yard clean up

rustred · Dec 7, 2023

i parked this john deere binder here 23 years ago, as that was the last time it was used. time to get it moved as i am getting rid of that log building its almost 100 years old but to far gone. spent all week cleaning it out and ready for the push tommorrow. making fire wood from the maple tree.hate to cut it down put no other choice.

Bruce from Can. · Dec 8, 2023

Always surprised at how well things keep in the west. We get so dang much rain and generally damp weather, steel just rots away if left out doors. Heck that old binder still has green paint showing on it. I know the trees are a different deal out in the west, but here that tree would be considered a weed. Norway Maple. They grow very fast, and throw down thousands of seeds, given the chance grow every where. Softwood, so not considered much value for firewood.

Bob Bancroft · Dec 8, 2023

A few years ago I was able to clean up a row of parked machinery on a farm I rent. One of the machines, covered in grapevines in the summer, turned out to be a Case pull type combine. All that was left of it was the frame! The sheet metal was literally gone.

Hemmjo · Dec 8, 2023

In my younger days, I worked with a drag race team. It was illegal to acid dip bodies, also was not cheap to have done. A local speed shop had two car bodies sitting on blocks behind the shop. Totally stripped of paint. Just rusting away, loosing weight. I was always curious how much weight they actually saved doing that.

Cash4Toys · Dec 8, 2023

Seems like that PTO driven JD binder on rubber is a pretty unusual piece of equipment.

Butch(OH) · Dec 8, 2023

Me too. I once bought a tractor from an old homestead in Northern Saskatchewan. Equipmemt that had been sitting in a grove for decades was in better shape than if it had been sitting in a shed in Ohio. The tractor we bought had been sitting in a lean to shed for 8 years. There was a spot the size of a football on the fender that the farmers knees had rubbed down to shine metal, didn't have a spec of rust on it. By the time we got 1500 miles home the spot was starting to rust.

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