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<blockquote data-quote="alisonb" data-source="post: 1398721" data-attributes="member: 13050"><p>My dad sold his armature winding business in the 70's and bought a farm with a little cash to spare and no knowledge on farming. He would look around sales yards and go to auctions buying equipment that he would recondition...he was extremely handy with his hands. When he was not working he would have a piece of paper and a pen designing some or other thing. He would always show us what he was busy with and ask for our ideas ;-) . His first crop he planted was mealies, it rained well and it was a bumper crop...he was so proud. He had no combine and the mealies had to be hand picked by local workers and then threshed. He picked up an old run down Sunshine thresher and fixed it up. </p><p><a href="https://postimg.org/image/9d0colr2x/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s12.postimg.org/9d0colr2x/20170217_184005_1_1_1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="https://postimg.org/image/qm33c3jm1/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s28.postimg.org/qm33c3jm1/20170217_184036_1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>One of the things he bought was a John Deere combine for the wheat. It was a really old 'bag' type so he converted it and built in a bin so that the wheat could just be dumped in a trailer and taken to the local silos. This was always great fun for my younger brother and I, we would get back from school and dad would take us to the lands with him. There we would ride on the combine, play in the wheat, shoot guinea fowl etc. He was setting the timing of the combine and a spanner slipped and with that his hand got caught in the fanbelt almost ripping off his thumb, it amazingly healed to to almost 100%.</p><p><a href="https://postimg.org/image/rqt3rk2j3/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s11.postimg.org/rqt3rk2j3/20170217_184301_1_1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="https://postimg.org/image/6bxlcsgvn/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s21.postimg.org/6bxlcsgvn/20170206_091013_1_1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>And so through the years his things got bigger and better with experience...he loved fixing things <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alisonb, post: 1398721, member: 13050"] My dad sold his armature winding business in the 70's and bought a farm with a little cash to spare and no knowledge on farming. He would look around sales yards and go to auctions buying equipment that he would recondition...he was extremely handy with his hands. When he was not working he would have a piece of paper and a pen designing some or other thing. He would always show us what he was busy with and ask for our ideas ;-) . His first crop he planted was mealies, it rained well and it was a bumper crop...he was so proud. He had no combine and the mealies had to be hand picked by local workers and then threshed. He picked up an old run down Sunshine thresher and fixed it up. [url=https://postimg.org/image/9d0colr2x/][img]https://s12.postimg.org/9d0colr2x/20170217_184005_1_1_1.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://postimg.org/image/qm33c3jm1/][img]https://s28.postimg.org/qm33c3jm1/20170217_184036_1.jpg[/img][/url] One of the things he bought was a John Deere combine for the wheat. It was a really old 'bag' type so he converted it and built in a bin so that the wheat could just be dumped in a trailer and taken to the local silos. This was always great fun for my younger brother and I, we would get back from school and dad would take us to the lands with him. There we would ride on the combine, play in the wheat, shoot guinea fowl etc. He was setting the timing of the combine and a spanner slipped and with that his hand got caught in the fanbelt almost ripping off his thumb, it amazingly healed to to almost 100%. [url=https://postimg.org/image/rqt3rk2j3/][img]https://s11.postimg.org/rqt3rk2j3/20170217_184301_1_1.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://postimg.org/image/6bxlcsgvn/][img]https://s21.postimg.org/6bxlcsgvn/20170206_091013_1_1.jpg[/img][/url] And so through the years his things got bigger and better with experience...he loved fixing things :D [/QUOTE]
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