Happens to me all the time. "Why did you drag home that junk? You PAID for that pile of rust?!?" Every piece of farm equipment on the place had to be fixed in some fashion before it could be used. None of it is completely fixed as I'd like to see it, yet - it's just "usable", with a bunch of works in progress (as time and money permit). There's a reason farm equipment from 5-7 decades ago is still around (and used on our place) - it was built to last, and fixing it, however expensive in parts and time (even if I have to make the parts myself), is still better to my mind than some newer stuff designed to be thrown away.
I guess I see the potential still left in things and take some perverse pleasure in the challenge of making it good again, rather than letting something that "could be fixed" (regardless of the expense) go to the junk yard. My parents and grandparents may have had something to do with it, for whom "make it last, make it do, wear it out, use it up" was a way of life. It seems to have rubbed off.
:shock: Hang on - the wife wants to throw out my old work boots with the blown out sides (not good for wet weather, which we've had in abundance this year so far), but as I see it there still a little wear left in 'em... But just to show I have some sense as to when something has reached the end of it's useful life, I've agreed to let them go. It might make her feel better about the IH #200 spreader in pieces in front of the woodshed that needs "a little new metal". She says "scrap it". I say I'm gonna fix it.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Pat Browning. The setting is rural Wisconsin, halfway between East Troy and Elkhorn, on Hodunk Road, our nation was at war, and I was 6, 7 and 8 years old. George was our "threshing neighbor." He was the one with the threshing machine, a JI Case on steel wheels, and he pulled it to our farm with a JI Case standard tractor also on steel. In those days, steel wheeled implements were common. The roads were general gravel, so the lugs cutting into them wasn't a problem. George would set up the thresher, s
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