I would like to see all the Members Tractor Sheds ... The place where you park your Pride and joy and do its maintenance
Wow, lots of gorgeous places.
Meanwhile over on the poor side of town ...
This little farmhouse and its outbuildings are maybe 90 years old. Grandpa bought it in 1950 and never changed anything, then Dad inherited it and made a point of hauling in used materials to keep his repairs 1920 authentic. This is where I learned carpentry as a teenager, making piles of junk into window frames and workbenches, replumbing the rusted-out pipe, putting lighting in the tractor stall, and helping Dad pour a concrete floor in that stall after it had been bare dirt for the first 50 years.
Everything looks about as I remember it as a small child - with wavy [pre WWII] window glass, one space heater in the main room heating the whole farmhouse, even the chicken coop looks the same but its my fuel storage shed now. The windmill is still up there above the water tower building. At this point I could probably make a lot more as a weekend rental, 'authentic Grandpa's farm', compared to the income from the apple orchard.
Here's a photo showing the tractor stall. This photo is part of a set describing the tame peacock who arrived one day and just moved in. The
whole story with more pictures is over on Forums Forums.
Looking at my picture, 1) I cut up those boxes the next day, after this photo made me notice how trashy that looked. and 2) the photo reminds me that when I was a kid there was a mid-30's Mack flatbed with a huge stack of wooden apple lug boxes (40 lb harvest boxes) on it, in one of the garage stalls. I climbed up into the truck once when I was about seven and got in big trouble - I know now that shifting it and releasing the brake would have let it roll right out of its stall. Ok, enough history. In summary I love this place.