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Bought a house from 1810 (and some other stuff)

Just read thru the whole thing. Fucking A dude. You got one hell of a score! I can only hope I m as fortunate to stumble across something half this good in my hunt in Maine. I have one or two interesting properties saved, but nothing to write this scale of awesomeness.
 
92 Green YJ said:
Just read thru the whole thing. Fucking A dude. You got one hell of a score! I can only hope I m as fortunate to stumble across something half this good in my hunt in Maine. I have one or two interesting properties saved, but nothing to write this scale of awesomeness.
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From San Diego to Maine? Holy shiitake.
 
trampas said:
From San Diego to Maine? Holy shiitake.
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What slowpoke said. Fuck this shithole of a state. Newscums over reach and this whole COVID thing has just made this place an absolute nightmare. I was looking at Montana originally but wife wasn’t in love with it. So we went state by state and came up with a list of 7 to consider. Did more digging and research on each and narrowed it down. Maine won out so we are house hunting there and getting our place here ready to sell. With what we will net for the sale of this place I can buy some real nice properties there for cash and not have a mortgage at all or buy a bit higher and have a small mortgage. Also kind of looking at maybe doing a business as well. I’ve found a few interesting properties well within our budget that would support this. One the main house is currently set up as a B&B but with 5 cabins on a lakeshore on some acreage that includes furnishings, boats, equipment, etc in the sale price. Thinking convert the B&B back to a living home and rent the cabins out for weekend getaways, boat rentals, etc. found another that’s basically set up as a small RV park and campground, one with a greenhouse and nursery business attached, hell even a PGA spec 9 hole golf course.
 
That black powder rifle looks like a kit that got set aside mid-build.
 
92 Green YJ said:
Just read thru the whole thing. Fucking A dude. You got one hell of a score! I can only hope I m as fortunate to stumble across something half this good in my hunt in Maine. I have one or two interesting properties saved, but nothing to write this scale of awesomeness.
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Get the fuck outa here. I have lived here ten years and cant afford the housing market as all the California/Massholes has driven it up!!!! Fuckoff bud :flipoff2:
 
Burns said:
Get the fuck outa here. I have lived here ten years and cant afford the housing market as all the California/Massholes has driven it up!!!! Fuckoff bud :flipoff2:
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Not looking too much around Portland. Only 2 properties we like in that area. Most of the stuff we’ve been bookmarking is more up around Bangor area.
 
He's dead the shining got him. That is why he got it cheap. or after the market jumped he made millions and is retired
 
Tin Roof said:
Anything new happening with this place?
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Not much to report. I've been meaning to do a full update. Still trying to unpack and organize the shop and slowly selling off some of the shit that I don't need.

What did happen though was spring fucking sprung and this place is a jungle. I have to mow weekly.....that's about 4 hours and weedeating takes another 2, which I do about every other week.

Fruit trees went nuts. I have several apples, pears, a couple peaches and some others that look like cherry and maybe peach or appricot that are about dead.
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And also a metric shit ton of grapes. I think I counted over 60 plants. From what I remember the PO saying, most in the vineyard are wine grapes and the ones along the fences are the eating type. This is two plants and I probably have 8 or 10 like this. :eek:

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kschaper75 said:
Can't believe I missed this. Would have been happy to help you move.
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How do you feel about yard work?? :flipoff2:



[486] said:
Get any more sweet furry porn commissions?
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You looking to commission a piece? I can get you the PO's son's name. :laughing:
 
Have a small apple and pear tree at the rental. ignored them last year and they put out a TON of fruit, made a huge mess in the fall when it all fell. Even if you don't eat it, consider telling the neighbors/friends to come pick it so you don't have to deal with fallen rotting fruit in the fall after you ignore it like i did. bees and wasps were happy though

still jealous. A place like this would definitely convince me to move down that way.
 
We have apple, lemon, lime, tangerine, loquat and 10 guava trees. The birds get most of the apples, dog has a fondness for loquats so he eats them all about 6' up the tree. The rest we eat or give away. Neighbors have a bunch of dragon fruit trees and like guavas so we trade. The apple tree will go nuts about every other season and we will have buckets of giant apples. Brother-in-law makes a killer cider with them so he gets priority.
 
I'm expecting the deer to take care of anything they can reach. According the the PO, they'll be out in herds when things start getting ripe.
 
