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7| The IFP -H alton H ills | T hursday,O ctober 11,2018 theifp.ca • Truck Accessories • Upholstery • Heavy Equipment Glass •Window Tinting 354 Guelph Street, Georgetown 905-873-1655 Wehandleall insurance work. We handle all insurance work. • your window & door professionals • 11 Mountainview Rd., N. Georgetown, ON L7G 4T3 905.873.0236 www.buy-wise.ca info@buy-wise.ca • awarded readers choice 28 times • Visit our showroomFurnace Air Conditioning Gaslines Boilers Water Heaters Radiant Heating 905-877-3100 proud local dealer of Canadian made products .ca I know I tend to be one of those people who attaches a sentimental value to some things. An item of family histo- ry, a document from gener- ations ago, even farm ma- chinery - and my strongest attachments are the big items. I have an International 574 tractor that my dad and I purchased brand new in 1972. It's in pretty good shape, and it was our "big" tractor until we purchased bigger ones in the years that followed. It has been my No. 1 trac- tor ever since it was new, and all it does now is cut the lawn with a big finishing mower. I'm betting it will likely "outlive" me; I'll like- ly never sell it as long as I'm on the farm. A few years ago, I had a moment of weakness re- garding an old combine. Now this combine, a Model 93 International, has some Halton history. It was purchased new from Dales Farm Machinery in Milton in 1962 by Burlington farm- er Brock Harris. It was quite unique, as it came with two headers (the front attachments): a 10-foot grain header and a two-row corn header. Very few com- bines were equipped with a corn header in the 1960s. Brock Harris eventually traded it to local New Hol- land farm equipment deal- er Bill Penson in 1977, and Dad and I bought it from Penson. In late 1980, we traded our 93 International to Massey dealer Murt Alli- son, acquiring a bigger Massey Ferguson 300 com- bine. Murt sold the 93 to an- other owner, and there it sat until 2012, when I hap- pened to attend the auction sale where that combine had gone 30-plus years be- fore. And letting sentiment and emotion get the better of me, I bid it up to $500 to avoid having some guy haul it away for scrap. I once again became the proud owner of that 93 In- ternational combine. It's a little machine, not one of those huge behe- moths that rumble across the field these days, har- vesting grain, soybeans or corn, and costing the price of a fairly nice house. Nope, we're talking a ti- ny little combine with a 10- foot wide cutter head - not 30-plus feet like today's monsters. Raising sheep, I had the perfect excuse for buying it. I could grow 10 acres of grain to feed them and har- vest it myself when it was ready. And it ran like a well- oiled machine. Earlier this year, The Sidekick and I decided to stop raising sheep, so the combine became redun- dant. We just didn't need it anymore. Sadly, old machinery like that usually ends up in the scrapyard. But as fate would have it, I had a buyer come in, looking at another piece of equipment. He asked about the 93. I told him the story, from 1962 to present. I said it's truly a Halton heritage combine, never leaving Halton. He grew up near Brock Harris's farm, so he was fa- miliar with its origins - and he lives near Lowville, still in Halton. He asked the price, and he bought it. He intends to grow grain for his cattle, and like me, be able to harvest it when he wants - not when the customer operator is avail- able. It's quite compact, so it's also easy to store. I tell ya, finding a buyer for that 93 was like finding a good home for a family pet. I know he's excited about getting it and will tin- ker with it, making it into a project. There aren't many small, old combines around anymore, so saving this one makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. The 93 will be gone next week, and it's a bittersweet moment. But I know it's going to a good home. And who knows? I might just visit it someday. Ted Brown is a free- lance columnist for the IFP. He can be reached at ted- bit@hotmail.com. OK, SO I'M A SENTIMENTAL OLD FOOL OPINION FARM MACHINERY TRULY A HALTON HERITAGE COMBINE, WRITES BROWN TED BROWN Column THE WAY WE WERE This 1908 photo shows Knox Presbyterian Church, still a familiar landmark in Georgetown at 116 Main St. South. A good example of a Gothic Revival style church, featuring two towers, symmetrical façade and lancet windows, it was built in 1887 to replace the first church building on this site, constructed 20 years earlier but deemed too small for the congregation. Knox Presbyterian Church is a listed cultural heritage property. -Submitted by Heritage Halton Hills Esquesing Historical Society