pickneyville

[haljohnson]

http://www.marchofmachines.net/oldiron/photos/pickneyville/pickneyville.html

 

[beenthere]

Welcome to the forum, and great set of pictures. Appreciate the time you spent linking them for us to see.

 

[buckle97]

Those are some great looking old tractors. Many that I will never get to see in person. Thanks for the link!

Lawrence

 

[Typhoon]

Greetings! Thanks for the pictures. Are you speaking of Pickneyville Illinois? If so, im real close to you. I work in Carbondale and reside in Anna.
-Brad

 

[thcri]

Here is a link to a friend of ours. Auction was this last week-end

Dan Roen

Murph

 

[Junkman]

I just looked at the auction. It is a shame that a man spends his whole life building a collection like that and in the end, it is broken up and sold off to the high bidder. It would have been nice if it could have been donated to a museum that would have restored as much of it as possible and put it on display.
I spent the day at the Woodstock CT annual fair and they had some interesting old machinery on display, but nothing like the machines that were in that auction.....

 

[thcri]

This guy was well known by all collectors and I imagine people came from all over the country to buy stuff. You right, a museum would have been nice. I know each of the kids was allowed to pull one of the tractors out from the auction and keep it. They did that long before the posters went out. A couple of them was valued over a quarter mil.

murph

 

[thcri]

Going through some of the pics on Pickneyville I notice that Case used a lot of green paint on their tractors. Looks lot like John Deere Green? So who actually has the patent on that paint? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

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[Inspector507]

Brad, I was just in Red Bud for 4 days this weekend.......wish I knew you were so close /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[DaveNay]

Heh....my sister lives in Red Bud. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

As they say....small world. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Dave