[AT] Scales for antique tractors???

[Larry D. Goss]

Boulder county Colorado has established a "green zone" parallel to the
mountains which is being preserved as kind of a "maintained" wilderness
area.  They are preserving the barns and silos on the old homesteads,
but are razing everything else.  My great-grandfather's farm is in that
zone, so it will remain as public land supposedly for perpetuity
(forever or until the government changes its mind, which ever comes
first.)  :-)

Anyway, on the ancestral homestead there is a wagon scale that was
purchased as "insurance" for one of the same model that was installed at
the Farmer's Mill in Longmont.  They have opted to retain the wagon
scale as well as the pole barn and concrete silo on the homestead.  When
I visited the farm for the first time in 1977, the scale was still
operational.  When I revisited it a couple of years ago, the wooden
platform has finally succumbed to the elements after 125 years and there
are gaping holes all over it.

A couple of nights ago, I was working with some scanned images on my
computer and I came across a photo I took of a painting one of my
great-uncles made of the barnyard at the homestead.  In the middle of
scene is the image of the wagon scale.  I've looked at the painting many
times over the years, but never noticed the wagon scale until this week.

In the grand scheme of things, this doesn't mean anything and probably
has no meaning at all for anybody except me, but with this discussion of
scales, I thought I'd bring it up.

Larry

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Indiana
Robinson
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:38 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: RE: [AT] Scales for antique tractors???

On 11 Jan 2006 at 8:38, Bill Brueck wrote:

 
> I bet there are scales out there just waiting to be 
picked up.  Maybe place
> an ad in the local papers?




	Yep, I had a set of grain elevator scales at a business 
property. I tried for a year or two to sell them for $50 
and finally walked away from them and let them go with the 
property when I sold it. Somewhere I still have a box of 
those little carboned cardboard scale tickets that you 
stuck in the slot and squeezed the handle to print them. 
All I ever used those scales for was as a solid platform to 
set a coke machine on under a security light...   :-)   We 
used to go out every morning and pick up all of the pennies 
that people with money to throw away just tossed out on the 
ground rather than carry them. It didn't bother me to put 
them in our change jar. It was about a buck or two a week.



--
"farmer"

Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
robinson at svs.net

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