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Silver Lake, Minnesota | I have a small request. Farm toys have never been anything that I was interested in until one of my young neices got hooked on them. She loves to come to the farm and ride on the real machinery and now she likes to do her own custom carpet farming. Recently I have been buying her some 1/32 scale farm toys when I go into town and we're slowly building a small farm operation in the basement. Got any good places to buy farm toys and accessories from?
Do any of you have pictures of your toy farms or set ups that you would like to share? Just looking for ideas because at this point we have some astro-truff on a sheet of plywood with cereal boxes as our "buildings"
Thanks!!!
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Highland Center, in Southeast Iowa | The farming operation here is very mobile, so we don't really have any pix of the set-up........it's very "fluid" and changes with each day's interests. But one thing I would suggest on your set-up: Either add to the sheet of plywood or remove some of the astroturf and swap it out with a cheap high-pile bathroom throw rug of the color of choice. The plush bathroom rugs "farm" much better than anything else, as they allow the equipment to leave tracks and rows. We resurected the old green planter of our boys' from 30+ years ago, and that old bathroom rug has the straightest rows you've ever seen. Tillage implements then smooth it all out so it can be replanted. Or, so does a brother's hand when the competition is on strong! :~) |
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| http://www.outbacktoystore.com/
Check it out...every carpet farmers dream |
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Osakis, MN | What are you looking for specifically? Bet you don't have a land roller! We have a awesome collection of toys that hasn't been played with in a long time. Sports are more fun now!
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Oklahoma | Outback, Bossen Implement, and Action Farm toys are probably the 3 I use. Moores Farm toys also has some accessories but not really for playing with. I collect and build some but nothing too serious in my opinion.
As for stuff a kid can play with, my parents got some astro turf and an old metal chicken carrier with a sliding door to make a barn. They set all that on the front porch on an old table at the kids height for the grandkids to play. They have also made some barns out of scrap metal and plywood, just using imagination.
I built my kids a 1/64 barn out of 1/4 plywood. It has a floor in it and a small area around it for them to drive on but it is kept in the house. I beveled edge where they can drive up on it off the carpet and not unhook everything they are pulling most of the time. Also made a grain elevator out of bolting some PVC pipe together. They have added storage through "christmas presents" of grain bins from the dealers listed above. They pretty much keep the 1/64 stuff inside and bigger stuff goes to their "sandbox" that is just an area of bare dirt. The engineering they can do in that dirt area with a few farm toys and some scrap pvc pipe they find is amazing.
One other thing, in your area, there are lots of toy shows, try to take her to one of those. Should be able to find a listing of shows in the area on either Toy Farmer website or in a Toy Farmer magazine.
Edited by jcs 2/24/2011 16:37
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swmn | mills fleet farm has lots of toys and great prices at least at christmas time. there is a guy by marshall, mn that deals in toys. i bought a ford tw-15 from him. not sure he has 1/32, mihgt be worth a call. 507 829 1984 i think was his #. he has ads on craigslist under swmn (collectibles or toys) good luck and have fun!! |
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Northeast, PA | Agreed this is your best choice. Having been there many times! This is the place to start! |
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mid minnesota | My boys when they were younger collected toys 1/64. They had so many we built a 24 by 24 building for them with indoor outdoor green carpet, then rolls and rolls of different colored duct tape for roads with yellow center lines , blue for water brown for dirt feilds. Had a whole town set up with different dealers and a salvage yard. Now it is the office for the shop. I will see if he has any pics of it and put them here. They bought a lot on ebay |
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NCKs | here are a couple pics of what i have gotten done on rainy days.
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streator illinois | http://www.toytractorshow.com/toyshow.htm |
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Northeast Arkansas | <p>I collect 1/64 toy farm stuff. I love it. I build what ever I need from buildings to shop tools. 1/32 will be tougher and may sometime have more detail. I will never out grow my toy farming hobby. Im a carpet farmer. I really do operate the farm (Watch actual grain markets, keep logs, select what I want to plant, all that). That is as close as I will get to owning a farm! Enjoy!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.toyfarminllc.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=scratch">http://www.toyfarminllc.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=scratch</a></p>
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Bloomfield, KY. | Nice.
You must have a lot of patience!
Jack McClaskey |
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Southern IA | I had a carpet farm when I was younger. One winter while it was snowing outside I thought that I would make it snow on my farm so I took baby powder and made it snow. Needless to say, I spent the next few days vaccuming the powder out of the carpet and off of my farm set. I learned my lesson... |
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Montevideo,Minnesota | Here you go.
Enjoy! |
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Northeast Arkansas | Thats cool. Does it fold up? How did you make it? Looking to get rid of any of the toy is the container? |
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New Ulm, MN | ILLFF? LOL |
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Montevideo,Minnesota | 2+2, MN - 2/24/2011 21:05
ILLFF? LOL
Nope! Minnesota Family Farms. Haha |
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EC MN - Hour North of 'The Cities' | That's what you call the head of that operation!
I'm assuming you have a fire truck on hand during harvest for that outfit (assuming the combine is green)? : )
Very Nice!
Lance |
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Montevideo,Minnesota | 
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ECIL | What scale is the roller and how big a toy tractor does it take to pull it? |
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MN | Hey golden farms, Is that farm by Morris, It kinda looks familiar? |
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Osakis, MN | 1/16th scale homemade using the finest grade iron on the farm. I will never bend or break! To the poster before you, the roller doesn't fold up. The only thing that it folds up is your little toe when you stumble on it in the middle of the night! |
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Montevideo,Minnesota | No, its by Montevideo. |
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Silver Lake, Minnesota | Wow! Ask you shall receive.
Thanks a ton for all the awesome ideas and pics. Some of you guys have really done some fine work! Looking at your sets I think I may want to go down to the smaller toys. We got a pretty good operation rolling today but it took up the whole living room. If I can figure out how to post pictures Ill try to show you what we came up with. Nothing near as sweet as you guys.
IH: Hows your farm been doing last couple years and you got the new crop all locked in yet? I can say you are the most serious carpeter I know.
Golden: Thats a great shot of the Deere salesman and the farmers standing round as he gives the annual "I promise this one wont burn up like that last one did" speech. Thats an amazing farm set up. How many square feet you guys covering?
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Montevideo,Minnesota | Thanks
The main farm is on 8x8 display and on the right on the bins I have 6x8 field attached all together. The farm represents about 15,000 acres corn,soybean,edible beans, wheat, sweet corn and peas farm operation. This farm mostly 2/3 corn operation. |
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