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Van Islander gets the Gold Cup for the first New-Game-Old-Barn-Photo of 2022 !
Congrats !

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Spring is coming along gradually here in Central New York, providing about 10 days in the 60's so far. I've gotten all of the road bikes out, and all are running superbly, having had each in the winter workroom these past 5 months for an intensive maintenance. Added a digital tachometer to the '76 and '75 (they all have them, now) and deleted the sidestand relays on the '83 and '82, cutting off all of the unnecessary/interfering sections of the stands themselves. The'75 needed the starter gear clip re-pinched, so the starter is no longer grinding.

Yesterday it was the '82 Heritage Special's turn to take a spin in the neighborhood as a shakedown for my regular Catskill Mountain trips, this being the dedicated bike for those excursions. All is good.

This is a classic Central New York small owner farm which is meticulously maintained. It still has its operational grain silos, whereas most of the farms have converted to using 8 foot fans which blow the grain into huge white plastic "worms" which now adorn the landscape.

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Small technical correction (gotta keep my Nitpicking Pedant status current...):

Technically, what's in the silo and/or bags is "sileage" not grain. Usually either chopped corn or chopped hay. Chopped and stored while green/wet and ferments in storage. Cowz LOVE that stuff!

On my planet, "grain" is stuff like wheat, oats, rye or corn harvested after it's dried down and the seed separated from the rest of the plant via a combine harvester.

But yeah, BEAUTIFULLY kept farmstead. Last time I went to Michigan to visit family I returned via I86 and I88 through New York. The area between Oneonta and Albany was absolutely gorgeous! If I were 30 years younger...
 
Spring is coming along gradually here in Central New York, providing about 10 days in the 60's so far. I've gotten all of the road bikes out, and all are running superbly, having had each in the winter workroom these past 5 months for an intensive maintenance. Added a digital tachometer to the '76 and '75 (they all have them, now) and deleted the sidestand relays on the '83 and '82, cutting off all of the unnecessary/interfering sections of the stands themselves. The'75 needed the starter gear clip re-pinched, so the starter is no longer grinding.

Yesterday it was the '82 Heritage Special's turn to take a spin in the neighborhood as a shakedown for my regular Catskill Mountain trips, this being the dedicated bike for those excursions. All is good.

This is a classic Central New York small owner farm which is meticulously maintained. It still has its operational grain silos, whereas most of the farms have converted to using 8 foot fans which blow the grain into huge white plastic "worms" which now adorn the landscape.

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That's a very pretty spot Due - looks like you had a super ride!

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Technically, what's in the silo and/or bags is "sileage" not grain. Usually either chopped corn or chopped hay. Chopped and stored while green/wet and ferments in storage. Cowz LOVE that stuff!

On my planet, "grain" is stuff like wheat, oats, rye or corn harvested after it's dried down and the seed separated from the rest of the plant via a combine harvester.

Drunk cows? I never knew....
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Silage made from grass doesn't ferment or cause drunk cows. It cooks and goes a sort of golden green colour if the stack has been sealed properly. Winter feed and it is so warm it can be hot to touch when cutting into the stack. In the winter and the cows just love it because it is warm food on those cold rainy, or any winters day.

Used to put in 17 acres every year for our milking cows. Had a hole cut into a bank and filled it up with grass and it has to be grass that hasn't gone to seed or it will loose it's nutritional value. it is an art building the stack and stopping water from getting into it and making the stack rot.

Remember years ago a silage pit was found in England that was 25 years old, the silage was still good and nutritional.

Now don't let the cattle get into the corn or wheat.............that will ferment in their stomach and make them drunk and kill them if they eat enough.
 
Silage made from grass doesn't ferment or cause drunk cows. It cooks and goes a sort of golden green colour if the stack has been sealed properly. Winter feed and it is so warm it can be hot to touch when cutting into the stack. In the winter and the cows just love it because it is warm food on those cold rainy, or any winters day.

Used to put in 17 acres every year for our milking cows. Had a hole cut into a bank and filled it up with grass and it has to be grass that hasn't gone to seed or it will loose it's nutritional value. it is an art building the stack and stopping water from getting into it and making the stack rot.

Remember years ago a silage pit was found in England that was 25 years old, the silage was still good and nutritional.

Now don't let the cattle get into the corn or wheat.............that will ferment in their stomach and make them drunk and kill them if they eat enough.

Meanwhile in Wisconsin.
https://www.wormfarminstitute.org/ferm-fest-2022
 
Central New York has been spiked with glorious, summer-like weather these past two days.
Yesterday got all the boys out to stretch their legs on extended runs in all directions,

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taking the '83 north along the Erie Canal,
the '76 East along Rt. 80 to Norwich,
and the '75 south past Skaneateles Lake to the Town of Niles
where I spotted this old barn on route 41A high atop a hill.

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The barn doors had clearly been restored recently, but the farm appeared abandoned.

No silage in sight, anywhere.

Just down the road (41A) is a hamlet called New Hope, where the New Hope Gristmill complex resides.
The complex includes the mill building, two vernacular dwellings, a 1910s gambrel roofed storage barn, a 1935 saw mill, two concrete faced dams, and a 1-acre mill pond. On the National Registry of Historic Places, it is certainly worth visiting.

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Just down the road (41A) is a hamlet called New Hope, where the New Hope Gristmill complex resides.
The complex includes the mill building, two vernacular dwellings, a 1910s gambrel roofed storage barn, a 1935 saw mill, two concrete faced dams, and a 1-acre mill pond. On the National Registry of Historic Places, it is certainly worth visiting.

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Now that is a cool looking old building. Love the water wheel!
 
One more side note regarding the town of New Hope:

New York State has a great historical marker program which towns can apply for and get a nice metal sign indicating some cool aspect of their vicinity.
You may remember my story about the Cardiff Giant awhile back, a curiosity which happened nearby my home:

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Which has one of these markers:

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https://www.xs650.com/threads/fall-riding.50667/page-4#post-529842

Well, New York State has a newer tourist/historical marker program ("Legends and Lore") which I think is quite questionable, but anyway,
the Town of New Hope apparently thought that the story (involving the aforementioned gristmill) of the renaming of their town from Sodom to New Hope was pretty cool, so they applied and received a signpost:

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Apparently the town once felt they had a choice to make a change or forever be associated with this rock band:




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Well as it turns out there is also a Hamlet in southeastern NY by that same name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom,_New_York

Seems when the Europeans came to this continent if they could not bring themselves to name the places from the name of the natives they would use just about any name they could come up with and sometimes this ment that there are several places with the same names.
 
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