[AT] Thinning the herd NOW bee stings

[charlie hill]

Well I went and opened my mouth about bee stings.
Got up from the computer, went out to mow the yard
on my ZTR and just as I was about finished ran right
straight through a nest of them somewhere.  They wrapped
me up.  I've got stings on my left hand, behind both knees and
on my right ankle.  So far I can't tell exactly how many individual
stings but I think there were multiple stings in some of the spots.
Took some Benadryl and I'm not particularly bothered by stings
other than the pain so I'll be alright as soon as it stops burning
and itching and hurting.  As many as were flying around me and
crawling on me that I was able to brush off I really feel lucky it
wasn't worse!

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Dean Vinson
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2017 11:35 AM
To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
Subject: Re: [AT] Thinning the herd

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


-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com 
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of John Hall
Sent: Sunday, July 9, 2017 9:03 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
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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