real HISTORY! That is the coolest thing ever and worth some serious money to the right person! LOVE THAT. I’d keep it for the historical relevance though for my kids future. Sooo cool! ❤Leslie (we come from the duct tape generation down here too-tape screws wires you name it-I seen motor pieces wired on duct taped on things would make current day gen go WHAT!?😂 Leslie
"Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived".
"He had in him the stuff of which legends are made,"
-JFK
You are exactly right!
Andy you could make the building a museum 🇨🇦
I'm a new subscriber & I absolutely love your channel! I'm in my 60's so I love this video of old stuff. Brings back memories. Thank you for sharing your life & keeper of the old ways. The old saying "use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without" sure rang true back then!
Thanks for sharing your Grandpa & Grandma's awesome memories.
I remember the drank bottle caps, we were so excited to win a free drank or something, Sweet Memories!!!!😊❤🙏
Ms. Ruby
My Mother-in-Law worked her summers when she was a kid on the Tobacco Farm her Grandparents had in Southern Maryland back in the late 40s and early 50s. When I first moved to Southern Maryland in 1974 their were still many, many Tobacco Farms working in the area along the Chesapeake Bay.
Ice cream box like my papaw had in his service gas station ……I got a many brown cows out of his box …..
Love love watching you guys going through this showing the old days stuff …when I was a kid I saw a neighbor cut their boys hair with the same clippers I don’t kn it they were for man or animals lol…..
I can’t tell you how much I enjoy your videos……my dad was born in 1919 my mom in 1928 your grandpa age my dad did tobacco a several yrs when I was a kid probably till I was around 12/13 .i was born in 1951 watching you guys is like living my young life over watching my mom do the things you do …..my dad did jus like your grandpa he’d jus rig up anytg jus to get by my mom would be so aggravated and I remember my brother would try go behind daddy and fix things I’m sure my sister-in-law is glad my brother is a fixer of everytg ………..my grandpa passed when I was six but I can remember so so much about him and being around him in his little store .it was a old wood store it had fleetwood coffee painted on the side I’m so glad I’ve got pictures of his little store we still have the land it has a little restaurant on it now it was income to help my mom out with the rent from it .we lived in Georgetown Tenn ….and mom and dad were from Ooltewah Tn / Chattanooga
I love watching the kids planting and growing their own garden and flowers their following in your footsteps for their future .❤️❤️❤️❤️
We live on my husband's Grandaddys land the Old house was built in 1864 we've found a lot of interesting pieces ourselves!
i bet so!
I made a comment on your Video. I used to live like this up in North Dakota. We lived off grid. I had my haircut many times with that hand clipper. Yes, it would jerk out half of the hair. Some of the younger kids would end up crying.
Back then you didn't have a tractor supply house, your grandpa was brought up throw away nothing in case you had to make it work. He would be and enjoyable man to sit down with and chat, not only the history but he could teach us how to do things a simple and fast way.
That is for hair cuts I have one in the box , when my in-laws passed we found them in their belongings. I love the old treasures you found.
Y’all make me feel so old! I was a child in the 1950’s, a teenager in the 1960’s, and graduated from high school in 1969 - it just doesn’t seem that long ago to me! 😊
Me too, 1969 was a good year.
I enjoy your videos. Concerning the news paper article stuck to the table, Hitler came into power in 1933. World War 2 offically started in Europe in 1939. We (USA) entered the World War 2 in 1941. With that said your newspaper article falls between those years. The ice cream cooler in the back of the building is worth investigation, either to restore or sell to a collector. Same with the typewriters. They are highly sought after if they are manual and condition doesn’t really matter. The ruffled wheel cutter on a stick can be used for pie crust as you stated but also for cutting pasta, cookie dough and pastry dough. Again, thank for doing what you do and keep up the good work and content.
This video is testament to what people used to do to get the job done without having the “ proper” equipment. Like my own Daddy, your Grandpa used what he had to take care of and provide for his family. You don’t find many men like that nowadays. Good job by your entire family. How refreshing ❤. God bless
Wow! Cool table. I would find a way to clear coat the top of that table to use inside. Great find!
Tobacco Horse used for looping tobacco
Those old canning jars, pop bottles and other old items are worth money to an antique dealer. I know, because I am a retired dealer, so don’t throw those items away until you get them looked at by a dealer. Call any nearby antique mall and they can hook you up. The shoe repair iron was called a “last”. We had a couple of those when I was a kid. (I am. 85 now.)
That building is a full of treasures that are probably worth a fortune on the antiques market.
Back in Grandpa's day you saved and used everything even us that was raised by folks that lived in the depression have a tendency to save. I'm 73 and I remember mom had a pair of those hair clippers. I've still got some jars my mom canned I keep going to empty them out but not yet.
