Farm Collector

One Man’s Junk…

Kelly and Kelly Nielsen have more in common than a first name. High school sweethearts married 38 years, they also share a love of the land, residing on a farm south of the town of Bayard in central Iowa. For Christmas 2015, Mrs. Nielsen presented her husband with a gift that wouldn’t fit under the tree: a 1966 Farmall 1206 tractor.

“We rented a pasture from a neighbor and he had the tractor sitting in the grove for four or five years. I’d look at it every time I’d check the cows. When a tree fell on it and it just sat like that, it made me sick,” Mr. Nielsen explained. “I

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