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

Mike Sloane mikesloane at verizon.net
Wed Dec 14 05:39:39 PST 2005


I forgot to include the URL for the image of the bank barn: 
<http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/case_430_ck/barn21.html>

(that's what I get for doing Email before my first mug of coffee)

By the way, it is -2 degrees F this morning here in NW NJ. That is damn 
cold for the middle of December, and even a little cold for the middle 
of January.

Mike

Mike Sloane wrote:
> 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>

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of 
those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have 
too little. -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)


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