1800's barn demo with the super stick on the Volvo excavator

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  • čas přidán 9. 09. 2024

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  • @farmerchris1
    @farmerchris1 Před 3 lety +58

    This barn no longer had a use in modern ag, we have had several people look at it for the lumber and beams and all passed on it. We needed it gone for several reasons, feedlot expansion which you seen beside old barn, tax burden, and insurance would not let us put coverage on it so it was becoming a liability hazard. We did save a few beams out of it for new shop/office decor.

    • @BlueDually4x4
      @BlueDually4x4 Před 3 lety +3

      Its almost like you and Mike didn't spend a couple minutes talking about it at the beginning of the video.

    • @farmingsmallkubota1783
      @farmingsmallkubota1783 Před 3 lety +1

      If i did not see your face i would swear by the voice you were my Cousin Jerry Cline From Corydon

    • @msnpassjan2004
      @msnpassjan2004 Před 3 lety +3

      Just curios, why don't you just burn the barn down then clean up whatever is left?

    • @msnpassjan2004
      @msnpassjan2004 Před 3 lety +3

      27:00 Now it makes sense, controlled burn a little bit at a time...

    • @clydeacor1911
      @clydeacor1911 Před 3 lety +1

      That's too bad, 5 to 10 years ago reclaimed rough sawn lumber was big money.

  • @garydillon3960
    @garydillon3960 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Time for smores. Thanks Mike and Farmer Chris. God Bless.

  • @scottsargent8564
    @scottsargent8564 Před 3 lety +10

    Chris is a smart farmer who put pencil to paper adding up the costs of keeping an old barn he can't use for modern-day farming. The taxes alone justify the demo. He tried to sell it with no takers so he did what was in his farms best interest. And hired the right guy for the job

  • @michaelleblanc3363
    @michaelleblanc3363 Před 3 lety +13

    There is nothing like watching Dirt Perfect in the morning with a cup of coffee.

  • @danielelwell2571
    @danielelwell2571 Před 2 lety

    Two of my favorite things, knocking things down and a big fire. Happy days.

  • @sassafrasvalley1939
    @sassafrasvalley1939 Před 3 lety +4

    That was one epic agrarian conflagration. Thank goodness you had Cap’n K on speed dial!
    We are so used to seeing houses and buildings with 8’ or better walls.. we really notice low ceilings. In an old barn like that... the livestock needed shelter. The equipment they pulled needed storage. None of it was over 6’ tall. The important thing was storing enough hay to make it through the winter. Hence a loft.
    Now, why would it take so much room for haying 8 cows, their calves, a few sheep, a couple of goats and the three or four horses that they had?
    Two things... 1. the hay was loose. There were no balers. 2. The hay had low protein/nutrient values. Hybrid seed was expensive and rarely used on small farms.
    In its day... that barn was the pride of the neighborhood. Thanks for putting it down gracefully!

  • @greggb3079
    @greggb3079 Před 3 lety +9

    Yessir, liability, liability, liability..., that is the only thing that needs to be said.
    Chris is on the right path here, it is probably best that he did not allow a salvage crew on the property without hard paper proof of their liability insurance, and even then his homeowners insurance probably wouldn't knowingly allow it to take place.
    I too have a great appreciation for these old barns, but this one, as was already mentioned, has served its purpose... Clear all the foot traffic out to a 200ft radius, and let the demo begin...
    Great video Mike, pay no mind to the trolls behind the curtain.
    Thank you sir.

  • @pqworks9019
    @pqworks9019 Před 3 lety +3

    Awesome work!!!!! That old barn was gonna collapse in the next 10 years. I’m glad you helped that farmer with demolishing that barn because demolition is a very difficult task. Burning it on the spot was a perfect idea! There was an enormous amount of lumber so you definitely saved about 100 trips with and blowing through all of that fuel to do it. All of that old straw and dried out wood certainly went up quick! Work smarter, not harder. Awesome video!

  • @oldfarmer4700
    @oldfarmer4700 Před 3 lety +18

    There isn't many of us left in this country that has been around milking by hand and the milk man picking up the milk in cans and putting up loose hay in the barn with horses. When we put hay up around our area in Minnesota back in the day it wasn't each farm did their own but the neighbors all helped one another and that was our social media. The women all got together and cooked and the men would all get the hay put up. We actually knew what our neighbors looked like. Now you just know what kind of car they drive when they go by.