Now wait a minute! People lived in log cabins with dirt floors for years. My great grandmother - full Cherokee Indian - did for years and years. Swept it out everyday.
Y'all are doing a good job!! Looks like the walls are built pretty good!
Memories. MOST precious! ❤️
As a woman of 71years who has recently given up independent housekeeping due to my health, may I offer a suggestion? Consider taking a picture of the old preserved foods and making a photo album of sorts in tribute to your elders. Then pitch those old food jars before they become toxic and dangerous to one of the kids or an animal. Best of luck to you!
Great idea
You should use those tobacco pegs to put holes in your soil to plant your plants in your garden!
Love the jar!
It’s like treasure hunting 💕
Some kind of a collector would love to have that cooler!! Try and sell it!!!
Pasta edge cutter? Like for ravioli or maybe pie crusts? Just hissing!! 😂
Just guessing!!😂😂😂
We called them a tobacco horse. Used to hand tie tobacco on a stick to put in a barn to be cured
Seeing that tobacco tie stand ,brought back found memories when we use to prime it and hang it in the barnes in NC….
I used one of those walkers for my children. They were born lastest one 1975. Those walkers were a life saver!
I love how y’all are happy & content in your old house but most people your age want a new house 😊
You can even have a community garage sale on some things or take them to scrap and make a little extra money
My father in law kept everything like that. He never threw away nothing. He said if he did then he would need it for something.
That sausage grinder is priceless. I remember my MawMaw grinding sausage with one just like that one.
Looping horse for tobacco. It held the stick and they looped the leaves on the stick before handing at the barn!
Decopodge over table to preserve newspaper or schlack
Man I love digging through old buildings. Y’all should’ve hollered and I would’ve came to help. I’m only about 8-1/2 hours down the road and across a few hollers.
I like that Old Sawmill blade against the wall .... no I don't quote me on this but that stand I believe you would tie tobacco to that stick. That is an ice cream cooler.. I remember many of days of using a screwdriver and a chunk of wire for a hitch pin.. now when my Paw passed away, we quite a few things to clean up... I know how you feel folks
That blade came off the old sawmill my grandpa used to have
That sure brought back some memories. Thank you for sharing that
I wish we still had that old sawmill
Keep sharing, we love the stories 🙏❤️
I'd poly-cote that table top to preserve that paper. I've used a tobacco stinger like that growing up more times than I can count. How we strung up all our loose leaves off the floor at the barns. That cooler looked like the ice cream coolers that were at Lawsonville elementary way back when I was going there.
If you can fix it, I think it would be amazing. Repurposing something your grandpa built... Keep the memories alive by fixing it to last many more years..... LOVE IT!!!
Plus, you have an abundance of canning jars, which is good for Meagan to use for all the canning she does. GOD does provide what you need and you needed screens and you found what you needed, AMEN!!!! Good luck with getting it all fixed and NO you are "NOT CRAZY" for trying to preserve what your grandpa made.......hopefully for future generations to reap the benefits of having it.....
Andy I have a grinder in good condition I spotted a kids wooden sliegh hanging on the wall I have one on my deck it’s wood reminds me when I was a kid from southern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
I’d love to be in that place just to be in awww ❤❤❤❤
Memory lane, I love seeing yall and the things of the past. Keep the memories of your family. God bless
They call it a tobacco horse, to loop tobacco with. I use it a lot when I was young, working at home
Lots of GREST FINDS!!!
My grandmother had 2 of the wheelie things you showed. She used one for cutting pastries, and another one for tracing sewing patterns onto fabric. My momma had one of those grinders she used to grind beef. She wasn’t so successful at making sausage, though she tried. 😂 Thanks for sharing this project. It was like a step back in time.
Yes a pie crust cutter or fabric cuter too. You two have a lot of Old fashioned things and maybe collectibles.
shes got the cutest dimples
I live in my grandfather's house too, its wonderful to have and from t.v's to furniture and tools, blending yesterday and today is awesome to see his great grandchildren use what he had. Pretty cool. I'm tickled y'all are going to save the building. Having those all of the jars is wonderful, wonderful, that's going to save you so much money,and for me, I feel like sometimes my grandfather is still hanging out with me, you know, especially when I am in the tool room downstairs.loved the video, stay safe and God Bless 🌹❤️👍
When he said Hitler after looking for a date on that paper I thought about the year I was born.
I found some home canned peppers from 1998 in my dads cellar. We just ate them and survived. They weren’t bad if I’m being honest. 😂
Great too hear 👂. It’s amazing how definitely our canning turns out today!! You think it’s the water or salt 🧂???
Wow, that was very interesting video I think you sharpen that table up a little bit. It’ll be a good table to work on. Another great video.😊
That is a stringing horse for tobacco. We still have a couple of those around.
