[AT] Stepfather's collection

[Indiana Robinson]

I finally got around to looking at the pictures just now and got so sweaty
that I now need to go take a cold shower...
:-)
When I decided to clean up a lot of stuff here I sold a good bit of the
better stuff on Craigslist and Ebay. Then I worked with a scrapper on a lot
of it. I'm pretty sure I would have done better with an auction but I was
having so many other issues that I just was not able to deal with the
needed labor to get ready for an auction.
Note that no tractors were harmed or sold during that clean-up...
:-)
Oops, correction. I did sell my 4020 John Deere to a good home when I quit
farming.

I had no idea how much "stuff" I had tucked back in small lots and little
wooded areas etc. In just what the scrapper hauled away there was around
40,000 pounds of iron.
I have no idea how much weight was involved in the stuff I had already sold
before the scrapper came but it was most of the bigger stuff that was my
main farming stuff, chisel-plow, 4 x 16" moldboard plow, big disk and a
couple of smaller disk, couple of 24' field cultivators, a 4 row and an 8
row planters, row crop cultivators, and several hopper wagons and more.
I did keep 4 or 5 smaller plows, several mowers, a couple of hopper wagons,
several hay wagons and a half dozen wagon running gears, along with a kind
of hybrid PTO self-unloading wagon and a couple of ear corn/hay bale
elevators. I also kept some dirt handling stuff like three 3-point grader
blades, a 3-point slip-scoop and a small pan-scraper type unit. antique
stuff like buzz-saws, corn shellers, fan mills etc. also kept their homes
along with herds of garden tractors and other garden tools.
I wonder how much stuff I have missed here?
One foot-note... I did manage to sell all of that scrap before scrap prices
went way up a few years ago.
:-)



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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com