I"m starting to think I may need to seek out a therapy group. I keep going to the local scrap yard and bringing stuff home. Stuff that I consider good usable pieces...well most of it is anyway. Last week I brought home an old Mcormick Deering 9ft cultipacker. All the wheels are there on both rows of wheels. Friday I brought home a Dearborn 2 12" prior model plow. I wanted it for the coulter chains but it was complete with slatted moldboards, I got a 7ft Massey grader blade, yesterday I brought home a Ford 101 corn picker, tomorrow I have to go back and pick up a King plow company bush and bog disc. Plus I picked up a steering rod for a Farmall plow,some Farmall cultivators, springs and a shank for a 9 tine plow, some extra moldboards and a few other pieces. I don"t really need all this stuff but most of it I bought for $.20 a pound except for the corn picker which was $.12 a pound. Anybody else addicted like I am? Do I need therapy?..lol. I just hate to see all this stuff get scrapped and melted down. Plus I know there are people that would like to have some of these pieces.
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Bill in IL
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I have not been there in a while. Is sure fun to go and see what you can see. I have not brought home machinery just lots of good scrap steel.
Traditional Farmer
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Yep love them have two I check in on all the time and one the owner calls me if he gets something he thinks I'd like to have.
The one up the road doesn't really encourage shopping or things going back out except in their own trucks in pieces.
I used to love going to Stamm Equipment though and going through the parts tractors. I'd always come out with a bunch of odd parts like gauges,switches,odds and ends like that.
I used to love going to Stamm Equipment though and going through the parts tractors. I'd always come out with a bunch of odd parts like gauges,switches,odds and ends like that.
I'd be all over all of it, implements is where its at. It is truly shameful, I know some plows are obsolete, can't get shares or what have you but even then, small implements are in demand.
You can't get the same quality or design, things offered by TSC, don't come close, or by short line manufacturing you see available today.
I looked for years for a cultipacker, never thought I'd find one, just happened to spot a deal last fall and got a 7' McCormick Deering double roller for $150, needing a little work and a few wheels. These are as useful today as they were then, to scrap it out, heck and perish the thought, but at least someone could have got the darned wheels off it or salvage parts.
Sweets in KY seems to specialize in rebuilding or fixing old cultipackers and they list for 1000 bucks or better and you still have to pay shipping, but they are still better made than most you see unless its a Brillion, price one of those new, add seed boxes and capability, to see those go to scrap, when there is someone who would gladly purchase it, and I know its theres to do with what they want, but people have lost sight of in demand and very useful, functioning implements.
Good on you, it is satisfying to get some of this, there is no doubt that some of these items could be sold, saving them from destruction and putting them in the hands of someone that can use them, implements are profitable, every one I own I could sell at a fair price right now and make money off each one, some double, and not be unfair, sucks to learn they are so disregarded and relegated to scrap iron, thats entirely sad.
I just picked up a MF - model 25 disc, needs some work, but I enjoy implements to no end, really like fixing and repairing them, if there was a scrap yard nearby taking them in that would sell to you because they have a conscience, I'd be wildly addicted !!!!
You can't get the same quality or design, things offered by TSC, don't come close, or by short line manufacturing you see available today.
I looked for years for a cultipacker, never thought I'd find one, just happened to spot a deal last fall and got a 7' McCormick Deering double roller for $150, needing a little work and a few wheels. These are as useful today as they were then, to scrap it out, heck and perish the thought, but at least someone could have got the darned wheels off it or salvage parts.
Sweets in KY seems to specialize in rebuilding or fixing old cultipackers and they list for 1000 bucks or better and you still have to pay shipping, but they are still better made than most you see unless its a Brillion, price one of those new, add seed boxes and capability, to see those go to scrap, when there is someone who would gladly purchase it, and I know its theres to do with what they want, but people have lost sight of in demand and very useful, functioning implements.
