First restoration project a winner

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March 2002
Nancy Smith 
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He and his folks also took a trip last summer to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, for the Old Threshers Reunion, where they saw different types of machinery from the same time period as the planter -including a very similar planter.

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Parke said he couldn't imagine how long it would take to plant a field of corn with the old Union. 'Someone told me that it would have taken all day to plant what is now easily done in an hour.'

He said researching and restoring his planter was one of the most interesting 4-H projects he had ever done. It earned him blue ribbons at the Iowa County Fair and at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines last year. Also, he won a $300 second place prize in a special competition sponsored by the K i n z e Manufacturing Co. at the county fair. The Kinze contest aims to encourage metal-working, fabricating, welding and ag mechanics skills.

The project also proved to be a bridge builder between Parke and a few members of 'the older generation.'.'Parke formed whole new relationships with older people,' his mother says. 'He went through more changes than that planter did.'

Now, the 15-year-old is working on an Oliver 66 tractor made in 1950. It is owned by another Williamsburg resident. 'We're redoing everything,' Parke said of the Oliver project.

Since the state fair last August, his restored planter has been on display at Kinze Manufacturing, off Exit 216 at Williamsburg, where it no longer has to face the ravages of the weather.

Kinze, owned by Jon Kinzenbaw, manufactures modern corn planters and grain carts. Parke's vintage planter shares space on a showroom balcony alongside some of Kinzenbaw's own antique planters.

'Parke's planter struck a note here because we build planters - that's 90 percent of what we do,' Kinzenbaw noted, 'and Parke's planter really was well done.' FC

Parke Miller, a freshman at Williamsburg (Iowa) High School, can be contacted at 306 W. Oak, Williamsburg, IA 52361; e-mail: mil@avalon.net.



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