This Single Wide Trailer HAS To Be From The 80's, Just Look At It!

My Brother Donnie
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In our county, you can't move a mobile home that's older than 1995, but they are selling this one at a local manufactured home lot, we think maybe it's an even older model with roll out windows, what do you think?
Donnie. Yeah. Oh, what are you doing,
man? I'm down here again. We're going to
walk through an old one here. It looks
like
the uh I like the little the little rain
gutters on top of it. This looks like a
cool one. I think we're going to see
something we've never seen before in
this one. What do you think? I even like
shutters. Yeah. Now folks, here on our
channel,
normally we repair old mobile homes and
put them on lots of land that we have
and then rent them. And so there's this
place near us that sells them and they
get used ones in that have been traded
in. And so this place is full of them
and they also sell new ones. So every
once in a while they get something else
in and we come down here and we check it
out. They just pulled this one in. It's
fresh off the boat. Fresh off the boat.
Um, well, it may have not traveled by a
boat, but we'll figure it out. Yeah. How
come there's grass under it, Donnie? We
were just talking about how there's no
grass under the H. Because it ain't been
here long enough to kill the grass. Come
on now, Ronnie. There you go. All right.
So, uh, this one looks cool cuz it looks
old. We kind of like looking at the
older ones now. We just kind of go
through them and we like looking at how
the layout's a little different. Why
would you say this one's an old one,
Donnie? Cuz them shutters. The shutters,
the color of it. Um, it just it looks
old. All right, so we're gonna walk
around it and then we're gonna go inside
and see what the layout's like. I got
something right here first off the
getgo.
I bet when we get inside,
this wall is going to be tore up.
Donniey's He's always on and on about
the uh
the the air conditioning when they put
window units in. What What's going on
with this weld here, Donnie? What
happened there?
That ain't weld. That's just expand the
foam. Why would it be there? Somebody
had skirting going around it and they
foamed it off trying to keep the air out
from underneath it. That makes sense.
All right. Now, why is that crack? Is
that That's metal, right? Yeah, that's
metal. And look, they put a couple
screws in it to hold it in place. They
might have ripped that when it looks
like it's a new rip. They probably
ripped that when they trying to get the
the skirting off or something.
All right. They've got screens screwed
over the bottom of all the windows.
So that that's a poor man's screen
window.
Um what's this up here, Donnie?
That is a sewer stack, believe it or
not. Yeah. So it's a vent for the sewer
with an elbow on it. I don't know.
Whatever.
And uh Donny's right. They've added in a
piece of tin over the windows to try to
keep the rain
from coming down. Evidently,
you know, that's a bad spot there. all
the way around it. Yeah. You know, on
the newer ones, they they bump out like
so where water can't get into the actual
house. Yeah. Right there. You're you're
100% relying on silicone. These are the
old windows, folks. The old windows. So,
what would you say, Donnie? 80s.
Look at the butterfly.
It's a beautiful day in the
neighborhood. Maybe
maybe 80s. Maybe maybe early 90s.
possible. Might go back a little
farther. 70s. We might see it when we
get inside. We'll know more. If I get
around the front and see that see what I
think I seen at the kitchen window, I'm
going to say it's old. Okay. Tell us the
little game they play with that. Was
what? The date. Why is the date
important? Around here, you can move
them 30 years old.
So, like right now, it's 2025. So, you
back up 30 years. That would be uh 95.
95. Thanks for doing the math for me.
So, anything 95 or above, you can move
anywhere in the state. If it's behind a
95, say it's a 94, it's got to stay in
that county and you can move it around
that county. Yeah. So, I think that's
fairly that's pretty fair.
You know, I think I don't like how the
government messes with you on anything,
but that's it's a little compromise. I
see what they're trying to do there.
They're not making it where you can't
move it. They're just making it where
they don't want a bunch of like a cheapo
ones coming into the county if they're
not already in the county. It has to do
with the taxes, too. You know, you got
to pay taxes on the thing. And I would
think they should do it by condition.
Yeah. But then they got to come out and
try to guess the condition and all that.
And then they got to come in your house.
