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Writing up my auction bill
Since the Mrs. and I have moved to an assisted living center we are going to have an auction on Sept second to dispose of my Compact tractor and related equipment, mostly all green. All my furniture shop equipment, mechanic tools etc, etc will have to go too. We sold an acreage off the farm and have to give possession by October first so all this has to happen in a short time.
Having had a compact tractor since the 4000 series Deere came out in the 90's sometime gave me a lot of good relaxing hours in the seat. The 4310 is my third green compact, it has about 800 hrs., I don't remember how many hours were on prior two, but all enjoyable.
Thanks for being my friends all these years, I'll still be around, but it is time for a new crop of tractor pointers to take the steering wheels so to speak.
Frank.
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I spent most of Tuesday at the farm, not really helping but helping the auction folks identify some of my more uncommon tools. We are having the same auction firm do the farm and tool auction as did our house hold goods sale. They handled things in a very professional way so I'm sure they will do fine for the farm things too. Some of my tools were a first time thing for them even tho they been around for thirty some years. They belong to an auctioneers association that gets the word out to people who may have an interest in some of the things we have.
One of you mentioned taking the load off the kids sometime down the road, this is one of our goals. Another goal was us having the choice of where we spend our sunset years instead of being told where we will spend them.
There aren't any retired farmers here in our group, mostly retired factory workers, and construction people, but it is interesting learning how others handled their life's work too.
Frank.
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Thanks for all the good words form everyone. Our sale of the tools and acreage equipment went very well bringing top dollar and then some. We had a perfect weather day, it had been really hot and miserable until the day of the auction when it was in the seventies with a nice breeze, so a huge crowd came. Some of the more specialized furniture equipment didn't bring half what it cost new, but we had 98% trouble free service from it for thirty years or more for some items, so they didn't owe me a lot, and will serve the new owner for a long time. Being our neighborhood is a pretty strong John Deere area anything green including my Deere hand tools sold really well.
We have everything pretty well settled now except for our second home that has had lots of lookers but no serious buyers yet, I guess we had enough things that went right that there is bound to be one thing that doesn't sell so quickly.
I still check in about every day just to see what is going on and maybe keep up on some of the latest news.
Frank.
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Thanks Harvey;
I hope to be around a while yet, I think staying busy is one of the keys to a long life. I really doubt I'll equal my Dad, he lived to 95 and was still helping at the shop growing a garden and mowing his own lawn till he was a bit past 90. I thought we would run out of things to do but since June first when we moved here there is something to do almost every day.
Frank.
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