The 1955 John Deere combine went across the river with few issues in the summer of 1982, as the farming couple created their own raft out from an old dock and barrels.
March 9, 2023
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March 10, 2023 5:10 a.m.
A tale of ingenuity
“On a beautiful summer day in the early 1980s, a young farm couple was about to float farm equipment across the Coeur d’ Alene river at the Medimont landing. No one had taken anything big across the river there since the ferry had gone out many decades earlier.”