If they do that though, they could pay
you could pay somebody and get around
it. Yeah. Cuz there too many damn cheats
in the damn system. Well, tell them
about the cheat in this system. what you
That's what I was getting at. Well, you
can you can change the date on it cuz
nobody comes out and inspects them.
Yeah. So, this one we're saying looks
like it's from the early 80s to me. This
or mid 80s. This looks like about a 1985
to me. Now, I ain't never changed the
date. Yeah. We don't do that crap. And
we don't say you should, but people do
do it. All you got to do really is
change a a door in the in the kitchen on
most of them. You could probably get
away with just telling them that it's a
different date. I mean there you could
probably pull that off too. The trick
would be you would have to know that
there was another one in the county like
that got burnt up or something. Yeah,
you could use that VIN and move it
around. I've we've looked at some before
where the date didn't match what was
going on there. We could tell that it
just wasn't right. They somebody had
swapped it at some point. You know, you
also if one burns down and it's a it's a
you know a 99 or something. Well, you
could move anything onto that lot and
act like it's the 99 and it's it might
sound like why would they do that?
People do do that. A lot of that going
around. What's going on here, Donnie? I
think my guess is that's the water
heater. And that was just their way of
getting to the water heater. Well, those
the older ones had a door there for the
water heers in and out. Uh-huh. And I
think that's the water heater. Okay.
Well, we'll go see. The door got tore up
and they put that on there. That's going
to be my guess. All right.
Yeah, this old old crank windows. It's
old old. Yeah. See, there ain't no way
that's from the ' 90s if it's got a
crank window. That's old old. That's got
to be the seven. Look at the frame down
there. That tells you, too, don't it?
Well, no. The new ones are the same way.
Rotten like that. Well, if you had it at
the beach, it wouldn't take long. This
said Orangeberg County. I don't even
know where that is. Look at that. Oh,
wow. That takes a while. That's
aluminum. Yeah. Look at that. It's It's
got a wood seal plate around it that
most of them do though. And it's just
completely rotted away and that that
that end of the thing is just falling
away from the That could be from the
mobile.
We'll have to be careful when we go in
this one. So, what they do there,
Donnie? Bees nest all in there. I think
that's going to be a swings out or
something. Swings out. But there's too
many bees nest in there for me to mess
with.
No, it don't.
Must be the air conditioner again. Yeah,
maybe there was an AC unit there.
There's an AC unit because you can see
this expander foam on it. So, this going
to be an old one, folks. It's full of a
bunch of trash. We're not considering
buying this one. We're just We're just
kind of showing you the layout of it and
how they used to be made. And then when
you see a new one, you can compare that
in your mind. This is how the old ones
were. This is how the new ones are. You
know, hopefully it's just something you
find interesting. We find it really
interesting. That's how old Frank went,
too. That's what I thought I saw.
They're kind of like you're going back
in time a little bit. You know, you're
look you we're about to step into 1978,
I think. Yeah, that's uh
Yeah, them crank windows. It's got to be
the ' 80s. There ain't no way this
thing's 1990 with those crank windows.
Them crank windows. I think they stopped
them in the 70s. Yeah, maybe. I don't
know. And I'll tell you another thing.
It's a tail tail. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't
seen the entire piece of metal that they
just corugated like that. Yeah, got to
be. I like how it's got the fake uh wood
grain on it. Yeah, but that's the same
thing as the bottom. Yeah, we're not
knocking it, folks. We're We're just
saying it's interesting. You know, this
is this is how they used to be. All
right, we're going to hop up in it and
see what the inside looks like.
All right, we've made it inside. It has
paneling on the walls that have been
painted pink. And we're in the living
room. It's laid out completely different
than any of the ones we've been in. So,
that's pretty cool. I'll show you the
original paneling color. Now, we're
being careful. This place, like I said,
has a lot of trash in it. We're not
trying to dox anybody or anything. We're
not trying to embarrass anybody. A lot
of times when these are pulled in,
people have been living rough, you know,
and that's kind of what's going on here.
So, here's the living room. Ceilings are
fairly low. They're not I mean, they
might be 7 foot maybe.
Donnie, are they seven? Come, come back
in here where I can see how tall you
are. Donniey's six foot six foot one.
