I know the fellow whose stuff this once was. He is in a nursing home now and is never going back home. Wish I could make the auction but glad in some ways I won't be making it. One mans crap is another mans treasure. The weather is absolutely horrible tonight and is not supposed to nice over the weekend. Maybe they will reschedule the auction. I live maybe 30 miles from this stuff. I have to drive a wheel chair van tomorrow and play nurse. So all of you can cherry pick the shop stuff without any interference from me. I would also like to have that lazy-susan parts bin and the baler {I need the PTO drive and slip clutch for one of mine}.
The guy whose stuff this is worked at Kurz &Root for years and years. One of the best "jigs and fixtures" persons I ever met. Like his father his education was limited. But he could fix about anything and was your "ace in the hole" if something broke down. Sorry to go on but I find his auction sad as it is a visible end of an era. I do go see him in the nursing home he is at. Have thought about putting a tractor on the trailer and bring it to him. Let him tell me why it runs the way it does. He would like that. To some you see junk, I see my friends stuff and his life accumulation of stuff that resembles my stuff. Hell I learned from him in a lot of ways.
When I was a young guy with my new farm this gentleman and his father "Gramps" went to all the auctions. You could learn from these guys. Gramps was a "junk" man during the depression and worked for Bachalls, a local scrap yard. Some of the best people I had the pleasure of knowing. Many people is the scrap business are just short of thieves. Gramps had more class than most people regardless of professions. There is a lot of "crap" in the pictures and a lot of it will go into a dumpster. But there are some real treasures I am positive about that. But Crap and Treasures are all in the eyes of the beholder. Sure hope they cancel the auction for weather tomorrow.
If anybody is serious about this lathe and need help let me know. I don't live far from here. But I won't be there tomorrow if anybody is serious about it. Regards, John.
