Customized Combine Helps Dad Keep Farming

By Greg Peterson

Everywhere I go, traveling through the U.S. and Canada covering the used farm equipment market, I run into amazing people and amazing stories. Hard working, creative folks who often times find a better way of doing something and quite often do special things for their friends, neighbors or customers.

Guys like Joe Swindell of Swindell Farm Equipment (http://www.swindellfarmequipment.com) in Wilkinson, IN. This past January we filmed an equipment auction at Swindell’s for our Machinery Pete TV show. More than a few folks local came up to me to share personal stories about Joe. One such fellow from New Castle, IN was Larry Smith. Larry relayed the story of how Joe Swindell custom built a ladder for their John Deere 9500 combine to help Larry’s father continue to farm and help him get into and out of the combine more easily. See Joe’s amazing handiwork in the pic above. Here are a couple more pics: