My family did the same! In nort dahkota 😂

@@glendawoodward8750 Uffda!

😂 you don't hear that very often, don't ya know

so they could have a farm up and running yet not build a basic wood shelter. its not a dug out home. its a root cellar. they are all over the place where i live.

My grandfather came from Norway also I can’t quite remember the year around 1853 I think

@@itsthesmallhats how does a “dugout” suppose to appear ? Do they have the earthen walls ? Can they also have brick lined “walls “ if you will

@@itsthesmallhats regardless of what it is called it has to have been stuff out in the hillside. Love it. Wish I had one

@@itsthesmallhats news flash: lots of people lived and still do live in the EARTH. Some are survivalists. Others are living in the Earth to conserve fuel, or to hide so they can kill hunters or hikers. They don't want any visitors in their area. My family had close friends, when I was a kid in Ohio, who were building a house. After they built the basement they decided not to build the house. They raised 4 kids all the way through marriage and the parents retired in the basement. The temperature was always perfect, my siblings and I loved visiting them... The only rule was: "don't run across the roof!"

@@itsthesmallhats it's called a "dug out" because they dug out the dirt to make a home. My gramma was raised in one and she called it a dug out" She would know what it is called... A root cellar was dug into the ground for them to store canned goods and other foods in so it wouldn't freeze or spoil. Sometimes it was below the house and sometimes it was a ways from the house and a room all it's own. They didn't live in the root cellar. My gramma's was under the house she lived in as an adult. Which was across the road from my family.

@@itsthesmallhats The man in the video made it plain it was ancestors who lived in the dugout, but you're saying it's a root cellar, when you don't even know these people. ROFL Obviously, you've never seen the dugout that Laura Ingalls and her family lived in, huh? It was exactly like this, and she even described it in her books. I've seen many pictures of dugouts, and they all looked exactly like this "dugout" house. You're not as smart as you think you are, and people are proving that to you, but your swelled up ego won't let you stop. People DID live in dugouts, and there are many examples, and many photos of them standing in front of their dugout houses, and some were even able to make small windows in the front, and put curtains on them. And quite a few pioneers kept records of this, and it's a well known historical fact. Some of these people just told you that they actually have pictures of the dugout houses that their ancestors lived in, but you persist for the sake of winning an argument, when you've clearly lost, and are in over your head, with those who know what this is. You're just making yourself look arrogant and ignorant, but you don't see that, because you're arrogant and ignorant. Lol And to call other people moronic simply because you're losing an argument, when YOU'RE the one who is a moron, is one of the most childish things you can do. Bless your little heart, you poor, narcissistic, argumentative troll. 😆

My great grandparents were born in the 1890’s and my father brought a tape recorder in the late 1960’s so he could talk about his life. He was a justice of the peace, storeowner, postman who delivered mail on horseback and still lived in his Victorian house with leaded glass windows, crystal doorknobs, skeleton key locks, claw foot tubs, curved mahogany staircase, covered front porch with swing, a carriage house with a loft and and multiple fruit trees in a small town. I inherited the old trunk from around 1870 that had been in my great grandmother’s family and the oak roll top desk that had been in their store and people would bring their eggs in and the eggs would be placed in cartons at the desk so they could be sold. Sadly, my only child has no interest in family history or ‘old junk’ that has been properly cared for and used throughout the years. A few more scuffs, but never abused. An identical trunk and desk are on display in a museum in Colorado. Many people today have no interest in what others lives were like years ago. My current husband spoke about growing up in a small town in Illinois and that’s where my great-grandparents had lived, but his town had about 2,500 residents. The town my great grandparents lived had less than 500. My sister and I had walked to the old store owned by someone else who immediately asked who we were because she knew we weren’t from there.

yes!!

@@tastx3142 Sounds like my family and my childhood! Thank you for sharing. 😊

I wish I had taken the time to do this before my grandparents had passed, the things that start getting fuzzy with so much to remember day to day ...

I am in my early 70s and I grew up on a farm NE Ks.. I saw plenty of rattlesnakes, copperheads and water moccasins. I really don't need to see any more. And I have long given up throwing rocks at rattlesnakes like this young guy does. This young guy's lack of caution reminds me of when I was younger.

Amazing story! I guess they cooked outside in the summer. I wonder how water is kept out. Do the roofs leak?

Kristen, your closing sentences say it all. I live in Regina, SK and come from families that were rural based. Fortunately, as a child, mom and dad would often take us to visit our relatives on the farms/small town settings and those are memories that last forever. As a city kid, almost all my life, I think those experiences are why I see the beauty all around me... outside the city where life is a lot more like it still should be!

That's incredible, I wish I had a lineage like that. I'm in my early 20s and come from a line of trade workers and I'm trying to become the first one with a homestead and a farm lol would be easier with one to inherit, but maybe I can start one and pass that down through the family

I feel the same way, it’s kind of sad seeing old abandoned homes and imagining how they were in their prime

@Amy Toth… you have a wonderful flair for story telling with your imaginative scenario of what probably really was the way it was…👌💖

My daughter and I create vivid stories - names of everyone, did their grandparents live with them, etc. How did the parents interact with each other... it is so much fun! but oh if we could simply be a fly on the wall on moving in day!

Thanks Bob, you’re right about that. I bet everyone back then had to be tough

The autobiography of Rachel Caloff, Russian Jewish woman from the Pale of Settlement. Betrothed age 18 with a Jewish man in ND she never met. Great read great wit great lady. Her children found it in her trunk and published it unedited. She lived in the Devil's Lake area known to Natives as Spirit Lake.

