The History of Our Farm (Part1)

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[@jimsteele7108]

The tree by the blue ford is a silver maple and my guess is that it’s about 40 years old. They grow faster than you might think

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Yes it is, ok that helps. Picture could be from 1940 then

[@oddJOB7036]

I agree with silver maple, we have them,they grow fast,that's about 35-40years.

[@PaulTighe-e2n]

Great video Kip, love the older pictures. You did a great job piecing it together, I enjoy all your videos, you do an excellent job explaining everything you do on the farm 🚜 keep it up

[@robertblackman3451]

Awesome, now to get your dad and brothers to interview, good luck!

[@skin2117]

Enjoy your videos. Can see the passion and heart you have just by listening to you speak. Looking to the future with you, your family, the farm and all involved.

[@TimothyNess-h8u]

Ive been following you and your family on u tube for quite some time!! You tell it (diary farming like really is!) From the gate to the plate on your kitchen table!! Your very well spoken (kip) and are a very good narrator!! I'm a former beef farmer, I can definitely relate to your videos!..... Ssssoooo keep up the good work, I enjoy watching!!!💯👍😀!!!!!

[@DickAnderson-k9y]

This is what makes you stand out from most of the KZbin channels. The others act as if they built the family farm themselves when in reality they wouldn’t have the farm or the farm land without their elders hard work and preservation. I truly enjoyed the look back into the history of the farm. I wish you and the rest of family continued success. ❤️

[@karljacobson1575]

Exactly, most of us are handed down the farm to use!!!!

[@bapasrcadventures3619]

I enjoyed this history video very much. I was born in 53 so your dad’s generation. Not a farmer but I love learning about how it all works. Good family history.

[@richpelto248]

Wonderful story

[@leslieb.1907]

Love hearing & seeing the history of the farm! I wish more channels would do the same!

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@paulwasserman97]

Hey Kip this is the kind of videos that makes me watch first, The history and hard work of your family from way back. Thank you so much can’t wait to see more. Awesome Kip totally Awesome!!!!!

[@kenpalmer1900]

That is a great motto If you say are going to do it you better do it. We are Seventh generation in New York

[@stevofishell254]

They did it for yall brother and yall take care too this day pride and honor thank you kip for your service

[@pennsylvaniadairyman2290]

Love seeing and hearing the farm history. Very cool!

[@howardclem9885]

Very cool! 1st class farm that’s for sure!👍

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@davegullon8724]

Theres no doubting the hard work ethic of you're whole family. Great video !!

[@fogartyvillecommunitymedia4022]

I am your second cousin Dave Beaton. I’ve been talking to joel, your uncle. I got a place in Frankfort now. Mr. Steele, is correct the tree is about 40 to 50 years old hundred year old maple is twice that big. I used to spend two or three weeks at the farm every summer for about four years ..five maybe stacking hay bales stacking hay bales, in old barn. Grandpa was a tough marine but he loved us all. In Florida now. Have to look up Jason.

[@randycharest4507]

I ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO KIP 😊

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@rileyvessey5637]

Been waiting for this video for a long time! Great video, remarkable history how you guys have evolved as a family farm.

[@countryguy72065]

Very cool kip!.. your grandpa told me that the road wasnt paved until after they moved there... You are making me feel old... I had forgotten the baby blue truck! You dad brought the traction king down to bidouls to pull me out one time.

[@juliusschwartz9124]

Kip check with older builders in your area they may be able to know who built those barns and the time , they were built and the pictures u have of the original farm etc. We have a block on our family farm in p.a tht was placed in the top of the roof area tht says 1888 for tbe bank barn possible they did the same on some of the original buildings on your plc . 😊😊😊:)farm on always enjoy the videos

[@burtzorn4059]

That 4640 FWA brings back memories for me. I put many hours on that tractor. Hauled liquid hog manure, pulled Miller disk In the fall grain cart, Glencoe soil saver and some disking Had a big John Deere blade on the front for snow, back fill tile lines etc. Great video, love history and the equipment I grew up with.

[@13igrick]

This is so awesome to watch!! What a family history you have sir!!