Good on you, it is satisfying to get some of this, there is no doubt that some of these items could be sold, saving them from destruction and putting them in the hands of someone that can use them, implements are profitable, every one I own I could sell at a fair price right now and make money off each one, some double, and not be unfair, sucks to learn they are so disregarded and relegated to scrap iron, thats entirely sad.
I just picked up a MF - model 25 disc, needs some work, but I enjoy implements to no end, really like fixing and repairing them, if there was a scrap yard nearby taking them in that would sell to you because they have a conscience, I'd be wildly addicted !!!!
shaun wallace
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Around here paying 10-12 cents pound and want 30-40 cents to haul out. But its no good after magnet or clamp or wheel loader has wallod it around.
John, they have a listing on ebay, I will post a link, don't know anything about them, but would hope they could be of help, in the same fashion we are around here LOL !! Sweets Farm Equipment is the name.
Some of what they list, these cultipackers, seem way high, but then again, hard to find, might be gouging, not someone desirable to deal with, but I don't know that, don't hurt to ask.... so hopefully of some help LOL !!!!
Sweets Farm Equipment
Some of what they list, these cultipackers, seem way high, but then again, hard to find, might be gouging, not someone desirable to deal with, but I don't know that, don't hurt to ask.... so hopefully of some help LOL !!!!
Sweets Farm Equipment
Yes it is the 601 mounted picker. I don't think you want to see this one. It must have sat in a fence row for a long time because they had to cut a tree down to get it out. But it is complete down to the pto shaft. The main things I see is a few bearings are seized and it needs a new drive belt. Most of the bearings are common bearings so it shouldn't take too much to get it up and running. Some of the stuff I can't use I will sell to someone that can hopefully. Back in the summer they had a complete John Deere 900HC cultivating tractor sitting there. It was complete down to the cultivators and the fertilize hopper. It even had good tires and it went for scrap price. I grabbed the needles and knotter assembly off of a new holland 67 a few months ago for $30.00. It is truly sad to see stuff that is getting scrapped because either they need the money or they do not know what they have.
We have three scrap places here but only one of the places will sell you anything. The others will not sell you any machinery regardless of what you are willing to pay. They will sell you raw steel but last time I tried to buy some it was cheaper for me to buy new steel tubing than it was to buy it from either of the other two places.
I'd be in the same boat if we HAD good scrap yards around here - but all the old farm equipment has already been melted down long ago.
we do go a couple of times to ohio where's there's still old equipment.
The wives sure do love seeing us come back with a full trailer of junk that we NEED.
we do go a couple of times to ohio where's there's still old equipment.
The wives sure do love seeing us come back with a full trailer of junk that we NEED.
I cannot go to America without a scrapyard fix! Usually it is a tractor breaker/wrecker and I go home with my suitcase full of metal! Mostly lights and small parts for some of my American built MFs that we cannot get on our side of the water...... Ps the opened case is mine after 2 weeks in America, the other case belongs to my 12 yr old dottir who had been away for two days!!! tsk girls!............Sam
You sound a lot like me.
When I was about 12 or 13 years old, I would ride my bicycle to either of the local junk yards and bring back push lawn mowers, chainsaws or any type small engine. I had a special --"made by my dad"--trailer that I pulled with bicycle. With my dads help, I would get some of them running and sold them for a few dollars. Back then, I could buy for $2 or $3 and sell for $10 or $15.
I learned about engines, dealing with people, and made enough money to buy my first car.
Today, I don't get to the Junk Yards as often as I would like, but last month I bought a few old chainsaws, and found an SDS masonry drill bit, a little rusty but never used, and is about 16" long. Thing is, I really needed this for a job I had been putting off! In the same pile, I found a practically new 2" receiver ball mount with new 2 5/16 ball!
I don't see a lot of farm related items but did find a decent backhoe bucket that I modified for my needs.
Every time I go, it brings back many good memories!
