cleaning up alittle

Scrap yard upped the offer, so my uncle decided it was time to clean up a few combines. Hauled 6 300s today, hope to haul as many or more tomorrow. Only thing we have to take off are the drive tires. Planning on scrapping 300s, 410s, 510s and some of the gutted 540s, keep the more complete 540s, 550s, 750s and 850s. Little sad, I'm going to miss them

Tommy

I cannot tell a lie, that makes me a little sad, but it looks like you got the good out of most of em. I've got a 42R hulk that is going to the slow boat to China soon myself, but everything that is good on it is/will be removed first.

Al

sikinin SIN , 300 parts are gettin hard to find , you are braver than me to post the actual KILLIN!,,. WISHT you woulda gave us all a 2 month notice for parts,,. but maybe you wanted 5 times scrap price ,,, my apologies for my DISDAIN,,. just piztaboutgood American steel ggoin to the land of almost rite ,, getting burnt up and sent back to walmart as junk to sell to stupid yuppiph ux

I think it's funny all the negative feed back people get for scraping a piece of equipment that is well past it's prime and to far gone to justify repairing. And no need to keep a parts machine around thst no body calls for parts any more and when they do you give them a price then they cry like you are robing them. Last time I looked we are free to do what we want to do with our personal belongings. I would hate to think of all the retired combines and farm equipment I have hauled to the crusher. I wonder if the people bad mouthing only buy plastic. That new shiny truck tractor or any thing metal has a lot of recycled iron in it.

Sound's like you're keeping some of the better 1's. I'm fine with cleaning up a farmstead. If it the combines were pristine and always kept inside it would be a shame but when machinery has sat out in the elements and gotten rusty it takes too much time and money to repair them. I've done both fixed 'em and scrapped 'em.

Definitely said to see them go but it was probably time.

J hikemper, your more than welcome to come and gather whatever your heart desires. Still 30 or so 300s for you to pick parts off of but not much remains. I have some NOS grain tank extensions, the nicest 13' with pickup reel I know of. I like to think that the parts were reasonablely priced and im happy to help anyone willing to drive out. Chris95 stopped by for some goodies. sent J Bruns an e-mail, but never heard back. Saving Reel parts (Hume, profitter, luv, u-2) wobble boxes, even found a pair of vice grips

Tommy

Definitely reasonably priced I appreciate all the help and I will
probably need more parts sometime in the future.

What part of the country are you in? There comes a time when
a guy has to clean the place up some...How many combines
did you guys have? There must have been a good Massey
dealer in the area..

thanx for the invite ,, please accept my apologies for exhibiting my disdain ,I may have got alittle over the top .../,like some of the fellas said , when its time to clean up ,, its time to clean up ,,,I could use a strait rear hood ,, a chopper ,,and of course 2 perkins 4 cyl motor to replace my worn out slant 6s ,,.btw ,,, where are you,,, do you have any 3 row heads ?

I think somewhere aroud 65 combines. Located between the Lake of the Ozarks and Jefferson City, in K-31Fescue country. Massey combines work in fescue; they unload, they are cheap, and they were plentiful. Uncle is in the fescue business and he started gathering combines for parts for himself and neighbors. Fecue got bigger and he got more and more. In the mid/late 80s he ran 7 300s, buying and selling he ended up with 4 540s, added a 850 and a 550 and another 850. Sold the 540s and 550, picked up 2 more 850s (currently run 4 850s strictly in fescue)

I don't think many machines were sold new in this area. I know the 300s came from all over the state. The 540 I ran growing up was a rice machine from Memphis Tn (only had 1300hr when it was sold.) The 850s came from Texas(1500hr), west Kansas(1200hr), Illinois and a local machine. Few years back he purchased nearly bought out a dealer in Illinois, 17 combines and a big pile of headers.

Chris has dibs on the last of the chopper stuff, wasn't much (they were taken off first when combines show up or missing before they arrive)
I have a 4 cyl perkins in the shed, it was ran with the head gasket out and has eroded between the cylinders, (injection pump/starter are about all that is good.
Only had 1 corn head and it was a 4 row, fired department "trained" on it many years ago with the jaws of life.
I can check but the rear of the combines always seem to be busted up, choppers out of balance, run ins with obsticals, gental pushing to get them in the final resting places.

1206SWMO, your Rantoul pics are great. I check everyone to see if I might be in it somewhere. Best tractor show I have ever seen.