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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Steersman, post: 192957, member: 239&quot;]<font face="Verdana"><font size="4">#1&nbsp; for us would be country auctions, preferably at a run-down farm that hasn&#039;t had an auction for generations, if ever.&nbsp; They get scarcer every year.</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4">#2&nbsp; is the local (metals) scrapyard.&nbsp; I am amazed at what people will discard/sell for very little money.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve developed enough of a relationship with the crew so they&#039;ll occasionally save things for me.&nbsp; (The occasional $20 bill and &#039;Here, let me buy you lunch&#039; doesn&#039;t hurt.)&nbsp;&nbsp; On the other hand, it is sad to see fine old cast iron broken when they threw it off the truck.</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4">#3&nbsp; is out in one of the barns and sheds, where we&#039;ve been piling things for so long we&#039;ve forgotten we had them.&nbsp; Picking ourselves, as it were.</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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