    • @farmerchris1
      @farmerchris1 Před 3 lety +1

      Hand milking would’ve been a tough job for sure!!,

    • @KPearce57
      @KPearce57 Před 3 lety +2

      @@farmerchris1 That's why you don't start nothing with a farm boy, he doesn't know the word quit .

    • @oldfarmer4700
      @oldfarmer4700 Před 3 lety

      Farmer Chris Grandpa died in 51 and my uncle bought a couple surge milkers was when they quit milking by hand. Was 4 years before I was born. In the sixties the barn burnt and we keep some cows and milked by hand 2 at a time in a little shed until we got a small barn built. I was glad when we broke out the surge milkers again after that. Although we had two neighbors that milked by hand until they I guess what you call retired around 75 or so that milked by hand. One had around 18 and the other would milk up to 30 cows. Both it was a family affair, no matter what the weather or how sick or tired you were they milked.

    • @oldfarmer4700
      @oldfarmer4700 Před 3 lety +1

      Shawn Jerome We never got in trouble because we worked and usually were to tired to cause problems. We did get into trouble horse playing on the farm like riding the calves or throwing feed on one another but it was a family law we broke not state or federal one. And it would have never crossed out minds to protest and loot and burn someone else's stuff. If our pee brain would have ever even entertain that thought our heads and rears would have been hurting for a week or so.

    • @sassafrasvalley1939
      @sassafrasvalley1939 Před 3 lety

      @@farmerchris1 I grew up on a dairy farm... milked by hand until we got 12 cows. Then we put in Surge Miller’s... I was 12yr old.
      Those filters you picked up went in the bottom of a strainer funnel. They are sized to fit the inside of a milk can.
      When Mike said that he thought they milked 8 cows for their own use...I almost fell out of my chair. That would be 16-20 gallons a milking from a Jersey farm and double that from Holsteins... back then. Far more from today’s breeds.
      I actually used a hay lift and trolley, like that one, to fill the loft.. every summer for 6 years!
      It seems like a different world now!!!

  • @dustinhensley7995
    @dustinhensley7995 Před 2 lety +2

    Well done! Don't think most people realize how dangerous doing something like that can be... Most job site injuries I have seen have come from Demo... Got a lil nervous when the big roof started to fall!

  • @jimwesselman
    @jimwesselman Před 3 lety +2

    “Out with the old, in with the new “! Think I will use that as a inscription on my tombstone!🥺 Thank you Farmer Chris for sharing this with us!

  • @fredcroad331
    @fredcroad331 Před 6 měsíci

    How did I miss this, but it's cool going back in time.

  • @NotJustaTool
    @NotJustaTool Před 3 lety +6

    That old barn was sturdier than she looked. I was shocked it took that many supersmacks before she fell. Great vidja and fire. Cheers DP!

  • @tangowhisky14
    @tangowhisky14 Před 3 lety +9

    Wow those beams here in UK would be worth an absolute fortune, I understand there’s quite a market for antique wood beams. As it goes they don’t make em like that anymore well not in UK. Great video as always.

  • @carlcallahan2226
    @carlcallahan2226 Před 2 lety

    A barn burning party for sure! Glad no one got hurt.

  • @henrymichaelwilson8107

    Hello there. A lot of our old barn's are not practical. So we are not so bad in that ours are built with stone. So people convert them into Houses. So they finish up with a extra house for there son's. Some are fantastic, they leave all the old beams exposed on the inside. I have worked on a few of them myself. Henry Wilson from Clitheroe Lancashire England. Say Hi to the farmer for me, it's so interesting to hear about that little bit of History.

  • @davidmingues9553
    @davidmingues9553 Před 2 lety

    I done prepares on a barn like that last summer. That's the way I grew up. We still have ours.

  • @gurueddy
    @gurueddy Před 3 lety +2

    I’ve seen enough Barnwood Builders to know there wasn’t much worth saving in that barn. Came down like matchwood. Good job!

  • @6582rg
    @6582rg Před 3 lety +1

    Sad to see, but I understand your situation Chris.

