sad and lonely....

Nebraska Kirk · May 14, 2014

I was driving down a country gravel road heading to a job last week and spotted this sorry looking F30 sitting near the road... RIP

jeffcat · May 14, 2014

Could some body rescue it?

CenTex Farmall · May 15, 2014

Soon it will be on C/L for a bazillion dollars.

Patrick HMD · May 15, 2014

A ghost from the past. Maybe even from the dust bowl era. That's how those photos struck me. A person's mind can really start flashing seeing those photos, making you wonder about it's past life.

Best regards
Patrick
'49M

NNP · May 15, 2014

somebody will want it....
Was at the auction with a couple of tractors just like that...maybe even worse.
One JD, a GP I think, I actually considered bidding and using as a lawn ornament. looked cool.
LOL, got an education pretty quick. It bought $1000

FarmallCT · May 15, 2014

That could be a very nice tractor once fixed up.
Would be nice to see if the owner wants to sell it.
Looks like its been there for years.

Dave H (MI) · May 15, 2014

Something like that can be real satisfying to put in the shop and spend a few years putting back together. Always makes for good conversation if you take pictures along the way. I have a Loboy I brought back from the grave. It wasn't that bad but it did have a tree fall on it. I will never get my money back in cash, just satisfaction.

Old-F20 · May 15, 2014

Better snatch it up Kirk...... :wink:

Mark · May 15, 2014

Looks like it is right where it belongs! Makes better scenery and conversation than anything else.

GeneMO · May 15, 2014

Buy it for $300. Then spend $15,000 and several years restoring it and you will have a nice $4,000 tractor.

Gene BTDT

D beatty · May 15, 2014

The guys that I know that restore these old tractor are not in it for the money but for the love of it and the chalenge of bringing it back to life. .

Nebraska Kirk · May 15, 2014

Me too, I have taken some sorry looking examples and fixed them up and gotten them running. I enjoy the challenge, heck, fixing them up is half the fun! Then I take them to various local shows and put them to work. 8)

Tom Fleming · May 16, 2014

Part or restore, it is worth an effort. If I were closer, I would consider offering scrap price for it. Parts for these are close to being on the endangered species list..........

cleddy · May 16, 2014

We have something like that. Its been moved 4-5 times since it was driven home about 50 + years ago with a bad governor. To bad it was not parked in a building then. I guess it was pretty well worn out and was not much of a tractor when it was running. My Dad bought this tractor used for around $300.00 in about 1940 and made payments on it for a few years. Sometimes the repairs & fuel was more than the payments.

It must of paid off because in 1951 they accumilated enough money to buy a new WD Allis with money in hand.
cleddy

ericlb · May 16, 2014

parked at the edge of the field when it quit running, i bet the large tree was the only tree there at the time

Nebraska Kirk · Jan 25, 2015

(quoted from post at 14:28:56 05/15/14) Better snatch it up Kirk...... :wink:

I did try, I was able to locate the owner and ask if he wanted to sell it. The answer was "no, it was my Dad's tractor"

bassmasta76 · Jan 26, 2015

Such a typical response from so many people. It's sad, but I guess they would rather have their memories and a rotting hulk than some $$ in their pocket. I frequent a website called "Cars in Barns" and there are lots of similar stories about cars and how people would rather let them rot.

--b

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