Photos: Salvaged farm equipment seen for new use
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Farm equipment was found when excavating the site where a Dollar General store is to be built in East Berne. Harold Hahn, of the Altamont Fair’s Antique Farm Machinery Museum, believes that this was used to rake the hay after it had been cut. Roger Chrysler and Tom O’Malley, members of the Switzkill Farm Board’s task force hope to bring the equipment to Switzkill Farm in Berne to be part of a new farming museum there.
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
What is believed to be a chopper for corn or grain remains, rusted and unused, in a field in East Berne where a Dollar General store is to be built. Harold Hahn, of the Altamont Fair’s Antique Farm Machinery Museum, said that it appears the farm equipment found at the site is over 100 years old.
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
What appears to be a pipe and a tailgate from a Dodge truck sit on top of what Harold Hahn, of the Altamont Fair’s Antique Farm Machinery Museum, believes to be a cultivator. The discarded remnants were found while excavating a field in East Berne and may one day be displayed at Berne’s Switzkill Farm, in an as-yet-to be-established farm museum there.