  • @bourbonthebiscuit
    @bourbonthebiscuit Před 3 lety

    Sat here watching super stick in action drinking a pepsi what more could you ask for?? Thanks Mr dp for the entertainment and farmer chris 👍

  • @johnnyholland8765
    @johnnyholland8765 Před 3 lety

    Hate to see history go away like that but from Chris's standpoint it is understandable. He has to look at it from a business standpoint and do what is best for the farm. That is what I would call a barn smashing good time...

  • @jonathanhageman150
    @jonathanhageman150 Před 3 lety

    That super stick was cool to watch and the fire was big 😀

  • @bobgrier3103
    @bobgrier3103 Před 3 lety +2

    I was hoping Farmer Chris would take the first swing with the Super Stick. Seems like he earned the honor.

  • @CharlieMetcalf
    @CharlieMetcalf Před 3 lety

    Kleeman didnt have to come rescue you guys from the fire! I'm impressed!

  • @noelle7714
    @noelle7714 Před 7 měsíci

    Beautiful old barn, and all the wood it took to build.

  • @BlueDually4x4
    @BlueDually4x4 Před 3 lety +1

    This is one of those videos you can tell a lot of people didn't pay any attention to when you and Chris were talking at the start. If no one shows up to buy the beams or wood, its worthless, so just get rid of it.
    The old barn held up pretty well considering the age and a tornado. I had half expected it to collapse with one or two good shoves. I think by now the super stick has paid for its purchase and modification.

  • @sydneymcconnaughhay5947

    Loved watching ,thanks again

  • @scottsingley3198
    @scottsingley3198 Před rokem

    Amazing how quickly that barn came down. Mike, you really did know how to take that building down safely!

  • @daveschmidt5713
    @daveschmidt5713 Před 3 lety +2

    Watching this video reminded me of a time back in the '70s when a guy I knew took over a grass seed farm in Oregon after his father died suddenly. The state just had prohibited burning off the fields claiming the need to protect air quality. So the young guy decided to burn the fields at night so that no one would see what he was up to. The neighbors called the fire department, thinking that the farm buildings were burning. A pumper truck got stuck in the field and was damaged by the fire. Tough lesson for the the young guy to learn. #captainkleeman

  • @jg6142
    @jg6142 Před 11 měsíci

    I remember that exact milk filter, grew up on my grandfathers dairy farm 40 head in the middle 50’s and 60’s .

  • @charlesfreed7834
    @charlesfreed7834 Před 3 lety +1

    Good vedio I like the history of these old barns good job as usual

  • @paulr5875
    @paulr5875 Před 3 lety

    Interesting video Mike. Thank you!

  • @johnmcclelland5265
    @johnmcclelland5265 Před 3 lety

    Mike thank you so much . Tell farmer Chris thank you very much as well. It is so great to see the real America. We get the usual diet of the extremes of America in both properties and people. This is what makes America tick. I find this extremely interesting. This shows the hardwork
    and ingenuity of the past and it’s good to have a record of these things. Chris can show his grandchildren what was there and what it looked like
    and this links the generations. Good work.

  • @makingithappen5178
    @makingithappen5178 Před 3 lety +2

    I remember when we shortened a barn, this should have been in the summer of 1970.
    The whole barn was sawn off, except the ridge.
    When they sawed off the log that was in the ridge,
    the barn collapsed like a house of cards.

  • @RockhillfarmYT
    @RockhillfarmYT Před 3 lety

    Fantastic video. I came for the destruction but it was worth seeing the inside and hearing the backstory

  • @ntt1654
    @ntt1654 Před 3 lety

    a bunch of us went after barnwood several years ago. We would hang one or two forcite stumping powder sticks in the rough geographical center of the old barn and set them off. it would "bump"all the wood and either blow it clean off or loosen it enough to pull it free .No hammer marks or pry bar marks.

  • @emmathompson3680
    @emmathompson3680 Před 2 měsíci

    At 72, I am not old! As a teenager I milked cows by hand. We did not have electricity and churned cream and made butter to sell as well as sold milk in glass gallon jars and sold eggs too. We raised a few hogs and cows. The beef cows were sold to pay land taxes not to eat.

