why weren't my forefathers farmers...?

[JensenPark]

sitting in my hotel room bored silly so started looking for aviation museums in my new home town in Edmonton...

found this (about a 3 hour drive away)

http://www.lancastermuseum.ca

but check this out from the site:

Numerous Lancasters, including FM159, landed at the former training base at Pearce, Alberta, northeast of Fort Macleod. Many were sold to farmers. A Lanc could be purchased for a few hundred dollars and its parts put to many uses on the farm. To begin with there was lots of oil and hydraulic cylinders that could be adapted to various uses around the farm. The aircraft also provided a seemingly endless supply of wire, metal tubes, and sheet aluminum. Some of the more novel ideas were placing Lancaster tail wheels on threshing machines, using crew door ladders for checking the level in grain bins, placing bomb-bay doors as borders of flower gardens, using propeller spinners as plant pots, and incorporating escape hatches (with windows) into the construction of outhouses.

Brand new Lancasters sold off for a few hundred dollars.

[Perfesser]

Just saw a show on TV about one of them, guy bought it for $513 in the '60s.

[DoubleTap]

"Brand new Lancasters sold off for a few hundred dollars."

Of course, my wife busts my chops over old computers I want to hold onto, so I can imagine the fight over one of these parked on our lawn.

HER - "It's cutting off sun to most of the grass!"

ME - "But Honey, think of it as a very large gazebo!"

HER - "It a useless piece of junk!"

ME - "Untrue.