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Looks like a cement-based moisture sealant product. These were common before the advent of petroleum based sealants. We coated the outside and inside of our old farmhouse foundation (fieldstone and soft brick combination) with TamoSeal to give it a uniform look and block the insects'...

Well, that is certainly different. Wiring looks like 70's-80's to me. From the pictures, and my admittedly low standards, I think I could get that fairly respectable for sub-$2000 range. That's with me doing all of the manual labor and a ton of cleaning....pressure washer is gonna get a...

I wish I could, its been an early warm spring and lots of the crops are (were) already in the ground. The forecast for the next week is more rain with lots of cold, even some frost warnings. Just the thing for budding corn...not! We go to Silver Lake Sand Dunes quite often, looks like we...

Well, we recieved 3.5" of rain over the weekend - so this was a good test of the lower barn floor tile/sump pump system. I am glad to report all worked as intended and the pump kept up. This is a 2" PVC outlet for the sump pump, by the way. I have video of it pumping, but don't know how to...

Cool. I imagine you were on State Route 30 - you went within 2 miles of my house. Long ways from San Francisco.

The "M-F" would be for Massey-Ferguson, as the local LandMark carried and sold Massey Ferguson Equipment. The word under the fance "L" is in fact, LandMark. And it was in the 70's when they gave these out to customers.

Here is mine. Been carrying it since the 80's when Grandpa gave it to me. Mine has promotional stampings front and rear for a local company, so it took me a while to figure out who made it.

While I try to be charming.....generally all of my friends wives hate me. Something about being a bad influence? :dunno: :lol: I have sold one since that photo, so there is that. Got the rest of the pallet racking modified and setup. Still need something for the actual...

CI....oh man. I just realized you guys haven't even seen much of the OTHER big barn. And the toy box at Location X.

Started setting up my new-to-me pallet racks. Had to cut the top 10" off of them to clear the barn beams - actually I could have set them up in between the joists but decided to simply trim them down for future ease of movement. Originally I was thinking of lining them up along the back wall...

I'd say the staves (that's the technical term for silo blocks) survived at nearly a 90% rate. Silos fall down weird, they don't lay over so much as they topple like dominoes. I used most of them to make a floor in our southernmost barn, and also to build a foundation wall of sorts under part...

When we knocked down the old crumbling silo we saved the glazed bricks from the floor of it. Those bricks are SO hard the backhoe teeth struck sparks and made a ozone smell when removing them. I saved those thinking they would make a good patio or something. Last fall I decided that having...

They were so rough the previous owners/sellers were including a contact number to tear them down to the purchaser. Little did they know what we had in mind, and the barns were the big draw.

Hey, I was a "Suter Kid" as Mr V called us. I might have been one of your freshmen. I also helped as much as possible, spent nearly half of the day helping coach the "Nins" in Ind Arts my Junior and Senior year. Thanks for the picture pointers. Worst part is - to save steps - uploading...

I just learned something new, uploading picts to the site. While doing this I also noticed the other pictures not showing on my phone, starting with post 31 just like Alex and Eric said. Weird. And they show on my Ipad and desktop just fine. Just FYI.

Found some old photographs of the REAL "before" condition of the barns. As in the day we moved in and started cleaning up. And sorry for the photos of photos, thats all I have. We actually did NOT realize we had a Silo until we started ripping down the wild vines that were killing the...

Thanks Alex and Thieltech, us old building kooks need our own support group, lol. Eric, I remember you from school way back when, just barely. But you are right, we've never actually met. Me being an under classman by several years I doubt you remember me, who notices those little kids...

Subscribing. Any thread about old barns has my attention. I held my upright barn beams in place ( and actually raised them 1’ BACK into their original position) while excavating underneath them. Pouring a footer and stacking solid concrete block to above grade gives the old upright a...

Hey Eric, thanks for popping in. Ironically, I was starting my own pallet racking shuffle this weekend. Bought a whole trailer full at a bargain price - all or nothing, lol. Sorting it out into matching brands took more time by far than unloading it all. Trying to convince myself to...

Hey neighbor! Thanks for looking, and thanks for the appreciation. On the pictures, I had to fix them a few times but I thought I had them working. Maybe a device vs desktop deal? I used to buy parts from Thiels Wheels in Upper back in the 80's for the blue Honda 3-wheeler in the images...