The Estate Sale You Hadda See--Gizmos, Hygiphilators, and Knuten Valves !

Now you have to know I've kinda been on the wagon, garage and estate sale-wise. It just takes too much of my project time (I'm busy on Gather, painting, doing music stuff and gardening, among other things )  . Add to that, I've had a veer in the road of life in the last year, because I married another packrat. Combining the two household---er--pole barns of "collectable" stuff is a work in progress yet. It may be years before we finish this merger.

But on our way back from the dump Saturday, there was one fine estate sale right here in Wellston. If you've ever been to Wellston, it's not big pickin"s here for treasures, unless you're looking for vintage crap! Things like 8 track tape players, parts for your 4-wheelers, Melmac dishes and Mr. Coffee carafes, t-shirts from the local 1998 Walk-a-thon and other stuff you don't want. But this estate sale was phenomenal. Not that you'd want any of the stuff. It's just that the place was phenomenal.

This guy had a workshop that wouldn't quit. Well, used to---this IS an estate sale--he's gone. Evidently when one room of the workshop filled up, he added on. There were 8 rooms in the "workshop". Each one had a different function, but every one of them had a grinder. It appeared he liked to weld, pipe fit, lathe, woodwork, and just cobble things together. Here's some of the wonderful stuff for sale.

The strange thingey on the top is one of 3 or 4 squirrel feeders, this one with a revolving corn wheel.  How much fun is that?

And then you're looking at the oil change pit, not for sale but so cool!

These are the corn storage and corn preparation areas. What for?  Well below you see the outside entrance to the squirrel cages and the inside cages where the squirrels came to "visit" him in his workshop.  There were at least 6 of these  "outdoor/indoor" cages.

Not only a squirrel guy, he was into turtles too.  This is evidently a turtle holding station.  Nobody knew if he kept Painted Turtles or Snappers.

He must have lived through the Depression because in every room he had baby food and canning jar organizers for his screws, nails, junk stuff.  The one on the left spun and the one on the right twirled. 

He had several uses for tire rims, including this vise stand.  This one was only 35 bucks.

Vintage square dance vinyls!

His rock garden, between the workshop, the turtle station and the house, in the shape of Michigan (lower penninsula). Lots of Petoskey stones imbedded in it too.  Quarters were imbedded in the front cement porch from the year he poured it.  I forgot to look at the date!

We did buy one of those grinders, a sander, an anvil on one of those tire rim stands and a 33 square dance record. No clothes, though, they were all polyester 70's stuff.