Cleaning up an Abandon Barn! (Rotting for 10+ years)

Would you all be interested in seeing me build a timber framed barn in the future? I would still love to have one some day!

Matt don't beat yourself up over one failed project. You have saved so many pieces of antique construction equipment you're doing a great job

Although it may seem counterintuitive, tarps aren’t the greatest for woodpiles unless the sides are left open to breath. A sealed woodpile will just condense and trap water underneath which rots what you are trying to protect.

With these old barns, people just look at them as an eyesore and never think about what went in to actually building them. Not only did they build them in record time, but all they had were basic tools, saws, hammers, hand drills, and so on. And yet they were built to last, some for well over a hundred years. Most people these days (myself included) wouldn't cope with this type of build. It's sad you didn't get to finish it, Matt, but we all understand how life kinda gets in the way sometimes, and stuff out of your hands takes control of your present and future life. Not everything we want to do gets done, and you have more projects than there are hours in the day, yet still find the time to put out very interesting videos. Keep up the fantastic work you do every day, we appreciate you for it.

As an Aussie, my skin was crawling watching you lifting the roofing iron. Our snakes don't mess about.

Bro, these 2weeks waiting for your vids are killing me! Lol Welcome Back!!!

My 160 year old barns are majestic. They are sentinels over some property that my family has owned for about half of those 160 years. I took over the barns about 25 years ago. They were in a horrific state of disrepair. I have made them my personal money pit. At the beginning, my wife of 40 years wasn’t having it. But her acceptance of my indulgence is nearly complete. She is encouraging me to continue putting metal siding on the barns now that I have begun the process. The barns deserve it.

this is a good example of "moving on with what is important" there are plenty of things we use to make ourselves feel worthless sometimes...it shows your resolve and strength in doing this cleanup.

Many of us grew up with Tonka trucks....look at Matt's collection! Living the best life

I understand why you feel the way you do. My brother purchased a 100 foot tall fire tower from the forestry service and we spent a couple of weeks taking it down piece by piece. We moved it to his place where we were going to re-erect it. It sat for about 10 years before he sold the iron for scrap. It was kinda heartbreaking so I know what you went through with that. All that being said, you could have saved some gas and burned the whole mess with 1 gallon of diesel and had the satisfaction of watching it burn! Thanks for sharing as always.

I enjoy your content a lot. Also, as a musician, thanks for turning me onto Semi-Supervillains! Much enjoy!

Matt, good on you for ending a failed to be realized project while saving enough to help other folks projects! Those haul trucks were a major score! A couple pf truly sweet running rigs! Kudos!

Those compact rock trucks have proved their worth & versatility again ...Good Buy !!

I really feel your pain on this. I moved from Kentucky tobacco Farms to Nashville 25 years ago. I promised myself that if I ever made it in the music business, I was gonna come back and fix all the Barns and revitalize the farm. Obviously that didn’t happen, and of the three Barns that I cherished the most, one that belonged to my grandfather blew down in 2013 by mysterious wind, the one that was right behind our house where I grew up is falling down slowly and mocking me every time I’m up there, and the lone tobacco barn. It’s still standing, and somewhat salvageable is slowly inching towards its demise as well. But I’m home now, and I’m trying to make the best of what I can.

Feel your pain, Matt. All the old barns around here are either getting blown over or torn down. Ours blew down years and years ago. The sadder part to me honestly isnt seeing new barns go up in their place, its seeing nothing go up at all. We're seeing the death of the family owned farm, and nothing is getting done about it...

Enjoyed that Matt. I had my birthday lunch in a new build barn here in the UK. (Kent, in the south east) Built from oak rescued from storm damage. All peg jointed, really nice and simple... You have your own trees and a saw mill now? Build your own! I built my workshop a few years ago from timber milled from trees from a local country mansion estate. Its so nice, before I filled it with tools, I could have rented it out as a holiday let! Go for it!

Hey Matt! I agree that it is a pity that the the old barn couldn't be saved in time! But believe me, you are not the only one who has to 'cut their losses and move on' sometimes. Guys like us sometimes just pick up too many projects to finish them all. I think it's great that you still share this. People need to see that not everything is always a success story. And believe me: The viewers at home only know that all too well :D

Those Timbers might not hold up a barn anymore, but they’d make an awesome dining room table or desk. It’d make a cool winter project.

Diesel Creek my favorite show 😄

Matt, by the time you FINALLY get around to completing all of your projects and restoring/repairing all of your equipment, you are going to be a mighty old, old, OLD man!