I've had the unfortunate experience of seeing that in person,(the above was in '95 from my kitchen window or the back step) its about the worst thing you'll ever see on a farm. I thought a plane went down, I rushed over to the parking lot of the supermarket behind him and could not believe what I saw. It is still suspected of arson today, never caught them. There is just something awful when watching a machine shed and shop burn up, yet the barn is still standing, but then the wind feeds the fire and heats the barn so hot it spontaneously combusts, then the concrete stave silos, start releasing steam, a whole life time to achieve and its gone in minutes. The worst was there was livestock in the barn, it was so hot you could not get near the barn, I have never been that close to anything so hot, firemen could not do much, except save his house, and that was more or less due to it being upwind. Oh, and this was mid-day on fathers day while the guy was having a meal with his family at a restaurant!
Things were never the same I am sure, but all was not a loss, just a real tall hurdle to deal with, thankfully from what I saw, most of the equipment was outside, large tractors and such but I think one of my favorite old tractors a Case 300 round nose did burn, and he lost the 3pt hitch for the 620 JD which must have been outside too, lost that during clean up. He stayed in it, but the dairy aspect of it was done, town even denied a benefit concert to raise money to help with what the insurance did not cover, I never forgot that about the town officials. I can't imagine what it took for him to avoid bankruptcy, and all the rest, but I sure was glad to keep seeing those tractors keep on rolling and the fields planted, always looked forward to spring because of that.
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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