i recently purchased some acreage thats littered with old vehicles and trash piles ranging from the early 1900s and up, i make videos of myself exploring the land and being outdoors, check it out fellas
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i recently purchased some acreage thats littered with old vehicles and trash piles ranging from the early 1900s and up, i make videos of myself exploring the land and being outdoors, check it out fellas
Seems like you should’ve explored before buying it
i did, i like the junk
Prince edward island?
no but i am in eastern canada
Rent a dozer for a week and use it to move the junk into one spot, then build a fort with it
thats the plan one day, but its 44 acres so its quite easy to escape the junk if you want to
Nice little creek you got on your land. Wonder if it has any brook trout in it. What kind of wildlife have you seen so far. Set up any game cams? That could be interesting
thanks! ive found 4-5 different creeks so far, theres a nice sized pond on the land too. too small for fish i think but i could be wrong. i set a trail cam every week or so, ive seen white tail deer, black bear, partridge, woodwieners, porcupines, rabbit, pheasants ect
You should try fishing some flies in some of those deeper pools, see what kind of species are in there. I fish for trout in creeks that size all the time. Are you planning on doing any habitat restoration on your land? Maybe you could clear out some of that junk or remove some invasive plants and sow some native plant seeds. You could really attract a lot of wildlife with all of those water sources
ill give it a shot next time i trek that way again! i definitely will, theres a guy a few kms down the road that might help me clear alot of it and sell it for scrap. this summer i will introduce some lily pads and other aquatic plants to the pond, i would also like to dam the pond and make it a bit larger
this is kind of neat. nice Slender vibes at night no doubt
its quite the place, pretty spooky at night, theres an old collapsed late 1800s/ early 1900s house aswell thats pretty unsettling at night time
dang man I wanna see this
I stumbled upon pickerel totally unexpected one day while walking through the uncharted "coyote territory" just south of the nearly impassable cedar meadow (i.e. the witch's woods). startled the fug outta me
if you ever find yourself in eastern canada come on down buddy. "witches woods" sounds interesting, thats a beautiful ford, you found that?
Yeah it was just abandoned and the logging road it clearly drove in on is now overgrown so it's well and truly stuck in there.
And yeah there's a maybe 100 acre section of the woods that's old cedar forest, the one spot the colonists never cleared back in the 16-1700s. there are still stonewalls running through the woods and the cedar meadow begins abruptly behind three of the walls, that was as far as they cleared. its super dark and hard to walk through because the trees are so thick with spiny low branches, you can't really see far and you also can't get away quickly without stabbing and scratching the hell out yourself, so you feel very vulnerable. lots of signs of bears and every night the coyotes howl from here so you just never know if you're being stalked or if you've gone too far to have a safe escape. And it's eerie as frick anyway, I get neither the heebies nor the geebies except in that area.
I don't have a great photo but this action cam frame from my mountain bike shows the edge of the cedar forest off to the left. this is a snowmobile trail that skirts through that side of town
I'd say a lot of your property (from what I've seen so far) needs some tender loving with a skid-steer mounting one of those forestry mulcher attachements. Except for all the bits of random metal lurking about, that'd make it a bit of a minefield.
Still looks like it has a ton of potential. Best of luck, bud.
I think you got two of us mixed up a bit, I'm not opie
Yeah, I saw that after I posted..
Note to self-"Engage brain before fingers.".
s'all good anon we figured it out
yea absolutely, its been neglected and used as a dump for many years but thats part of its character. one day ill be able to afford a tractor or bobcat do do some real work
thats a shame, have people stripped all the parts? that sounds like a fun forest to explore, we dont have many cedar forest out this way, plenty of awful tangled alder forests though. i love old growth forests, spooky or not.
not stripped at all actually. it's not on any trails and it's deep on private property away from roads and such. aside from a couple bullet holes and a piles of c.1990s beer cans in the dirt behind it, I think it's probably forgotten. I found it on google maps when I switched to one of the years they took the photos during winter. You can't see dick in the summer photos
It's the best forest, it has fricking everything I love from old colonial history, indian wars, abandoned farmland, creeks, ravines, a lake, coyotes and bears, etc.
I hope to someday own a chunk of land much like your own, with or without the relics
nice! thats pretty suprising, youd think someone would stumble upon it and strip engine or body parts. thats an impressive find, we've found some cool shit with google maps aswell. right on man, is land still affordable where you are? (im assuming youre in the states)
Yeah I'm in MA. the forest is about 2k acres (and much more beyond, but outside the 2k you have to cross roads). my dad bought 40 acres AND built a house all for $30k 40 years ago. Now it's going for like $20k an acre. luckily for my whole life the whole forest has remained undeveloped.
Might retire to somewhere remote in Canada someday, my family is from Quebec maybe I'll get some brownie points. I live in Aus now though and I have my eye one some rural mountain areas in the Southern Tablelands I might plonk down on someday
You dun good anon, cherish your property and maybe over time clean it up if you like, or not
right on, pretty close to me im in NS. its insane what you used to be able to do with a few bucks. i got my land for 1000cad/acre, not bad. glad they havent torn the forest down yet. quebec has some nice wilderness areas but everyone in quebec sucks.(maybe not including your family). how hard was it to get into australia? thanks anon im slowly trying to clean it up.
from what I understand Nova Scotia is a completely different ballgame than Kebek, although it's a bigass province with surely lots of wilderness. you got an awesome price, I would KILL to pay only a thousand dollarydoos an acre, even in the middle of nowhere with no electricity or developed roads Aus is frickin way more expensive it's shit.