[@tylersharp5345]

Love the video Thank you for sharing

[@AmandaDoll-hi4dr]

Hi Mr kip, you do a good job with the cows 🐄🐄🐄🐄good job on the farm 🚜

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Thank you👍👍

[@lindavonh131]

I looked at the picture twice. I love old farms.

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@danschacht9950]

that tree is a silver maple. this tree could be 45 years old, they grow fast.

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@bobpurs]

Very cool Kip. Love seeing the history of farms and pictures. Great video, very interesting. Break in temps is nice but back to the sloop. Stay safe 👍✊

[@billsauberlich7337]

Thanks for the family farm history,on your oldest picture that was probably a straw stack,my dad told me farmers would build a shell of a building before blowing straw from a thrashing machine on top of it ,and in the winter youngstock and pigs would run under it for shelter,also I don't think silos were built and used till around 1910 ish and there was a silo on that picture

[@ethanschafer9721]

That maple tree in the picture with the truck looks like its roughly 50 to 60 years old. We have 2 planted in early 50s that are a bit bigger.

[@russellatkinson5293]

Thats is awesome that you get to carry on the family farm! What a blessing!

[@rongrace479]

That was pretty interesting how much the farm changed maple trees grow fast it could be between 40 and fifty years old

[@robertmunro4816]

Great video. I think if you take your photo to the right museum. A expert should be able to give you a approximate date of when it was taken. As for the barn being turned very possible. I have heard of tell story's if him and his dad helping lift barns and move them for different reasons. Mostly poor foundation's under them. Poor cement back then. Amazing they could move them very little equipment . All just a thought

[@jdtractorman7445]

Nice video Kip. When my grandparents on my mom's side had their farm over the years a company would take aerial pictures every few years for them. It was always neat to see pictures of the farm from the air. Looking at them and trying to identify pieces of equipment and vehicles.

[@tomprivate3362]

Maple trees grow very fast so a HUGE tree can be 40 to 50 years old. In the original picture the stack that is next to the barn is most likely a straw pile. Threshing machines with the straw blower and long pipe would make huge piles that were always rounded on the top. Commonly the pile was next to the barn so it was easier to haul the straw in for bedding. If you can track down any information about pictures always write on the back of the photograph, it's then a permanent record for the next generation. My Grandmother did that on a group family photo, it was Indepemdence Day 1903. She identified every person. What food was at the picnic, who won the buggy races and who played baseball. The county and state historical societies fought over who would get the original. The county got a nice reproduction. Scan your pictures and send them to anyone that would remember anything. Combine the memories and write out a hard copy to keep with the original picture. Digital is only temporary, a real photograph will last well over 100 years if properly stored. When you have the actual picture and the written family history make physical copies for anyone interested. If well done those multiple copies will float around in families for years. Your grandchildren's children will thank you.

[@blanekopp7339]

Love watching history especially of a Michigan farms. Used to be a delivery driver for 12 years seen many in Michigan. So cool stay safe springs acoming. I HOPE

[@lestertodd4768]

Thank you for sharing Kip!

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@fredscott9090]

Have 3 silver maple trees getting runoff from cow lot grown from 2 to 10 inch diameter in 7 years .

[@georgeherefordhereford3428]

I love it!!

[@oddJOB7036]

Good to see farm is still in the family,the farm i grew up with is a big subdivision know.

[@shawnparks5076]

Really enjoy the history of your farm family it's what makes your videos so good thank you God bless you and all your family

[@garyfaulds2613]

That tree is about 50 to 60 years old it looks like a silver maple . I have 6 trees just like them about North East an hour an half from you in Canada 🍁

[@robertmarino2158]

Great story , history of the farm , Continue to try to find info , do not give up , memories forever ! Someone that does history in that area may have some info , library or possibly fire departments or sheriff's department could have some info , good luck , stay safe , what a wonderful idea to follow up on ?

[@randybennett5417]

I know where four maples are that my older brother planted around 1960. They are about equal size trees.

[@kevingordon7426]

Neat. Thank you

[@israelmathes6268]

Could you get your dad to sit down and talk about the history of the farm from is pov? and maybe your brothers to?

