[AT] Thinning the herd

[John Hall]

Dad and I have been pondering for some time about thinning our antique 
farm equipment collection. In a nutshell, he has reached an age where he 
can only provide technical and moral support. My son has no real 
interest in most of our stuff, so its time to let a bit of it go. 
Yesterday a fellow drove 3 hours to pick up dads IH threshing machine. 
He already had a thresher but it was old and in need of serious repairs. 
Dads was one of the last built, 1950's, and was used less than 10 years. 
I tried for a few years to get a local club to buy it or find other 
locals interested---no luck. Anyway the guy that bought it raises draft 
horses and uses them to grow the oats he feeds them each year. He plans 
on using the thresher to thresh this years oats. Guy borrowed a 34' 
trailer to haul it on, worked great. Best part is the thresher only sat 
outdoors one night. One of the challenges of selling machinery this big 
is finding someone with shed space for it. Its nice to let something 
like that go to someone who will appreciate it. Fellow is also 
interested in our grain binder, I'll see what kind of a deal we can 
strike up! I'm glad we found a user, as we were already considering 
cutting the machine up for scrap---thats a hard thing to do on a piece 
of equipment that only needed greasing before it was ready to run.

John Hall
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