{"id":21327,"date":"2022-06-19T22:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T02:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21327"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:39:50","slug":"grimsby-sale-for-keith-and-mary-seabrook-of-beamsville-ontario-june-18-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21327","title":{"rendered":"GRIMSBY SALE for keith and mary Seabrook of Beamsville, ontario, june 18, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 600    KEITH AND MARY SEABROOK AUCTION JUNE 18, 2022\u2026.NOT AN EASY THING TO DO<\/p>\n

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Keith and Mary Seabrook shared a good life on their small retirement farm.  Many good years.<\/div>\n
I could tell.  This was a tough day for them.  It is very hard to watch your possessions put on the auction block \u2026. very hard indeed.<\/div>\n
No room for the picture of their old dog Willy\u2026and their cat Trixy.  Photos of these two pets<\/div>\n
said much about Keith and Mary.  But this day was no time for afterthoughts so Willy and Trixy<\/div>\n
were part of the auction\u2026pictures of them.<\/div>\n

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Keith is a super mechanic.  Every machine lined up in the field was impeccable and I had<\/div>\n
the authority given to me by our son Andrew\u2026the authority to be a big bidder. <\/div>\n
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Here is Ken Seabrook helping Andrew Skeoch load the 1946 Case tractor.  the machine<\/div>\n
is more than 75 years old but purring like Trixy once did.  Ken seems to be pushing<\/div>\n
the Case …<\/div>\n

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photo of Keith\u2019s son in law Joe Lortie who helped with the auction\u2026family settled here from France way back in 1679\u2026., Andrew Skeoch in centre<\/div>\n
and Keith Seabrook on right.<\/div>\n
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Two auctioneers\u2026.Jim McCartney on the truck, seated\u2026Bob Severn, checking inventory, standing<\/div>\n

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Strangest machine in the sale\u2026.<\/div>\n

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Rare machine\u2026.Gould Shapley and Muir fanning mill with bagging mechanism\u2026perfect condition<\/div>\n
\u201cI bought this mill from a neighbour years  ago\u2026bought it because I once turned that crank when I was young.<\/div>\n

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Marjorie spent most of her time at the housewares\u2026.it was Marjorie that bought the pictures of <\/div>\n
willy and Trixiy\u2026we told Keith and Mary they could<\/div>\n
get the pictures back if they wanted them.<\/div>\n

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Buggy sold for $1,000 \u2026  grindstone sold for $95<\/div>\n

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Auction featured a young lad displaying items up for bid\u2026he took the business seriously<\/div>\n

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Ken is seated on this strange little tractor\u2026pulls a one furrow plow..sold for $1800 I seem to remember.  <\/div>\n

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Ken demonstrated each machine<\/div>\n

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Two Fergson tractors, circa 1948 (circa)\u2026.both running smoothly\u2026quite a history to these tractors\u2026Ferguson name will lead you to the story..<\/div>\n

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the old Case tractor sold to\u2026Guess who?<\/div>\n

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Buying a tractor i easy if you have the nerve and the money.   Bun moimg a tractor to Wellington Couty is difficult<\/div>\n

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\u2018DAD, This tractor operates without a clutch\u2026and look at the radiator cap, a work of art.”<\/div>\n

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What did we buy?  Guess.<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 600    KEITH AND MARY SEABROOK AUCTION JUNE 18, 2022\u2026.NOT AN EASY THING TO DO alan skeoch Keith and Mary Seabrook shared a good life on their small retirement farm.  Many good years. I could tell.  This was a tough day for them.  It is very hard to watch your possessions put on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}