Salvage dawgs

fixerupper · Jan 12, 2019

Been watching way too much TV lately. This morning I was half watching Salvage Dawgs. I looked at the TV just in time to see a guy showing the two main ‘dawgs’, I forget their names, a Wheatland international, obviously a W series. The guy showing it called it a rare M series International. Well if that tractor really was an M it s indeed a rare one. I only saw the back of the tractor for a few seconds but it did have the distinctive IH light switch box on the steering pedestal. I waited for them to show a better picture but the show ended so I was out of luck. Anyway it gave me a chuckle.

I do enjoy watching them create furniture out of old doors and other old wood but I think they should leave the old iron projects up to us guys.

Steve A W · Jan 12, 2019

I like that show. It's not playing on our cable right now,
but it'l be back.
Love some of those old buildings they salvage.

Adirondack case guy · Jan 12, 2019

Sometimes I watch "Building off Grid" I watched one episode a while back. The guy building his dream cabin had a JD compact 4wd tractor and loader. It was muddy, so apparently to add some DRAMA, the scriptwriters decided that he needed to have the tractor get stuck, so apparently they took it out of front wheel drive and showed him spinning only the back wheels. What a joke to us that know a little something. He was no where near stuck. Saw the same thing on "Alaska, last Frontier" when they were taking a load of hay down a dirt road with their AC/Fiat 4wd. Take it out of 4wd and skid a rear wheel with the brakes.
These shows give new meaning to "Fake News"
Loren

fixerupper · Jan 12, 2019

Years ago I helped tear down buildings for the lumber. If my count is right I was involved with tearing down four corn cribs and two houses. I did two of the corn cribs myself, the rest the buildings my neighbor and my dad helped out. We tore them down board by board, shingle by shingle. When we started on a building we didn’t quit till the job was done. At the end of the day all nails were pulled out of the good boards and all junk cleaned up before we left. When I see the salvage dawgs working on those old buildings I appreciate the amount of work they are doing. Sure wish I would have had access to that telehandler back then though. It’s a wonder I’m still alive after dangling precariously on some of those buildings.

tim s · Jan 12, 2019

I enjoy watching some of those shows,,but it seems that they can not do them with out adding some "Fake Drama" I was watching a show following a team of custom combine operators,,the narrator all of a sudden came up with a "Drama" break down,,a broken sickle knife,,went on to say how "Devastating" this break down could be,,Really?? how many of us has been through that...some times it was good,,it gave us a reason to get out and stretch our legs a bit... It seems that a lot of people must major in Drama.....

Keith True · Jan 12, 2019

I've never seen it because I don't want to pay to watch a TV.But,when I was a kid I used to watch a show called,Salvage One.It was about a junk man that wanted to go to the moon and bring back all the junk we earthlings had left behind up there.He was always on an adventure,finding crashed WW2 planes in the jungle to scrap,with Japanese pilots still living in the plane,that sort of thing.It starred Andy Griffith,and I can't find one person around me that remembers that show.Somebody did suggest that most people had one TV set,and most mothers and sisters didn't want to watch some stupid show about a junk man.Did I just dream that show up? Or,was it a movie and I just remember it as a series.

fixerupper · Jan 12, 2019

Tim I saw that harvest episode too. That broken sickle was the end of the world. They had just as well load the combines up and head home because of that disaster.

coshoo · Jan 12, 2019

Google tells all. The first episode was a TV movie, then 20 episodes in 1979. All starring Andy Griffith. I didn't realize that the industry had advanced that far in coming up with idiotic plot lines by 1979. So it was a real thing, but I never saw it, either.

coshoo · Jan 12, 2019

I remember a commercial for something that had a guy pulling a horse trailer, and he came to a big puddle and got stuck (rear wheels only were spinning in the mud). So he unloaded the 2 draft horses out of the trailer, harnessed them up and pulled the rig out of the puddle. Seems like it would have been easier to turn the hubs and just drive it out.

David R Inman · Jan 12, 2019

Steve,
Yes it was a TV show-I'm too young to remember it an d have yet to see it, but like The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock (the latter was at least on in my life time, but I am still too young to remember it as anything but reruns either). So that's how I know, I've read online to see what else Andy was in. S

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DPittman · Jan 12, 2019

Tim, I'm with you on the drama crap. They start that stuff I'm done. All the car fixit shows do the same thing only worse. They spend more time on the drama than actually showing what's being done to the cars. Texas Metal keeps that to a minimum so I'll watch that, although they still cram a 6 month project into a one hour show. Miss a lot but it's still entertaining.

EFV · Jan 12, 2019

Commercial was for Viagra or Cialis, cause good ol' boys know how to use wood to get unstuck !

Keith True · Jan 12, 2019

I guess I didn't watch that show as a kid,because I didn't get to see much TV from about 1976 until 1991.I lived in a cabin in the woods,with no electricity.I did have a 12 volt TV that I would hook up to my truck when I drove in.As long as I get PBS I'm good.I must have seen it at a girlfriends or a friends house.

SDE · Jan 12, 2019

On Highway thru Hell, Jamie was stuck in his own yard, because the snow was so deep. They did not put their chains on at all, and just kept spinning the tires.
BOGUS CRAP SUCKS>

Welding man · Jan 12, 2019

The Salvage Dawgs are not really into tractors like the rest of us. They are into demo of buildings and reselling what they salvage. They have a warehouse in Roanoke, VA that has thousands of windows and doors and everything, old building wise, that you can imagine. They also get a price out of the stuff that is hard to imagine. I have a good friend that is in the contracting business. He and Mike are good friends and he buys stuff from them all the time to put in high end homes. He also works with Mark Bowe a lot. (Barnwood Builders). Some of the stuff on these programs is scripted, but for the most part it is real.

jeffcat · Jan 12, 2019

Another drama show is up in Alaska with the railroad. Ohhhh pleaseeeee! Now the one that has drama but most all of it is real is the tow trucks up in canada on that Hiway through hell. Some of those wrecks are just disaster in a bucket. Did any of you see the one where the truck load of lumber went over the side and poured on to the CN railrod tracks.

T in NE · Jan 13, 2019

Boner pills. Yeah, locking the hubs helps. It was a first gen Cummins.

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