The table is probably a tobacco grading table. We have one from back then. They would grade out the tobacco as they took it of the sticks after curing and before going to market. Cool finds for us NC tobacco folks. Countrybee
The little round tool with the wavey wheel was used to install rubber bead on a window screen and yes the hand hair cutter wasn't pleasant to get your hair cut with
I really like the way you folks honor the past. Please share as much of your memories with your children as you can! I taught1840 farm life skills for many years and even now when I need something to make do or fix whatever, I just stop and look around and 9 times out of 10, I can make it work without having to go to the store. The old folks were amazing and I'm proud to have learned so much from them. I love your videos and you have a sweet little family.
thank you
I’m going to love this video. Thank you 🙏 for sharing 🙏❤️
Loved this Megan .I enjoy watching your not crazy Andy save the building love the old stuff.
You all always use the most pleasant music.
I remember the metal Pepsi lids that had cork liners and you remove the cork and the writing was printed on the metal lid. Used to have cardboard tube filled with peanuts and you would either get a nickel ,dime, or quarter inside. If you bought a Pepsi you had to buy the peanuts to put in the Pepsi. My brothers taught me that.
I always done a coke and peanuts
I’ve got a neighbor that has 3 buildings/barns full of things. I got our potbelly wood stove out of one of them. It’s over 100 years old. But it has so much, and they won’t let anyone come to just make an offer on things. This is my kind of cleaning out.
my grandpa used to cut my hair with those clippers. it was used for the back of your neck. with lots of talcum powder~! also i do recall tropical jars like those my dad would use for nuts and bolts. ; the same way with a good tool. if there is nothing wrong with it.. use it. nothing like a good hand tool i noticed the sled on the wall. we use to go sled riding and had to wax the rails ~! rickety but fast...so amazing to share what you's had found. i wanted to make you laugh and say. i was using the CC when you were describing the tobacco. and it came up ''Debaca''~!! thank you for sharing some sentimental history with us great job team TG! ty ❤🔥
thank you!
I used a walker like that for my daughter in 1975
Instead for pie crust I believe it's for putting the rubber splein around a screen door that holds the screen in .The ice cream freezer might bring a pretty penny to an antique dealer
That was a great video!! I am 68 years old and my dad cut my hair with one of those hand clippers. Yes it sometimes felt like it was pulling hair out by the roots. Yes that is a pie crust cutter my mom used one. My house was built in 1861 and off the basement is the old root cellar. when I bought the place 42 years ago it was full of old kerr atlas and ball jars many of them more than 100 years old. Atlas was on business from1902 till 1964. I am still using most of those jars. I have my grandparents old hand crank meat grinder and still use it. It will keep you young and in shape. Keep the videos coming. I really enjoy your channel!
we have a few atlas jars we still use too
Thank y’all for taking us along ❤❤❤
Watching much later but that is a tobacco stringer, right? And I hope you keep the table, put a sealer on it to preserve the newspaper.
Those clippers you found are for cutting hair. Hope you kept them. Antique
Yes we kept them!
Love watching the clean out of Grandpa’s shed. Reminds me of my grandads shop. Our family lucky enough to have his blacksmith tools. He made wagon, wheels, and barrels to store stuff in. An Eastern KY coal miner/farmer. Good memories!
My husband has nearly every tool there is for everyday mechanical work. Most came from yard sales. He's the go to for family working on mowers or cars. 😂
That thing is to string tobacco. I'm sure many knew that. The kids job was to hand tobacco to the person, usually a mom or grandma with that super human skill, 3 leaves. You best not slack or get distracted. 3 leaves, not 2 and not 4 but 3. I can remember doing that. (I'm 64). Hard work for the grown ups but great ham biscuits and lots of family, picking and laughing anyway. A really good memory. And canning jar Christmas! My mom has given me a lot of old jars. So neat to can in my grandma's jars. Enjoy y'alls channel so much. Thanks. God bless.
I think my grandmother had a pair of those hair clippers and I bet that freezer is what they had ice cream in in the old store
That old grinder, I'm willing to bet that it's also been used for Chow Chow or kraut. I'm 62 and I remember plenty of years of cranking one of those until my arms felt like they were going to fall off my shoulders! 😂
I was wondering if you have done a update About the building?
I'm sure they are many other people wondering about how it is going
I hope you are able to fix it thats a part of your family history.
They are so many things in there a bunch of people would snatch up i would hang on for your children. Could you make a part 2 about this .