  • @kevinkenyon7045
    @kevinkenyon7045 Před 3 lety

    Great video, what a job. Taking your time and staying safe makes so much sense. Thanks for sharing. Kevin

  • @aaronbummmanbehindthescene4931

    Hey that barn was built for me!!! 😂😂😂😂

    • @DirtPerfect
      @DirtPerfect  Před 3 lety +2

      lol

    • @mickryan3516
      @mickryan3516 Před 3 lety

      Aaron he was having to much fun to ask you for help

    • @davoupnya3202
      @davoupnya3202 Před 3 lety +2

      Dam your old Aaron I always thought I was older than you, you sure look young for being a hundred years old ! Much love to you all and to your family's ! Lol !

    • @aaronbummmanbehindthescene4931
      @aaronbummmanbehindthescene4931 Před 3 lety +1

      @@davoupnya3202 😂😂😂 that’s right

    • @Crewsy
      @Crewsy Před 3 lety +1

      @@aaronbummmanbehindthescene4931
      I think even you would bump your head there.
      And this is coming from the guy that was on your side sticking up for you when the skunk sprayed Mr. Millennial when he leaped over the 8’ wall holding a GoPro.

  • @gregcothrum4045
    @gregcothrum4045 Před 3 lety

    Great video y'all have a great week and stay safe 👍

  • @craigsmith8217
    @craigsmith8217 Před 3 lety +1

    Hogs were our garbage disposals. We milked six cows. It was our milk money. It covered daily expenses. The crops were for annual expenses and profits.

  • @davoupnya3202
    @davoupnya3202 Před 3 lety

    Great job DP !

  • @bobbydawson7706
    @bobbydawson7706 Před 3 lety

    Boy, you had fun on this one 😁

  • @dennisocallaghan1380
    @dennisocallaghan1380 Před 3 lety +1

    the barn could tell some stories like the super stick first time seeing it in action

  • @Carter-xxxtentacion
    @Carter-xxxtentacion Před 3 lety

    That sure looks like fun !!

  • @bigpatrck2
    @bigpatrck2 Před 3 lety +5

    Better than one of LetsDigs fires, with no Karens calling the fire department.

  • @randyulen6360
    @randyulen6360 Před rokem

    Well you said The Barn at outlived its lifetime and it's usefulness but it sure wasn't as ready to fall down as you would have thought.

  • @bizkruw7150
    @bizkruw7150 Před 3 lety

    I enjoyed the video. The thought process and execution. I like it when a plan comes together.

  • @peterbrown1008
    @peterbrown1008 Před 3 lety +1

    Hi Mike, I really enjoyed your last video, It was a shame some of the wood couldn't be saved.

  • @geraldheitman7687
    @geraldheitman7687 Před 3 lety +1

    That looked like so much fun to take down and you saved the old hay hook too !

  • @dennis2376
    @dennis2376 Před 3 lety +1

    Love the drone shots at the end!

  • @gandjboyd7872
    @gandjboyd7872 Před 3 lety +2

    Back in mid 70's we got the experience of a lifetime , we went to visit our great grandparents in oklahoma they lived in a single wide trailer on a hog farm I think he worked at the hog farm , I can still smell the experience 🤣

  • @gregallsup9522
    @gregallsup9522 Před 3 lety +1

    Awesome Job!!

  • @maxobara1496
    @maxobara1496 Před 3 lety

    Great history lesson, times have changed. They knew how to do it back in the day!!👍🇺🇸

  • @onenuttybuddy
    @onenuttybuddy Před 3 lety

    Nice video. Really enjoyed it. Take care, ASH

  • @Sean-be8lg
    @Sean-be8lg Před 3 lety

    That was a good one. Thanks

  • @ralphellsworth8140
    @ralphellsworth8140 Před 3 lety +1

    Great job Mike, Hate to see the old barns go but, safe hazard. Surprised no one wanted the wood!!!

    • @raypitts4880
      @raypitts4880 Před 3 lety

      insurance is the killer see fred dibnah take down factory chimneys youll understand.

  • @tammylarson5663
    @tammylarson5663 Před 3 lety +1

    I'm still carrying down buildings satisfying

  • @shirleyc7175
    @shirleyc7175 Před 8 měsíci

    Good job👍

  • @paulkoomen5262
    @paulkoomen5262 Před 3 lety

    I am amazed @18:30 in the video that the barn is still stading. Shows how well build they where.

