Camped by Historic Cattle Ranch

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  • Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
  • In this video we take a ride from camp to a nearby historic cattle ranch...Empire Ranch near Sonoita, Arizona.
    *My name is Brian. I started living full time in a self built camper van in 2014 in my hometown of San Diego, CA. I hit the road full-time in 2015 to pursue seasonal work and travel around the U.S. I find free camping on public land and enjoy photography, hiking, biking, and kayaking in nature. Join me on my adventures.
    Thanks for watching!
    **Follow Your Dreams*

Комментарии • 206

  • @Nfarer
    @Nfarer 7 месяцев назад +34

    Congrats on 100k Brian! It’s been a long, amazing journey. God Bless and safe travels.

  • @michaelzamonas9802
    @michaelzamonas9802 7 месяцев назад +15

    Glad you FINALLY got Hobbs his own outdoor bed so HE can be comfortable too!!!❤️🐕❤️

  • @joannewinters9616
    @joannewinters9616 7 месяцев назад +7

    Thank you this has been so very interesting thank you for sharing❤😅

  • @davechristensen3167
    @davechristensen3167 7 месяцев назад +21

    A rare living history museum where you can touch everything but are trusted to put it back. There is hope for humankind 😊

    • @sharonholmes2470
      @sharonholmes2470 7 месяцев назад +3

      The world the way it use to be. Impressive! Yes, there is hope.

  • @mirandamom1346
    @mirandamom1346 7 месяцев назад +9

    You are right about that conical container in the Hoosier being for grain: it’s a flour sifter.

  • @jtwanderer6328
    @jtwanderer6328 7 месяцев назад +21

    Really interesting tour! And beautiful campsite. I catch myself taking a deep breath when that magnificent oak tree is in view. Thanks Brian.

  • @vanwhalen3719
    @vanwhalen3719 7 месяцев назад +8

    Have that sewing machine. It was my great grandmothers! Cheers Brian!

  • @hopemorrison2367
    @hopemorrison2367 7 месяцев назад +2

    Hobbs is too darn cute

  • @juanesebuitrago4040
    @juanesebuitrago4040 7 месяцев назад +2

    That was a fascinating look back in history. I love touring places like this!

  • @jaystewart9947
    @jaystewart9947 7 месяцев назад +18

    Great video and great place. Thanks for sharing your tour of the ranch. Awesome to see the items being left alone and no vandalism. A view into the past of a hearty breed of people who were born to the land.

  • @empowered1222
    @empowered1222 7 месяцев назад +16

    Hi Brian, wow that oak tree was massive! What a great exploration I really enjoyed this ride. One of my favorites keep em coming be safe and safe travels 🦅✌🏼

  • @tomcaldwell5750
    @tomcaldwell5750 7 месяцев назад +2

    Wow, Brian, that Ranch house is amazing 🤩 Thank you for the tour!

  • @nobodynothing9950
    @nobodynothing9950 7 месяцев назад +17

    So rare to see a place that old frozen in time. Felt like I went on a time travel. Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

  • @Chris-ut6eq
    @Chris-ut6eq 7 месяцев назад +2

    Nice tour, as a kid I had similar toys. Especially the wood blocks and the building set underneath with the hub/spoke construction. I grew up with rotary phone and some of my family had 'party' lines so 2-4families shared the same phone lines. Love exploring old buildings and as a kid we would wander around abandoned homes, probably with loads of asbestos and mold, but exploring was all we cared about. Every time you ride your motorcycle, I feel the urge to buy one :)

  • @elflordsjourneys
    @elflordsjourneys 7 месяцев назад +11

    Nice tour brian, didnt think you were almost 50.! Life goes fast, turning 63 soon.

  • @Johnnyk999
    @Johnnyk999 7 месяцев назад +13

    Love the ranch house tour! My mom had the same Hamilton Beach mixer, and used it to mix cake batters. The Kitchen Aid metal cabinetry is so well preserved. I remember seeing those in the kitchens back then. It's impressive that the ranch site has been respected by visitors, enabling others to appreciate it.

  • @richardthomas1743
    @richardthomas1743 7 месяцев назад +8

    HEY! Hello Brian , Kelly and Hobbs! YAY! 100,000 Subs!!!

