I agree, Dad's88. I sure love old combines and don't wish to see any usable one just killed for the sake of doing it [i.e. demolition derby].
However, as a rebuilder myself, I so often have to make just such a judgement call. If I have 2-21 Masseys and only one good engine, I must cull one to save the better of the two. No, it does not always mean the survivor is the combine with the good engine. I've actually been there/done that, with exactly what Mark H. has explained. Running engines aren't just everything. No, I would not want to be branded as a kind of "PETA-type radical." It's not so much the scrapping of truly worn-out, junk machines and legitimate salvage, I'm just very adament and vehemently opposed to, when it comes to either wanton scrapping/crushing of the GOOD, still running combines or [especially] the demolition derby. There's just no need for that, period. What many here, also need to realize, is that many [though not all] salvagers, will be more than willing to sell a few good combines that come into their yards, simply because it's only logical and good for business, that a cerain percentage of "obsolete" combines MUST SURVIVE, in order to simply sustain their own parts demands. Duh? I don't see these combine salvagers as brutal, mindless destroyers of every last combine on the planet. I for one, depend on parts from the less fortunate combines--just to save many others' lives.
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