  • @leonardbartley5670
    @leonardbartley5670 Před 3 lety +10

    I kept expecting to see Man Behind the Scene pop up with a camera at the last minute.

    • @TrevorDennis100
      @TrevorDennis100 Před 3 lety

      And a comment about how he would have done it so much better.

  • @Mid-michigan5
    @Mid-michigan5 Před 8 měsíci

    WOW looks great

  • @recon532002
    @recon532002 Před 3 lety

    Lots of history in that old barn glad it came down safely good job

  • @jeffreyrogerkelly3751
    @jeffreyrogerkelly3751 Před 3 lety

    Thanks for sharing

  • @colestroud8300
    @colestroud8300 Před 3 lety

    This may have been mentioned already, but I'm not scrolling through 400+ comments to see. There is a documentary type video of an Amish (I believe) family. It shows the whole hay process. From cutting to stacking in the barn. All with mules. It's fairly detailed on how the rope and fork works for stacking in the barn.

  • @av8tore71
    @av8tore71 Před 3 lety

    All that old barn wood, my wife is going nuts right now thinking about her arts & crafts she could have made with all that!
    I wonder if the whole community came there to help build that barn like they do with the Amish. I have relatives in PA that are Quakers and they do that.

  • @pjs5191
    @pjs5191 Před 3 lety +1

    Nice video Mike. Always cool to see other odd jobs like this. The very end answered my question about scrapping the tin from the roof, seemed to be quite a bit, figured it’d be worth something.

  • @J30Vampire
    @J30Vampire Před 8 měsíci

    it was its time to go.. but boy.. .that was still a tough building.. they built them strong back then

  • @williamingle1684
    @williamingle1684 Před 3 lety

    Wow, very well done!

  • @dougackerman4182
    @dougackerman4182 Před 3 lety

    Awesome video Mike

  • @crackwitz
    @crackwitz Před 3 lety

    that's an adventure playground
    I hope you took all the pictures and video you can from every angle. the kids will someday want to remember.

  • @jacksak
    @jacksak Před 3 lety

    This reminds me of the dairy barn where I grew up on our family farm back in the 1940's. That barn also had manually operated hay forks on a pulley system. We kept fixing that barn until we also had to take it down... sad to see it go.

  • @jamesroutt2886
    @jamesroutt2886 Před 3 lety

    I love that super stick. You don't use it a lot but it's worth every penny you spent getting and making it

  • @bobbydawson7706
    @bobbydawson7706 Před 3 lety

    Great job 👍👌

  • @f250ford2004
    @f250ford2004 Před 3 lety

    The super stick worked fine for that barn!!!!!!!! In Mass you would have to get a permit, have a detail fire truck on site as long as the fire was burning!

    • @DirtPerfect
      @DirtPerfect  Před 3 lety

      Chris is on the fire department and we did call them

  • @johnhenderson8360
    @johnhenderson8360 Před 3 lety +1

    Good job, hate to see an old barn go, but that one had out lived it usefulness.

  • @genedixon9523
    @genedixon9523 Před 3 lety

    Having lived and worked on a dairy farm, cow manure can change the floor height significantly in a few years! Ive used the milk filters, OBTW. Have to confess to being a little teary eyed thinking about how and when the barn was constructed and used. Oh the tales it could tell. If you could have sent me a couple of sections of the beams, I could have made you and Farmer Chris a bowl. Thanks for sharing, I think.

  • @thomasgreen517
    @thomasgreen517 Před 3 lety

    Tornadoes in 1974 devastated the timber on our farm. It was set by the CCC in the thirties. The adjoining farm lost barns, silos, and houses. Charleston,TN

  • @stewart51able
    @stewart51able Před 3 lety

    Liked it Mike.

  • @jackbyrnes2238
    @jackbyrnes2238 Před 3 lety

    Another Great Video

  • @w056007568
    @w056007568 Před 3 lety

    That super stick extension worked well allowing you to be sat off an extra distance from the bucket and barn debris making it safer for you and your machine.

