Oh my Randy! What did you just do?
Na, that's old news. (Norton7d's) find in the middle of Oregon's farm lands..I pick'd it upOh my Randy! What did you just do?
Do I get some credit for this one?
Ooh hunting bikes counts?
Down a dirt road in Iowa, I knew a 1/4 mile off THIS place was the one I was looking for and that it was going to be an adventure.
Weathervaneman came out of that back door shotgun first and started pumping shells at the sky....
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This was in 2014, I just looked and his website is still up
http://weathervaneman.com/v-web/gallery/album01/DSCN9820
yupper both counts #400ish off the line.Yikes! He greets visitors by shooting his shotgun in the air? Was that an XS1?
I'm thinkin' your post belongs in the previous game..yupper both counts #400ish off the line.
He said he was shooting pigeons to feed his hawks, but it was mainly to see if I would react or run off. I just waited a bit and said how ya doin'? He wasn't shooting at ME.... We got along fine.
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In spite of the good story.... my memory or wanting to tell a good tale may have biased the telling, he came out brandishing a shot gun ready to fire up in the air, but I canna 'member fersher if shots were actually fired. I know the tale's been told here before, but you think I can find it? nope. The iowa stop was on day two of a run that included Minnesota and North Dakota and had me back home with TWO XS1's and another XS650 stuffed in the van.
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How about two different barns near me? Time stamp on cameraView attachment 168365 View attachment 168366 is a day off as these were just taken within the last hour!
Yes, Old Barns are disappearing, falling in within themselves
Yes sad to see those old barns go to ruin. The one in the top picture in my post used to have a big two story house in front of it. House sat for about three years empty then one day a few weeks back my wife went by it on the way to do some shopping and the house was gone. Not just knocked down but only some fresh straw covering the ground where house used to be! There is a Farmall C sitting in the yard the other side of the barn my front wheel is pointing at, a bit rusty but they keep a can over the exhaust so it might be salvageable.Yes, Old Barns are disappearing, falling in within themselves
One of the good reasons to photograph them before they are gone and replaced by aluminum pole barns.
Figgered y'all were getting tired of the green bike so switched.
rode about 60 miles of township roads and some dirt tracks with lots of "photo stops.
Gary,Figgered y'all were getting tired of the green bike so switched.
rode about 60 miles of township roads and some dirt tracks with lots of "photo stops.
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I had taken this shot while on the mail route in January of 2011
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Windmills and silos close enough for a barn thread? Perfect sun and upper 60's day to be puttering around on the bike.With the leaves all full now, saw a few that will have to wait for late Fall or next Spring.
Yes, recycling old barn wood is a big business out here in the Northeast. In fact, some barn owners have their intact barns torn down, dismantled for the wood cuz it is worth much more that way. Rather sad. This happened down the street from me this spring.A lot of that old barn wood is being harvested and made into wood products like large tables, bars, floors etc...So not all of that old wood is left to rot or compost.s