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[1206SWMO]

Yesterday I attended the Covey Trust farm auction held NW of Moran,KS..The 1968 Miss America Debra Barnes was from Moran and her Dad was the John Deere dealer there..The wind was blowing a gale when I left home and it got worse when I got west of Ft Scott,KS..It had to be over 50 mph at times and it was hard to hold the Ford Ranger on the road...It rained a little just as I got to the sale...The wind continued blowing all day long from 25 to over 40 miles per hour at times...A gust almost blew the auctioneer down when he was selling from the top of a trailer..We were supposed to get severe weather in the evening but it never happened..We did get .65 of rain early this morning..On Thursday afternoon with a 20% chance we got 1 inch of much needed rain...Just south of me a 30 mile long strip got 2-3 of rain with hail....The hail was so deep 15 miles southeast of me that snow plows had to get it off Hwy 97...It was 8-10 deep along with a 3 inch rain in 1 hour...It tore up some Amish green houses.

This was a huge sale with 4 large trailer loads of stuff and lots of stuff on the ground...There were so many wrenches, sockets-etc that it took 2 hours to sell one trailer...They should have ran 2 rings..The sale finally got over at site one around 5 PM and we went 3 miles northeast to site 2 which got done at 6 PM.

I'm west of Ft Scott,KS on Hwy 54 heading to NW of Moran,KS for the sale...They've been working on the 2 lane RR overpass just east of Moran for nearly one year now which is ridiculous...I know the short way thru the country around it...A much larger 4 lane RR overpass was rebuilt in my town in less than 7 months..It just got finished 2 weeks ago.

The 1981 JD 4440 sold for $24,000...It needed tires and had lots of hours...It was on its 2nd tach..Engine was rebuilt at 8000 hours..The drawbar hole was badly worn.

The 1975 White 2-105 sold for $7,200..It had 5161 hours on a rebuilt engine.

The 1972 AC 180 gas sold for $4,250...It had 7981 hours..

The WD-45 Allis gas torn down sold for $450.

The WD allis at site 2 sold for $425.

The 4620 JD at site 2 sold for $4,400..It hadn't ran in 12-15 years..It showed 7239 hours..
I would have loved to had the 20.8x38 duals behind it as they were perfect for tractor pulling
but they went with the tractor.

Stuck Allis C with cultivator sold for $425.

2007 Chevy 2500 HD 4x4 with like new tires and 2 year old Chandler bale bed sold for $7,100..
It had 322,000 miles and even though it drives it will soon need the tranny replaced..

The 1977 Chevy Bonanza with 400 V-8,automatic sold for $2,100.

I'll be back in awhile with 10 more pics..

 

[1206SWMO]

Like new JD MX10 brush hog sold for $6,000.

Like new JD 346 baler sold for $6,600.

The NH grinder mixer sold for $3,500.
The Honda ATV sold for $2,300.

The always shedded Allis 72 combine sold for $900..The buyer said someone in his family had bought it new..

Closest 4 Botton AC 3 pt plow sold for $200
The middle 3x16 semi mounted AC plow sold for $650.
The last semi mounted 6x16 AC plow sold for $600.
All were in good condition.

Krause 1904 21 ft disk sold for $450 which was cheap.

Nice Oliver 5x16 plow sold for $400..It showed little wear.

The 8 ft fast hitch IH disk sold for $475..I was runner-up bidder...Its the first fast hitch disk I've seen sell in 40 years.I wanted it but can live without it.The FH blade beside it sold for $25..

The 7 by 20 Hillsboro cattle trailer sold for $2,250.

The Gleaner 6x30 corn head sold for scrap for $150...There had once been an L2 Gleaner combine on the farm but the owner hadn't crop farmed in awhile.


No picture but a brand new Tarter cattle chute sold for $3700.

I'll be back with 10 more pictures..

 

[1206SWMO]

(7) AC pull type parts combines sold at site 2 for $325 each for scrap..I dont see how that works.

The Bayard,KS one room school fairly close to the 2nd site of the sale..This picture was taken on April 1st.

Nice one room school north of Bronson,KS that I went by on the way home from the sale..This picture is from 2018..

Strange house or school NW of Moran,KS taken in 2018...Its gone now?

