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IMO, the backhoe may actually belong to the farmer who leases the land and may have nothing to do with DM or Millardair. A farmer would use a backhoe to open up drainage ditches etc and that would explain why it's recently been moved. Even though the farm has been searched, wouldn't necessarily mean that the land can't continue to be farmed. MOOInteresting the backhoe has returned (or been moved) .... if it had been on the farm all along it should have shown up in the overhead helicopter videos
Maybe DM owns the machine and it was returned after engine repair .... or a contractor returned to finish the job after the engine was repaired , that is presuming the contractor was was paid in advance , or still has a contract to fulfill .
Who knows .... could be any number of things .... I wonder the farm was (is) in M-Holdings name , or DM's name .... maybe they will go ahead and clean up the property regardless of the fate of DM
DM had planned to tear down the old barn and those large backhoes are often used for that as well as for digging dirt.
Thanks for the picture hopingforjustice
It looks to me like the same backhoe that was in the swamp ... at least the John Deere sticker and numbers on the boom are looking similar ... see below
IMO, the backhoe may actually belong to the farmer who leases the land and may have nothing to do with DM or Millardair. A farmer would use a backhoe to open up drainage ditches etc and that would explain why it's recently been moved. Even though the farm has been searched, wouldn't necessarily mean that the land can't continue to be farmed. MOO
Good point ..... I also re-thought my comment about the backhoe being repaired in a short time this spring ..... the picture of the backhoe in the snow could have been from last fall
If you go back to the original picture, the reporter who posted it from the neighbour stated that the farm was being excavated in the winter and the photos were taken in March, I believe. (can't check the photo comments from here, but here is his twitter)
https://twitter.com/trevorjdunn
JMO
All along I have been curious about the large blue tent-tarp in the bushes in the "picnic area" ..... for a while I considered it covered a big pile of dirt because of the shape of it ...
Could also be too many trees were in the way for LE to set up a normal rectangular tent.
Now I wonder if it was covering the backhoe ????
'kinda doubt it because it would mean the engine had been repaired and all the parts reassembled in the short time from aprox April (snow) to May 6th
Whatever the case , maybe the contractor has brought it close to the highway to move it home ... lots of possibilities I suppose
Take a look at the blue tarp below .... almost shaped like it could have been draped over the backhoe.
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Interesting the backhoe has returned (or been moved) .... if it had been on the farm all along it should have shown up in the overhead helicopter videos
Maybe DM owns the machine and it was returned after engine repair .... or a contractor returned to finish the job after the engine was repaired , that is presuming the contractor was was paid in advance , or still has a contract to fulfill .
Just another observation on the farm regarding this..
I looked at both "driveways" as I drove past tonight and neither appear to have been recently disturbed by what would have to be a truck and trailer to deliver it if it has been removed, nor tracks from the unit itself if unloaded at the road. My opinion would be that it has never left the farm.
IMO, the backhoe may actually belong to the farmer who leases the land and may have nothing to do with DM or Millardair. A farmer would use a backhoe to open up drainage ditches etc and that would explain why it's recently been moved. Even though the farm has been searched, wouldn't necessarily mean that the land can't continue to be farmed. MOO
Curious to know, a little off topic, I was just by the farm recently, there is no longer any sign of flowers etc for Tim?
As I have stated many times, I drive that road twice a day--every work day and today I spotted something that was not there on Friday....????
I took this photo on my cell phone at 1:30 pm this afternoon
John Deere Excavator directly behind the barn
It appears to me that the Excavator was probably moved lately for a photo shoot...it's now for sale on kijiji
Search for "1997 John Deere 690 ELC excavator"
Thanks Swedie
If you go to that posting and look at "other items for sale" you will see that he also just listed a 1957 Willie Jeep. The pics for it are obviously taken at the hangar. (one shows a plane in background)
So this would mean to me that LE has released the farm and potentially the hangar (if pics were taken recently) ? There were obviously people from DM side on both properties and will have to allow potential buyers on as well.
I realize his defense will be costly but all this selling seems extreme. Will the farm and hangar be next? Who will get this money? What is to stop DM from reverting that money to his mother or anyone else? (could come into play should Ontario have similar rules as Sask as Swedie posted)
Are there rules in place to protect the Bosma family if he should be convicted? (ie: his value at the time of the crime as apposed to his value at the time of conviction)
I find this very questionable.. but JMO
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