Rusted Things Where Wild Things Grow(pictures)

Cory Schmidt · Jul 17, 2016

Wrote this over a couple days during break at work, enjoy.

Rusted Things Where Wild Things Grow

Along roadsides, fence lines, hedge rows and among wood lots;
machines left to weather and rot.

Replaced, busted, or no longer needed;
dragged to a place never weeded

Once shiny new and trusted
Now sit battered, worthless and rusted

Many decade past
since seen use last

Leaves and a twisted tree
Cling to a machine never to be free

Gears and pulleys long ago froze
Sit in silence where the wilderness grows

JimB2 · Jul 17, 2016

Great photos, is it all old IH McCormick equipment?

JimB

casecollectorsc · Jul 17, 2016

Nice! What a treasure trove of equipment you have. Now, who can name each piece??

Cory Schmidt · Jul 17, 2016

Some is some ain't. I'll let everyone guess a while what is what.

gtractorfan · Jul 17, 2016

The last pictures of the corn picker-- I'd say it's a Wood Brothers.

pat sublett · Jul 17, 2016

That same thing has happened to me.

SweetFeet · Jul 17, 2016

Really cool, Cory! Great pics too.

Thanks for posting it.

gene bender · Jul 17, 2016

The tractor could be restored not impossible would be a fun project just to restore it.

Cory Schmidt · Jul 17, 2016

I think your right on one count just not right one. The one in the woods(gears/pulleys, leaves in corn hopper) is a Woods(I believe). The last (with bird nest on husking roll end) isn't.

Steve@Advance · Jul 17, 2016

Nice!

Makes me wonder sometimes, when I look at an old tractor, car, truck, machine... That at one time that was sitting in a show room, bright, shiny, state of the art technology, highly acclaimed by the sales people and the engineers and technicians that built it...

Bought, brought home, someone's pride and joy!

How did it get to where it is now? If only they could talk!

Cory Schmidt · Jul 17, 2016

There are suppose to be two tractors a deere(right before IH after spreader, didn't load right) and a ih. The ih (its a 650) might be able to get working again(I actually hope to get to it one day), the deere not as quick.

Cory Schmidt · Jul 17, 2016

figured you'd like it Sweetfeet.

WI Dan · Jul 17, 2016

Nicely worded Cory.

Cory Schmidt · Jul 17, 2016

That's exactly what I was thinking over when working the wording through when I had the "Free time" on break.

Cory Schmidt · Jul 17, 2016

Thanks

Cory Schmidt · Jul 17, 2016

There's plenty more yet hiding in the weeds, under trees....ect around here.

Cory Schmidt · Jul 17, 2016

Just don't think of yourself as old and forgotten, think instead of being well used and have more weathering/wear then others.

gtractorfan · Jul 17, 2016

Agree-- the last one is green paint, not a Woods Bros. The second last and fourth last for sure appear to me to be Woods Bros. (that was the first picker my dad bought)

gtractorfan · Jul 17, 2016

Oh yeah, and the spreader appears to me to be a New Idea. I wonder why someone just parks things like that in the weeds, why not sell "as is" if nothing else?

larry@stinescorner · Jul 17, 2016

I will press the Like button!

NCWayne · Jul 18, 2016

Thanks for sharing the poem, and the pics with us. This is one of the best posts I have seen in a long time.

sms · Jul 18, 2016

Until some YT'er
Gets the urge to see'er
And it may be a chore
To be new once more.

Kajun · Jul 18, 2016

Bravo !!!!

Cory Schmidt · Jul 18, 2016

once you find it you can click it as much as possible.

Cory Schmidt · Jul 18, 2016

you are welcome

Cory Schmidt · Jul 18, 2016

yep, New Idea Spreader, any other guesses.

Cory Schmidt · Jul 18, 2016

maybe, just time and money always seem short for some reason

IaLeo · Jul 18, 2016

Thanks for the pictures, Cory! I will guess:
1st pic is of a side delivery hay rake.
2nd pic is of a silo filler.
3rd pic is of a pto driven manure spreader.
6th pic is of the rear of a threshing machine.
8th pic is the front of a threshing machine.
Leonard in Iowa (IaLeo)

Cory Schmidt · Jul 18, 2016

1,3,6,8(FYI, 6and 8 are the same machine) good. 2 close enough, its a pull type field chopper. Want to double down and try to guess the makes?

Cory Schmidt · Jul 19, 2016

Ok if anyone cares makes/pictures are as follows, to best of my knowledge anyway
1.McCormick rake
2.Gehl chopper
3.New Idea Spreader
4.(Suppose to be JD B).... not there, shows possibly as "x"
5. IH 650D
6.McCormick PTO binder(can only really see seat here)
7 and 9.(same) McCormick Threshing machine
8 and 10.(same machine) Woods corn picker
11. JD corn picker.

WI Dan · Jul 19, 2016

Is that all stuff leftover from your family's heritage of farming? (never got rid of it) or - is it stuff you've bought and collected over the years?

Cory Schmidt · Jul 19, 2016

(quoted from post at 21:05:09 07/19/16) Is that all stuff leftover from your family's heritage of farming? (never got rid of it) or - is it stuff you've bought and collected over the years?

More the first, the sheds are full of the "collection" as well as more "heritage" mixed in between.

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