Archival photograph from the Landes family archive, showing precision work at a milling machine

Veteran-Owned Family Farm · West Point, Iowa

Don Landes’
Precision Machine
Collection.

Generations of craftsmanship.
Now making room for the next chapter.

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The Landes Family Archive

LOT BUYOUT
& EQUIPMENT TRADE

Offered as a collection.

Seeking a whole-lot buyout or equipment trade. Individual machine sales are not being offered.

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Aerial view of the family shop and surrounding farmland

Skunk River Valley Farms · West Point, Iowa

The next phase · Advanced manufacturing

Clearing Space for the
Next Era of Operation

Don’s collection is part of our family’s history. We’re now clearing space in the shop and looking for the right buyer or trade partner to take the machinery as a lot.

The goal is to put that space back to work: modernize the shop for precision machining and fabrication, pursue independent contract work, and build the manufacturing side of Skunk River Valley Farms.

A used Milltronics CNC mill is our priority trade interest. We’re open to discussing a whole-lot cash offer or a trade proposal that helps move the shop into its next phase.

Precision machiningFabricationFarm innovation

Collection overview

Precision machinery & equipment.

Selling the collection as a whole-lot buyout or trade to make room for the next phase of development at SRV Farms. All sales and trades are subject to approval by Russell Landes.

Catalog preview: identification, operating condition, accessories, and final lot contents require confirmation. Equipment shown here is not offered for individual purchase.

Let’s talk shop.

For whole-lot offers, equipment trades, contract inquiries, and inspection arrangements. Located near West Point, Iowa.

Russ Landes319.750.1710Call to discuss the collection

Brian Landes515.770.5739OPERATIONS MANAGER

Email SRV FarmsSKUNKRIVERVALLEYFARMS@gmail.comPlease include your company and proposal details

Don Landes alongside a young family member at a milling machine, from the Landes Family Archive — The Landes Family Archive

Donald L. Landes · 1932–2022

A working life. With a lasting impression.

The Legacy of a local legend. Tooling saved alongside the machines. Family photographs of one generation learning beside another. Don’s collection brings those pieces of a working life together.

Before this was a collection, it was Don’s craft. He worked in tool and die at Sheaffer Pen Company, then taught precision machining at Southeastern Community College for 27 years. He retired in 1995, the same year he received the college’s Instruction Emeritus Award.

At home, that same interest filled the family shop. Beginning in the 1970s, Don brought home machinery, tooling, and industrial auction finds. Over the decades, the collection became part of the landscape of family life: the machines, the shop, and the generations growing up around them.

Today, that history gives this collection its character. The farm remains veteran-owned, with Don’s son Russell, a U.S. Navy veteran, carrying the work forward. The collection’s next chapter will help put the shop back to work for the family that inherited it.

Career details: Don’s published remembrance, Daily Democrat, April 2022.

27 yearsTeaching precision machining at SCC

1995Instruction Emeritus Award

Sheaffer Pen Co.Tool-and-die experience

Korean War VeteranU.S. Army

From the family albumRussell, Brian, and the old farmhouse

Russell Landes and his young son Brian waving while working on the old farmhouse — Russell and Brian roofing the old farmhouse. Brian remembers being around four. The Landes Family Archive.

The work has always been a family affair.

A father, a son,
and a place to call home.

Russell and Brian pause to wave from the old farmhouse. Brian remembers being about four when this photograph was taken, helping his dad with the roofing.

It is a small moment in a much longer family story. Don’s shop, Russell’s machining career, and Brian’s plans for the farm all belong to that same thread: learning by working alongside one another, then carrying the work forward.

That connection is what we want to preserve as Skunk River Valley Farms enters its next era of operation.

Don Landes’
Precision Machine
Collection.

Clearing Space for the
Next Era of Operation

Precision machinery & equipment.

Let’s talk shop.

A working life. With a lasting impression.

A father, a son,
and a place to call home.

One collection.
A new beginning.

Experience across generations.

Russell Landes

Brian Landes

Don Landes’Precision MachineCollection.

Clearing Space for theNext Era of Operation

Precision machinery & equipment.

Let’s talk shop.

A working life. With a lasting impression.

A father, a son,and a place to call home.

One collection.A new beginning.

Experience across generations.

Russell Landes

Brian Landes

Don Landes’
Precision Machine
Collection.

Clearing Space for the
Next Era of Operation

A father, a son,
and a place to call home.

One collection.
A new beginning.