i will NEVER understand this mentality...

steve19438

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looked at a FERG 2X16 PLOW MADE BY SHERMAN. 95% COMPLETE. also looked at a old 6ft back blade. nevere have seen one like it. it has a crank to rotate blade and a flat lever that goes into the body of the blade and man o man it is heavy.

the old codger that has em has no idea what their worth is but stated that "if I can't get my price I will let em rust away".

hopefully photos to follow.
 
ever hear of a tractor sitting in a field overgrown with weeds after many years of neglect but the owner won't sell it because he says he is going to restore it some day and the owner is a bazillion years old. same mentality. I would rather have some cash and sell it to some one who will fix it up than let it rot away.

but that's me.
 
Selling that tractor or pull-type combine or rusting old car or whatever is, in the minds of some owners, an open acknowledgement of getting too old to do things. I can empathize. I have a couple of sheds full of old Novas and Chevelles and '37-38 Chevies and '55-58 Chevies, not to mention several 8Ns and a Cub and even some low-mileage Chevettes. I know for certain I will never get around to fixing up even a fourth of them, but I also have a hard time deciding which ones to give up on. It's a common affliction among some people -- just can't let go. I agree with the philosophy that it's their junk, so it's their business to decide what to do with it. (But I also agree their decision often makes no practical sense, as in my own case.)
 
I hear you.
May want to try him again a little later approaching with another point of view, who knows he may soften up after a while especially if you develop some sort of a bond of having something in common.
I don't know maybe there' s some reason he has crossed your path?
Take care...
 
Steve, I've run into that in my neck-of-the-woods, I would ask about going thru someones junk pile for maybe a part or two I could use and it's no I'm gonna use that or this someday, or they think that their crap is made of gold. I drive past and it's still sittin there untouched....All a person can figure is they would rather see it return to the ground. Craig
 
I asked about a 'long sitting' machine once & the man said, "everything has to be somewhere....if it were for sale, I would have a sign on it!!!"
 
Another place that has a lot of "one man's junk/another's treasure", has a sign out , "Don't even ask, nothing here is for sale!".
 
Sounds like you have your items protected so that years from now they will be no worse than they are now. That is different than setting out and going down in the ground and rusting away. You are keeping things for someone else when you can no longer do things. Not letting nature destroy them.
 
Yes heard that one many times. Have often wanted to say here's my number can you give it to your kids so when you die maybe they'll call me before hauling it to the scrap yard.
 
lol...reminds me of some of the jockeys I deal with (all friends)
"[i:1d8c6638ac]I will take the backhoe over to it and smash it to a pulp before I take less than I'm asking[/i:1d8c6638ac] "
.......and...they mean it....

Modern world money fixation plays a part too.
I routinely have to tell people...It's not for sale...
They won't listen and throw crazy money prices at me.
I honestly don't care about money..so..no..which seems to confuse them greatly. :)

When trying to buy, be nice, don't press, leave a card with your name and number. "Throw this card in your desk, if you ever change your mind, give me a call"
 
Don't feel badly. I wanted a JD model "M" from a neighbor who was going to Tennessee and he wanted $3K, he had let it set up along with most of the other parts. Sat outside for years. I would not pay, so it went to the scrape yard. Some people have peculiar ideas. " If I can't fix it, neither will you."
 
Had a light bar off of my old jeep, 4 KC lights that worked wiring harness and switch for sale at a yard sale. Was asking $50.00 for it, a guy came up and offered $20.00, of course I said no way. End of the day the guy shows up again and laughs because it hadn't sold. Now offered me $10.00, I went into the garage got a ball peen hammer and proceeded to pop all 4 lights and wrapped the bar around a tree. I was never going to use it but wasn't going to put up with his B/S. Just my mentality.
 
(quoted from post at 14:56:21 07/27/17) Had a light bar off of my old jeep, 4 KC lights that worked wiring harness and switch for sale at a yard sale. Was asking $50.00 for it, a guy came up and offered $20.00, of course I said no way. End of the day the guy shows up again and laughs because it hadn't sold. Now offered me $10.00, I went into the garage got a ball peen hammer and proceeded to pop all 4 lights and wrapped the bar around a tree. I was never going to use it but wasn't going to put up with his B/S. Just my mentality.

I like your attitude! Well done.
 
(quoted from post at 12:12:53 07/27/17) lol...reminds me of some of the jockeys I deal with (all friends)
"[i:765511adc4]I will take the backhoe over to it and smash it to a pulp before I take less than I'm asking[/i:765511adc4] "
.......and...they mean it....

My grandfather owned a sawmill and quite a bit of timber land. At one point I noticed a pile of dimensional lumber sitting near the edge of a forest he owned. It was neatly stacked and stickered, but pretty rotten looking. My father told me that his dad left it sit there rather than sell it for less than he thought it was worth. The pile dated back to the 40's.
 
What I have always wondered if you actually agreed to pay what a parson like this wants, would they come up with another excuse not to sell?

Kevin
 
Some old timers see there collection as their worth no matter what the condition, or are just very attached to certain items for nostalgia etc. My neighbor tried to buy a hit and miss engine that was under a collapsed barn for 20 years after he noticed it doing telephone repair at the guys place. Old man wouldn't budge, joked that he would leave it to him in his will, guy died and place cleaned up figured oh well it's long gone. Two years later I go to a consignment auction and buy this engine for 185 bucks get it home and my neighbor recognize it as the engine, after a summer of restoration it's alive again and another friend who saw it on my Facebook contacted me and told me how 40 years ago his brother tried to buy the engine and couldn't but did get the grist mill that was originally belted up to it so now I have that to keep together with the engine! I almost think the pride of having something everyone wanted was why the old man kept it, he liked being "the guy with the woodpecker engine" not just some old unknown farmer
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(quoted from post at 13:56:21 07/27/17) Had a light bar off of my old jeep, 4 KC lights that worked wiring harness and switch for sale at a yard sale. Was asking $50.00 for it, a guy came up and offered $20.00, of course I said no way. End of the day the guy shows up again and laughs because it hadn't sold. Now offered me $10.00, I went into the garage got a ball peen hammer and proceeded to pop all 4 lights and wrapped the bar around a tree. I was never going to use it but wasn't going to put up with his B/S. Just my mentality.

You sure showed him. :roll:

That was just stupid. If you'd just said "no thanks and get off my lawn" you would still have had a light bar to sell to someone else.
 
(quoted from post at 14:24:44 07/28/17)
(quoted from post at 13:56:21 07/27/17) Had a light bar off of my old jeep, 4 KC lights that worked wiring harness and switch for sale at a yard sale. Was asking $50.00 for it, a guy came up and offered $20.00, of course I said no way. End of the day the guy shows up again and laughs because it hadn't sold. Now offered me $10.00, I went into the garage got a ball peen hammer and proceeded to pop all 4 lights and wrapped the bar around a tree. I was never going to use it but wasn't going to put up with his B/S. Just my mentality.

You sure showed him. :roll:

That was just stupid. If you'd just said "no thanks and get off my lawn" you would still have had a light bar to sell to someone else.
ey! It made him feel good in the moment & sometimes that is worth $. His $, his choice.
 
You sound like a real piece of work instead of getting 10 bucks, or simply having a light bar to sell, you instead made yourself look like a donkey and have nothing to show for it
 

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