The day after attending a farm machinery auction and ROTFLMA at the huge prices some items were bringing...the kids drug me down to their "fort" in the cat-tails down by the creek to "look at some old farm stuff".
Lo and behold the sage hid two pieces of equipment both just under 100 years old...a cultivator and a disc harrow which included its own sage bush (six inches round & four feet tall) growing up through the middle of it...so they'd probably been just sitting down there 60 years or so.
Here's an old ad picture of what the disc used to look like...
After prying, cutting sage and dragging the pieces up to the farmyard...the cultivator was re-tongued with new wood & bolts (bought on a short trip into town as firing up the blacksmith forge would have excessively delayed the repair
) in a couple of hours and was making the first pass over the garden acre, formerly known as "the front pasture", well before sundown.
Sure beats several thousand FRN's for "new" stuff!!
Today's plan...
1) Keep breaking up the first layer with the cultivator as long as the weather holds.
2) Begin re-refurbishment on the disk harrow to plow once the top grass is broken up.
3) Start on
goat milking stand...
4) Get seed packets out & sorted.
5) Get those seedlings started (probably already pushing late for some crops
)
Man this stuff is fun...can't wait to see what else is buried in this Wyoming sage!!
MANUMIT
