sikmusicfreak8
Silver Member
Hello everyone,
I thought I would share my journey of buying land and building my homestead with everybody. I always found it interesting to read others experiences doing the same to gain knowledge, ideas, costs, and plus its just fun.
This thread will contain most everything pertaining to my property and everything going into/being used for it.
Little background on myself, I am 31 years old, grew up in Anza all my life, moved down to the city when I was 21, and have always wanted to move back up. I cant stand the city life, tract homes, etc. I am a medium voltage electrician, and my job requires a lot of my time and usually a ton of travelling. Ive lived and worked in Hawaii, Denver, Midland TX, Norfolk VA, El Paso TX, Reno NV, and all over California. So finding time has always been tough to get projects done, but its looking like Ill be home for awhile.
I ride motocross, have a Suzuki Samurai rock crawler, also a Can-Am Maverick Turbo, and going out to the desert is what I work hard to be able to do every season. We ride Glamis, Ocotillo Wells, Truck Haven, etc. I enjoy welding and fabrication, and wrenching on all of my own equipment. I like learning new things, and taking on new challenges.
So onto the property... I have been waiting for the local tax auction for over a year to buy the 5 acre parcel next door to my folks that was tax defaulted. Fast forward to the end of this May and the auction finally took place. Long story short, I opted to instead purchase a 9 acre parcel with a small house (1918) and secured it for just over $35,000. There are two wells drilled on the property, but both are shallow and dry. New well will be drilled in February. Here are the plans:
- Repair existing home.
- 60x40x16 red beam shop.
- Large pond right below main home, windmill for air pump.
- Paved driveways to the shop and house.
- Solar array.
- Rain catchment for pond.
- Lot more trees.
I made my tractor purchase just prior to the auction, and finally settled on a 2005 Branson 4720 after many months of searching. My original plan was to buy an older fullsize 2wd skip loader, then started looking at compacts, priced ones out around the 30hp range, until a Branson became available. I knew I wanted a backhoe, so bought it with an 8620 backhoe, have since added a 12" and 36" bucket to the 18" it came with. Bought a 6' box blade, 6' landscape rake, 60HP post hole digger, and a set of 42" pallet forks. I gave a little under $22,000 for the tractor with backhoe shipped from Texas.
Here are a few random pictures of my stuff, thanks for checking out my thread and I will keep it updated regularly!
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I thought I would share my journey of buying land and building my homestead with everybody. I always found it interesting to read others experiences doing the same to gain knowledge, ideas, costs, and plus its just fun.
This thread will contain most everything pertaining to my property and everything going into/being used for it.
Little background on myself, I am 31 years old, grew up in Anza all my life, moved down to the city when I was 21, and have always wanted to move back up. I cant stand the city life, tract homes, etc. I am a medium voltage electrician, and my job requires a lot of my time and usually a ton of travelling. Ive lived and worked in Hawaii, Denver, Midland TX, Norfolk VA, El Paso TX, Reno NV, and all over California. So finding time has always been tough to get projects done, but its looking like Ill be home for awhile.
I ride motocross, have a Suzuki Samurai rock crawler, also a Can-Am Maverick Turbo, and going out to the desert is what I work hard to be able to do every season. We ride Glamis, Ocotillo Wells, Truck Haven, etc. I enjoy welding and fabrication, and wrenching on all of my own equipment. I like learning new things, and taking on new challenges.
So onto the property... I have been waiting for the local tax auction for over a year to buy the 5 acre parcel next door to my folks that was tax defaulted. Fast forward to the end of this May and the auction finally took place. Long story short, I opted to instead purchase a 9 acre parcel with a small house (1918) and secured it for just over $35,000. There are two wells drilled on the property, but both are shallow and dry. New well will be drilled in February. Here are the plans:
- Repair existing home.
- 60x40x16 red beam shop.
- Large pond right below main home, windmill for air pump.
- Paved driveways to the shop and house.
- Solar array.
- Rain catchment for pond.
- Lot more trees.
I made my tractor purchase just prior to the auction, and finally settled on a 2005 Branson 4720 after many months of searching. My original plan was to buy an older fullsize 2wd skip loader, then started looking at compacts, priced ones out around the 30hp range, until a Branson became available. I knew I wanted a backhoe, so bought it with an 8620 backhoe, have since added a 12" and 36" bucket to the 18" it came with. Bought a 6' box blade, 6' landscape rake, 60HP post hole digger, and a set of 42" pallet forks. I gave a little under $22,000 for the tractor with backhoe shipped from Texas.
Here are a few random pictures of my stuff, thanks for checking out my thread and I will keep it updated regularly!
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