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Bought a house from 1810 (and some other stuff)

Considering that the last guy clearly did a decent job making sure everything was well painted and trimmed out you should probably just live with it as is and not touch it even if it's not your style. Re-doing an interior tends to snowball really bad and it's not what you want to be doing when you should be building a shop.
 
arse_sidewards said:
Considering that the last guy clearly did a decent job making sure everything was well painted and trimmed out you should probably just live with it as is and not touch it even if it's not your style. Re-doing an interior tends to snowball really bad and it's not what you want to be doing when you should be building a shop.
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Uhh....I built a shop. Now what? :flipoff2:

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Wow house purchase of the year for sure! Previous owners with all the trophy animals and fish with the pile of crossbows must have done some hunting and fishing. Wife and husband lived a good life.
 
Score! You'll have a blast with the projects there. I dig the floors and wood..You will quintuple your money when you sell. that is awesome.
 
I see dead people enjoy your shining house #redrum:flipoff2:
Sweet place if you need help I am home for a few more weeks.
 
Damn that is nice. Good deal.
 
That place keeps getting cooler and cooler. That box of antlers is pimp. Have you thought of them?
 
Does it include a maid or Jeeves? For reals, that whole place is spotless-
 
Only thing you haven’t showed us yet..... the Irate trailer park.... complete with full hookups!!!!!
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Nice place man..... congratulations!!!!!
 
det107 said:
Does it include a maid or Jeeves? For reals, that whole place is spotless-
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That's one of my biggest fears of the place...cleaning. I'm probably going to find someone to come in for an hour or three a week just to dust and shit like that. I've never been able to convince myself to have a housekeeper, but this will probably break me.

And I need to make a cleaning schedule for things like getting up in the rafters, on top of the ducks and top of the foundation walls just so I don't keep putting if off year after year.
 
So far I think this is my favorite thing that came with the place. Old skool yamaha gas golf cart. The thing hauls ass. And when you first start it cold with the choke on it'll turn over and over and then fire and take right the fuck off. Pretty easy to send it right in to the shop wall the first time you start it and aren't expecting it. :laughing:

Pretty sure it's 2 stroke too....at least it smells like it. Probably need to confirm that. Smokes like a bitch if you don't fully shut the choke off.

I think I'm gonna give it a paint job and see if I can find or make a utility bed and a canopy for it.

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And for today's WTF is it furniture edition. I'm pretty sure the climate controlled side of the shop was used for the PO's taxidermy business. There's some random furniture and a display case in there. And then there's this dresser thing. I don't think the pic can really show the scale - it's about 6.5-7' tall and maybe 4.5' wide. You couldn't even see in the top drawer unless you were 7.5' tall.

Each drawer section is a separate piece. There are metal plates on the back tying each one together. And the top of each section appears to be finished like they could be used individually.....but bottom section has legs and the top has kind of a back splash so it does seem that they were made to stack.

WTF was this originally made for?

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bgaidan said:
So far I think this is my favorite thing that came with the place. Old skool yamaha gas golf cart. The thing hauls ass. And when you first start it cold with the choke on it'll turn over and over and then fire and take right the fuck off. Pretty easy to send it right in to the shop wall the first time you start it and aren't expecting it. :laughing:

Pretty sure it's 2 stroke too....at least it smells like it. Probably need to confirm that. Smokes like a bitch if you don't fully shut the choke off.

I think I'm gonna give it a paint job and see if I can find or make a utility bed and a canopy for it.

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Looks like it might be a Yamaha G1, see: https://wildaboutcarts.com/what-year-is-my-yamaha-golf-cart/ for a list with pictures and serial numbers by year.

Aaron Z
 

Huh, Only thing I have seen build like that are "Barristers Bookcases" They stack in a similar way. Individual shelf boxes with glass fronts, usually locking, to keep the Porters out of your affairs. Circuit Judges and such would bring them with them as they rode the circuit.

I wonder if this was a chest of drawers version? Earlier chests of drawers and Secretaries were often stackable but usually just a top and bottom set along with a base skirt and even a top trim crown.

Got any manufacturing stamps or marks on the drawers? Dove tails?
 
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Johann said:
Huh, Only thing I have seen build like that are "Barristers Bookcases" They stack in a similar way. Individual shelf boxes with glass fronts, usually locking, to keep the Porters out of your affairs. Circuit Judges and such would bring them with them as they rode the circuit.

I wonder if this was a chest of drawers version? Earlier chests of drawers and Secretaries were often stackable but usually just a top and bottom set along with a base skirt and even a top trim crown.

Got any manufacturing stamps or marks on the drawers? Dove tails?
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It's the same concept as a barrister case, but there's no way to even see in the top drawers unless you're a giant.

I almost wonder if it was display piece for a furniture manufacturer. I'm not far from some of the major furniture manufacturing and retailer.


Waiting for the rain to stop so I can haul another load up there. I'll take a closer look at the construction and look for markings.
 
bgaidan said:
It's the same concept as a barrister case, but there's no way to even see in the top drawers unless you're a giant.

I almost wonder if it was display piece for a furniture manufacturer. I'm not far from some of the major furniture manufacturing and retailer.


Waiting for the rain to stop so I can haul another load up there. I'll take a closer look at the construction and look for markings.
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Someone might have put two sets together. We had a set of file cabinets that were similar, had feet, two sections of 2 cabinets each and a top.

Aaron Z
 
aczlan said:
Someone might have put two sets together. We had a set of file cabinets that were similar, had feet, two sections of 2 cabinets each and a top.

Aaron Z
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My thoughts exactly. The top of the top box looks like it has a raised center to engage in into another box. Could have condensed two sets at some point.

But then my parents also have a couple "Highboy" Chests of drawers that would require a stool to get into the top drawers. Oldschool furniture was made to be the closets of the time. Most houses did not have them or they are so shallow that the concept of keeping your clothes on hangers had not yet occurred to them.
 
some of those golf carts run the motor backwards to get reverse
if it does this you can know 100% that it is a 2 stroke
Johann said:
My thoughts exactly. The top of the top box looks like it has a raised center to engage in into another box. Could have condensed two sets at some point.

But then my parents also have a couple "Highboy" Chests of drawers that would require a stool to get into the top drawers. Oldschool furniture was made to be the closets of the time. Most houses did not have them or they are so shallow that the concept of keeping your clothes on hangers had not yet occurred to them.
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also, tightly fitted drawers are great mouse and bug protection
 
This is easily one of my favorite threads I've ever read!! I can't wait to see more pics and what else you discover!
FYI - people pay a stupid amount of money for chunks of antlers for dog chews. I think I saw a 6" piece of antler individually packaged for something like $15. And just in general, antlers are supper trendy for decorating and crafting now. Should be able to name your price on that box.

The weird thing about this, is that I have reoccurring dreams that are similar to this property. In my dreams I'll find rooms in my current house that I never knew existed, that are like what the bathroom is - extensions of the previous house. Or, I'll find a separate house on my property that will be full of antiques and oddities that I never knew that I bought with the property. Even more bizarre was finding out that my sister has always had the same style of dreams. </random interruption>
 
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