[AT] On the shoulders of giants

[charlie hill]

Cecil, I had a similar experience a few years ago.
An elderly lady had promised to sell me the farm across the
road from ours and had promised a larger farm down the road
to a friend who is a contractor.   First thing I know, he owns both of
them.  I think when he went to close on the farm he was promised
he showed up with a deed prepared for the other one as well and
talked her into a package deal.  The sad thing is he practically stole it
from her.

Now that should make me mad and it did and I'm still not over it completely
but it's a mixed blessing.  Although I wanted the farm back in the family 
(it
once belonged to my uncle and he lost it to the elderly ladies dad during 
the depression)
my primary desire to own it was to protect our place from being next to a 
trailer park
or apartment complex or whatever.  The guy who bought it took the whole 30 
acres and
re-graded it.  He built a large new home on the end nearest my moms house 
and put his
shop on the far end.  He's 15 years younger than I am and has a son in 
business with him
so at least our land is protected for the rest of my life.  The thing that 
disappoints me is
that he is supposed to be a friend and he knew the place was promised to me 
and I had the
cash money in the bank to pay what he paid for it 3 times over.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cecil Bearden
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 7:13 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] On the shoulders of giants

I got some good news here in OKla as well.  One of the big farmers here
and a food friend bought the 80 acres that joins mine on the West.  Of
course, I was told by the owner that I would be the first to know when
the realtors were out of the picture, and I was never called.....  I was
relieved to hear of my new neighbor, and told him so.  At least for a
few years it will not be developed, and if so, I may be able to buy a
strip to put some distance between me and the new idiots that move in....

Cecil in OKla


On 2/13/2017 5:54 AM, David Bruce wrote:
> We are seeing some turnover here as well. If there are no family members
> still farming the farms usually are sold for development. Being that we
> are less than half an hour from Winston-Salem, NC that sort of thing has
> been going on since my childhood but it does seem to be accelerating.
> Some local good new a farm next to me was sold intact to the son of a
> local farm family and he is staying in the farm business. His sister
> bought my great grandparent's house and 5 acres of the original farm (of
> which my property was once part of). It is unlikely the immediate area
> will be subdivided for a couple decades but one never knows.
>
> David
>
> NW NC
>
>
> On 2/12/2017 7:25 PM, Phil Auten wrote:
>> I can sympathize with the comment about family farms getting cut up for
>> subdivisions.
>>
>> I went to visit my dad's family farm in Davison, Mi. in 1964. One of my
>> uncles was still
>>
>> farming then, using a pretty large John Deere (don't know the model, but
>> it had a hand
>>
>> clutch) raising wheat and other crops. Dad and I helped harvest the
>> winter wheat and
>>
>> I really enjoyed driving that JD. :o)
>>
>> My late wife and I went back to visit in '99 and only the house and yard
>> were left. The
>>
>> rest of the land was a subdivision. The "Centennial Farm" sign was still
>> in the yard
>>
>> though.That was the only good thing about the visit, as nobody was home
>> when we
>>
>> stopped by.
>>
>>
>> Phil in Tx.
>>
>>
>> On 2/12/2017 4:31 PM, Chuck Bealke wrote:
>>> Y’all,
>>>
>>> Sure appreciate the comments on the thread that Spencer started, 
>>> especially Farmer’s
>>> with the picture. My memories start as WW2 was ending and my Grandfather 
>>> bought
>>> the farm we moved to later. A few muscles leftover from summers stacking 
>>> bales are probably
>>> what keeps me going today, and I still miss plowing, working nice ground 
>>> and mowing hay.
>>> Can remember my dad saying (truthfully) that we really had things pretty 
>>> easy compared
>>> to lots of other folks - and also that there were no locks on the door 
>>> if I were ever fool enough
>>> to want to leave home to try things somewhere else. The farm was a 
>>> terrific place to grow up
>>> and learn important lessons of life early in a beautiful setting. Too 
>>> bad so many nice ones like ours
>>> were cut up to make subdivisions, but memories of them are still fun 
>>> years later.
>>>
>>> Chuck Bealke
>>> Dallas, TX
>>>
>>>> On 2/11/2017 9:05 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>>>>> I keep this gas can in my tractor shop, to remind me of all of the 
>>>>> hundreds of times I mowed the yard at our family's home while growing 
>>>>> up...
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