  • @alexosborne5629
    @alexosborne5629 Před 3 lety

    A pyromaniacs dream come true..... 😁
    As you both mentioned at the start of the video, it is a shame she came to the end of her useful life, it is safe to say it was structurally unsound. Pleased you save a few decent pieces and the hay fork saved. Super stick did the job well and kept you out the way of trouble Mike !! 💪😎

  • @rv-eb3wu
    @rv-eb3wu Před 3 lety

    Our barn which was close to this size unexpectedly blew down last year, I decided to make lemonade out of lemons and am in the process of putting it through our outdoor woodstove for winter heat. I think I'll get at least 2 and maybe three yrs very easy working heat out of it.

  • @BobPegram
    @BobPegram Před 3 lety +1

    I just started watching Dirt Perfect a couple days ago. Really nicely done video! I always love flying drone clips that help tell the story. You showed what it was like before demolition, had Farmer Chris give a lot of its history and why it had to come down. There are barn dismantlers up my way, but the distance to transport even just pieces of it is prohibitively costly. I suppose FC could have made a bit more $$ salvaging the big beams from the knocked down building, but that probably wasn't cost effective either.

  • @richardhedrick5601
    @richardhedrick5601 Před 3 lety

    Good job glad you saved the fork out of barn

  • @mikebradley6880
    @mikebradley6880 Před 3 lety +5

    Awesome video! Question; have you ever been asked to go to a fire scene with your excavator to help put a fire out? Thanks for sharing!

  • @TomJones-zm3kz
    @TomJones-zm3kz Před 3 lety

    Great job

  • @rugerfarming2529
    @rugerfarming2529 Před 3 lety

    that had to be a hell of a barn in it day, somebody family had to be proud of it.

  • @mischef18
    @mischef18 Před rokem

    Sure made for great viewing bro, be interesting to see how the stik goes on the 210 if ever needed. Safe travels

  • @brucehuff5566
    @brucehuff5566 Před 3 lety

    What a great old barn. That was a good video and nice job keeping it contained. Stay safe

  • @graemeramage6088
    @graemeramage6088 Před 3 lety

    Hey Mike could feel the heat here in Central Scotland. Awesome vidja again. Super stick and a super operator. Keep up the great work.

  • @h20dad1
    @h20dad1 Před 3 lety

    That was awesome guys. Only thing missin was the Captain standing there with his garden hose.

  • @vaughnhill3437
    @vaughnhill3437 Před 3 lety

    Good job. Amd you are a good operator nk matter what kleenan says about your skills
    Be safe and god bless

  • @richwielechowski5191
    @richwielechowski5191 Před 3 lety +1

    My dad used to talk about milking cows by hand, said you had to be careful who you shook hands with. Some old boy that milked by hand his whole life would have a bear trap grip and unknowing but a hurt on you. Thanks for sharing.

    • @DirtPerfect
      @DirtPerfect  Před 3 lety

      lol

    • @matthewerwin4677
      @matthewerwin4677 Před 3 lety +1

      My dad had to milk cows when he was young. He said the worst part was winter. The cow's crap and piss would freeze into a ball on the end of its tail. You would be sitting on a small stool doing the milking. The cow would swing that tail back and forth into your face.

  • @dennis2376
    @dennis2376 Před 3 lety

    In my area we a barn from the 1890's and it is being used as commercial building for feed. Cool buildings but when it is time to go it is to time to go. I realized that burning the barn would have need the fire department on site because it would burn hot because of the hay, the tree would be singed. :)

  • @4220greengates
    @4220greengates Před 2 lety

    I think I’d have the fire department out there with a couple of pumpers on standby!

  • @billklusman8653
    @billklusman8653 Před 3 lety

    The perfect music for demo day

  • @jimstewart8927
    @jimstewart8927 Před 2 lety

    Believe connecting the posts to the beams were wooden pins. If true wish you would have pointed that out. Shame the bldg was next to worthless but would not deny it. Bldg probably should have gone away in '74! The good news, it was here for you to remove with great video, thanks.

  • @steam_gaming_plus
    @steam_gaming_plus Před 3 lety +1

    Very nice Thank you!

  • @ronaldheit196
    @ronaldheit196 Před 3 lety +1

    That old barn looks like it's straight outta the old Sitcom Green Acres.
    I can see Mr. Haney driving up in his jelopy truck and trying to sell them some piece of junk homemade backhoe to help tear it down.