[@owenmcnally3989]

A very strong farming family pedigree rite there young kip thanks for sharing

[@57fitter]

Kip, that maple tree is a soft Maple, sometimes called Silver Maple. They're fast growers. Unlike a Sugar maple which COULD be 100 years or more this tree is likely 35 to 50-tops- years old. Nice to se the farm's history.Thanks for posting,bud!

[@rdyardie]

Interesting farm history. Take care. Thank you for posting your video.

[@RichardNettleton]

Great to have that history Kip. Cheers 🇦🇺

[@jerryfish1303]

That is the best history video I’ve ever watched thank you so much

[@jasonbeecher509]

I love looking at how farms progress including ours

[@normolson1]

FANTASTIC KIP, THANK YOU

[@davidfleer5307]

Sugar maple trees were common in the 60’s they grew fast and provided good shade in a short time but they are very week that’s why they’re not common now. A question if you want to answer how do you and your family work out the repair cost and upkeep cost ✌🏻👍🇺🇸

[@karolschulz48]

Kip, if you make that picture much bigger it looks like there is something gas powered between the silo and the smaller barn. Also the windmill is missing several partsto be functional, so it has likely been converted to electrical. Also look at the tracks on the gravel road. First the road is gravel not dirt check with your township as to when they put gravel down over the dirt. Also those tracks are wide bigger than a model T and no new vehicles to get during ww2 so that could push the date into the 50s since it took awhile to get production up and going after the war. I think your dad and i are close to the same age and i have vivid memories of farms looking like this in the late 60s, minus the hay stack. Look at the type of wire on that fence that is pig wire. Find out when they were having pigs on the farm. I really doubt that barn was turned. More likely is that it was taken down and pieces were reused in the new barn. Lots of leghorns in the pic. Can you tell what it is in front of that hay pile?

[@brianpappas5650]

Maple trees will grow pretty fast I've got a picture of mom and dad's farm in 91 that silver maple was 10 feet tall 3 inch Dia now its probably 2.5 feet and taller than 3 stories

[@mikecox9214]

Great show, great history! Were your Siegler relatives origionally from Germany or Austria, if so do you know what part?

[@paulreis1648]

Great video Kip you come from great stock you should be so proud

[@randyphillips5713]

That’s awesome thank you for sharing

[@davecramer9725]

That was very interesting video of the way your farms were built back in the early days your dad is my age

[@chrisburke848]

very cool, thanks Kip

[@fastsetinthewest]

Nice pictures. Why were the barns painted white? Our barn in Shiawassee County was built in the 1880s and was painted white. Eaglegards...

[@davidkimmel4216]

Thanks very much. Very interesting

[@Mkmt2]

Love the pictures. What is the history of the White 105? Seems out of place on a farm full of deeres.

[@markdilley6422]

Very interesting and educational

[@jasonburns9322]

Great job keep it going.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

The history of all great farms begin with humble beginnings.

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Yes sir 👍

[@jerryfish1303]

What a great video thanks so much awesome

[@erikklein-x6u]

The value of the dollar has been reduced by around 92% since then. Very sorry to hear about your mom,she looked very beautiful,and healthy in the photos! My mom turned 94 in December,I dont know what I would do without her! How has your experience in the military effected your approach to life,and farming?

[@jeffreyedwards6759]

God bless you

[@chrisbrown3291]

Great video Kip

[@spanjermachines]

I knew Don Themm from Almont .

[@lindavonh131]

Looks like a difference house do to no up stairs window on the side.

[@johnhenderson299]

Great video

[@lindavonh131]

The house has upstairs windows overlooking the barn with silo. I think something happened to that barn and it was rebuilt because look at windows to the house upstairs windows.

[@nickstadickSR210B]

Kip, not sure, but on the old picture with no date, looks like there is an REA / power pole up by the house. Maybe I’m wrong. If you could find what year electricity was brought to the farm, that could maybe help

[@SteveNicoson-u1i]

Thanks for another great video Kip. It was most interesting Kip talking about the history of the farm. History is really important part of the farm structure. Your dad has done great with the farm. The future is what you are working hard on to make it work for the next generation. You are Doing great kip. Enjoying these talks you are having with us. Thanks for everything Kip. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.

