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Originally Posted by George McKenzie
One thing is that if all this stuff servived the thing s you have now wouldn't be worth as much .I have collected for over 50 years ,putting over 250 machines in a museum .When you first get the bug of collecting You hear a rumor about a vehicle ,the excitment sets in , Then the looking for it starts .My first carrier that I went to look for turned out to be a snow tractor .So you don't give up till you are firmly convinced that it is just a rumor There has been many times the thing I went to look for turned out to be a better thing than what I was looking for .I just bought a M38 Jeep that was sitting 10 miles from me on a fence line for 25 years and I never knew it was there. I can't get over how things rust in the UK and Europe. In western Canada it can sit out for a 100 years and still be ok.
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If we were collecting farm implements and agricultural equipment, the Canadian Prairies would be the veritable holy land. The average old farmer is too stubborn to sell his fourth old tractor or combine - never know when a pulley or piece off it might be needed. He refuses to sell the old grain truck, for fear of being taken advantage of. He'd rather let something rot into the dirt than allow it to be sold. There is a steel recycling plant in Regina, Saskatchewan for a reason. When old Herbert finally passes on, that old scrap iron goes to the shredder for cash and the farmyard is liveable again.