  • @originalsixx
    @originalsixx 7 месяцев назад +10

    Hobbes is really cute! 😊

  • @LilRuby1961Bonanza
    @LilRuby1961Bonanza 7 месяцев назад +1

    Empire ranch! Lovely historic place! My grandpa lived in Bisbee after he and my grandma divorced in the 1940’s and my dad lived with his dad from then and thru the 1950’s, when he moved back to California where he met my mom.
    My dad loved that whole area and showed it to us kids many many times growing up! Patagonia, Sonoita and Elgin were all places my grandpa worked. I met a Boice family member but can’t remember his first name, he was a friend of my grandpa. He lived there in the ranch. It was still pretty active in the 1960’s. I probably have some old photos of that place! 😊 ~ Janine

  • @margiemurray2147
    @margiemurray2147 7 месяцев назад +2

    Hey Brian, thank you so much for taking us along on your day and your exploration of the Adobe home. Just an fyi, the item you found in the kitchen actually would hold flour the mechanism that was underneath it would actually be attached to the bottom and as you turned it the flour would come out and be dispensed when it was needed. My mother grew up on a farm with over 80 acres of land and no electric, so very familiar with a lot of the items that you showed to us. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Safe travels to the three of you. Hobbs loves his new bed

  • @marianfrances4959
    @marianfrances4959 7 месяцев назад +9

    Awesome tour! Thanks! Love Hobbes' new bed.👍😎🇨🇦🐾

  • @bonniepwtf
    @bonniepwtf 7 месяцев назад +7

    Thank you Brian, I so enjoyed the motorcycle ride & tour of the ranch. So much history, very interesting & informative. Trying to picture what it must have been like to live there. Very cool. Love the way Hobbs just owns that new bed.🥰🥰🥰✌️Happy camping.

  • @jobabs
    @jobabs 7 месяцев назад +9

    Thank you for the tour! My Grandma had a treadle Singer sewing machine similar to the one in the house. I’m sure she had many similar kitchen items as well. What a great exhibit of the past.

  • @tja3495
    @tja3495 7 месяцев назад +8

    👍Thanks for a very interesting tour, and the wild life at the end! Those massive oaks are beautiful at your campsite. Be safe. ☮

  • @bobdawson5221
    @bobdawson5221 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks Brian so enjoyed the ranch tour. God bless

  • @susanneward7029
    @susanneward7029 7 месяцев назад +1

    That cabinet in the old kitchen is a Hoosier, a free-standing baking center first made popular at the end of the 19th century in Indiana.

  • @ValerieGriner
    @ValerieGriner 7 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastic tour...I loved it! Love the videos with Hobbs, too...loving his new bed and walking with "pep" in his step...ears flapping! You are SUCH a kind person(and you do NOT look 50 y/o). I thought you were in your early 30's...no kidding.

  • @paulinemiller4624
    @paulinemiller4624 7 месяцев назад +12

    Those Tinker Toys brought back memories for me! What a cool place!

  • @mobiltec
    @mobiltec 7 месяцев назад +9

    That Iron that had the little tank and you said is that a blow torch? LOL... That is a steam pot. You open it and put water in there and as you are heating the iron on the stove top, it heats the water and you open that little knob valve in back and it lets the steam out.

  • @joycecochran4575
    @joycecochran4575 7 месяцев назад +2

    Excellent video my friend. Great job filming. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day. Coming at ya from Kansas City, MO.

  • @teresap.5991
    @teresap.5991 7 месяцев назад +12

    Hobbs is so darn cute 🥰. I love that spot, perfect. Enjoy it, it'll be getting hot there soon. 😊 Hugs to you and all who prayed for my daughter. She's getting a little better. Bless you all!

  • @danrandall794
    @danrandall794 7 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks for another great video. So neat to see the old stuff. One of the old things I have and still use is a Snap On ratchet from my Grandpa. It has to be at least sixty years old that I know of and can easily much older. It is black and I showed it to a Snap On guy and he had never heard of this. He asked his fellow Snap On guys and no one had ever heard of this. They wanted to buy it but I said no way. I also have a bunch of sockets that look like it could have been part of a set. 100K!!!

  • @stevekunz6573
    @stevekunz6573 7 месяцев назад +12

    Wow Brian! That place was amazing, so well preserved. You find the coolest stuff ☮️

  • @sasquatch885
    @sasquatch885 7 месяцев назад +1

    Excellent!👍🏻

  • @normanmazlin6741
    @normanmazlin6741 7 месяцев назад

    I look forward to watching your show every week. Thanks.

  • @CindyCaVANas
    @CindyCaVANas 7 месяцев назад +7

    I love walking through historical buildings, school houses, and homes. I'm watching a YT channel called "Bloom" where a single mother builds her adobe home, very interesting. Thank you for sharing. 🙋‍♀

  • @roam4fun853
    @roam4fun853 7 месяцев назад +1

    Neat to see ALL that stuff made in the USA.

