Hocking Hills Ohio Homestead

[RocketMan]

Here are a few pics of my Hocking Hills Ohio homestead. I think I'll call it the Red Barn ranch. I can't wait to move in!!

The Homestead

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc303/Odie06Magnum/01.jpg


Shed and outhouse

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc303/Odie06Magnum/14.jpg

Creek crossing and barn at edge of woods

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc303/Odie06Magnum/15.jpg


Barn

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc303/Odie06Magnum/20.jpg


Pasture

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc303/Odie06Magnum/02.jpg


It needs some work, but I have buddies who will help with a lot of work for a 12 pack and lunch.

;D

[Naughty_Pines]

;D Cool looking place. Ought to be fun getting it fixed up the way you want it.

Good luck to you.

Jerry

[Red_Diamond_Ranch]

Very nice! Looks like your heading for a happy life. Just a little work everyday and before you know it you'll have it the way you want it.

[12vman]

Howdy Neighbor.. ;)

The place looks great! I like the house and the way it's set up!

How far is that creek from the house? 8)
~Don

[johnjmw]

Great move! It's nice to have some friends able to help get things settled.
Hello from another neighbor to your north.
John

Hocking is just a little to the west of my retreat just a little East of Marietta.

[Funkhouser]

Hocking Hills...what a beautiful place to call home. And I thought Holmes County was scenic! :D

[OzarkMtnDaredevil]

That is AWESOME but, I don't think you've convinced me to leave Arkansas. ;)
Keep at it!

[RocketMan]

Thanks everybody. There's so much I want to do but only so much I can do right now since I'm still living in Michigan for work but I try to get down there a couple times a month. I think it's a good start with all the outbuildings, septic, and well already there, and plenty of room for a garden and some critters.
I would say the creek is 50 to 75 yards back from the house. There's a cement pad crossing that I found out was put in by the power company as an easment to get to their power lines in back. They go back there and trim the trees around the lines, but they leave what they cut so I'll use it for a bonfire.
My plan is to take the next two years to pay off as much debt as I can and move down there and get away from the rat race. I'm already looking at what material things I can sell off now that are just not needed, and selling my car to buy a truck. I'm thinking I'll need more than an 18hp riding mower for that field though. :)

[kevin_1]

Nice place there I have lived in hocking hills for a good while now,
theres log homes and cabins all over the place

[daffodil]

Looks like the perfect place! I'd love to find something like that!

[daffodil]

Hocking Hills...what a beautiful place to call home. And I thought Holmes County was scenic! :D

Where is Hocking Hills? I know where Holmes County is, I lived in Wayne County for awhile.

[DavidOH]

Just follow 33 South East of Columbus to Logan. and you'd be right in the middle of it.
http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=39.449647&lon=-82.567867&zoom=12&q1=Logan%252C%2520OH%252C%2520United%2520States

Hocking Hills State Park is just off of SR 56

That's all far south of Holmes County.


Nice place RocketMan. I've been in that neighborhood many times.
Sheltered by the hills and trees.

[NCLee]

That looks like a great place to homestead. Buildings already there, plently of trees, pasture, and that creek. Doesn't appear that you'll have any problems watering gardens and stock with that.

Thanks for the small pix. Sure helps with this dial-up connection. And thanks for the opportunity to see your future home.

Lee

[RocketMan]

Thanks for the replies! Those pics are back when I first looked at the place with the realtor, so here are the newest pics from this year. Still working on the house, re-plumbed most of it and plan to paint it (red of course) when the weather cools off a bit. I still need kitchen cabinets, stove and fridge, but it's coming along. Keeping up on the mowing and cleaning up fallen trees and broken limbs after storms is keeping me busy. I'll tell you one thing, I sure am learning the art of patience in this journey!

[NCLee]

It's absolutely beautiful. The first pix is great, but the view from the second one is so peaceful. I could easily sit for hours where you stood to take that picture, just absorbing the beauty of it all. Can't begin to visualize what it looks like with the changing seasons.

I understand what you mean about patience. Our place was carved out of an old pasture. Did my share of cutting brush, pulling out rusted barbed wire where the fence had fallen, and such.

But it is all so worth it!!! In a few years you're going to look back with a sense of pride and accomplishment at what you have and what you've done.

Keep the pix coming.

Lee

[WileyCoyote]

I do love the Hocking Hills Area; my kids still remember hiking the Park. Too rocky for me to plant stuff, though, and DH would NOT consider ANYwhere in OH!
(Bad experience with some of my friends whom I took him back there to meet who had become really self-righteous Jesus Freaks in my absence.)

You've got a nice place there, RocketMan! Breathtaking! But why a bonfire from the tree trims when you can use the wood for heat, carving, etc? You've got a lot of creative possibilities everywhere, there!

[RocketMan]

The Hocking Hills is a beautiful area. It's not what most people think Ohio is like.
I think I have some pictures I took in the fall, so I'll try to post them. I just bought a small potbelly stove this past spring, but I don't have it hooked up yet, so the trimmings the power company left need to go. They left a few big piles of brush and small limbs, so I just want to get it out of the field. There's a small huntin cabin just at the tree line, and my brother put in a wood stove there, so we save the big stuff for that. More pics to come!

[Country_Mike]

This thread is driving me nuts! In a good way of course. I went to college at Ohio U so I know the general area fairly well. Looks like a wonderful homestead. Good luck to you.

[RocketMan]

Here's a few more.
The cabin, the path through the woods to the cabin, and looking up the driveway in fall.

[NCLee]

Beautiful! You are indeed fortunate to be able to enjoy that piece of God's good earth.

Lee

[jen_in_southtexas]

I love it!!! All of it.

-jen