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Today was a beautiful sunny 83 degree day in western Missouri..At 9 AM this morning I headed 37 miles NW to eastern Kansas to attend the estate sale of a guy that I knew from tractor pulling...Their was a huge crowd and the prices were decent as this machinery had been used hard.

Here are the prices in order of the pictures.

1992 Case-IH 1680 with 22 ft header ,specialty rotor $23,500

1989 Case-IH 1680 with 20 ft header $15,000

1480 IH with 20 ft header for parts-not running $2150

L-2 Gleaner with 15 ft header $3400

L-2 Gleaner with 6 row corn head $3800

1370 Case $3100

8630 JD with blade $15,500

7080 AC $3800

7060 AC $3750

7060 AC-reverse out-side shields were there $2600

D-7 Cat-not running,engine fire 90% undercarriage $12,000

D-8 Cat-clutch out-motor stuck $4500 for scrap

Heres the big lake those 2 Cats dug years ago

White Freightliner and end dump-$7100

Crackerbox GMC for scrap $1650

Old IH Loadstar-not running with rotten wheat in bed $1300

320 Gleaner flex head $1300

4020 JD-new clutch and paint $9750

JD 630 30 ft disk $7700

In 37 miles this was the only corn planter that had been running..We had 4-7" of rain a week ago...Got home and found my renter working my brothers ground..Already has 200 acres in the ground and running hard..

Heres the online sale bill if you want to see it..This was a large sale and was still going at 5 pm...The son kept some tractors and machinery and is still farming...
Sale Bill

I saw the sale bill and mentioned to wife that those boys must have covered some ground what with 5 good sized combines on the sale bill.

I looked. Wow, he has enough guns to start his own army!!

Where does the term "crackerbox" GMC come from? Thanks, Ralph.

The small cab GMC's in the 1960's were referred to as crackerbox Jimmys by all the truckers..I guess it was because the cab was so small..I can remember several being in my area...

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Here are some more sale prices from yesterday...

30 FT Case-IH field cultivator $9,300

15 FT 750 JD 15 ft drill-very ordinary $11,000

30 FT Sunflower Drill $1500

30 FT Krause 5400 drill $2750

IH 900 8 row planter $750

JD 535 baler $5200

1999 Ford F-150 XLT 4x4-slick $6000

60 JD tractor $1850

2N Ford-rough $500

4000 Ford with loader-motor stuck $1000

Nice MT John Deere $1000 no sale
Crackerbox GMC

My brother (former AC dealer mechanic) has worked on
those L2 Gleaners several times over the years..He said that
Darrel didnt farm as many acres as most people thought
that he did..He just had lots of machinery..He once had a
7000 and 7030 AC tractors as pieces of them were still
there..

Most of the AC stuff on the sale came from Balk Tractor at
Nevada,MO...They were once the 5th largest AC dealer in
the US..I bought a new 200,7040,7060 AC tractors plus a
F3 Gleaner from them..They sold over 100 new 190 XT
AC's..There was orange and silver everywhere..A neighbor I
used to help some bought at least 7 new tractors
180,190XT,200,7000,6060,7040,and a 7060 plus 6 new
Gleaner combines E,F,K,M,L2,and L3..

Local (now defunct) feedmill had 2 crackerboxes, one a tandem with a bed similar to that, the other a tractor that they pulled a 28' dump trailer with. Brought back memories of my grandfather loading extra ear corn out of the cribs into those trucks.

Local (now defunct) feedmill had 2 crackerboxes, one a tandem with a bed similar to that, the other a tractor that they pulled a 28' dump trailer with. Brought back memories of my grandfather loading extra ear corn out of the cribs into those trucks.

THe first semi i ever road in was a crackerbox hauling wheat to the elevator in the days before hopper bottom trailors. Little did i know then i would become a truck driver for a living. lolI wish the farme i worked for then was still alive so he could see me now.Guys who drove them told me of wearing all there clothes inside in the winter and driving with one hand on the steering wheel and one with a ice scraper trying to keep the windshield clear. lol