[AT] Some ads from the 12/10 Lancaster Farming

[Mike Sloane]

Thanks, Rob. If anyone is interested, I happen to have an image of my 
Case 430KC sitting next to my neighbor's slate roofed dairy bank barn. 
If it wasn't for the slate roof, I think the barn would have collapsed 
years ago, as it sat idle for at least 30 years before the present owner 
moved in to the house and did some restoration on the barn. She parks 
her New Holland tractor, stores hay for her llamas and wood for the 
stove in the upper floor, and allows me to to keep my half dozen Cubs, 
Ford 2N, Int. 240U and various implements in the lower section. (In 
return, I cut her grass and plow her driveway in the winter.)

Mike

Rob Gray wrote:
> Mike Sloane wrote:
> 
>>
>> Used slate, 14x18, $1.00 a piece; registered black Percheron mare, 4 
>> yrs., excellent broke, $2,500; springing heifer, $2,200; Lancaster 
>> Co., 717-768-8875. [for those of you who don't live in the area, slate 
>> was a very common roofing material, but eventually it flakes away or 
>> the nails holding it rust out. And they aren't making new. So used 
>> slates in good condition are very valuable.]
> 
> 
> 
> Regarding slate - I live in a region called the "slate belt" where slate 
> quarrying was the industry for many decades (probably from about 1850 to 
> 1930's). The local high school mascot is the "slaters" and most houses 
> in the area still have slate roofs, although the old slate roofs are 
> disappearing more and more each decade. My house still has a slate roof. 
> Slate makes a great roof but today such a roof is too expensive to 
> recreate for a common person.  The ones made with the slate from this 
> area last about 70 to 100 years. Mine is about 70 years old. I hope to 
> get about another 25 years out of it....
> 
> 

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Mike Sloane
Allamuchy NJ
mikesloane at verizon.net
Website: <www.geocities.com/mikesloane>
Images: <www.fotki.com/mikesloane>

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when 
we created them. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)


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