[@erikklein-x6u]

The farm is not far from Rockford,and I still farm it

[@robertmarino2158]

My uncle Johnnie , my dad's youngest brother had 23 large albums of black & white pictures , no dates , no names , my parents have passed away , no uncles or aunts living , on my mother's side one aunt 94 years old , no luck on much info. Stay safe .

[@judsonnek5097]

Rather surprised at how close you have put buildings to each other--fire danger??

[@williammatzek4660]

What month in 1954 was your dad born?

[@michiganfarmer2473]

Maybe a Tornado took them down

[@ROCK-Loveswomen]

It's time to let go you ain't gonna bring her back you keep talking about her so just move on and get over it

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Thanks for commenting bud

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Do you need someone to talk to?

[@ROCK-Loveswomen]

​@KipSieglerFarming1 I wouldn't take any advice from a redneck liberal like you all you keep doing is whining about your dead mother,damn man get over it I thought you were a grown man

[@ROCK-Loveswomen]

​@@KipSieglerFarming1I wouldn't take any advice from a redneck liberal like you all you do is complain about your dead mother get over it and stop whining 😢

[@ROCK-Loveswomen]

Why would I want to talk to a redneck liberal like you all you do is whine about your dead mother

[@northernconfederate7957]

That old photo looks to be around 1903 to 1912 I have family photos and had some people look them over and they were around 1912 to 1921 and it could around 1890 to 1901 but I am pretty sure that’s time of year in the photo,but they are very clear for being a 100 years or older

[@jaygregory5511]

be proud my friend. Three generations - - - that is what the American dream was all about, Congratualtions

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Thank you👍

[@adamwagner1987]

Very cool Kip. Thank you for sharing with us.. I always am looking for history of our farm. I know the house was built in 1843 and the barn in 1870s. From the deed but no photos I know of until the 1950s when we started holding rodeos here.. Farm history is very cool and shows where we came from and why we still do it

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Awesome 👍👍

[@michael-z5c6x]

I don’t ever comment but always watch every video. Videos like this is what keeps me motivated to keep pushing hard to move my farm forward. Thanks kip

[@johnd4018]

a maple tree like that could get that big in as little as 60 years in the right conditions (good soil, adequate water, etc) Nice retrospective by the way...

[@floydschriber1051]

Kip your grandfather was a very good man an farmer your dad an mom as well I was a 4 h leader with Doug Steckley an had your sister in our club had quite a thing happen with that I seen your grandfather ready to go full out marine on some people would love to sit down an tell you the story sometime growing up around Imlay City your farm was always one of the best ! Your uncle Jim was our vet spent a lot of time with him holding onto cattle while he worked on them bought a few cars from your uncle John in Lapeer love the Sigler history hope it all continues on for all of you

[@erikklein-x6u]

Our Family bought the first farm in Northern IL 1943 for $110 per acre! Three more farms were bought since then. Of course it was a dairy farm until 1973 now a corn,soybean rotation. Every family,and farm have a unique history! You do a great job on the farm,and channel!

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Awesome, thank you. It was a lot cheaper back then !

[@karolschulz48]

Where was the farm? Your family sounds like mine.

[@oddJOB7036]

That big pile buy the barn is probably oat straw from thrashing machine, we had that loose straw pile by our barn back in 1940s and early 1950s.

[@ryanlesperance7926]

I've been hoping for this video for a long time! I love it!

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@JakerPete]

Very Cool Sir I try to catch all your videos and I enjoy seeing history and grew helping out on my uncles dairy farm in Pennsylvania in the 80's and 90's and early 2000's very cool!

[@mikejankoviak8542]

That's a nice looking red truck when you built the calf barn. Actually all the pictures have nice Ford's in them lol

[@thomasburton5843]

Maple trees grow fast. I have several I plant 20 years ago and they have 20 inch trunks or bigger now

[@rossnolan2883]

Awesome 😎

[@dogwoodish]

i dont think it is the same barn turned around...the barn looks taller to me in the oldest photo

[@brianhansen826]

That's a pile of straw from a stationary thresher

[@richwood7285]

The American dream. At its best 🇺🇸

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@jaybernieschoep3491]

60 series john deeres had engine problems.

[@bryankeator8396]

Great video kip. Have a good one guys

[@leviwulff]

Did your mom drive any cool cars

[@hunterharris6917]

Maple trees grow very fast.