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Old farm house finally gets burned down!

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  1. Dakota Hoarder

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    The in-laws finely Burned the old house done on their average. It has been abandoned for over 15 years. A couple of the local volunteer fire departments did s great job of keeping the fire in its place. The really had to keep the trees and grass wet to keep the fire from spreading. They even had to spray down the barn that was over 50 yards away. A couple of the ash trees that where close by got a head start on drying! Guess I’ll have to make some fire wood next time I’m there!’


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    Would have loved to be there.
     
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    How long did it take
     
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  5. Dakota Hoarder

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    Pic #3 is about 20 minutes from ignition. Most of it was on the ground in an hour. Floor and ruble was still burning after 3 hours.
     
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    What is an average? Was it theirs?
     
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    Acreage is what it looked like from the context.
     
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    Surprised the fire department didn't train with this house. Lost opportunity.
     
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    That is what they did to my grandparents house built 1904. Sad to think of all the memories there but atleast the fire fighters trained with it instead of it being dozed over.
     
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    You'd have to pull that apart with an excavator here and haul it away in dumpsters.
     
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    We’ve had three buildings taken off our property. First was a house from 1770 or so. Tenant had a fire so they came back and burnt it down for training later. I could tell they needed it :)
    Then the old cow barn. Once agin burnt for training. Then my grandparents farmhouse 1770 or thereabouts. That one we used an excavator.
    Sad to see the memories go but few people want to live in those old homes anymore. And repairing old foundations and Rotten timbers is just too expensive.
     
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    Does the remaining junk, get put into a dumpster, buried onsite, or just left as is?
     
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    That’s pretty cool
     
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    Sorry. Correction. Acreage
     
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    We will push the rest junk into the hole and and bury It. We are undecided yet on if we will sell the acreage as is or remove the remaining trees and till and plant. Tillable land in NW Iowa is pretty valuable .
     
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    They did consider it training. Although they never put the fire out. They just practiced containing it.
     
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    That’s putting in mildly, I saw some sold up there for about 20k/acre.
     
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    JimBear how did you make out with the storm a couple weeks ago?
     
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    I am sure they are glad it is gone but a bit sad none the less. I'm sure it sheltered many a soul in its day!
     
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    About 20 drops of rain & some 30-40mph wind gusts. I am down in SW IA, from about I-80 (Central Iowa) north is where the damage started. My son lives in Boone which is NW of Des Moines, fortunately he only had one large oak limb catch his roof & gutter. He faired better than most.
     
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