'Southern tractors?

Why does it seem that all the tractors that come from the 'deep south' are trashed/beat to crap??

WISH I KNEW THAT, SEEMS IF IM LOOKING FOR ANYTHING ANY MORE I HAVE TO GO NORTH TO GET IT. ITS NOT THAT ITS NOT HERE PEOPLE JUST DONT TAKE CARE OF STUFF ANYMORE

For years it was the exception when you saw an equipment shed on a farm in the deep south, just like livestock shelter is still almost non existent. The climate has a lot to do with it but also the farms were traditionally smaller and it took less machinery to operate the farms, old habits die hard. Most people now days keep their equipment under cover, it simply costs too much not to.

It's because they are mostly run by hired help.

Length of season? Once things freeze up north, the loader tractor is about the only one that gets used.

I have wondered aboot that also.
Years ago when I was dealing in used tractors it seemed like most from south of the border, (the Ohio river) were highly abused, and they weren"t driven by hired help.
Its okay to use equipment, but to abuse it, there is no reason.
Seems like the people that abuse their equipment are the ones less able to afford to do so. Maybe its the reason they are so poverty stricken.
It has been said, that most of the poverty is self inflicted.

I'm sure it seems that way because we put the ragged out stuff out for sale so the Yankees will buy them and take them back north.
Ron

We may have "trashed out" tractors in the south that I would call a used up tool, but our cars and trucks don't fall apart from rust in a couple of years. Maybe y'all don't take proper care of them. Yes, I'm aware of salt. TDF

big ole broad paint brush you are using. perhaps in the SOUTH, we live on the land and off of the land, therefore our equipment is used. we prefer this over abusing government entitlements. from the looks of photos of up yonder equipment presented on this site those are not sheds, just walls with no roofs.

Hi, have to agree with Delta Red, most tractors from Nova Scotia have been well used, stored outside fo a few years, before they are purchased by people like myself. Then we attempt to rebuild them , does make the project a little more difficult and challenging, until we complete our project. Salt air, being close to the sea and road salt used on the highway's all assist with the rust. Cheers, Murray

You should have seen the ones on that auction here in Michigan yesterday of you want to talk tractors that were trashed and beat to crap. lol

Delta Red, Guys, The reason for what you say IMO is the climate OR just Trash Bomb Farmers!
Up North were the winter are so miserable and snowy Storage barns were constructeds to hold the Horses and Live stock and they could be tended too!
When Mechanization came to the the farm the same principal applies....Storage so the plow wasn't covered with 6 feet of snow an the moldboards were rusted so, winter maintence could be preformed without have to dig out the Implement to so service work prior to spring work. The Sale & Trade in Values were secondary or inadvertent benefits harvested along the way.
Here in Texas Why do you need a Barn to hold tractors when not in use? A Very large Shade tree will protect the paint from the 105* sun of summer and most shop work was done in the shade of trees. Our really Cold weather is only about 45 days long. so being covered up in snow is just about unheard of! Major shop work was done inside a shop usually but not stored. that is the way I see it Storage buildings for tractors have not ever been as prevalent here as up North!
Just because a farmer doesn't have Barn storage for his Equipment doesn't mean he is a trash bomb!
Trash bomb Farmers are everywhere. I have a neighbor who doesn't have very good equipment. If given an Anvil, A rubber hammer and a sand-bed all three will be torn in 3 days. They buy nice tractors, pickups, plows they just treat it all like crap and it goes downhill in short order!
JMO!
Later,
John A.

Leroy was an old VERY wealthy Batch. Very frugal in spending--as you saw. Those tractors were set up at the sale by his sister and probably help by Scottie. Did I say Leroy had a LOT OF MONEY......................

Ya Scott said "as you can see,if he didn't have a grease gun,he kept things going with baler twine anyway". A guy at McConnel's told me there were even more Olivers around there when they started,but some of those were so bad that they even took them to Fair Salvage. For what they were bringing they'd have been better off selling whatever was left of them on the sale for parts.

I think it is just a cultural difference in pride and care by the owners.

Outside storage, harsh summers and also consider the stuff down south got used more as the growing season is longer. Heck even in Tennessee I noticed our land lord had a program to get three crops in two years off the fields, some time 2 crops a year. Corn/wheat/soybeans rotation, sometimes he could sneak beans on after the wheat.

Or maybe northern arrogance. TDF

It never ceases to amaze me how people of a certain political persuasion will yelp like the dickens if a broad brush comment is made about one of their protected groups yet they have no qualms about saying exactly the same type of things about other groups.

Hired help?
Higher hours of use per year?
Outside storage?

In my area of the Midwest, good well cared for equipment resells quickly and stays within the area. Good equipment is often purchased at higher than average prices by people who know the original owner.

Poorly cared for equipment, and problem machines are disposed of at auctions and are much more likely to leave the area.

Most people in the South don't worry about the small stuff like whether their tractor has a dent or a couple spots with no paint,anyway it all works out just compare what the women in the South look like compared to the ones in the North(LOL)

it has to do with the number of days per year it is used. A farmer who has the time available to do repairs will maintain his investment better.In lousy weather it's better to hide in the barn with the tractors than listen to it in the house. tractors down here get many more hours use per year than up nawth.

We bought southern tractors for years and fixed them up and resold them.The reasons for them being so rough are several,first is hired help(mostly poor quality and under paid),the farms are often larger in the south,(We had tractors with unit numbers on the hood sometimes into the 100's)The climate is hard on things and much of the southern soil is sandy which wears everything twice as fast the tires even get weird wear patterns on them.Those tracters are not cheap when you get done fixing everything you would be better off buying a good local tractor. Tom