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Owning a little get-a-way place out in the country, what could be better? Often a picturesque old farmhouse with a babbling brook, located at the end of a lane comes to one's mind. Since buying a farm may be a wonderful daydream for some urban dwellers, it can also be a startling education on what I really didn't expect to learn.

Farms come with acreage and outbuildings. Back forty's and outbuildings come with stashes of stored and discarded stuff from other days. These are the places that farmers squirrel away all those old things that just might come in handy someday. When you buy a farm you might expect that the barns will be emptied out and broom clean, right?

Make sure that is agreed upon, as it is not always the case. Nonetheless, if you are not watching there might be a few other forget-me-nots that could be missed. What are the most common farm items routinely left behind that you may not want to deal with? Those items seem to be huge piles of unwanted manure, bales of surplus hay, and there is always that an abandoned truck, rusting away behind the shed like this one I photographed this week. Last questions... why do they always leave the hood open?

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Posted by Mary Strang ~ Viroqua, WI Real Estate on 09/01/2008 01:24 PM

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I haven't sold any farm land yet. I have seen farm property and I wouldn't be surprised about there being leftover items. Something for me to remember when selling a farm property, to ask if everything is going with them.

The truck looks old enough to have some parts to sell. The thought occurred to me because I live with sons that work on trucks!

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Very cool treasure hunts for the buyers of farm and ranch property. One seller had left the country quickly and left over $40,000 worth of paintings, antiques, vehicles, and memorabilia.

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Mary - what an appropriate title and picture for the subject matter. It is amazing what one can find "left behind" as it were some are lucky in what they find as in the comment above but in most cases it creats a hardship on the new owners who were not expecting the expense of disposing of those items "left behind".

Mary, who knows they have tried tofix it and got frustrated and left it. It reminds me of the pick-up in the animated movie Cars. Great pic with those clouds in the back.

Sorry to be off topic but you took that photo??? That is a cool picture and I think you need to prints of it :)

Thanks You, Renee I did, here is the before unedited photo, I like it better with some touch up. This is on a farm that will close shortly, I will be interested to see if it gets left behind and it was the inspiration for this blog.

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I remember our family having one of those abandoned trucks for years, I loved that thing, it was a 1950 Ford Truck painted with blue house paint. (Very farm if I say so myself)

Todd, great way to put it, Very Farm

Recently I read a story about a barn that held several million dollars worth of collector cars. The barn and contents went with the sale. No one realized!

Trey, You never know what's in that building, and on the other hand, that should have made the appraisal on the place work out ok! LOL

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