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Castlegar News

SECTION

ON THE
BLOCK

Slocan collector
auctions off vintage
farm equipment

By CasNews Staff

History was on the auction block just south of Slocan yesterday

Some 250 vintage gas engines and 50 tractors, pieces of farm
equipment, antiques and trucks were put up for sale by Albert Winje,
who has been collecting the items for the last 20 years.

Among the items — a veritable cross-section of Canadian farming
history — was a 1902 Buffalo Pitts steamer, as well as Titan, Avery,
Wallis and Case tractors, 45 well pumps and a single-cylinder, seven-
horsepower Judson gas engine from what may be one of the largest
collections of gas engines ever sold in Canada.

Winje, 77, is selling the machinery because of health problems.

He discounted reports that vandalism of his collection led to the
sale. In a recent letter to the Nelson News, Winje said there was ‘‘never
one trace of vandalism” from the thousands of people who have visited
his display

““However, the spring in the old clock just won’t function the way
it should (and I) feel that I am letting you all down, but there is no way
out, anyway, it was fun while it lasted,”’ he wrote.

A former welder and millwright, Winje, originally from
Minnesota, settled in the Slocan Valley in 1960. His family farmed for
50 years and his interest in farming is reflected not only in his collection
of machinery but also in his stark, skeletal metal sculptures of humans
and animals which populate his property.

Winje started creating the sculptures for his grandchildren who had
never experienced farm life. His first piece, a threshing scene, has been
joined by several other scenes of farm life.

October 24, 1990 Castlegar News ci

Al Winje's collection of vintage gas engines, tractors and other assorted farm equipment
went on sale Tuesday at an auction on his property south of Slocan. Winje (above, in front of
“grain elevator” and with a piece of equipment) has populated his collection with various
# humans and animals which he makes from scrap metal to create scenes of farm
3 thle photos by pbeil