Idiots,I mean idiots,why

I've thought about this question before- I went to a tractor salvage auction in November, and I wrote down all of the serial numbers off of the various Case tractors that were auctioned off that day.

I would say that 85% of these were sold for scrap iron or for parts- and I have been wondering whether or not I should post these serial numbers to the registry under the "parted out" category.

In the end, I didn't do it, because I don't own those tractors. I'd be happy to take the time to register them- if only there was a way for an Owner to "reclaim" that number in the event that someone came along later that had actually rebuilt the machine.

Maybe this is a procedural question for the webmaster Kim.

-Schotte

Thanks.

You see people from time to time on Ebay selling old serial number tags, especially the older more intricate brass tags from equipment and machinery.

I think that people who remove the serial number tags from tractors probably fall into (3) categories:

1) People who think that the tags themselves have collector value and want to resell them.

2) People who think that if you bolt another tag onto your tractor from the correct serial number range- then you magically have a "rare" valuable tractor (such as a demonstrator, etc.) from the correct model year.

3) People who remove the tag only because they think the tractor is D.O.A. and they are taking the last removable part of interest or value.

Little do these folks realize that 5-10 years down the road one of us poor fools might actually try and REVIVE that sad old piece of iron... Hence, the missing tag.

(I always felt sorry for the Case folks with tractor models that had their serial number tags mounted onto the side of the tool box- as they are even more likely to have a missing tag.)

Just my opinion, -Schotte

(p.s. - clever name you've got there!)