used machinery 2025-09-17T15:22:14Z
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Rain lashed against the barn roof like thrown gravel when the disc harrow's final bolt sheared off. That metallic scream echoed through my bones - three days before spring planting, and now this rusted relic lay scattered like dinosaur bones. Mud seeped through my boots as I kicked the twisted frame, tasting iron and panic. Forty acres waiting for seed, and me with nothing but scrap metal and mounting bank loans. My throat tightened with that particular dread farmers know: seasons wait for no on