    • @PlanetEarth3141
      @PlanetEarth3141 7 месяцев назад

      Yeah, before we let Asia replace solid jobs here in America. 😊

  • @mistermusic140
    @mistermusic140 7 месяцев назад +1

    I really love your channel Brian...been following you since the very beginning in San Diego...U keep it real...U and Kelly make a great couple. Rock on....

  • @joanstanley4413
    @joanstanley4413 7 месяцев назад +4

    Brian! We were just there this past Fall. Such a rich nugget of western history.loved the ranch house. So much furniture reminded me of my husband's and my grandparents heritage. When my Nan got tired of treadling the sewing machine, I was sat under to do it by hand. There are nuggets all over the area if you get out and drive. One just trips over them. A young teen shot his first deer the day we were there. Special state hunting day for first timers. Was a family & friends long week. Great for pics.
    Thanks for the memories. We're from SW Alabama.

  • @Captain-Max
    @Captain-Max 7 месяцев назад +2

    What you mean antiques? That's modern day stuff from my childhood.... damn I'm old. 😫

    • @PlanetEarth3141
      @PlanetEarth3141 7 месяцев назад +1

      Children and cell users will be clueless without us older people to explain what they don't know and easily dismiss.
      😊

  • @albertarose1433
    @albertarose1433 7 месяцев назад +6

    I absolutely LOVE Hobbs! He did not want Wiley to leave as he loved him and he let you know. I have one of those at home too. ❤😊

  • @samanthadodd8112
    @samanthadodd8112 7 месяцев назад

    Enjoyed this tour. Love doing these things when it's not busy and u can take your time.

  • @joefrank7159
    @joefrank7159 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you!

  • @bobnelson9468
    @bobnelson9468 7 месяцев назад +1

    100K!! Congrats from Benson, AZ

  • @theathjr
    @theathjr 7 месяцев назад

    Congratulations on 100 K ! All of your hard work is paying off. Well done sir.

  • @thejackofalltravels8267
    @thejackofalltravels8267 7 месяцев назад +6

    That flour sifter has a window in it to know when to refill it. Mom has one especially useful for cakes pastries waffles😄thanks for sharing

  • @barbarabennett1233
    @barbarabennett1233 7 месяцев назад

    Wow really enjoyed the tour. I use to have some of the things you showed and remember a lot of others. Took me back to the good old days. Thank you so much

  • @daneboro6847
    @daneboro6847 7 месяцев назад +9

    Thanks for the tour of the historic ranch house👍

  • @olebloom1641
    @olebloom1641 7 месяцев назад

    Enjoyale walk through of the Empire Ranch. Never heard of it.

  • @Cooper-Lawson
    @Cooper-Lawson 7 месяцев назад +4

    Another amazing video Brian! Congrats with 100k!

  • @skyblue-lb9kr
    @skyblue-lb9kr 7 месяцев назад

    Fun! Thanks for taking us along. Btw, Hobbes seems soo happy :)

  • @cvlink1218
    @cvlink1218 7 месяцев назад

    Hi: Thanks for bringing us on the tour!

  • @cluke4248
    @cluke4248 7 месяцев назад +2

    What a treat this was! I'm 64 this year and a lot of those household items brought back good memories. Definitely adding this to my must visit in 18 months when we hit the nomad trail Thank you my friend I've yet to meet 😎✌️

  • @TXMEDRGR
    @TXMEDRGR 7 месяцев назад +3

    What a coincidence, I just read a book about the Old West and it mentioned the Empire Ranch. Thanks for showing it to us.

  • @lesleyhughes3174
    @lesleyhughes3174 7 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you Brian. What an amazing building! And yes, the antiques, so great to see them all kept there, where they should be. What memories those rooms all hold.
    There is very little grass there near your campsite for those cattle, so thank goodness for those low hanging branches for them. The calves would be really loving those.
    Hobbs has become a real country bumpkin now, hasn't he? 😊 One happy pooch.. Hi to Kelly.. ⭐⭐⭐ 🌞 🕊 🙋🏼‍♀️ 🚐 🌏

  • @mwitti4979
    @mwitti4979 7 месяцев назад

    Great video work Brian! I enjoyed it very much 👍Thank you for sharing!

  • @normgibson6565
    @normgibson6565 7 месяцев назад

    Very good tour I enjoyed.

  • @TPsynth
    @TPsynth 7 месяцев назад

    Hobbs looking sharp 🐕‍🦺 ✂️

  • @justlucky13
    @justlucky13 7 месяцев назад +1

    Peace

  • @ripvanrevs
    @ripvanrevs 7 месяцев назад +2

    I just painted and re-installed a couple of those door locks. Most of the time I have to remove and put the new style on. Last couple houses I remodeled, I found newspaper clippings and small items in the walls dating to the late 1800s and early 1900s.

