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THE ONE THAT DIDN'T GET AWAY

By Bob Kaczmarek

RR 1, Box 92 Kimball, Nebraska 69145

I think collecting old iron is a lot like fishing-it seems the best usually get away. A couple of good examples are the Waterloo Boy tractor that sold on a farm sale a few years ago for $150. It wasn't advertised and nobody went out behind the barn to a weed patch to see an old junk tractor sell. Just last winter a pair of JD "B" front steel wheels sold on a local farm sale for $6. I wasn't there. We all hope to catch a big one someday.

The town of Dix, Nebraska had two old wood elevators built between 1910 and 1920. In the early '40s, when I went with my dad to haul wheat, we hauled to both. One was the co-op, and the other privately owned. In the early '50s the co-op bought the private owned one and in the early '60s, the co-op built a new concrete silo type elevator. The two old elevators were used mostly ...

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