[upcountry miss]

You’re not going to have time to do all those things this summer. Those are winter chores. Gardening and preserving are full time summer chores. We managed to repair the hydralic hoses on the bucket loader and replace a piston on the Ford diesel tractor this winter but spring is upon us and the walk behind rototiller and the tow behind rototiller, plus the walk behind bush hog are still waiting for repairs. Oh, the joys of having equipment nearly as old as we are!! Just getting parts is a major deal. The pistons for the old Ford had to be ordered from China.

Old baler, 150 gal tank and Stirling engine-guess you have as many TREASURES hanging around as hubby has.

[DelaWhere]

>>>you have as many TREASURES hanging around as hubby has.<<<

Probably... LOL Last year when scrap prices were so high, I had a hard time convincing my wife that they were all too valuable to sell for scrap...

Is it practical to have a 10’ Allis Chalmers ‘F’ model Self Propelled Gleaner combine for just over one acre of wheat? Nope... but I still keep it.

My wife regularly calls me a pack rat.

[CottonBall]

Oh, the joys of having equipment nearly as old as we are!!

There probably is a LOT of truth to that, even though I suspect you meant it sarcastically. I haven't found anything I've bought in the last 5 years to be even close to the quality of things I bought 20 years ago. Everyone is going to be much worse off in the next depression, not only because we've moved away form our agrarian roots, but because nothing is made to last.