That's a tobacco stringing buck or horse as some people called it. It was also used when taking tobacco off the stick when they stung it by hand. That table may have been used to take tobacco off the stick on that was strung on an electric stringer. When I cleaned out Grandpa's packhouse, I found one of Daddy's blue wool navy uniforms from World War II and the Winston-Salem Journal that reported the Lawson Family murders on Christmas day in 1929 in an old trunk. Those homemade hitch pins remind me of me. Give me an old wore out bolt that's big enough and I'll make a hitch pin out of it. I found a half gallon Tropical jar in the basement that Mama had but unfortunately, it was cracked. If you can fix the floor, it's definitely worth saving.
Lots of history for your kids
Tobacco looper my mom looped and I handed until old enough to prime in Va it was called (Crapping) tobacco good memories
The old table is a old dinner table my grandparents an my daddy when he was 7yrs old built daddy was born in 1928
I would spray a clear coat on that table and use it as is🤓😎
Man I love the old stuff and the memories that are connected to them. When my grandpa passed away I could not get rid of anything. Have all most all his tools in my shop. Thanks for sharing, made me think about my grandpa. If you need a laborer I’ll be glad to come up and help you on a weekend. You got to keep the building and memories.
I really hope I'm able to save the floor, been looking at it today and well its a lot worse than I thought
Oh I feel your pain with cleaning out this building. We live on my husbands families old farm and it’s building after building filled with stuff. They did save everything! This is great, thanks for sharing.
O the treasures of years gone by worth taking the time and keeping some and letting others buy that will treasure it. So many people are searching for things like this
My wife just told me that thing with wheel is serrated tracing wheel, used for marking fabric. She is a seamstress.
You got it backwards. It is a singletre the trace chain hooked on the outside of the single tree and the thing that was being pulled was hooked up to the center
You know what you’re right! Hey I never used one haha I’ve just seen them in use at shows and stuff but now that you say that I do remember them being hooked up that way! Thank you for making that right
Very interesting video , memories that we all have , shared & threw out ! My grandfather had a shack with old things I went thru back in the early 70's & yes I still have some things 50 plus years ago , I enjoyed all of these things ! Stay safe ! Antiques today are worth money , be careful to save these items !
Enjoyed watching you go through your barn and hearing your memories of your grandpa❤ Those canning jars are priceless! When you picked up that baby walker memories of my first baby using one similar tobthat came flooding back😊 Thank you both for sharing your memories with us❤
The round thing with the sharp wheel is what people used to make spots to run their leather or sinew through to make leather out of aniimal hides to use for many things. My mom has a butter churn with animal hide on the bottom of it and it still has it on it even though she doesn't churn butter in it. It's lasted probably 80 to 100 years. People made thing last and my grandfather has been dead since 82. my mom is 85 now!
Well, l am so excited about all these wonderful memories.. l surely understand about the tools.. just leave like he left them... such a brilliant mind your grandfather had to just make something from nothing to get done what he needed.. love the fence spring...
Fix this place up.. and you will love it for the next hundred years..
Such an amazing walk down memory lane you have had..
Oh I wished we would have taken video of cleaning my grandfather's barn and my dad's barn. Love this. Love old stuff and the stories that go with them
thank you, i just hope I can fix that floor, its in really bad shape
I stayed around and now I know the answer 😂it’s not a drying rack for the tobacco 😂
I live in my childhood house that I took over from my mom in 2002 and we actually had to do the same thing a few times and be careful what you get rid of because I felt like I got rid of stuff that I shouldn’t had now that I’m older, but it is what it is but we still are always decluttering. I have a garage that I need to Declutter It’s walkable but you know it’s got a lot of boxes in there that need to get cleaned out. It’ll happen in the spring when it’s a little warmer my husband don’t like the cold
Looping Horse....hard work.... but precious memories ❤️
You can get a lot of money for the tobacco containers!!! You can make enough money to reroof the building and other repairs!! Love watching you guys 💞
Megan that really unique mason jar, clean it up and use it. Beautiful 👍🏼👍🏼
Stringing up the tobacco. What I did every summer as a young girl and teenager😊. Hot hot work!
The tobacco rack would be a great quilt holder. I have an old fire hydrant. Mine has a copper out side and the glass tub still inside. That was a great video. Lots of special memories.
I put a small amount of gun oil on the typewriter keys if they get stuck. If the arm is bent then forget it. Sometimes just brushing the arms and typeset out to get the 60+ years of gunk out will make it work. The color green on grey sells pretty good online.
It's a chore but feels good when it is done. I really enjoyed seeing what you found.
That building is a keeper. It’s part of history for y’all and it looks really good in the inside. It probably just needs a little touchup on the outside and of course the Support but keep it. Keep it keep it.
Thank you for sharing your memories ❤️
I love your little walk of treasures, that walker sure did bring me back to the late 60's or early 70's that's what my nieces had when they were babes. Love your channel.