Migrating to Australia is so hard it's literally become my life's work. I first moved here 18 years ago and am now finally FINALLY F-I-N-A-L-L-Y getting my permanent residency. I've had so many setbacks and rollercoasters, I've had to move Back Home™ several times over the years and return again with nothing and start over again, etc etc etc. It's made for a wonderful life though, making the best of a bad situation and being able to hunker down and camp in my childhood woods as an adult, literally in a mindset where I had nothing to lose, and then fight like hell again and regain my prosperity again back in Aus, and repeat. I wouldn't recommend it but the last time I lived in MA ended up being one of the most cherished episodes of my life, even though my family and friends basically saw me as a washup an nearly homeless. I lived in and loved the frick out of my childhood woods, and it's all okay because now I'm back on my feet :]
yea NS is its own little country, they do things pretty different here and any random stranger would break their back to help you unlike Q-bec. NS is one of the smallest provinces but our population is low, we just hit 1 million last summer. yea ive heard the same thing, impossible to migrate there. congrats buddy im glad you got your citizenship and got your shit together, mustve been quite the experience living in the woods
thanks friend. if I'm ever visiting around NS I'll PM you so we can do a spooky tour of your new digs. all the best with the property and settling in!
absolutely man just message me or comment on youtube there to get in touch. thank ya man, take care!
whats your username on youtube?
broksi I just followed you a couple hours ago have a look :]
>feel very vulnerable
Toughen up, maybe bring a rifle for the coyotes.
Who ever drove that truck in, never made it out. Spoopy.
we'll never know anon
metal detect it
i would if there wasnt scrap metal covering almost every inch lol
The old house could be a good restoration project honestly.
ill post a video of it on sunday, its way too far gone, gaping holes in every side and its on a 45 angle
one of the 5 busses
the house at the front of the land, still some things inside but too dangerous to enter, collapses more and more each day
>take away roof to lower weight and risk of house collapses
>explore what it has inside
Or
>demolish it and avoid any risk
If I was OP I would prop it up as to maintain the character of the collapsing old structure and also not make all those ghosts homeless
i think i will leave it alone for now, the ghosts should be maintaining it themselves thats not my problem
i might knock it over myself to see if theres any salvageable wood left inside. the area the land is in only has a few hundred residents if that, and the house is well hidden so i dont have to worry about people trying to explore and getting killed on my property thankfully
>Image Enhancer 5000
spoogy.
we found some old film negatives of people inside that house and developed them, theyre interesting to say the least
Much salvageable timber in that, pulled down my great great great grandfathers homestead with my dad and my grandad and we got a whole lot of timber out of it, dad made a cool book case out of it.
it's so rad to have such old houses still around in the family. one of the oldest families in my hometown has a house from the about 1720, another from about 1850, and then their current house from about 1890, all sort of next to each other but in different stages of disrepair
Hmm, might be too deprecated to restore.
Well, it will collapse eventually, you could tear it down and clear it, or salvage the wood or something.
Rich love reclaimed wood for some reason. One man's junk is another man's treasure I guess. Could make stuff out of it or even sell the lumber.
>Rich people* love reclaimed wood for some reason.
Maybe it is the aesthetic of it
someone was living in this bus up until the early 90s, large stack of news papers and flyers aswell as canned goods all dated 93 or later. had a cook top wood stove, fridge, sink and beds inside until i cleared it out.
going to film a new video this sunday, does anyone want to see anything in particular?
haunted house pls
you got it. theres one bus that was full floor to ceiling with a womans belongings, in that bus we found film negatives of the woman and people inside of the house before it was un-livable, ill try to find them and put that in the video aswell
that would be rad! man this property is so exciting, enjoying your vidyas
thank you, i appreciate the support! i still find it exciting too, im still discovering new items and spots all the time.
i found almost all of these bottles in the trash piles
>some acreage
what, like 5?
44
going to go film a video right now, should be uploaded sometime tonight
new video is up fellas
bought a tractor today, should be quite useful at the land
That, is a fine old rig.
1952 ford 8n, 4cyl flathead, wicked little machine, paid $800
That is a damn fine deal then. It looks to be in good shape, and at least in my area, there are no lack of attachments for those old Fords.
You might consider fluid filling the steers if you have problems with how it handles that big old drag blade. it looks like it may have had weights on the front, since it's missing some of the front tinwork.
hell of a deal, the other cheapest 8n near by was $1850. yep same here, there seems to be no shortage of attachments and parts here. yea im not to sure where the grill ended up, ill probably just make one or make a push bar
what do ya mean by fluid filling the steers?
Filling the front wheels with antifreeze or calcium chloride. It gives more weight to the wheels and helps keep the front end down, improving steering.
ah okay, thank ya ill keep that in mind
have a bump shameless self promoter
doxing (even yourself) is bannable but I ain't no rat.
thanks fella