Henry-Built Trailer Just Won’t Quit

Henry-Built Trailer Just Won’t Quit GRAIN HANDLING Wagons 63E As a writer for FARM SHOW I hear great stories from readers and inventors I write about When I called Dallas Henry about doing an update on his bale loading school bus see story above he told me a good one about a long-lost friend Henry loads bales out of S Dak fields when he isn’t auctioneering He pulls in with his modified school bus and loads semi-trailers or collects them at field edges for later loading Last summer he was hired by a rancher in the western part of the state However he pulled into the wrong farm “As I drove in I saw a semi-trailer in the yard ” Henry told me This wasn’t just any trailer It was a 5th wheel side dump grain trailer that Henry himself had built back in 1983 Vol 21 No 4 “I built it when I was 21 because I couldn’t afford to buy one ” recalled Henry “I spent about $4 000 building it and sold it 20 years later for the same amount ” Henry had long since lost track of the trailer and here it was again 38 years later “It was still in good shape and still being used ” says Henry Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Dallas Henry 705 4th St SE Highmore S Dak 57345 ph 605-852-2209; dallashenrysells@yahoo com; www henrysales com

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