A Case Story by Delbert Baursachs

In July 28, 1961 I married my special farm girl Mildred that was waiting for me. My folks just lived across the road from the shop and I lived a couple hundred feet south of the shop. My mother, Mayme was the bookkeeper and parts lady, and she was very good at it. My dad and I were the mechanics and salesmen.

In 1962 sales started getting better, and in 1963-1965 sales took off big time. We sold around 600 pieces of Case equipment in the years that the business was open. I setup a lot of new machinery and helped in parts when it was needed.

When my folks reached retirement age the Case Company wanted them to move the dealer back into Pinckneyville, my folks said they didn’t want to. Therefore in October