My Barn Yard

[sjerden]

I collect antique farm equipment. Here's a photo of my barn yard with a Case Power Binder, IHC corn binder, IHC #7 mower and an IHC manure spreader. My barn, machine shed/grainery and house were built in 1886. The old farm equipment fits in well.

 

[johnk]

Nice looking Barn and old equipment. Amazing how fast time passes.......

 

[sjerden]

Here's a shot of the inside. Hand-hewn, wood-peg, mortice and tenon construction. Still a sturdy barn after 125 years. I have boards in the hayloft that are 1X20" 7 foot long. Its full of the old equipment right now. I keep it inside and only take it out on nice days. Some of the old steel has to stay outside year round. I collect old barn wood also. Have a lot of it in the hayloft.

 

[bullbreaker]

I collect antique farm equipment.

Sjerden:These are old farm equipment pics I posted from Pioneer Museum about 15 miles down road from me.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/photos/177709-older-implement-attachment-pics.html
Check out permalinks #1,#4, and #7.

Boone

 

[tcreeley]

I like it. -Old milking barns make me nostalgic - with the whitewash.
I love the mortice/peg work in old barns

 

[sjerden]

Here's how it looks full of equipment. Notice the original paint on the binders. I've got a bundle conveyor for the corn binder. It's all wood and pretty rare.

 

[jimmyj]

Neat post. Love that old stuff. I'm glad you are taking care of it. Too often it gets ruined or junked for scrap up here. And the old barns that nobody takes care of any more, makes me sad...

 

[sjerden]

Nobody wants this stuff here in Southern Illinois. If it ain't green, and new paint its just junk to the farmers around here. I get it cheap and I like it. Paid $50 dollars for the Case grain binder. It was going to the scrap yard. I started collecting steel-wheeled farm equipment in Nov 2005 and things just started showing up.

First piece I found was this McCormick Drill. Pulled it home Nov 26th 2005 from around Carlyle lake.

 

[jimmyj]

Nobody wants this stuff here in Southern Illinois. If it ain't green, and new paint its just junk to the farmers around here. I get it cheap and I like it. Paid $50 dollars for the Case grain binder. It was going to the scrap yard. I started collecting steel-wheeled farm equipment in Nov 2005 and things just started showing up.

Same thing around here. I wish I had the space to make my own museum. I saw an amazing threshing machine (with original paint, all the belts, store inside) sell for $100 last year.

 

[sjerden]

Here's about the rarest thing I have. Its a Dane Safety Steel Corn Cutter. Its the first invention that mechanized corn harvesting. Two men sat on it and shocked corn as the blades cut it. Before this was the corn knife. I got seats for this recently. The Dane Tractor was John Deere's first tractor.