I have to laugh at some auctions. When I started, Iwas a 'hobby' farmer helping a landscaper do some hay on his place with a 'real farmers' equipment. The 'real' farmer talked me into farming a few acres, which led me to buying a farm ten years later. I moved from 'hobby' to 'part-time'. Acreage increased, and I retired from the phone company, so I guess I graduated again to 'full-time'. As I built up a machinery inventory, I often used sales to find a usable piece of junk that would work for a few years, and fixed a lot of it. Most of it came from sales, too. I have seen a lot of smart folks over bid a real junker at sales, and I guess I did my share. It's all part of learning this business. It does make it harder at times for a young farmer trying to get started if the old stuff goes high, but that's sometimes the price. But it also makes you a smarter businessman because you learn when to quit and when to buy a bargain. The difference in price is some of the profit you want to make in the end. And as one becomes a 'real' farmer, he can sit back and chuckle at what he may have looked like 20 or 30 years ago. Nothing has really changed, but wisdom is a learning experiance. I'd say that most 'real' farmers are just really 'wise men'.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of Farm Machinery - by Joe Michaels. I am a mechanical engineer by profession, specializing in powerplant work. I worked as a machinist and engine erector, with time spent overseas. I have always had a love for machinery, and an appreciation for farming and farm machinery. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Not a place one would associate with farms or farm machinery. I credit my parents for instilling a lot of good values, a respect for learning, a knowledge of various skills and a little knowledge of farming in me, amo
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