Exciting Upgrades At The Abandoned Farm!

Super awesome when you hire someone to do a job, and they over deliver on the job. Not only to help out, but to raise the bar. Faith in humanity has been restored!

John and his guys really sealed up the buildings nicely. They should last for years to come. You guys have brought life into the old farm.

The pond is like it was never there. And Aaron's grading around the structures was spot on. Your clay tiles were exactly what the doctor ordered for drying up the swap and making corn grow. Love everything You're doing to the abandoned farm making it functional and safe. Great video Mike.

All the improvements on the buildings are coming along nicely, Rome was not built in a day. Keep up the good work Mike.

I have to say it’s really fun to see you build the things you dream up. Few people can say they have done that in their lives. I can tell how excited and proud you are. Taking the chance and working through failures all while showing it on YouTube is really impressive. The attitude you and a-a-ron have is what makes this channel great. Keep inventing and thank you for the content.

Huge improvements to the field drainage. The abandoned farm is no longer abandoned or neglected. Great job DP & Almost DP.

Great video. You and Aaron make a great team. Never a dull moment. It is not abandoned anymore. Thanks for sharing 👍 😊

All the years my dad farmed, we would cut oak trees around the fields to keep them from draining acreage. One tree was so big that it probably made a quarter acre start producing again. Even limb trimming will make a big difference but we never had anything like that to reach into the trees. Great idea!

If you want your polebarn post to last longer, treat them at ground level like the REC treats their electric poles. It's some sort of creosote, then cover it with tar paper.

The property is looking really good. Hopefully Lt Dan does make a comeback to life.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. The new farm is really coming together, the millings and paint should really finish things up. Don’t quite understand the comments about getting rid of the carts now that you just bought rollers to maintain the track. Still think you should get Arron’s trailer painted fluorescent yellow and delivered to his house for his wife’s appreciation. Wishing you and your family the best.

Advice: You showed the roof of the equipment building and said you'd like to paint it. I'll be 77 in 6 days, and when my parents purchased their last house (brick) and some acreage in 1960, a rental house and several small barns on the property had rusted tin roofs. I was 13 and when my father told an old neighbor that he was going to have me up on them painting the roofs, the old man carpenter told my father that paint would not stick well to a rusty roof, and that he should have me mop the roofs with vinegar to clean off the rust and let dry a day or two, then paint the dried tin. The tin roofs would still look rusted but the vinegar would wash all the loose and semi-loose rust particles off onto the ground and the paint would stick to the metal. I did. The vinegar did not hurt the ground because it's just a turned apple acidic liquid. That's what I did - a rag mop and vinegar in 1961. Dad died in 2001 and Mother 10 months later in 2002. We sold everything in 2003, and to this day, that paint I applied in 1961 - 63 years ago, is just fine.

Dry shop & storage is a great plus. Building well worth saving with repairs done. Aaron, against rules to run over go cart.

What a difference that farm is! Kudos for keeping the barns and not tearing them down. I like it!❤

DP everything’s looking good. The extra storage on the abandoned farm is going to help out a lot. I know great man keep them coming.

There are coatings that I've used that are working really well! Way better than just 'paint'.

Your new metal barn is looking good great video 👍

Yes DP. You and all your friends have did a awesome job making this farm another working farm after all those years of don’t being a farm. Now you can look 👀 back at it and enjoy your work 😊❤. Now on to another one 😊

The improvements that you and your team have brought about to both the fields, land, and steading buildings are huge and will improve yet more over time as things settle down. This coming years bad winter weather may reveal what you need to do about roof and open surface water collection and drainage. My suggestion is locate some IBR totes with the tops cut out of them that can be repurposed and used for component storage of plumbing / land drainage fitting components according to pipe size. Straight lengths of pipe stored over head (like a steel storage rack,) coils stored "trapped" between IBRs or on their own under the low loft side side of the big shed together with the pipe trailer. I'm far from sure what to suggest for the tile drainer equipment storage as this tool needs heavy lifting capacity to handle this. Hope that these suggestions may be useful in some way, Dan

Thanks for the update, you have made a huge difference in the look and use of property and buildings. Looks like your contractor has done an excellent job of repairing of the buildings, always good to have someone you count a good job from.thanks again for the update, enjoyed watching.