When I was about 12 or 13 years old, I would ride my bicycle to either of the local junk yards and bring back push lawn mowers, chainsaws or any type small engine. I had a special --"made by my dad"--trailer that I pulled with bicycle. With my dads help, I would get some of them running and sold them for a few dollars. Back then, I could buy for $2 or $3 and sell for $10 or $15.
I learned about engines, dealing with people, and made enough money to buy my first car.
Today, I don't get to the Junk Yards as often as I would like, but last month I bought a few old chainsaws, and found an SDS masonry drill bit, a little rusty but never used, and is about 16" long. Thing is, I really needed this for a job I had been putting off! In the same pile, I found a practically new 2" receiver ball mount with new 2 5/16 ball!
I don't see a lot of farm related items but did find a decent backhoe bucket that I modified for my needs.
Every time I go, it brings back many good memories!
Anonymous-0
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I would do the samething if I new of a scrap yard with that type of stuff. I think it's a shame to scrap old stuff.
Ken Macfarlane
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Almost same here, scrap place will on occasion sell farm stuff but is mangled and higher than new steel price.
They get nice old cars sometimes too, set them out with a price painted on it. If not sold in a week or so they start banging it up, squish the roof it etc. Asked the guy why they do that and he said they sell better once they do that.
They get nice old cars sometimes too, set them out with a price painted on it. If not sold in a week or so they start banging it up, squish the roof it etc. Asked the guy why they do that and he said they sell better once they do that.
Zachary Hoyt
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I don't go too often but when I do I always watch for things. I got this Cunningham mower for $50 last fall and have not gotten it running yet but plan to in the spring, the engine turns over and it looks mostly complete. It is just too cold this winter for me to want to work on things in the unheated shop.
Zach
Zach
notjustair
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I've never been shopping at the scrap yard - that would be such a slippery slope. The only reason this farm isn't full of treasures is that I am a tightwad. If the treasures were cheap I would really be in trouble.
I even send things with the neighbors when they go to the scrapper. If I don't set foot in the yard I won't come home with other folks junk.
I even send things with the neighbors when they go to the scrapper. If I don't set foot in the yard I won't come home with other folks junk.
old
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The scrap yard in my area once they own it is never leaves there place again other then in there trucks. I have seen many good tractor and implement come in just to be crushed.
I have to watch as I used to haul more out than I hauled in. LOL
I am a pack rat but I also hate clutter. So the two kind of zero out each other. The wife laughs at me over this. Her Father was a true pack rat. It took weeks to get ready for the sale after he passed on. He had four barns full of stuff. Not much of it was junk either.
I am a pack rat but I also hate clutter. So the two kind of zero out each other. The wife laughs at me over this. Her Father was a true pack rat. It took weeks to get ready for the sale after he passed on. He had four barns full of stuff. Not much of it was junk either.
I think I did luck out a little, its a fixer upper, but after missing out on one right here in town, and another west of here in nice shape, for a little more, finally I had the funds at the right time for this one 138 miles away. Everything I have ever bought similar seems to have gone that way, but in good faith I read the ads all the time, as many times daily as I can, that is addicting. I had pondered this one too, farther away, missing the disc sweeps/cleaners/clod breakers, I can likely fab those and install. We planned a trip to a favorite place, the Harpoon brewery, go have lunch and meet our friends that live in NH, but were from around here, it was only 13 miles away, so I called the seller, planned to get it 2 weeks ago, but it was froze into the ground, his loader was down too, so it I got it done yesteday. 3 gangs are tight and seem just fine, one gang the pans are loose, and he had to use a agrisupply part that fits ok, so I'll look into that, get a parts book, make a post or 2 about it here, a fixer upper needing some work, but not bad, he gave me the original bearing caps, extra pans, and I liked the guy enough to not even haggle, it was fair at 5 bills, always a good story behind these buys, and so far, the nicest people you get to meet.
