MIA

I will be MIA again for a while....too many bad evil shots.

The Oliver Chilled Plow Company

Remember the piece of equipment I kept hinting around but not telling? Well, I finally did my research to confirm my suspicion. The piece I found is a wheel and plow assembly section of the Oliver Chilled Plow made in the early 1920's. Unfortunately, there are only pieces of the whole plow and I will never be able to reassemble it to its entirety. So, I am stuck with the wheel and mount that actually look quite good. I am going to put them in my yard as decoration until I can go back and get the other pieces that I do know exist. It doesn't look like much, but I did enough reading and research to know its importance to farming. That was all I needed to make it a chunk of history to be displayed!

Hunting for Glass

Being a farmer, we have many, many old barns and rundown outbuildings that are great for treasure hunting. I am particularly interested in any old glass bottles or jars that have special markings or just look cool. In my recent adventures, I went to a place we call "Joe's Shed" because Joe is Fred's brother, and Fred owned the land. This shed is 90% collapsed and is being held up by an oil barrel with a tire on top. Needless to say, I had to do a lot of crawling around to access the goods. I found the following items of glass during my hunt...I have washed them once, with intentions to continue washing until the dirt particles are gone. I need a pipe brush to get into the little one. I also found a piece of rusty equipment, which I intent to share in the near future. The photos aren't the best, it was hard for me to take the picture AND be able to decipher the imprints that are on them, but you get the idea!