The Victory District 111 one room school NW of Uniontown,KS on old hwy 54. ..The owners wife had a short walk from the farm yard to the school..He went to the next school to the north..I took this pic in 2018.

Today at 4:30 PM the Arvonia,Kansas community is celebrating the 150th anniversary of their school which was in operation from 1872 to 1949...It was once 2 stories tall.I took this picture April 1st....Its a Welsh community that once had 150 residents in the 1880's but the RR never made it there so it faded away..Its located north of Lebo in Osage County.

This is the huge Portland cement plant at Mildred,KS which was in operation off and on from 1909 to 1930...Site 2 at the sale is just a couple of miles SW of Mildred..In 1912 375 people worked there and the town had over 1000 residents...Today it has less than 40 people.

In 2009 I took lots of pictures of the old cement plant..You can no longer get in there..Heres some large silos...After the plant closed I can remember it being used as a grain elevator in the 1970's.

Theres several acres of ruins there at the edge of Mildred...It was dynamited but some of it is still standing.

Be back with some more pictures..

 

[OregonAaron]

I would have put cash down on that stock trailer. As far as prices go on stock trailers go around here, that's a deal!

 

[RedMF40]

Thanks for the report, that Victory one room school is the smallest I've ever seen. Gerrit

 

[1206SWMO]

One more picture of the old Portland cement plant in Mildred,KS...

1911 post card of Mildred..Theres still a store open there.

Looking north down Main Street in the famous Kansas ghost town of Neosho Falls .....Its hard to believe that at one time it had 1200 residents and 3 blocks of business buildings..The record July 13,1951 flood ruined this town...The water got as deep as 16 ft on Main Street...It had rained 9-10 inches in June of 1951..Then from July 9-12th,1951 lots of eastern Kansas got 16-19 inches of rain...After the flood most business owners just left...For many years after the buildings stood there with the flood damaged inventory until they all finally fell down..The last ones went down around 2010.

An old postcard in the early days of Neosho Falls.

The old Neosho Falls HS still stands...While taking pictures there in 2006 several old ladies told me that water almost got in the 2nd floor where they escaped to on July 13,1951.

A 1951 post card of the flood.

The old Community building and town hall in Neosho Falls.

The last 2 business buildings standing in 2006.

The Neosho River that set a record crest of 16.3 ft over flood stage on July 13,1951...Its been tamed with dams upstream.

Another old PC from Neosho Falls..


In 1879 President Rutherford B Hays spoke to an estimated crowd of 30-40,000 at Riverside Park in Neosho Falls..In 1879 it had 1200 residents and today its around 140 residents.

 

[tomstractorsandtoys]

Thanks for posting sale results and the other pics as well. Tom

 

[coonie minnie]

Thanks for posting. It's good I don't live in your neighborhood!

 

[shaun wallace]

I learned the hard way at Moran last year. If had went rite from the West instead of left would have saved bunch of time and a few miles. The bridge in town needed something done to it for years. Like the side trip pic you post. Been thru some of them but no pic.

 

[IAfarmguy]

Thanks again for recording and capturing the history of your area of Missouri and Kansas. I always enjoy your historical and auction photos.

 

[larry@stinescorner]

x2!!

 

[Robert (ID)]

Thanks again for posting these.... i wish i could find a deal like that 4620 or the white 105 around here close to me...

 

[Ray]

Thanks for posting. Good to see stuff sell in different parts of the country.

 

[Brown Dirt Cowboy]

Blaine, starting to be some fast hitch equipment showing up at auction over here on the South East Coast of Mo.

 

[KSmark]

Thanks for posting,my 87 year old mom likes the school house pictures.

 

[55 50 Ron]

Another thank you to you which is well deserved. I just put away my Kansas map after finishing my latest geography lesson!

 

[Traditional Farmer]

You should put a big picture book of the school houses together would be a big seller in your general area.

 

[formerly ny bill]

thanks for the reports, Blaine. I always enjoy taking tours with you, even to sad places like Neosho Falls.

 

[GermantownGreen]

Hey there, we got the wind up here at Montrose too, but we finally got .4 last night, this morning.
I need to put in an order for you to be an order buyer for me. That trailer was a buy, but that disc was a steal!
Thanks for sharing your pictures
I have been through some of that area delivering Millwork.
Didn't know what that plant was instead of a grain elevator.
Thanks for the history. GG, Wes