[AT] Pioneer Village. Minden, Ne

[Larry D Goss]

Whoa!  Whoa!  You mean to tell me that you emptied the rooms on the first 
floor before emptying the attic?  That could be downright dangerous. 
There's a big article in this morning's paper about mine subsidence over in 
Warrick county.  If you're not careful, you could have a "working model" of 
it right there at Robinson Manor.

If the New Madrid fault lets go, I'll be sure to send you an email so you 
can take precautionary measures before the shock gets to Shelbyville.  :-)

So tell us, how are you going to get rid of the effluent from the horses? 
Are you going to spread it raw?  Or do you have a lagoon system in mind? 
maybe bag it and sell it to your Yuppie neighbors?  On the way home from 
traveling to eastern Ohio last weekend, I noticed there were a whole lot 
more farmers and feedlots using liquid spreaders than I expected.  All of 
them were apparently lowering the level of their lagoons while the weather 
is still good.

On a serious note, do you (or anybody else) have the information on the size 
of cloth needed for making the standard sizes of feed and flour sacks?  I 
have a friend (fellow collector) in North Carolina who is putting together a 
portable grist mill on a trailer along with a hit n' miss engine for 
demonstration and show.  He wants cloth sacks for use with a steelyard scale 
and will probably end up making them himself.  I thought there were some 
printed feed sacks squirreled away in the farm house at Fort Wayne, but 
can't seem to find them.  I haven't checked the Farmer's Almanac; it may 
have the information.  But Googling "feed sack size" turns up mostly antique 
shops that specialize in these items.  There is no way this guy is going to 
use collectible feed sacks at $30 to $60 EACH for this project.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:30 AM
Subject: RE: [AT] Pioneer Village. Minden, Ne


> -----Original Message-----
> LOL!  BTDT several times, Gene.  Pioneer Village is a treasure for lovers
> of
> old iron.  Farmer just "thinks" he lives at TMCOTKU.
>
> Larry
>
>
>
> Hi Larry:
> Actually "Robinson Manor"   ;-)    is now about 10 tons lighter iron wise
> than it was this spring. It is also well over a ton lighter of misc. 
> "stuff"
> including maybe about a ton of old magazines, catalogs, and phonebooks and
> about anything else my mother squirreled back (in the house) over the 
> years.
> We haven't even gotten a good start on the attic rooms nor the basement
> rooms.
> I hope that before spring that the place will be another 10 tons lighter
> iron wise but I am waiting for the New Madrid Fault to adjust to the 
> weight
> shift first.   ;-)
> I also need to remove a couple of tons of "stuff" from the three barns, 
> the
> tool shed and several small outbuildings.
> Most of the now missing iron was mostly removed by a young fellow that
> stopped buy and talked right about buying it and was willing to clean
> everything up as he went instead of just wanting to pick and choose the 
> best
> stuff and leave the rest like some others that stopped by. I didn't get 
> rich
> from it but I weighed what he paid (in advance) against my cutting it up
> (cutting cost + labor) and hauling cost and time. I also considered the
> possibility of personal injury (not only do I not like pain, it can be
> costly), possible damage to equipment, and the possible cost of a tangle
> with the DOT as well as the distinct possibility of cutting up one or more
> tires at the salvage dealer's lot.
> Letting someone else do all that work made sense to me.   ;-)   Besides, 
> we
> are still involve in "the never ending move from hell" and catching up 
> some
> other stuff. Having two mothers in nursing homes takes more time than one
> might think too. It's always something.
> Once I get rid of that second 10 tons I can go to some auctions and buy
> some more "stuff"...   ;-)   I am hoping to pick up a bred mare or two 
> soon.
> That will be well over a ton...
>
>
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
> The brave may not live forever but the easily frightened may never live at
> all.
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
>
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