Posted by RBoots on September 02, 2016 at 12:58:28 from (173.241.113.102):
I was cutting wood this morning and decided to stop by an elderly friend's place on the way home. He has collected stuff over the years of every sort. He lives like an old mountain man, and is a tough old bird for being around 90. He lives by himself, cuts his own wood, doesn't want any help. We almost lost him last year when he fell down the stairs carrying in wood and broke 8 ribs. His son found him a week later laying on the couch with no heat since he couldn't get up to put wood in the stove. His son forcibly loaded him up and took him to the hospital. That gave him a severe case of pneumonia that lasted 3-4 months. He's doing much better now though. Every time I go over there, I just like to walk around with him and look at all of the stuff he has. Every time I'm there, I always find something new. Yes, it looks like a junkyard and most of the stuff will never move again, but I like to look anyway. He has tons of everything, boats, guns, planes, tractors, old farm equipment, motorcycles, chainsaws. I was looking through his old airplane hanger where he has a bunch of old planes. One is a Great Lakes bi-plane, there were 2 Cessnas, a 150 and a 152, a big cloth covered Stinson (sp?), and I'm not sure what the other 3 were, maybe Cessnas. The one had real short wide wings and a small fuselage, he said the name of it, but I can't recall what it was. There is probably 6 or more airframe and fuselage around behind the barn, looked like more Cessnas, all aluminum skinned. He said they would all just cost too much to get flying again, so they'll just set there until he's gone and it all becomes his son's stuff. He was a machinist for the same company for something like 43 years, and lives like a homeless fellow, but always pays cash no matter the price of what he's buying. Just bought a 7140 Case IH a couple months ago, as he still dabbles in farming his 80 acres. A good ol boy that are getting farther and fewer everyday. I absolutely love planes, but don't have and won't ever have the money to have one, but I know some of you guys also like and have planes as well, so I thought I'd share.
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