Crazy D's Tractor Rescue

He has pulled all of the 40 or so tractors out of the woods and has them lined up trying to find buyers. Here is the second video showing the second row of tractors. Price is
salvage value ($190/ton) plus a little bit more.
Tractor Rescue

I watched his videos, I was not sure where the tractors are located.

Located in Kansas.

Not sure that the real goal here should be that many of these find thier way to being restoration projects. Thinking the real goal here should be that many of these tractors should atleast find thier way to a salvage yard, so they can be finished parted out the rest of the way before being scrapped.

When a tractor is to far gone to restore, or that doesn't make to much sense and its only missing a hood and grill, is what is really sad, is when the rest of it goes for scrap when there is still alot of useful parts there to get. Just because the tractor is beyond restoration, doesn't mean there isn't any parts left there to get. A number of these tractors looked fairly complete, and by far not all parted out yet.

Sometimes liquidating to much stuff at one time, brings about alot of stuff just going to scrap. Seen this happen at a couple big auctions in recent years. There was just simply to much stuff there for the hobbyist and small time salvage yards to buy up. So, is what happened was, the nicer stuff (complete and maybe ran) went to the hobbyist and salvage yards. And all else just went to the iron man, no matter how many good parts was left on it. The salvage guys were getting all they wanted just buying the nicer stuff. All of it kind of just a result of to much stuff being sold at one time. When that happens, the hobbyist can't buy all the runners. So the salvage guys upgrade on the quality of what they are buying. But they of course can only buy up so much as well. And this leaves a bigger bulk of stuff at the bottom. And the iron man ends up with ALL of that. The hobbyist and salvage guys would end up with more of that bottom bulk of things, if not so much of it is all liquidated at one time.
I seen it happen. At two different very large auctions.

where is fred goodrich? they are basically for parts or scrap. he says this one is complete just missing this and this and this , then the same on the next one. he is not understanding the 10's of thousands of dollars it would take to restore one, and then u only have a tractor.

If I was closer there are a couple I would like to bring home

I've been to his farm which is near Halstead,KS..His lot is in Newton,KS..

Scrap only worth half that much here

If you pay his prices, and take the tractor to scrap, you are going to go BROKE!

He is asking scrap price plus a bit. Then it costs you money to haul them to the scrap yard to get scrap price.

Scrap price + a bit + hauling costs > Scrap price = LOSE MONEY!

So unless someone is a total idiot, or just plain evil, Crazy D has pretty much guaranteed that these tractors will either be restored or parted out.

Unless someone needs a particular part/casting/etc, it looks like junk to me.

He said it was a tractor rescue to try and
save as many of these tractors from scrap
as they can. He explains the CURRENT price
if interested. He doesn't mention what
they'll do with the tractors that are left
over, and not sold at the current asking
price.
What's he gonna do with what's left over???
Keep it 6 months and put it in another line
up? I'm not a follower of this guy on you
tube. Maybe he does, but I'm guessing not.

Actually, is what I'm guessing, is what's
left over will go to scrap. Or he wouldn't
mention the fact that he was trying to save
as many as he can from scrap. He also
mentions something about this being another
line up, or entails that there was a
previous one. What happened to the no sales
of the line up before?

I'm not buying his 190 a ton base price
either. In my area, scrap is about half
that right now.
Also going to place my guess that the left
overs are sold for scrap at a lesser amount
than 190.

Which, brings about what I mentioned in my
reply to main post. Liquidate to much stuff
at one time, equals more of the bottom bulk
of it going for scrap. You can luquidate to
much stuff at one time for hobbyist to
absorb. Maybe things are different in other
areas of the country, but the salvage yards
in my area with in driving distance that
dabble in old tractors parts, are not huge
salvage yards by any means. Ran by people
that are not exactly big time operators.
They are not big enough to absorb other
entire smaller salvage yards. So, they
likewise can't absorb all of it, if to much
is liquidated at one time.

This has been going on for a long time. So
why is anything different now? Is what is
different now is, it use to be pretty
common to see tractors from the 20's and
30's on farm sales. Now it's not. It's kind
of a rarity to see a farm sale that has
tractors from 20s and 30s even on it. The
never ending flow of that era of tractors
going to salvage yards is coming to an end.
So once the masses of the salvage yards,
hoarders, and alike, are gone (liquidated),
it's just gone now and won't be replenished
from the use to be farm sale supply.

Maybe doesn't make much difference right
now on an 806, or even an M farmall. But,
on tractors from the 30's and before, boy
that's drying up fast. If those are sitting
in a salvage yard about half parted out,
and the rest of it just goes to scrap
because the salvage yard is going out of
business, that is kind of turning into big
deal. Because the supply to the salvage
yard of that era of tractors from other
sources besides other salvage yards, is
running out. Kind of getting to the point
that if they are just melted, they are just
gone from salvage yards.

He's trying to save them from scrap. Better than sending them straight there.

I'm sure what he can't get rid of will eventually go to scrap. Should he be legally obligated to keep these tractors forever? Really, its nobody's business but his what he does with the tractors.

Same goes with the "tractors of the 20's and 30's" or any other era. Nobody should be obligated to hang on to them just because someone might need something off them someday. If you have an interest in the tractors of any era, you best be out there raising your hand at every auction, make sure you have a supply of parts on hand, and not depend on someone else to do it for you.