there never to far gone.

That floor was chewed up, but it was by something much bigger than a termite! Another good exploration video even though we didn't get to see much of the house.

@@craigharper3877 Yeah, there is nothing a carpenter couldn't mend, the tricky part would be to transport the construction material if the area is as difficult of access as JP is saying. It can still be redevelopped as a farm domain. Just get some goats or sheep as nature's lawnmowers and you can start plowing the land for more crops after awhile.

Porcupines ate that - look at 9:45 at the floor. That's the tell-tale look of wood that fed a family of porcupines for sure. They likely ate and ate until the floor fell in, then left. Might be why the door was tied shut - trying to keep them from getting in the main part of the house.

It would've been another excellent time to have a drone. I love your videos, brother, keep up the good work!

Memories are sometimes the last thing someone has of something or someone. Seemed like a great home for children or grandchildren to be growing up with.

Id love to go back to my grandparent's homes , but mom's parents home was sold after grandma died , and dad's parents home went to him and he recently sold both plots of land ( one was supposed to go to me when i needed it , i need it now and its gone forever) life sucks sometimes , cant even remember most of the good times i had as a kid in these places.

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Broken windows was all it took to decay this house , when whole house is it's own form of graffiti

Very beautiful and peaceful location.

That is a total gut and rebuild from the ground up. Termites have eaten it alive from floor to ceiling.

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Thanks, gibt's a good idea.

Nice and remote

No that is termites.

Only a matter of time, but for now it must be good hunting land.

Glad you enjoy them

I was surprised not to see a barn, but maybe it's long gone. I can picture children or grandchildren playing in those fields and many good home cooked meals were had. Atleast we had a look at it before it's gone.

Great video j p

I noticed that window during playback.

My pleasure!!

He was breaking the law the second he entered this property without legal cause. The proper way would to be looking up the property owner on the GIS with the land assessor's office, contacting the registered owner, and then getting their permission to explore the property. Now that he broadcast the location of this property to the world, it will be ransacked by ignorant kids soon. The land is worth more than the house so that is why the house is left to rot.

You can keep the snakes haha

@@JPVideos81 I actually almost stepped on one last weekend 🤣

Nice and peaceful with beautiful land.

Ahh ok. I never operated one of those before. I'm guessing the well is in the basement.

@@JPVideos81 There is a leather seal, which is hard from being dry, and has to be soaked with water first to make it flexible again. The check valve at the bottom will have let the water drain out of the well pipe.

Thanks

Haven't had to yet thankfully

I have a 7ft pole and a drone, but didnt have them on me.

Memories...

Thankfully, JP found no suspicious looking pieces of meat stored on an old freezer 😂

Yes, I was thinking termites as I watched the footage back.

Old abandoned movie set? Or more likely government made. Maybe a gun/bombing range. A "test neighborhood" to study the effects of a nuclear bomb explosion. There's LOT'S of neat things in the desert. Giant triangles or circles carved into the ground. Abandonded military vehicles, airplane wreckage, tiny military installations that have no names, outdoor art exhibits.

It really is!

Good observations

In heavily wooded areas utilities are often run underground to avoid so much damage and maintenance from falling trees and branches.

@@kypparmstrong2775 I doubt in that time and location that would have been the case.

What is really bizarre is that if you look closely at the bathroom sink, there is no fresh water piping to it, only waste piping. Speculation: ol' Grandpa was washing up, flushing the toilet, and taking a bath using buckets of water from the cistern pump in the kitchen, maybe warmed on the coal cookstove so's ya didn't freeze the Family Jewels during yer pre-Christmas-party bath. It was a way back in the day to have the illusion of 'Genuine Indoor Plumbing That Everyone Else Has' by using newer salvaged fixtures and just running a sewer line out to a cesspool, but living by the bucket for fresh water as before, minus trips to the bun-chilling (or spider-infested) outhouse. With no interior fresh-water plumbing, you didn't have to have expensive central heat or at least constant heat to keep pipes from freezing if you had to be away for a while during winter, only remember to plunge as much water as you could out of the toilet bowl and sink traps so that those didn't freeze. (I saw this as a kid in a few po' folks' houses in the Lowcountry of S.C., but in one case they just ran the waste to a drainage ditch in the back yard that sluggishly flowed into a swamp next door. Yes, indeed, you could stand on the bank and watch patties surface and slowly float away whenever someone flushed. 🤢) Also, to be fair, here there could have been a 'normal' electric deep-well pump and pressure tank at some time in the past that failed, or a long-gone windmill pump and elevated tank to provide just enough head of water to be able to use fixtures, and somebody swiped the copper from under the sink. As for electricity, everyone wanted it but you either had to make it yourself (I have a book from 1915, _Electricity for the Farm_, that shows a few ways to do it, and the knob insulators in the pile outside suggest that they did here somehow pretty early on) or wait for the WPA Rural Electrification Project in the 1930s to get it to you.

@@brianc.9238 Most places here in Upstate NY when I was very young had running (cold) water piped in from a spring, or else a hand-dug well with a pump. Some still had outhouses, but others had indoor plumbing that fed into a cesspool, or more often ran out on the ground downhill from the house, or into the nearest brook! Septic systems began to go in in the late 1950's, early '60's. When we swam in the local brook on hot days, an occasional "log" would float by! But towns were no different, the raw sewage poured out into the river and downstream to the next town's water intake! A little antifreeze in the toilets and trap would keep them from freezing, a real problem in houses before central heat. (also unaffordable in the Great Depression, when people substituted kerosene in their car radiators). Usually the bathroom was next to the kitchen, both to save on plumbing costs and because the kitchen stoves were always going and the kitchen stayed above freezing. The kitchen was often the only warm room in the house, where everyone ate except on formal occasions, and the center of family life.