hi I'm Mike one man's junk is another man's treasure I think that's how the
saying goes and here on the ranch we have barns full of stuff that never see
the light of day and about once a year I like to go through and do a little
digging and see what I can find hidden treasures winter projects you never know
what you might run into as we go picking on the ranch on our wyoming life
the bad part about having space to store stuff is that you end up keeping
everything we've got barns and sheds and even an old semi-trailer that acts as
storage on the ranch and when something is in the way or it is isn't useful at
the moment it ends up getting slid into one of these storage units it's been
going on for years there's piles of god-knows-what scattered all over the
ranch placed in storage by past generations and forgotten about and left
to be found by us all ranchers are hoarders to some extent I've been there
you throw something away and two weeks two days two months two years down the
road you realize that you could have used it for something
an old hydraulic hose that still has a good end a wheel but a wheelbarrow that
he could have salvaged the handles off of or even a box of hose fittings when
you have a hose break in the garden ranchers store their stockpiles all over
the place for us bigger things and pieces of equipment old gates pipes even
use propane tanks end up in the dump not really a dump but more of a holding area
until something or some part is needed for smaller things they end up in
storage in a barn or a shed and wait until they're needed again come with me
as we take a look and see what kind of treasures we can find
this garage / barn is our main storage area useful for getting things out of
the weather and the winter we usually store the Model T in here and sometimes
the fire truck but right now it's full of stuff that we had to get out of the
way in the shop stacks of chairs we use during branding the cake feeder which
we'll be putting on the Gator in the next couple of weeks that way we don't
have to get out in the weather and cake the cows by hand also taking up the
center of the garage as an old refrigerator we saved the compressor is
shot but I'm hoping to get it up and running at some point I think it looked
cool in the shop next up is Aaron's water tank that we'll be using to take
water to the gardens this winter all the garden water is turned off so it doesn't
freeze so this will be filled up in the shop and taken via Bobcat to the tunnel
to water plants also we have an old band soft and over here is an old wheelbarrow
filled with tack these are harnesses for draught horses
it's how they were attached to and controlled from the back of an old wagon
these were rounded up from old barns and put into one place although I have no
idea what I'm gonna do with them
over on this raised platform is an old Bell I think it was a school bell at
some point and sat on this stand which was in the ground and was used to call
the kids in from recess many many years ago at a small one-room schoolhouse this
garage used to be the main shop on the ranch of years ago and some of the
remnants of that are still evident like this old drill press still mounted to
the wall a hand operated drill press and even though it's missing a lot of parts
I still like it and I'm sure it saw a lot of work back in its day along with
this old vice mounted to the workbench and it still works in this corner of the
garage we get to some of the old furniture the ranch has been collecting
over the years chairs and tables and dressers along with steamer trunks all
earmarked for future refurbishing if I ever get time to do that in the same
corner an old Cub Cadet wagon pulled behind a four-wheeler or a lawn tractor
and filled with a bunch of stuff including an old fashioned popcorn
popper a fly fishing basket and an old creamer bucket and this an antique cedar
for planting seeds in the garden as we head into the barn attached to this
garage we'll find a majority of the odds and ends that end up being stored on the
ranch buckets of old tools and fittings which had been collected a lot of them
from the methane sites on the ranch where workers would forget the tools and
leave stuff laying around including more pipe wrenches than I'll ever need or use
each stall on this side of the barn has been used for storage for years and
years as we move on to the next stall we could find a bunch of old fashioned
wooden school desks probably from the same school the Bell came from and in
the same area not very PC boxes of old beer bottles I'm guessing somebody in
the past here was brewing beer and maybe even bottling it I hope
they got to enjoy it because in the end I'm left with a few boxes of beer
bottles here's another piece of beer memorabilia an old wooden beer case
someone was a Budweiser fan next to it and behind this light an antique sewing
machine a new mansion brand sewing machine very cool
manufactured in 1925 unfortunately not worth a lot millions of these were made
and millions are still around tucked away just like this one but you
can't imagine the kind of work this machine is seen headed out of this barn
and over to the semi trailer this storage trailer is relatively new and
I'm mainly using it for stuff that I use quite a bit but I don't want it
cluttering up the shop random tools that apparently spilled out of their bucket
some more furniture for refinishing extranet wrap that's used to wrap bales
during hanging time also an old painters stool another antique school desk a
trunk and a sewing box we have one more barn to visit in our picking Torf and
that's the main barn behind the shop this barn ends up being storage for
mostly yard lawn and garden equipment but it does have one surprise in it this
unassuming looking black box let's check it out it doesn't look like much but
this box was technologically in between the chuck wagon in a wagon train and a
modern RV it weighs about 75 pounds and as we get it out of the light I can tell
you the patent for it is from 1926 and it's a motorists kitchenette it was made
to be mounted to the running board of a Model T or Model a car you could drive
all day stop for lunch and with different compartments for bread coffee
sugar and eggs you'd have all the fixin's
picnic including an icebox and a water dispenser on the side it's nowhere
mint-condition but it was one of my best finds on the ranch it originally sold
for $50 and was probably a huge luxury for the car owner of the early 20th
century well there we go the motorists kitchen sitting on the back of a 1924
Ford Model T pickup this is as good as it gets back then got a nice box sit
back and make yourself a sandwich one of the cool things about living on the
ranch is the history that you can find whether it's the ranch itself or
something tucked away in an old barn ranches in the US are disappearing at a
rate of one acre per minute and with them goes all that history we're doing
our best to keep that from happening thanks for joining us make sure you
stick around as we've got some cool stuff coming up Aaron's getting ready to
start her winter growing adventure in the high tunnel growing vegetables with
no heat in freezing temperatures and supplying our local farmers market also
we've got pregnant and we'll be getting back into our winter mode as we start
feeding the cows once again lots of projects coming up in the shop
and a whole lot more as always have a great week and thanks for joining us and
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