When men were built from steel and ships built from wood.

its a root cellar, not a dug out home. lol

@@sleepranch looks like a big root cellar,. Get better bright lighting ang go back in and show us the dug out . Hard to really see without good lighting.. Thankyou please update and show again..

It's not a dugout it's a root cellar

Not every old person is wise. Some clearly just got old.

@@laaaliiiluuu 🤣 that's true too as a 42 year old who was stuck with a kook of a counselor I was appointed to (not by choice). She be riding that liberal left b.s. and we all know they lack critical thinking skills and have no common sense with extremely flawed logic. Not to mention she non stop tried to identify with,idolize, and talk non stop about Hollywood celebrities as well as kept challenging my faith in christianity while being execited for the great reset which we all know is just another word for NWO. It was wild to think they're people in job fields like that where they might have influence on someone and what psycho does that than the problem at hand.total abuse of position and scary how any idiot can hold a certificate and license in such matters.i could go on but I have already typed a freaking novel.

@@skeeterclovis7163 Wrong! People lived in dug outs and they were built into the side if a hill as this one was. . Root cellars were below the ground and kept canned goods and other foods. Root cellars were below the house or a ways from the house on it's own. My granny had both. And told me about them. She would know..

So true... and it could be rented out to someone right now who needs a home, or turn it into a cool airbnb or a summer cabin for the family.

And to think our politicians spend all their time talking about C02

The stories the walls could tell!

And just look at us now

@@sleepranch Yes you definitely should sympathetically restore it. Replace the original materials only if necessary. It won't last forever. It will be a loss if it falls into ruin.

Yep. Cleaned the chaff from the seed to allow the seed to be bagged and stored or sold.

I have some Chickasha I. T . bricks made before 1907.

most likely his grandfather is close to my age and did not build the barn or dugout, but knows the history as it was passed down to him from his parents and granparents

Looked like a seed cleaner to me. We had one that cleaned very small seed, like clover. Looked a lot like that. I don’t know the brand on ours.

@@johnsadler8637 yeah, I have a cleaner here. There are different sized screens to put in them for different size seed.

I think you’re right Luke, this trucks looked to be enjoying their rest haha take care friend!

Back then they built barns to last a generation or two, not like today.

There are barns in New England built in the 1700s still being used.

Wow that’s cool!

Ditto, my great grandparents also had one in Nebraska and I got to see the remnants of it when I was a little kid back in the late 50s. We found their old water pump in the weeds and I still have it in my garage.

That’s a great idea Terri!

It’s pretty amazing what they went through. We are going to try and fix it all up little by little. Hope you guys are doing well down under! God Bless!

Did you ever read the Little House on the Prairie? The Ingalls family lived in one for some time.

They sure were hard people! Thanks Kenneth, God Bless!

Exactly

It's called a fanning mill. My Uncle sold seed oats along with hybrid seed corn he raised to sell to other farmers. It blew all the weed seeds out of the heavier good seed. It would shake the seed down those different tiers and the circular part had a fan like a steamboat paddle wheel that created the wind that blew the lighter stuff out as the seed dropped from tier to tier. Some farmers still use these machines.

Came here to say that! We currently have 2 of them

Yeah we’re going to work on it little by little! God Bless!

Geoengineered weather? Weather bombs? Do you please elaborate those terms? Or do you mean climate change with that?

Noooo climate change doesn’t exist. It wasn’t real then the deep state changed the weather so we wouldn’t catch their lie. /j

Never heard of that kind of weather where the hell y’all at.

@@rolux4853 Alt-right conspiracy theorists believe that the government can control the weather somehow. Crazy 🤪. Anything to call climate change a hoax...

Oh wow I’d love to see that barn! I bet that was a lot of fun!

Cool, thanks!

Thanks David! God Bless!

When I was a young teenager, back in the early 70's, I had a friend who's family ran a dairy. I stayed with them some on weekends. I remember climbing up into the silo and forking down silage for the cows to eat. They seem to have loved it. The silage was fermented corn stalks. I guess the cows got a buzz from it? 🥴🐄

Very cool! Thanks for the info!

That's what I thought it was . I have something similar up in the rafters of my grainery .

Thanks for watching Jim!

Well thank you John, I really appreciate that! I hope he blesses you and yours as well!

Thanks Evelyn, those sound like fun memories! Yeah we find arrowheads all the time! Take care and God Bless!

That sounds like a lot of fun! I bet you have some great memories! God Bless!

Thanks Caden, hope you’re doing well!

Thanks Margaret, we are going to try really hard to do that! God bless!

That’s a really good idea! I didn’t think about looking into grants or funding so thank you!

@@sleepranch Thanks for your reply ! You should find a serial number on that old piano that would date it . Our local church has one hidden in the basement that was dated to 1887 , the same rt the building was rebuilt after fire destroyed the original Bldg . You may find help from a musical minded organization. Your outbuildings are still in such a solid state that they may rate higher than other competitors for grant money . There are individuals in many communities that specialize in weighting and applying for grants . You may be able to ask around or even post for help on another UKposts ! Good luck !!!

Haha she has a good head on her shoulders! Those folks were really tough back then

Thanks Badger Pa, it is a lot of work but it would be cool someday! I bet it was fun clearing out all those snakes and selling them. I’m sure you had some close calls!

Thanks Mike!

It sure is! We plan on it!

I bet those are fun memories Ken! Haha take care!

I hope we can too!

I’d love to see those old videos! I bet it was a cool place to look around!

I think that’s a good idea Catherina!

I found it amusing they were worried about snakes in the dugout, after wading through grass and weeds up to their armpits. You can differentiate between country folks & city slickers by watching them walk across a pasture. Country folks will always be looking down.

Haha deluxe model, that’s funny! I bet you’re grandparents have some awesome stories to tell!