Pa.Billy
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I went to a hillside where I found a homestead several years ago. This hillside is fairly steep and I didn't think there was another homestead there.The first one was on my 1871 map by itself. This second one wasn't discovered by me until I found the 1910 map of this area.These old foundations aren't usually very photogenic as many probably know but I thought this one was a little different. so I thought I would share it with you.This is the first scene I saw when I first encountered it this morning,a site for sore foundation hunters eyes I would say huh ? :-) Doesn't get much better then this with the open woods and all here in Pa. in July.
A seat to admire his home from.......
the reverse view.....
the overall view of the house foundation,check out that steel pipe.Usually when I see a pipe like this out in the woods around here it's for natural gas,there's gas wells all around here and some of the really old homesteads I've found had their own private gas supply,don't think that's the case here though......
Wow,check out the inner wall of his barn,looks like he put a little more in into that then he did his house,the ancient Egyptians would be proud of that stone work ! It looks like a poured footer but it's also cut stone.
Well I did't find very much of any interest at the site.My "junk O meter" as I call it on my Garrett 2500 was going wild.I'll go back here in the fall though and get the other 25% of the ground covered by weeds.
It got a little interesting on the way out of the woods when I went looking for a geocache which was about 300 yards out of my way back to my vehicle.
I was looking for my second ever cache this morning,it was a tough one to find with a lot of
three,four foot boulders to look in and around.I found it after about 10 minutes.
While looking I found stashed under some grape vines a portable tree stand.It was really weird finding this because I used to bow hunt in the early and mid 90's then around 2002 I decided to take the hobby up again.I started hunting up all my equipment.I couldn't find my tree stand anywhere,looked in the attic and every crawl space on the property.I used to also stash mine in the woods between my morning and evening hunts.I had lost track of it and what I did with it in the 7 years of not bow hunting.
The one I found this morning was the exact some model as mine,a Loggy Bayou.
This one I found this morning had a different factory paint job and found at least 8 miles from
where I ever I hunted so of course it wasn't mine.But wow finding the same model from
the early 90's was eerie.All three main parts were there,the stand itself,the steel
band and the climbing device. They are made mostly of aluminum but the steel parts made
it look like it's been there a lot longer then last hunting season.
I started to wonder if maybe the same fate happened to this person as well, he
stashed it and lost track of it. I've come across numerous tree stands left strapped to
the tree right out in the open presumably by the owner of the property but never any
stashed like this.This is on state park land,an isolated part of the park that rarely
people enjoying the park ever go in because it's so out of the way and disconnected
with the rest of the park due to a reservoir.
As I said in the beginning,lots of boulders in this specific area and a steep
hillside,not a place one would think you would hunt deer.What do you think I should do
with it ? If it stays there much longer it's not going to be usable.
A seat to admire his home from.......
the reverse view.....
the overall view of the house foundation,check out that steel pipe.Usually when I see a pipe like this out in the woods around here it's for natural gas,there's gas wells all around here and some of the really old homesteads I've found had their own private gas supply,don't think that's the case here though......
Wow,check out the inner wall of his barn,looks like he put a little more in into that then he did his house,the ancient Egyptians would be proud of that stone work ! It looks like a poured footer but it's also cut stone.
Well I did't find very much of any interest at the site.My "junk O meter" as I call it on my Garrett 2500 was going wild.I'll go back here in the fall though and get the other 25% of the ground covered by weeds.
It got a little interesting on the way out of the woods when I went looking for a geocache which was about 300 yards out of my way back to my vehicle.
I was looking for my second ever cache this morning,it was a tough one to find with a lot of
three,four foot boulders to look in and around.I found it after about 10 minutes.
While looking I found stashed under some grape vines a portable tree stand.It was really weird finding this because I used to bow hunt in the early and mid 90's then around 2002 I decided to take the hobby up again.I started hunting up all my equipment.I couldn't find my tree stand anywhere,looked in the attic and every crawl space on the property.I used to also stash mine in the woods between my morning and evening hunts.I had lost track of it and what I did with it in the 7 years of not bow hunting.
The one I found this morning was the exact some model as mine,a Loggy Bayou.
This one I found this morning had a different factory paint job and found at least 8 miles from
where I ever I hunted so of course it wasn't mine.But wow finding the same model from
the early 90's was eerie.All three main parts were there,the stand itself,the steel
band and the climbing device. They are made mostly of aluminum but the steel parts made
it look like it's been there a lot longer then last hunting season.
I started to wonder if maybe the same fate happened to this person as well, he
stashed it and lost track of it. I've come across numerous tree stands left strapped to
the tree right out in the open presumably by the owner of the property but never any
stashed like this.This is on state park land,an isolated part of the park that rarely
people enjoying the park ever go in because it's so out of the way and disconnected
with the rest of the park due to a reservoir.
As I said in the beginning,lots of boulders in this specific area and a steep
hillside,not a place one would think you would hunt deer.What do you think I should do
with it ? If it stays there much longer it's not going to be usable.
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That would be nice! 
