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Scrap man claims another Oliver!

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dep

10-25-2007 17:46:13




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A friend of mine was telling me that a 99 arrived at the local scrap yard a couple of weeks ago. While it was being unloaded, the loader operator (who could care less about anything antique) dropped it and she broke in half. Probably was done on purpose to speed the process up as sometimes he has too put stuff aside to sell if the big boss tells him too. It was long gone by the time I got there. What a shame. I wonder how much wintage iron has been lost in the last few years due to the high scrap prices??

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Matt06br

10-29-2007 18:41:12




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 Re: Scrap man claims another Oliver! in reply to dep, 10-25-2007 17:46:13  
It happens quite often. I know a guy that scraps a tractor a day, running or not, whatever it is desiel or gas. Steel wheels also. Alot of these tractors are worth more in parts than whole.



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rrlund

10-26-2007 10:23:16




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 Re: Scrap man claims another Oliver! in reply to dep, 10-25-2007 17:46:13  
A shame,but some times you have to let them go. I had a chance to buy an OC4 4 cylinder diesel with an Anderson blade a year ago for $700. It was just too far gone. Would have cost a fortune to rebuild the tracks,not to mention how bad everything else was worn. I would rather have seen it become a donor at a boneyard,but it ended up at the scrapper.



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old

10-25-2007 21:27:41




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 Re: Scrap man claims another Oliver! in reply to dep, 10-25-2007 17:46:13  
Yep very sad to see and now days the $$ is all people think of instead of the fact that they will never make another tractor like that. I know in my area once the scrap yard has it you can't buy it from them for 3 times what they payed for it which is a shame also. Guess thats why I have 30 or so tractors or parts of them. I would prefer to see what I have rust to nothing then to let the scrap man have one single part of them

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AB

10-25-2007 18:22:25




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 Re: Scrap man claims another Oliver! in reply to dep, 10-25-2007 17:46:13  
Alot of old Iron has definitely been lost to the scrap man. What gets me is that some people overprice their iron outright and would rather let the scrap man get it than you or I to collect/restore. Ever heard the term, "I'll let the scrap man have it before I'll sell it at that price." When in fact "that price" is more than scrap value.

Did you find the oil pan gasket you were looking for?



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dep

10-25-2007 19:43:05




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 Re: Scrap man claims another Oliver! in reply to AB, 10-25-2007 18:22:25  
I agree with you on that one!
I havent found the gasket, but I need a few things from Korves and I am going to see if they have one, as you suggested.



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