About seven feet. They're right at seven
feet. Duh.
Um,
see the plywood under the window.
Donny's looking for the date. I don't
know what he's doing. He's trying to
He's trying to catch him. See the
plywood under the window because the the
air conditioning rotted it out. You can
see where they replaced one piece of
paneling already with a replacement. You
know, it looks like it's a it's about
the same as that original, but maybe a
little bit different. Um, this one's
completely rotted out. I don't know if
that's the one he was talking about.
And then that wall has that kind of
it's that
you can tell by the texture. It's that
kind of plastic stuff that they put in
showers.
These two sheets or this sheet looks
smooth. That one's that same texture.
What do you think, Donnie? I think I'd
definitely buy it. Walking through it.
You would buy it. Not this particular
one, but this layout, I'd buy it. I'd
buy the hell out of it. All right, so
we're in the living room. There's the
dining room. There's no real wall at
all. Um, boy, I'm a poet and don't even
know it. Um, there's no real wall at
all. It's just you kind of go right into
it, which is, you know, similar to the
ones that we've got. Be careful. The
floor is a little soft in a couple
spots. Refrigerator there. Stove. Look
at the, you know, we have electricians
watch our channel. Here you go,
electricians.
You like that? What do you like about
that? There you go.
Um,
oh, I forgot to check that back window
back there. There's a roll out crank
window. Now, some people might be if
you're young and you watch our channel,
you might not know about this if you
haven't been to grandma's house in a
while. There is a crank. You turn that
thing and it turns like a little wheel
and it will it will not a wheel, but
moves on like a little track. It will
move that window out maybe 3 or 4 inches
and that's it. It won't go it won't open
all the way. It's just enough to let
some air in.
um let some smoke out. It'll it'll be
it'll slant it out. So, the top will
stay where it is and the bottom will
come out a little bit by turning that
crank a few times. It's just old school
stuff.
Um now, the ones over here are just your
traditional that looks soft. Um
traditional,
you know, thin aluminum windows that
that pull straight up. Does have OSB on
the floor. Mhm. Floors are rotting.
Pretty nasty in here. You You'll when
you go back that way, you'll be like,
"What the hell?" So, we're in the
kitchen.
Got the Magic Chef
stove.
Pretty nasty, folks. Well, that's why
you put the aluminum fool on there, you
ain't got to clean it. It's got the
straw line. Straw
straw.
Straw
sign. Straw sign, straw scene,
uh, range hood.
Got some flies.
Look, folks,
we're going through all this trouble for
you. The least you can do is give us a
thumbs up. Here's the washer and dryer
area,
uh, with an interesting little shelf
built over it. Whoever did that, I like
what they did.
They kept it out of the way. They know
you don't need that over there, but over
here you kind of might need some space.
So that
um We're rocking. Donnie, watch it.
Here's some old
chicken soup or something.
All right. And now we have a little
hallway back here. That should be a
pantry. You probably don't even want to
look in there. Go ahead.
Old school pantry. Plenty of storage
though. A lot of them, you know, a lot
of your more modern mobile homes don't
even have that
flat blocks down here. It's behind you.
There ain't nothing on it. Here's the
old fuse panel. And look, that's, you
know, that looks old to me, man.
I wonder if it says, does it ever say on
the actual breakers?
It is a Seaman's box.
Yeah, but Seammens has been making this
stuff since like the 40s.
Seams bought.
The reason we're looking, folks, is
because a lot of times they'll have a
date on it on the box somewhere.
I don't see nothing, man.
What about there? What's that say?
Nothing.
USA. Revision C. What's that number say?
What's that actual number? Yeah.
409517.
409517. What's that label over there
say? This space is for clothes, washer,
and dryer. Okay, we're just looking
trying to find anything. It'll tell us a
date.
Uh, well, actually, this is a um that's
one of those things that tells you
what it costs per month. We might be
able to get in there, folks. We're on a
mission.
Okay, we're trying, folks.
God, I hate to touch any of this crap.
Equipment outdoor
country.
Model number, style line number. We're
getting close, folks. 4,800. 48. Damn.
It just doesn't say what's what's what's
here.
Nothing.