  • @3generations393
    @3generations393 7 месяцев назад

    Where are you gonna hang that "congratulations" plac? Your channel is very appreciated Brian-thank you for all the work you put into every amazing video. May God bless you & your loved ones 🙏❣️❌⭕, Iris & Little One 👋🐾

  • @ManWander
    @ManWander 7 месяцев назад

    great tour! what a fascinating place! and to think one can check it out for free!

  • @maureendetro6756
    @maureendetro6756 7 месяцев назад

    Good one, Brian!

  • @Morongobill
    @Morongobill 7 месяцев назад +2

    I think The Cheney Human Voice record player was the biggest find. They were big in the Roaring 20's. I really enjoyed this video.

  • @shemajragin4606
    @shemajragin4606 7 месяцев назад +4

    Hi 🙋🏿‍♀️

  • @buzzboykin9982
    @buzzboykin9982 7 месяцев назад +2

    The house we moved into in the early 70's (still here) was built in 1953. Our metal sink unit (original) was exactly like the one you saw, but had a single sink with drain boards on either side. When we redid the kitchen we had a cabinet maker recreate it in wood and found an outfit in FL that recreates period sinks. It looks exactly like the original.

  • @campoutwestus
    @campoutwestus 7 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks for taking us along to this historic ranch. I love that there's still so many antiques around and that people seem to respect the history there.

  • @billburkart8527
    @billburkart8527 7 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you Brian, absolutely loved the tour.

  • @terrilarabee6611
    @terrilarabee6611 7 месяцев назад +3

    What a treat to visit a historical site. Thanks for taking us along. I could imagine hearing the cattle bellowing and the ranchers working. Cool!😅

  • @StepvanDan
    @StepvanDan 7 месяцев назад +3

    Hey Brian what a very cool ranch and thank you for taking us with .I stop what i am doing stuff the sec i see a video from you ,you Rock ,Big hugs from MN

  • @lynnef3297
    @lynnef3297 7 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks for the historical adventure, I enjoyed seeing the the ranch very much. Also, I love your campsite with the beautiful oak trees.

  • @50spudman
    @50spudman 7 месяцев назад +1

    👍✌️

  • @hopemorrison2367
    @hopemorrison2367 7 месяцев назад +2

    Wow Hobbs u stealing the show man

  • @esousa486
    @esousa486 7 месяцев назад +1

    GREAT video, Brian ..... That Avocado green bread box brought back a few memories for me ... Grand parents had one just like it !! 🙂👍 "Thanks" for sharing it .....

  • @paulg492
    @paulg492 7 месяцев назад +2

    12:00 is a old pie making cabinet.

  • @TM-ev2tc
    @TM-ev2tc 7 месяцев назад +1

    I hope you have picked you out a good place to put your 100,000 subscribers plaque. Congratulations. 🎉

  • @vicO1323
    @vicO1323 7 месяцев назад +3

    What a cool cattle ranch. Well done Brian.

  • @davidwolfe7777
    @davidwolfe7777 7 месяцев назад +1

    I found some old Adobe bricks in Rancho Cucamonga, I'm sure you've heard of the Inland Empire. Big money came in and destroyed all the historic buildings and houses. The bricks were there for the taking.

  • @jamesconnell323
    @jamesconnell323 7 месяцев назад

    The adobe reminds me of Hempcrete

  • @thrivingnow7843
    @thrivingnow7843 7 месяцев назад +4

    Wow, humongous oaks, adobe ranch dwellings, and fitting music to such a wonderful video. Thanks

  • @susanstrickland6774
    @susanstrickland6774 7 месяцев назад +1

    Enjoyed the tour of the ranch. Very neat piece of history. Beautiful big tree, and area. You really find nice spots. Safe travels to Wiley. 🙂👍

  • @lifehunter6426
    @lifehunter6426 7 месяцев назад +1

    Great video Brian. Up until I was 9 1/2 years old in 1972, I grew up on a farm built in the 1700s. It was a 2 story log home with a stone foundation basement and an attic. Slat and plaster walls, a lost art, covered the logs. Behind the walls the insulation was various material and some of it was newspaper. The headline on one of the newspapers was the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. We had those old style door knobs on all the doors and many of the old appliances you showed. The chimney morter was mud and horse hair. This ranch house in your video brought back so many fond memories.

  • @joybeekingston6472
    @joybeekingston6472 7 месяцев назад +1

    Did you notice the antique Tinker Toys in the children's room? Super cool. My family still used an ice box in the mid fifties. Yes, I recall the Ice man making deliveries or we would go with my dad to the ice house. My siblings and I took turns catching the block of ice coming down the shoot.

