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Here is a somewhat rare piece. It's a Fairbanks cotton wagon scale, the cotton owner would bring his cotton to the gin for processing, stop the horses with the wagon on the scale platform, weigh, unload the cotton, pull back onto the scale, re-weigh and then he would know how much cotton he had. It would weigh up to 8000lbs. No platform included, just the scale and the weights, they are Priced at $850. For more information or pictures Call or text 6ol954 o47three.

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Very good early piece and a bit more than somewhat rare.

Same unit was used extensively across the Midwest in the very early grain elevators that popped up in every town with rail access. They commonly weighed horse drawn grain carts and later on, the smaller trucks used by the farming industry back in the early days. I'm actually old enough to remember them being used in the local elevators in this area!
I still see some of these yet today in old abandoned grain elevators but they are rapidly disappearing and being torn down as liability structures!
Great piece of early Americana!!

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