That's a gas stove. That's okay. Let's
see what's here. Heater. That's just
gas. Yeah, but there might be a date on
some of it. Okay. What's down there?
That might tell us something.
No, nothing. It's
cool and serious. Okay, go there,
Ronnie, and I'll keep looking. See if I
can come up with something here. All
right, he's looking. He's trying.
All right, we have made it into the
master bedroom.
So, that's the pantry and then that's
the AC.
And this is just extra room in the
master bedroom. I suppose it was maybe
set up a little different at one point
and that was some kind of uh closet.
Um
hard to say.
Looks like it was from Orangeburg, South
Carolina.
Here's
the window that's blocked off for
whatever reason. I guess they just
didn't like the sun the way it was
coming in. I'm not going to go in here
because we already saw how the end of
this thing's rotted. So, I'm just going
to kind of show you. It has a a wood
door somebody has made with 2x4s and
paneling.
This looks like it may have actually
been the original closet space cuz you
see where it's got the place for the um
the the
hooks. I'm not going deep in here,
folks, cuz I don't want to this end of
the house I don't think secured all that
much. This is more closet space that
they may have just built. Um toilet over
there.
the spot that Donnie was saying on the
end of the mobile home. I think he is
right. You're actually right, Donnie. I
think I was, too. That's gonna be the
hot water tank right there.
Big bathroom.
All right, we're done in this end. Yep.
All rotted out. Yeah. And somebody put
another piece over and same over there.
They're all like that. So, you'd say
this is the master? Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, cuz it's got it own bathroom.
Okay.
You didn't find any date? Nope. You
found nothing. It's got to be 80s
people. I think if I looked around on
that um
Oh, uh that's stacked there. That's what
I was just looking at. I don't see
nothing on it, right? Man, they're
making it hard on us.
Okay, we might be able to see it on some
OSB somewhere.
Um,
I done looked in these cabinets. There
ain't nothing there. What about the
wallpaper? We can tell by that, can't
we? Somebody probably added that
actually.
Well,
oh hun.
We're trying, folks. They stamped the
back of paneling, too. Right here. You
go through.
Damn wasp on me. The wasp. Yeah, he's
running away. Now he's on you. I think
that is that a wasp. Mudber. Mudber.
They're not as dangerous. Okay. What's
behind bedroom number uno? Numero uno.
Did you notice this doubled? Yeah, I
noticed that. That one was some a new
one. You know, doubled there, too. It
looks like Okay.
This is soft soft soft.
We might get Donnie falling through for
the first time on video. You going to
get this bad boy?
What in the hell? Oh, that's a that's
got to be a bathroom. There's a hidden
bathroom.
See, now this I kind of like how it's
just old. You know, it's this is similar
to that one. We've got old school with
the old panel. All right, show us the
closet.
Old shag. Oo, the old carpet. Come on,
folks. We're back in the 80s for sure.
Look at that damn carpet. There ain't no
way they made carpet like that in 1990.
Come on. I remember. Look there, Donnie.
That's going to be the back of the uh
the the bathroom. All right. So, this
ought to be a bathroom.
Here we go.
Man, it's a little tiny one, but they
stuck one in there, didn't they? That
ain't no damn little.
Damn, it's full size. All right, so
there's the bathtub. Pretty nasty.
toilet. I won't focus on too much. It's
not too bad, folks. It's just water
stains and stuff. Watch it now. Watch it
now. We're wobbling.
Ain't going nowhere. Yeah, but I might
go somewhere and if I fall in this
toilet, I'm going to be pissed. I hate
when that happens.
The little tiny vanity. Come on, folks.
This is from the damn 70s. What do you
think, Donnie? Give us a date.
Everybody tell us in the comments below
what date is this mobile home from. It's
got to be 70s. Got to be. Look at this.
Look, even the doorork knobs. That's the
70s doorork knob, man. It's still got
the Robertson. Yeah. Oh, yeah. All
right, Donnie. Yo, give us a thumbs up.
Film. Subscribe to the channel if you
hadn't already. And we'll catch you on
the next one.
We'll show you another older one that we
did that was like a It had a sun room on
one end that we really like. It's here
on the lot, and they still haven't sold
it. We'll put that video up right here.
