[AT] Horsedrawn grader on eBay

[Greg Hass]

Reminds me of a true story that happened before my time. At  that time each 
township in our county had a grader like this to grade the roads. After 
better machines came out the old graders were parked at a spot in the 
township and people were allowed to use it for their personal use and then 
return it to it's spot for someone else to use. It happens that the grader 
was parked across the road from where I now live. A mile away lived a 
neighbor who always had a little more money than anyone else.He was also 
well known in the area. Well, one day he offered the County  twenty-five 
dollars for the grader and they sold it to him. They really had no right to 
do this as no bids were taken and it was never advertised as being for 
sale. One of those deals where it's not what you know but who you know. The 
man who lived here and who I bought this farm from, heard about this and 
found out who had the grader and loaded his gun and went to get it back. 
Someone heard what he was doing and caught up to him before he used the gun 
and talked him into leaving it go. The other mans son still has the grader 
although I haven't seen it in 20 years. The players in this story have been 
dead for over 20 years but when I was young and they were still alive there 
were bad fellings in the neighborhood about the grader guy as that was only 
one of many stunts of this type he pulled, a couple of which I was old 
enough to remember. I guess every neighborhood has to have one of these people.
Greg Hass
Michigan