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Hey, now you've really got a plan. I just have been so busy with my nomal work and just fixing a few things that need work, I really haven't had much time to just hang around the internet, but I do know of a program that could possibly help. The History Channel promotes a "Save Our History" movement of some kind. Our combines are certainly no less deserving of this than some old building, landmark, ship or airplane! Besides, I don't want to be the ONLY person contacting the History Channel about saving our combines. Like I said before, if we can save birds and bugs, just how much more important are those that kept this nation fed? I believe an "Adopt a Combine" program could work. It's been going on with the nature nuts for years. Yes, I'm a nature nut, too, but still believe our needs as human beings, still come first. I hve thought about having a trust chartered, whereby older combines as well as tractors and other machinery, could be not only preserve, but given financial incentives to do so. This could come out of the membership fees. By the way, the History Channel people sure know the combines. They are the first to really shine strong public attention on them in various documentaries and in one case, Modern Marvels Modern Farming, actually used the combine's correct name, which really DOES tell us just what it is. The correct or true technical name of this mechanical marvel is "Combined harvester-thresher." If that was always said [and it's a mouthful!] there would never be any doubt, even among most city dwelers, just what they do, even if they've never seen a grain field. It sure doesn't take a farm boy to understand what a corn or cotton picker does. Why are the combines stuck with such a name. I'll bet they are the only machines in history not named for what they DO. Think about it.
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