Cave family

[Trinity man]

Well we are all really seeing cave people. The bad thing is the bank was trying to take their cave.


ST. LOUIS – An eastern Missouri family expects they'll be able to stay in their home built inside a cave after accepting an offer of a private mortgage contract. Curt Sleeper said Tuesday that a New Jersey-based business offered a 15-year loan with a low interest rate that should allow the family to keep their home in Festus, about 30 miles south of St. Louis.

"We're excited about it." To celebrate: "We're throwing a party at a friend's cave," he said.

Curt and Deborah Sleeper fell in love with the unique geography of an old mining cave in 2004 and figured out how to build a house inside of it. But they were having trouble making a large payment that was coming due on the property, prompting them to put their home up for auction on eBay


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090310/ap_on_re_us/cave_home;_ylt=Ag836vxt0QPuFGrY6oheNJUDW7oF

 

[Northern Rancher]

There was a guy living in a bear den up here one year but he flooded out in the spring-if I'm lyin' I'm dyin'. He was just a bit bushed lol.

 

[Denny]

There was a guy living in a bear den up here one year but he flooded out in the spring-if I'm lyin' I'm dyin'. He was just a bit bushed lol.

When I was a kid we had a few (Hermit) neighbor's their living condition's were really something kinda miss those kinda folk's.

One of them had an old F-12 Farmall with a 350 chevy engine on it narrow front end with only one tire on it he could go about 40 mph down the gravel road.

 

[Trinity man]

There was a guy living in a bear den up here one year but he flooded out in the spring-if I'm lyin' I'm dyin'. He was just a bit bushed lol.

When I was a kid we had a few (Hermit) neighbor's their living condition's were really something kinda miss those kinda folk's.

One of them had an old F-12 Farmall with a 350 chevy engine on it narrow front end with only one tire on it he could go about 40 mph down the gravel road.

Now that is wild. I would hate to turn at a high speed.

 

[N/D]

One of them had an old F-12 Farmall with a 350 chevy engine on it narrow front end with only one tire on it he could go about 40 mph down the gravel road.

My neighbor and the local mechanic built something similar. They took a Farmall with the same narrow front end and put a Bank's turbo-charged Chevy diesel in it. They use it in parades and they do use it in the fields from time to time. They have clocked it at 60 mph on the paved road, and claim it will go faster; they just have to find someone else to drive it.