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Oldoug 
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Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 7:42pm |
My Grandpa's old farmplace's grove of trees feel victim this year to today's farmers need to farm every single acre in the countyside. The building site had been gone for years, but the large grove of trees and all it's treasures from yesterday had still been in place up till this fall. As kids we used to walk into the trees looking for things. Most of the times we find old ALLIS-CHALMERS oil filters and see who could find the oldest date scratched in them. Often times we'd see deer and other animals in the area becuase just past the trees and down the hill some were two large creeks that ran together surrounded by plenty of brush and weeds which provided all sorts of shelter for wildlife, but today that is all gone also and has been tiled. When the last standing grain bin comes down and the hole is pushed shut there will be nothing left and it will all just be a memory. A center pivot is in the works and will be running over this land next year.
I was lucky enough to be born in time to enjoy and remember some of Grandpa's old farm. I was going on seven years old when they retired and moved to town. It was probably just because we were so little, but as kids it always seemed there was so much to explore and do on Grandpa's place.
Some older pictures before my time...
A picture of Dad from 1974 unloading corn into the grain bin which is still standing...
A few pictures from the day of the farm sale...
All gone today...
Just wanted to share. Thanks.
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Tony Elo
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Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 7:49pm |
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love those old pictures,look at the bright side,at least the farm wasn't levelled to build a new subdivision
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Pat the Plumber CIL
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Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 7:51pm |
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Sad to see so much of the past disappearing.great pics,thanks for posting
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Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 7:53pm |
Thanks so much for posting this, great pics!
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Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 8:11pm |
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Thanks for sharing, most people call it progress but I don't see how it is. Unfortunately time marches on. Andy
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Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 8:14pm |
Almost enough to bring a tear to your eye. Thanks for the pics.
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Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 8:31pm |
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Thanx for the pix and back story!
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Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 8:35pm |
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Great pictures Matt, thanks so much for sharing.
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Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 8:43pm |
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Thanks for sharing, Matt. At least you have the pics and more important, the memories.
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Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 9:13pm |
Awsome pics Matt. It makes me sad to see those pics,I can tell your grandpas place meant alot to you. Your really lucky to have all the pics though.
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Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 10:11pm |
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Thank you for the pictures and the narative. It was most enjoyable. Bob
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Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 10:41pm |
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Great memories live in past photos...brings back the days I was growing up in the 60's and 70's about 100 northwest of you. I have a cd of pics like that from our farm laying around here somewhere. Maybe someday I will get some pics scanned and posted. Thanks
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Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 10:47pm |
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Great pics Matt, love the D17 series II.
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Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 10:58pm |
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I am glad you have all of those pictures, and more importantly the memories. I think a few of us, are blessed to have a "Grandpa's place," similar to yours. While I am fortunate enough to still have mine, it is slowly changing with time to, Grandpa and Grandma are both long gone, but I have a good aunt who ownes the place now, and swears it ain't ever going to go away while she's alive and has enough financial means to make that possible. And my Uncle farms the ground, and has the same principals. So I imagine I will be lucky enough to have Grandpa's place around well into my older years, but many of us aren't. I thank you for showing those photos to us, I personally apreciate the story it tells, and am even more greatful now than before, that mine is still standing.
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 4:16am |
Thanks for posting. I really enjoyed strolling through them.
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 4:58am |
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Love these old pictures and it's funny how all the kids are playing all over the equipment and climbing through the grain head. Man today parents would never let that happen.
Thanks for sharing.
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 5:29am |
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Matt I am glad you have the pictures. Thanks for posting. Looks like you have been around Allis Chalmers your whole life. It is sad to see so many building go but it happens around here to, but they call it progress.
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 5:51am |
Thank for posting all those pictures
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 6:04am |
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Thanks for posting. Same has happened to my Grandpa's farm. No buildings left. Our farm only has the house standing anymore. I'm sure it will be destroyed sometime in the future. God Bless.
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 6:15am |
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Great pictures and memories. I'm lucky to still have my Great, Great Gandpa's farm. I'm living in the stone house he built in 1862 after settling in 1844. It means a lot to me.
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 6:23am |
Priceless photos Matt Thanks for sharing them with us. Take care, Darryl
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 6:28am |
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Wow, great pics , love them days , ALOT OF ORANGE THERE !! Bet there was,nt a JD anywhere !
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 7:08am |
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Doug-- thanks for sharing your pic's and memories, I didn't grow up on a farm but have memories of visiting several as a boy, they were special places!!
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 7:12am |
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Thanks for sharing those pics. Brings back good memories.
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 7:50am |
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Great to have the pictures and share them. I guess everything and everybody eventually become a memory but it is still hard to swallow some times.
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 8:13am |
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Sorry to see another with the same disappearing acts going on, my Great Aunt's place is similar, had a massive(to a 11 year old) hay and hand pull dairy barn( milked 6 at a time!), a hog lot with a corn crib and a small pump house shallow well building next to the tractor lot and home. I have so many memories of the place, only a few photos and now the cousins have bulldozed or burnt everything down, pushed away into the 'ditch' and this next year the old home place is coming down to leave not a mark or sign they were ever there.
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 8:27am |
Thanks for sharing your story. Thats good enough for a write up in a magazine or a short video. All my life have driven by old home places and would imagine what kind of farming operation was there, and the families that worked and played there. With the bin gone your pictures and memories will be all thats left. And maybe from time to time, the farmers that are working that place will pull up a piece of the old homestead to remind them of what was once there. Thanks again.
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 10:08am |
Thanks Oldoug.
Not only is the landscape changed but the lives of the families who once were supported by those legions of independent family farmers. Not to mention independent banks, business people, etc. and their families.
I especially noted your rememberence of wildlife in the grove. The groves on both my grandfather's places have been cleared in the name of efficiency but the diversity and wonder of those magic placea are also gone too. Sure grandad grazed a afew dairy cows in the woods but there always seemed to be a few squirrels and rabbits and a fox now an then to add excitement to grandma's hens. All gone!
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 11:00am |
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Thanks for the pictures! Really sad to see it all gone...
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Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 11:59am |
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Matt, Do you or your family have any of the nice trators in the pictures? Is your 190 one of them? It is so sad to see farm sales and the dozer level out what once was the hopes and dreams of farm familys. Dallas
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