  • @MAGA-kw3ol
    @MAGA-kw3ol 7 месяцев назад +1

    I own a building in cold spring harbor NY that was built around 1850, Cold spring Harbor was a whaling town and when we did some repairs on the building we found beams that were from old whaling ships that had been scraped, they never threw out anything back then, I guess that was recycling.

  • @yorotirb3941
    @yorotirb3941 7 месяцев назад +2

    I think in the old days they were made of 4x8x16 adobes, 2 walls with air space, tied with a length wise adobe every so often. That way intruders found it harder to breach or burn down and made them super comfy in both seasons.

    • @PlanetEarth3141
      @PlanetEarth3141 7 месяцев назад

      Modern homes are less comfortable and less efficient with greater building costs than adobe or other techniques. Adobe self cools and heats without electricity And anyone can build them. I'm no way a fan of modern housing.
      Modern housing won't last as long as the buildings at Empire Ranch and are as faster to build, easier to maintain. Modern housing is insane. Modern housing was created by greed, not local or community spirit and unity. Look at the beauty of that complex. Then look a a modern Earth Ship home. Same basic understanding of intellect over misconceptions. The quality difference is stunning while the cost is relatively cheap, the self labor free while the skills gained of immense value.😊

  • @anitasimmons3599
    @anitasimmons3599 7 месяцев назад +1

    Wow, thank you, Brian. I did not get a chance to see that this year when I was out in Arizona. I guess I will just have to come back... I noticeda lot of 1950s stuff, which remember because that was what was at the grandparents places. We also had a lot of thrift store and garage sale items in our house. Nice video. Thank you for taking us along..

  • @chrislonsberry1974
    @chrislonsberry1974 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for the tour of the Empire Ranch! That was really cool!

  • @jamesconnell323
    @jamesconnell323 7 месяцев назад +1

    When I was a kid in the early 60’s there were still people using Ice Boxes and I remember going to the place in town where they made the blocks of Ice and were sliding them out the side door to costumers.

  • @michaelpattie9244
    @michaelpattie9244 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you find our amazing and I agree with you. I am so surprised in this day and age that nobody ruined that area. It is beautiful to see that nobody has.

  • @freedomdove
    @freedomdove 7 месяцев назад +1

    1:58 mark: Hobbes-approved bed. 😁 20:40 mark: I'm older than you, so I definitely remember the old rotary phones. Lol. And don't forget the "party lines" we had to deal with.🙄

  • @conniewaite1371
    @conniewaite1371 7 месяцев назад +1

    That's a flour sifter in that pantry,think of it as an indoor kitchen chuckbox.

  • @Datzneat
    @Datzneat 7 месяцев назад +1

    I'm parked at the next tree down the road. Looks like you got the best spot in the area!

  • @roxalavista4917
    @roxalavista4917 7 месяцев назад +1

    That shot of Hobbs with his ears flopping. ❤❤❤

  • @REB65
    @REB65 7 месяцев назад +2

    👍👍 Thanks Brian and God bless ✌️

  • @paulharris2391
    @paulharris2391 7 месяцев назад +1

    That was a really nice tour. Thank you.

  • @thizizliz
    @thizizliz 7 месяцев назад +3

    I love seeing how folks lived out here in the SW years ago. Even though it rained more then, it still had to have been difficult - hauling water, oil lamps (the oil had to be shipped in or bought at a nearby town) These folks would have had meat to eat and sell, but probably had a veggie garden too and purchased their oats and flour, sugar, fabric from nearby towns that had stores. Hand sewn clothing, mending, knitting, and so on. Someone had to make things from the leather for saddles and coats, hats, boots and such - even aprons for the blacksmith. Fascinating and admirable.

  • @fordenginebuildersv8power184
    @fordenginebuildersv8power184 7 месяцев назад +1

    Hey man congratulations!

  • @Vantasticviews2
    @Vantasticviews2 7 месяцев назад +1

    Hobbs is livin’ large! 😊That’s a lovely area, I’m hoping to get back there next winter for a couple of weeks. Adventure on!

  • @georgecorreia5314
    @georgecorreia5314 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for the video 😊

  • @jimnmom
    @jimnmom 7 месяцев назад +1

    Hello From Kentucky Just wanted to let you know we look forward to your newest videos coming online , I love the environment you camp in and taking the easy laid back approach to the challenges of being full time , I’m glad Hobbs has adjusted so well and that Kelly is doing well also , we think a lot of your videos and wish you the best were headed west here soon going to a few places you’ve gone because you made it look so enjoyable, well take care ,