[AT] Thinning the herd

Dean Vinson dean at vinsonfarm.net
Sun Jul 9 08:35:57 PDT 2017


John, that's great news about finding a good home for the thresher.  I remember your posts from some time back saying how hard it was to find anyone interested at all, even for a thresher in as good a condition as that one.

Dean Vinson
Saint Paris, Ohio


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Subject: [AT] Thinning the herd

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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