Saskatchewan: It All Started With a Cream Separator...Final episode!

This will be my last installment in this series about Joe Lackmanec's farm and the great stuff he has collected over the years. Such a nice man and with a great sense of humor and his own style of display. I'm glad to have been there when he was home and talk to him a bit about his stuff. Talking to him is how I found out that it all started with a cream separator, but I forgot to ask him to point out which item was the cream separator. I looked up cream separators online so at least I know what one looks like and noticed there are more than one. I'm thinking the one in this picture is the one he started with, though, because he mentioned that, after his uncle gave it to him, he cemented it down. This one looks like it is bolted to the cement under it. It is right behind the seat to the honing wheel, the white thing with two brown spouts coming out of the top section.


You can see it in this picture, too, if you look very carefully.



I also wondered if it could be this one, because it is closer to the house. You can barely see it here behind the Pepsi container. I didn't realize what it was when I took the picture. I also didn't realize that the Pepsi container was holding Vodka bottles. The man has a great sense of humor.


I do, however, distinctly remember him saying he took it out in the yard and cemented it down. It doesn't really matter. I just wish I had thought to ask him and also thought to take pictures of that actual cream separator. My few remaining pictures all follow, starting with some other farm equipment and then some miscellaneous stuff.


A nice plow.


I'm not sure what this is, but it must be some kind of tiller.


A couple of the saw blade clocks.





Longhorns and insulators.


He made birdhouses out of lots of things.


I love that he put "prohibited" before "littering".


These tulip flower bed borders were everywhere. I really like them and wouldn't mind finding some of these to use.

Saskatchewan: It All Started With a Cream Separator...Part 5

The farm.

The entrance to the farm.



These tools hang on the overhead part of the entrance where most people would have a sign that said the name of the ranch or farm.









The parking area and what we saw as we got out of the car.



I liked this outbuilding.



The rubber boots on the fence surrounding the pasture and the cattle. These were taken from the yard.















These were taken from the road.

Chris walking down to see me as I took pictures of the fence and the farm from the road.



The cattle again.



This guy was very interested in what I was doing.

Saskatchewan: It All Started With a Cream Separator...Part 4

The Asian couple seemed completely random. The hard hat bird houses in this display were never used, but the ones along the fence were. Maybe they don't like the bright yellow.



The tin can men. He built many of these and they were scattered around in various areas. All of them were painted the same blue or blue and white.







He also had several of these tin can windmills.



Bikes lined the area above the fence and were also included in several of the displays along with trikes and baby buggies and strollers. In this picture there are actually seven bikes and two trikes, although you can only see bits of two of the bikes.

Saskatchewan: It All Started With a Cream Separator...Part 3

The signs.


Painted on a long saw.















Notice the hard hat birdhouses. There were over twenty of these.

Saskatchewan: It All Started With a Cream Separator...Part 2

Here are some more pictures of the Lackmanec farm. If I repeat any, just bear with me. I'm not taking them in order, so there might be a repeat or two from one post to the next.


He put paper in the jars to make them seem full.








I love how it is Vodka bottles in the Pepsi box.