feel like I lost an old friend

Not a GOOD day today. I was driving through the tiny burg ( 1 bar, softball diamond, a house nad a shop owned by a guy who reserects decrepit farm equptment) called Atwood, when I spotted a familar shape. I turned around and went back. It was an 806 farmall that I had owned for 21 years, Sold it in 03 to a guy near cadott. I can not beleve that someone could beat up a tractor that badly in just 6 short years. both cab doors missing, back window removed. cab liner gone, sheet metal bent and loose embiems gone cab steps bent. grab handles gone, pto engaging lever broken and hanging down,pto shield bent up. shift and hydralic levlers missing knobs. felt like I had lost an old friend all over again

I know what you mean; sold my 605F to a fellow when I quit; the paint was faded, but other than that, it was as good as new.........after untold thousands of bales of hay. Contracted with the same fellow 2 years later to bale a little patch of hay just up the road; so ragged I couldn't believe it was the same baler and he'd only put about 200 bales through it.

Know the feeling. Makes ya sick just to see what you took care of, and then see what a scrap heap it turned into with no regret from the new owner. Most of the farm equiptment My son and I looked at was in sorry shape .Went for a tractor. Drove over past Eauclaire 3 1/2 hours one way to look at a Massey 97. Drove in the yard and didn't get out of the truck. Couldn't believe the guy would beat it so badly and had the gaul to ask $5,500.00. Said over the phone it was a great tractor. Yard full of junk I woild have been ashamed to have any one come to see the tractor.
That wasn't the only one that we looked at. Same went with our search for a wagon. JUNK, bent frame Bent axles twisted etc. Guess people don't care. I figure that if the Good Lord was kind enough to allow em to have things they needed, it should be taken care of, Oh NO, Just beat it to death, try and peddle it to some poor schnook
by lying through their teeth.The folks who get decent equiptment seems to me,they just beat it to death or Let it rot away and claim they just finished using it yesterday. We heard all sorts of stories,Nothing surprises me any more.
Sorry to hear of your equiptment ending up as junk. It happens.
LOU

I sold out ten years ago. Went to see my main tractor last month. I hadn't seen it in all this time. Except for reading another 6,000 hours on the meter, it looked like the day I sold it! I am so pleased. It was nice and clean, in the shed, well cared for.

Working on equipment for a living I can usually tell when a machine is owned by an individual or by a company that makes their operators operate and/or be responsible for one particular piece of equipment. One outfit I worked for a few years back had a JD excavator that was a few years old that still had the factory plastic on the seat and the inside was so clean you could almost eat off of the floor. In contrast I've got another customer that went from one crew, one machine to several crews rotating between machines. When the extra crews started the machines slowely went downhill....

In 1998 I bought a 1997 Dodge full size cargo van for my carpentry business. It had only the 2 front seats in it, but I knew I would need to haul my wife and 2 kids in it sometimes. I figured out I wanted a Ford removable seat, because they had mounts above the floor, the Dodge factory ones were counterset into the floor. So, the wife and I go to our local 'u pull it' to see what we could find. Here is my old 1982 ext Ford van-we ended up taking the seat out of it. Felt really odd seeing it in the junk yard like that. Greg

That's not all of it. This guy screamed long and hard about how much it was going to cost to fix a minor engine oil eak (new O ring) when I sold it. he never fixed it. he did all this damage while only putting on 250 hours on it. traded it because he thought the clutch was going out. turned out to be a wheel loose from the axel (what an Einstein). now it has one 18.4-38 and one 20.8-34 0n the rear. this guy would have screamed long and hard If someone had gone into his house and took a dollar bill out of his wallet every day, but he lost was more than that beating this tractor up so badly.