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Millville auction - mini Mountains of MN

SweetFeet

SweetFeet

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A few pictures from the Milleville auction last week. I thought the hilly terain was really beautiful. Not as dramatic as the bluffs right on the Mighty Mississippi or up by Lake Superior - but still really pretty nonetheless. (Sure wish they had not sprayed weed killer for the auction, as some of the photos would be a lot neater without the dead vegetation.)

It was a fun sale. We got a few little treasures; the oil can holder I showed in a different post, rusty oil can for in the holder, rusty grease gun for on our Regular, and a couple nice Castle nuts from F20s that were going to scrap. We are getting older for sure - we were just beat when we got home.

Husband said they always say he who dies with the most toys wins; so I think this guy is the winner. And he sure did have A LOT of stuff.
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I'd love to have a little grain bin like that to store oats in . . . but there aren't any more around here to be had.
 
For some reason I really like the tread pattern on the older rear tires the last tractor pic. They look like a true long bar, short bar, 45 degree tire. Don't know how they compare for traction to the new stuff, but that is what everyone ran on their tractors when I was growing up.

Rick
 
I walked through that sale just before it started. I have got to admit it was one of the first I have ever gone to that they made a path through a corn field to get down there to where the sale was.It was basically a pasture with a little creek through it now for a building site. I thought about a couple of plows but decided they needed too much work. Did they ever figure out what all the tractors were? I was talking to the actioneer and he didn"t know on a couple of them. My pictures did not turn out like yours, you did a nice job.
 
Looking at that whole lash-up reminds me of what my dad used to say about his venture into farming-

"Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to go farmin' in the worst way. Lookin' back on it, I think I did."
 
Thanks for the great pics! Made my day. I felt as though I was walking through a meadow and running across old iron. I'd like to get that Twin City JT running again, or the F-14.
 
Tim(nj)
It was a neat little bin. I'd never seen one that was not only corrugated, but also had the dimples pressed into the metal all around (I assume for added strength to the metal).

Sadly, it probably sold for scrap.
 
Rick,
It is a neat tread pattern...and one would think traction would not have been as good with no lug ends to bite in.
 
Roger,

We thought the path through the corn was interesting too. Looked like they just shoved it down, rather than pick it. We drove in with our pickup and trailer, then noticed how crowded it was and that the field was mostly sand. Decided to park it on the road...spun out trying to get back out with an EMPTY trailer (our pickup is 2 wheel drive).

Not sure on all the tractors... there was something they called either a Model A or Model T conversion. But it was weird and had a Regular front pedestal and steering gears. Great big silver light mounted on the left front side.

Husband went after a Litte Wonder - but an Amish farmer wanted it worse than we did.

Thanks on the pictures. I love to take them (that is why I miss most of the prices - I have to be away from the crowd to get good photos).
 
Trkr,
Sorry, neither husband or I heard the Custom sell. Things were generally in tough condition and seemed to sell fairly cheap overall (tractors were bringing less than scrap value). The salebill rather "overstated" the condition and usefullness of the stuff.

It was still an awesome auction. And great auctioneers, they kept things moving at a fast pace.
 
Ramblin Man,
You are welcome. Anytime.
Will post some more another time. Maybe when everyone is closed in for winter and sick of looking at "white" out the window.
 
Dave in GA,

Thanks. Love to take & share pics. It was a gorgeous spot. Sadly, many of the tractors were sold for scrap. That is why we were able to buy some small parts...but sad that they will be crushed and melted down. The scrapper we talked to said... just being scrapped - not parted out.
 
bobbyboy,

Thanks. Love taking photos.

Yes, we have noticed that both auctions and junkyards are spraying everything down. It is unfortunate because it probably is being applied at extra heavy doses. And the fun of it for me, is getting photos with the native flora around the rusted treasures! I'm a rust junky!!!
 
Eric KS,

Thanks. Wish I could have gotten pictures from more angles - but too bright of sun that day (at least for my camera - not a real fancy one).
 
barnE,

That I do know! I was in the woods taking pictures when it was sold.

The Ford car, Dodge Truck, an unknown tractor, another car and truck, a thresher, a corn picker, a manure spreader, a 1/2 truck, a pair of tractor fenders and any various metal across the creek... all sold in ONE LOT for either $725 or $750.

Here is a pic of it, had a really cool swan-neck hood emblem.
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I had to laugh at the "smile your on camera" and that tractor with the saw blade, looks like a real back breaker. Thanks for sharing, you take great pics.
 
Tim(nj), I do not think you would have much luck storing oats in a corn crib as that is what it is and not a grain bin. Those dimples are actually punched clear thru on the bottom side and have about a 1/4" gap on that side and that is for air circulation thru the ear corn the same as thru the wire on a wire crib but that design will keep the weather (Snow-rain) off the corn to keep it from starting to rot. The shape of those dimples is designed so the rain stays on the outside insted of getting inside the crib. Also if they were kept in good condition the mice could not get in the corn. I have both round and rectangular ones here, last one was used as a firewood shed and kept the snow off the wood.
 
Shame to see all that history slip away into the smelter. But I guess it's slipping away to nature little by little.

Nice, prosaic scenery!

A double tree hanging on the barn in the next-to-last photo?
 
kornfused,
Thanks! The "smile" sign made me laugh too... seeing the building site, one would have to think there certainly was not a video cam around - but I guess you never know.

Yep, back-breaker (not sure how much that seat would actually spring) or arm-remover...I know I wouldn't want to get near a buzz saw.
 
Centex Farmall,
The doubletree must have just been hung as a decorative touch. That small building had a dirt floor. It seemed that several of the buildings had either been moved onto the site or roughly contructed just to cover machinery. There was not a regular barn, hoghouse, chickenhouse nor farmhouse that we could find.
 
Leroy,

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. I had commented to my husband, that I'd never seen a grain bin like that. But due to auction piles in front of the bin, I did not get close enough to notice the holes in the dimples. I will have to remember to tell my husband. Thanks.
 
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