All interesting discoveries of older homes. I have two stories (well 3 if you count the house I grew up in) of older homes being remodeled or refinished. 1. About 50 years ago my mother's brother was remodeling the house that they grew up in. My grandfather had it built about 1900. When he was pulling some interior door trim he was surprised to find that the top corner of each door trim, an oak piece about 5" by 5", had 9 (nine) nails holding them. All wood was carefully pulled and refinished. I never hear anything more about it. 2. The 6 acres that we bought in 1983 was part of a farm that had a house also built around 1900. The heir to the property decided to remodel it. It was a 2 story house with plaster walls inside. When he removed all of the plaster and lath, he found full 2x4 studs, made of oak, on 12" centers. WOW! The outside was sheeted with 1" by 2'+ slabs of oak. He claimed that all of the lumber was milled from trees that had been on the property. I tend to believe it. In the fence row of the 6 acres we bought were/are oaks 3 to 3 and 1/2 feet in diameter. In the couinty park behind us there are 2 oak trees over 4 feet in diameter. When he tried to drive any nail he had to predrill both rough framing and finish work. He said whenever a strong storm came by, the house just set there and went Uh! 3. The house the I grew up in was actually 2 houses: the original was built on site around 1900. The second was moved onto site in the 20's and the two were joined together. It had a large kitchen with a wood range and no bathroom. As a 7 year old we had moved from 2 bedrooms and a bath in town to 5 bedrooms and a path in the sticks. When my father started remodeling that first year, he divided the large kitchen into a kitchen and a bath. There were many surprises along the way. Wiring was individual hot and grounds passing through joist and studs with insulators. Push button switches were mounted ON the wall, not recessed. It had a coal furnace and dad added a oil heater in the dining room. He first had to do a lot of supporting from the basement to the 2nd floor. Previous owners had installed stair cases without any headers when cutting through floor joists. The dining room floor had one heat register above the furnace and no headers to support the floor. It was 2" lower in the middle of the room than at the walls. There was no insulation. I think we poured "Zonolite"? into the walls from the attic. I could go on with stories about this house but you would be bored about page 50. LOL BTW, between working at Ford, farming and building, he died at the age of 53. My oldest son is now 53.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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