Doesn't hurt to ask

I saw an MF industrial where I was working one time. I asked the owner if it was for sale. He said just take it. I didn't get much, After a few parts, and a lot of work, I had a running tractor. A guy came in my yard today, Inquiring about a stock trailer he could see from the road. I said 500.00 could take it. He looked it over, and said is that the best I can do. I said how about free. He 's getting it tomorrow. I will be glad to get rid of it, one less thing in the way. It needs a new floor, and new sides, and top. My brother hauled a lot of his cattle in that trailer, before he got his new one. I bought a motorcycle that way. Years ago, I saw it sitting in some ones front yard. For 5.00 dollars I had a Indian motorcycle. I am sure you have some stories. Stan

I got a nice 150 pound anvil that way. I asked the guy if he was interested in selling it he told me to back my truck up to it and take it. He said he was tired of tripping over it

gave a Suzuki Cavalcade away this summer guy asked what i wanted and i said gone he rode it away. had a Massey Ferguson 66 wheel loader that sat for 7 years ran when parked kid stopped on a Friday late after noon about a hour of light left asked about it said he sure could use it to clean up and barn fire said you get it running it's yours [she needed a lot of work] 6v53 Detroit he got it going and did his job and the engine went

I was on the other end of the deal once. Back in the early 70s a fella I knew offered me a 6 inch leg vice for ten dollars. I did not have a vice at that time so I bought it and set it up in my shop. Not long after I bought it a neighbor saw the vice in my shop and had raised a fit. He told me this guy I bought it from was going to give it to him for free. Evidently the guy who sold it to me needed some cash. That has been my one and only vice over a span of almost 50 years. It is indestructible. It is used almost every day. My good friend and neighbor calls it the nut cracker because you have to watch where you are standing when that long handle comes swinging up and around! LOL

I have been given all kinds of things from the wonderful fellows on this site. Books , tin for my roof , baler needles rebuilt for free , towels from grandpa and grandpa love and lots and lots of knowledge

Saw an Oliver 70 in a junk yard once and wanted it. The only “problem” with it was that it had a model 4 corn picker completely surrounding it, you know, the type that you drive the tractor into and assemble the entire corn picker around it.
I talked to the junk yard owner and he sold me the tractor for a good price. The only catch was that I take the corn picker with it. Fair enough. I sold the picker for more than what I paid for the whole tractor.

Hey SV, Could you use a parts book for your 3020? I have one I don't need

Yes I could

A Farmall M and Co-op e3 sat abandoned in my neighbor's pasture for a decade. I asked him about them and he said, "I don't know what you are going to do with them, but if you want them take them." I got the M running and sold the Co-op with seized engine and bad tires. I also got my neighbors no 5 sickle mower, a wagon, and a KBA disc I still need to get out of the treeline.

My brother called me a couple years ago and asked me if I was interested in a Minneapolis Moline 445 that his neighbor had. It was in a shed and hadn't been run since the 1990's. I told him I really wasn't interested. Then he said, "he said that if you want it you can have it!" Well, guess what! It's in my shed now. I had it running that same fall.

The same way I came across my fuel trailer... It was an old welding trailer... Guy wanted out it of his way. Hooked up and brought it home.
With a little work and new wood it's now a functioning fuel trailer

Happened last week,,neighbor said take it away


here it is finished

I did some work for a neighbor he had a vermeer 504super G sitting in his barn for 2 years I asked him if he wanted to sell it. He said sure $500 I said sold. Needed a couple pickup teeth and some clips two tires. works great. I could sell it for $2000 tomorrow.

I collect Farmall F Series.I bought a JD B at a yard sale that was in parts,Put it all back together,got it running and took it to our local fair.A lady came up to me and said she liked it.I told her to take it home.She thought I was crazy.I gave it to her,she brings it to the fair each year

A friend of mine stopped and asked about a Ford Mustang that had been sitting in a yard for years. Old lady answered the door and when he inquired about buying it, she angrily told him she was tired of people asking about it and wished they would leave her alone. Two weeks later his cousin had the car. When he asked him how he got the car the cousin replied, “I just stopped and asked about it and she sold it to me.”
You never know.

Well, asking scares the heck out of me. Having a farm on a state highway ends up with people stopping. Could be meth heads casing the place (burglarized 3 years ago by one) or someone from south of the border asking about buying my backhoe, etc. We drive I-135 a lot and at night we will come across caravans of loaded down vehicles with another in tow driving at 50 mph headed down to another country. Real easy to load up a trailer or take a trailer and be in Texas by daylight.

Last summer I was down in the pasture mowing. Turned around and here was a big hispanic walking up behind me. Scary deal.
I wasn't packing heat while mowing. He had walked a quarter mile past the open barn to get down to me. He was selling roof coatings for barns and was doing one in the area. Started me out at a special deal for me only at over $800. Then he finally ended up at a really special deal for me for $250. Had Montana plates and said his crew was working in the area. When I asked when he could start, he said right now and be done in a couple hours all by himself with his sprayer in the back of the pickup with the buckets of coating to mix. Asked where they were working at and the town he mentioned was over a hundred miles away and then he showed me a couple checks in his wallet of addresses even further away. Originally said he tightens down all loose nails and screws and would redo the loose fascia board.
All of that in a couple hours by himself. Told him no thanks. Then I worried all summer that there would be another burglary.

Been thinking about leaving a gallon gas can outside just so someone won't break in to get some.