if it fits it ships

fred goodrich · Dec 8, 2022

today's outgoing

Masseyharrisnut · Dec 8, 2022

Thats a sad picture. Looks like some decent tractors going to a scrap yard.

rustred · Dec 8, 2022

what the h..., look at the massey 81 in the front. masseyharrisnut u better grab that. dang too late.

Masseyharrisnut · Dec 8, 2022

Yes its to bad that our past history gets shipped overseas for scrap or maybe locally. Some Good useable stuff on that trailer.

geok · Dec 8, 2022

Could be going to South America. Had a fellow come by and bought a couple of masseys from me a few years back. Said they were ugly enough to get over the border as salvage. They were running when he left here.

Timmycornpicker · Dec 8, 2022

But somebody has to want it. Locally to me, many of the people who were familiar sights at the auctions who saved this kind of stuff have themselves passed on and the stuff they saved was scrapped. No one filled their shoes once they were gone . . . .

stoughtonfarmboy · Dec 8, 2022

Good running older tractor is nice. But, even for my little 10 acre farmette I like my 2017 John Deere 5065 for baling hay. Also have around 1980 AC5040 but it is clumsy and gets pushed around using a throw baler and wagon. I have an incline not real hills.

Just pulling a small flatbed wagon with about 75 bales pushed my Oliver 55 around.

If I had time and space I would track down an Allis Chalmers WD45 and a D14. WD45 was the big tractor and D14 was small tractor. We actually put up hay silage with those tractors in 1967 when I graduated from high school.

Ken

DoubleO7 · Dec 8, 2022

Just another load going to the blast furnace.

Making the survivors an itty bit more valuable.

Maybe

Rich'sToys · Dec 8, 2022

(quoted from post at 13:51:21 12/08/22) But somebody has to want it. Locally to me, many of the people who were familiar sights at the auctions who saved this kind of stuff have themselves passed on and the stuff they saved was scrapped. No one filled their shoes once they were gone . . . .

That is the sad truth. The generations growing up now do not have the chance to learn the skills necessary to fix this stuff the way we did. And consequentially, they have no interest in it. Sad.

Geo-TH,In · Dec 8, 2022

I'm not sure scrap iron is shipped out as much as it did before China's olympics.
Back then the demand caused rusty tin to sell for $200 a ton.
So I think the demand for scrap iron is that great anymore. I could be wrong.
China's lack of demand for iron ore caused a mining company in Australia, RIO tinto, stock price to drop.
Rio tinto biggest customer was china.

GordoSD · Dec 8, 2022

those trailers are made locally here in Mitchell SD

Bob Bancroft · Dec 8, 2022

Several AC's on this load.

jd2cyl1943 · Dec 8, 2022

It's down right cold. All this stuff survived all these years and now its being scrapped.

larbear · Dec 8, 2022

I sold a few pieces off the farm 3 years ago to a millionite as one of my informative neighbours from time passed would say. Those things were going to Bolivia. He said there was all types of farming going on there from very large to small. It's the same as here in North america. South America didn't experience the glut of iron production that drove the economies of North America and Europe.

rustred · Dec 8, 2022

scrap is scrap yes, but there is a lot of people putting adds out saying they will clean your yard of scrap. thats what i dont like, purposely selling and giving to scrap guys, and they want the good stuff not just light tin scrap. i dont mind seeing an old tractor in the bush, someday someone will want it. even the widow neighbor here sold to the scrap guys. they cut up all kinds of tractors. was a nice super WD9 that just got cut all up with the big sissors. sad stuff.

farmersamm · Dec 9, 2022

I had the pleasure of running a borrowed JD 5425 a bit back.

Everything worked as it should, quiet cab, etc...................

I would HELP someone load my old iron for its final trip to the melt shop, if I could exchange it for some new equipment.

jd2cyl1943 · Dec 9, 2022

(quoted from post at 06:17:13 12/09/22) I had the pleasure of running a borrowed JD 5425 a bit back.

Everything worked as it should, quiet cab, etc...................

I would HELP someone load my old iron for its final trip to the melt shop, if I could exchange it for some new equipment.

Don't do that to the poor old machinery! All it needs is somebody who cares and can give some TLC. No piece of old iron is to far-gone for restoration if you have the time and are willing

farmersamm · Dec 10, 2022

(quoted from post at 11:09:58 12/09/22)

(quoted from post at 06:17:13 12/09/22) I had the pleasure of running a borrowed JD 5425 a bit back.

Everything worked as it should, quiet cab, etc...................

I would HELP someone load my old iron for its final trip to the melt shop, if I could exchange it for some new equipment.

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Don't do that to the poor old machinery! All it needs is somebody who cares and can give some TLC. No piece of old iron is to far-gone for restoration if you have the time and are willing

I'd like to keep the old gals going, but they've reached the end of their service life. We ran them for almost 3 decades, and they were old when they came on the place. I made some good buys, and they did a great job all these years. And I was able to keep them going.

The decision now, is to either retire, or try to keep it going. I'm leaning towards retirement.

I'm thinking, conservatively, that we're looking at around 30K to bring everything back up to standard. At my age, it's money I'm not really willing to spend. And, I'm probably lowballing the estimate.

These have been main line tractors, not funzies. They actually worked the place. I was extremely fortunate to be able to keep them online all these years.

We're looking at engines that have gone bad on two units. And, the last man standing is running on a shoestring. Too many hours on the motor.

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