Roc Doc said:
Pew pew. Venison, it's what's for dinner.
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Not a fan of venison and really have no interest in hunting. My meet comes from the supermarket as god intended. :flipoff2:


But I do know the PO had a collection of bows and may or may not have picked off his fair share in the back field. :laughing:
 
bgaidan said:
Not a fan of venison and really have no interest in hunting. My meet comes from the supermarket as god intended. :flipoff2:
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You say that now but when they're free and in your yard you'll be cutting your ground beef 50-50. :laughing:

I'm no "fan" of venison but that shit is free and works great in all sorts of places cheap shitty beef products would. Cut your burgers/tacos/chili with it. Toss some in with your beans and franks. Throw some in your beef stew. Grind some up and throw it on some nachos and cheese. Can't go wrong at the price of free-fiddy.
 
Well, the pears are getting big and starting to fall. Most of the trees got with with pear rust/fungus so I'm not expecting much out of them. I'll treat them in the fall and spring and hopefully get it under control for the next season.

But as expected, the neighbors have started stealing my fruit
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Patiently waiting for the grapes to ripen...
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How's this place going for ya?

I had forgotten about this thread, such an awesome property.
 
So it's been almost a year since I updated this. I don't have near the dedication that 92 Green YJ has. :laughing:

I need to merge some of the other standalone threads I started in to this one at some point.

In the meantime, we had a couple really heavy rain storms this weekend and last weekend. The one last weekend, was a complete washer. Hadn't had one for a while and I ran out to check how the gutters were working on all the buildings. Turns out, they weren't on one side of the house.

It also turns out that when you don't get the water away from the house, it comes inside and trickles down the walls. Not horrible, but definitely there and doesn't help with the dampness and humidity in the house.

These two downspouts (the other one is up by the a/c unit) go underground and tee in to each other just to the left of the pic. During last week's storm (about an inch in 20 minutes), I came out to find the nearest one blowing water out around the joint from the downspout to the pipe. I pulled the pipe off and water was just gushing out. The upper downspout was basically back feeding up the tee and bubbling out here. Great, pipe is clogged somewhere downstream, burried.
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I dug it back to the to the tee, hoping the clog would be right there, but no luck. So I ended up digging it all the way to the discharge in the middle of the lawn. Also gave me a excuse to finally rip out the PO's satellite dish. :laughing:
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Rand the hose in it for a while and eventually it filled up and started bubbling out of a crack or hole. Only a little trickle was making it through.
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Ended up just pulling the pipe up. It had some dips and bellies in it and I mangled to mangle it a bit while exposing it. So I rolled it, pushing the water downhill and eventually it puked out this mess. Mostly needles off the giant cedar that's on that side of house, mixed with some leaves.

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Not a real fan of this thin corrugated pipe. Really should be solid pipe or at least dual wall or smooth core. And I'd really love to run it all the way down to the woods so it doesn't just dump on the lawn, right above the leach field.

I doubt I'll be able to get anything locally on short notice, so I'll probably just grab whatever lowe's has, which is likely the same single wall stuff and tackle this the right way later. At some point I plan to rent a trencher to do more drainage work, run some network cables and waterlines. I'll just make a big weekend out of it.

Gonna grab some downspout filters like these to see if I can keep some of the shit out.

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bgaidan said:
Gonna grab some downspout filters like these to see if I can keep some of the shit out.

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I'm curious how these work in reality. I could see a giant mess and tons of water right next to the house which mostly defeats the purpose of downspouts.
 
Yotota said:
I'm curious how these work in reality. I could see a giant mess and tons of water right next to the house which mostly defeats the purpose of downspouts.
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I picked up a couple at lowes today. They seem like they'll work. They're supposed to be self-cleaning so if shit gets on the screen and you get a good storm, it should wash the screen off and keep on flowing. But then again, I can see them getting clogged up and during a light rain event just diverting all of the water right out the cleanout opening. Might just be one of those things I need to add to the list to check every week or two. They'll be a lot easier to clean out vs. clogged buried pipe.



I checked lowes for pipe - all they had was the same single wall corrugated or solid PVC (at $25 per joint). It'd take too much re-digging to go PVC. Gonna call aroung tomorrow and see if anyone has some smooth core. I know I have a few hundred feet of 6" surplussed from a job at work, but that's a little overkill for this. I'll probably just go back with 4" corrugated for now and might drag that 6" home and throw it in the barn for when I can trench this in the right way. There's a 3rd downspout at the front of the house that just dumps on the ground through a 6' piece of corrugated. I'd like to trench in a run that picks all 3 up and then bring it all the way down tot the fence line and dump it in the woods.
 
budget76 said:
Have a small apple and pear tree at the rental. ignored them last year and they put out a TON of fruit, made a huge mess in the fall when it all fell. Even if you don't eat it, consider telling the neighbors/friends to come pick it so you don't have to deal with fallen rotting fruit in the fall after you ignore it like i did. bees and wasps were happy though

still jealous. A place like this would definitely convince me to move down that way.
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Why do you think those bows were on the wall. Check your zeros and practice the shots. Easy freezer fill. :rasta:
 
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