I am not sure where you are, but I do keep an eye out, be glad to pass on anything I find, I know the deal, limited funds, have to be in the right place at the right time with available funds, and twice now I passed, because of both, well the one in town sold so fast I had no chance. I think it pays off, just keep looking, always happens but sure takes some time, and you do not always get the deal. I don't know if its luck or what, really strange that if I get it in my head, what I want or need when it comes to these kinds of things, and it may take some time, I'll be darned one day it just happens, I think that in itself is something, the darned iron is nice too but... in short, I'm just thankful at this point, I have what I need, its paid for and its a little easier to do. Someday all of it will be sold off, when I can no longer do this work, I hope when that day comes I can tell the story behind each item I sell and wish the best to whomever buys it.
I see the prices of these things by dealers or similar, they sure do ask for a lot more. I really enjoy implements, great subject to post, thanks for that !!!
I am not sure where you are, but I do keep an eye out, be glad to pass on anything I find, I know the deal, limited funds, have to be in the right place at the right time with available funds, and twice now I passed, because of both, well the one in town sold so fast I had no chance. I think it pays off, just keep looking, always happens but sure takes some time, and you do not always get the deal. I don't know if its luck or what, really strange that if I get it in my head, what I want or need when it comes to these kinds of things, and it may take some time, I'll be darned one day it just happens, I think that in itself is something, the darned iron is nice too but... in short, I'm just thankful at this point, I have what I need, its paid for and its a little easier to do. Someday all of it will be sold off, when I can no longer do this work, I hope when that day comes I can tell the story behind each item I sell and wish the best to whomever buys it.
I see the prices of these things by dealers or similar, they sure do ask for a lot more. I really enjoy implements, great subject to post, thanks for that !!!
As for now--Scrap yard knows me and lets me in but I must wear a hardhat. No problem with that and I have never seen a lot of "lookers".
I sometimes push a hand truck in and have a gas cut saw in truck.
I have bought a lot of flat steel and round stock and they will not do any cutting for lookers, but have no problem with me cutting.
I sometimes push a hand truck in and have a gas cut saw in truck.
I have bought a lot of flat steel and round stock and they will not do any cutting for lookers, but have no problem with me cutting.
fixerupper
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n my neck of the woods the smaller stuff like plows lands in the scrap yard's grinder within a day after it arrives. I've hauled in scrap that has gone directly from my trailer to the grinder. there's a smaller yard to the south that stockpiles and hauls out to a bigger yard but by the time the machinery lands on their stockpile it is pretty well smashed. Jim
Anonymous-0
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Well if you are looking for a Therapy Group for scrap yard addicts, This might not be the best place to look.
Mike in Mn.
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I used to be, I need a certain amount of junk around to feel comfortable, kind of getting over it, age is starting to catch up to me and I'm starting to think about what I'm going to do with all this GOOD stuff, kids don't want it, they have there own stuff and the MAIN THING-----I can't take any of it with me!!
Anonymous-0
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Back in my truck driving days, I knew aboot every tractor salvage yard in the midwest.
I spent many hours in the Surplus tractor yard in Fargo, North Dakota,and all over Minnesoda, Iowa and other places
I spent many hours in the Surplus tractor yard in Fargo, North Dakota,and all over Minnesoda, Iowa and other places
Brown Swiss
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It's the time of year for everyone to have there consignment sale, must be 8 or 10 in my area coming up in the next month, time to go smell the rust!
Goose
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'Way back when, when we were racing stock cars, I spent most of my lunch breaks at a local scrap yard.
A local company that built steam boilers hauled in loads of 2"OD, 1/8' wall round tubing in fairly long lengths that they'd rejected for minor reasons. They were perfect for building roll cages, etc.
I'd also pick up a lot of new strap and angle iron. They sold it all by the pound for scrap price, and they had a scale where you could weigh it yourself. It got so whenever I'd walk into the office, the gal would automatically ask, "How many pounds?"
A local company that built steam boilers hauled in loads of 2"OD, 1/8' wall round tubing in fairly long lengths that they'd rejected for minor reasons. They were perfect for building roll cages, etc.
I'd also pick up a lot of new strap and angle iron. They sold it all by the pound for scrap price, and they had a scale where you could weigh it yourself. It got so whenever I'd walk into the office, the gal would automatically ask, "How many pounds?"
I used to go to our local scrap yard to pick up used or new steel and rummaged trough the scrap heaps for usable parts.
I brought home plenty and his prices were very reasonable.
Hydr pumps, cylinders and jacks were just for the taking as they contained oil.
The guy sold out to a Chinese company and now you can only bring scrap but not buy any back no matter what, everything is being cut up.
They also quit selling new steel.
Another scrap yard started up not to far from me, it is run and owned by a Sikh.
He pays for scrap by the tonne but the crook refuses to show the scale ticket and just gives a hand full of cash.
When i demanded to see the weight ticket he said, "i no deal with people no trust me, you no longer welcome here".
...Yeah F"""" you too! :roll:
New steel is only to be had from a welding shop and is very pricy :shock:
I brought home plenty and his prices were very reasonable.
Hydr pumps, cylinders and jacks were just for the taking as they contained oil.
The guy sold out to a Chinese company and now you can only bring scrap but not buy any back no matter what, everything is being cut up.
They also quit selling new steel.
Another scrap yard started up not to far from me, it is run and owned by a Sikh.
He pays for scrap by the tonne but the crook refuses to show the scale ticket and just gives a hand full of cash.
When i demanded to see the weight ticket he said, "i no deal with people no trust me, you no longer welcome here".
...Yeah F"""" you too! :roll:
New steel is only to be had from a welding shop and is very pricy :shock:
730 virgil
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- IL Wis state line near Monroe Wi
i don't know of any scrap yards around here anymore.
the stuff you see is in some ones farm yard and you know the story it was grandpas and i am going to restore it some day (year)
i got hooked on scrap yards when just a kid my dad would take me with him to a couple near home chadwick il.
a man named johnny mckay ran one of them the story always johnny woulsd run a car until it quit them he would go thru his yard until he found one with a key put a battery and gas in it if it started that was the car he used until it died.
his brother farmed the farm where johnny had his scrap yard the scrap eventually took over much of the farm.
the stuff you see is in some ones farm yard and you know the story it was grandpas and i am going to restore it some day (year)
i got hooked on scrap yards when just a kid my dad would take me with him to a couple near home chadwick il.
a man named johnny mckay ran one of them the story always johnny woulsd run a car until it quit them he would go thru his yard until he found one with a key put a battery and gas in it if it started that was the car he used until it died.
his brother farmed the farm where johnny had his scrap yard the scrap eventually took over much of the farm.
Super Trucker
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Addicted could be ! My job is to haul the material in and processed material out all day 5 day a week. I can tell you stories of trucks,tractors,equipment that was brought in running and drove right out on the burn bed and a hr later it was in 1'x1' pieces. I have saved some stuff, but I puke thinking about some of the things I've seen scrapped.
SweetFeet
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I suffer from a somewhat similar addiction... though a bit more "light weight".
I go with my camera and bring home memory-cards full of photos of rusted treasure. But it all fits in my pocket so my collecting doesn't take up much space, and costs only the gas to get there.
I go with my camera and bring home memory-cards full of photos of rusted treasure. But it all fits in my pocket so my collecting doesn't take up much space, and costs only the gas to get there.
Super Trucker
Member
No . I work in Detroit now. But I worked in flint and New Haven for awhile. Seen stuff at other yards that I picked up loads in.
Vito
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I have the same problem when I go over the pond.Not tractor parts but collectable items.I usually have them ship the items,One time I had my brother stuff a cow parade bell in his suitcase.Bought it in Montreaux,
Switzerland when we were visiting my grandmother in Bern.
Vito
Switzerland when we were visiting my grandmother in Bern.
Vito
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