Scrap yard and old tractors

Anonymous-0 · Feb 28, 2010

i always drive by are local metal scrapyard on my way home from town, and it depresses me to see it seems once a week their is always a semi trailer with an old beatup but completely fixable tractor waiting to get crushed up into junk metal.... if i had the money and know how id buy them their seems to always be a fairly interesting odd ball tractor their...

old · Feb 28, 2010

Ya seen many of them that way. If your local scrap yard is like the one we have you can not buy any thing form them even if you payed twice what they had payed. Sad very very sad

MF165farmer · Feb 28, 2010

Theres 15 acers of used tractors an parts were I go Older and newer About to years ago they hauled them all off for scrap

shaun wallace · Feb 28, 2010

Yep same thing in part of world. Sold some scrap yesterday,while waiting on weight slip 68 elcamio hauled across scales. Next load hauled a mid 90s CV Ford was drove across,Looked better than mine. Mounth ago 3 H Farmalls and the equiptment was pulled across it was all on 3 goosenecks. There was comsignment that day and those tractors were better looking than what was at sale. There was allso a mid 90s chevy 1500 extcab needed engine and wheels. Itll be shredded by this time next week. Its to costly to buy back across scales.

Wild Bill · Feb 28, 2010

About four years ago I bought (among other things) a 69 chevy pickup out of my local scrap yard. $300 brought it home. I poured gas in the carb and it started right up. Fully loaded, for the time. AC, PS, PB, auto, CST trim. I put a new key switch in it, disc brakes on the front, and a five lug rear end in the back, but have done NOTHING else to it. It was obvious that the trans had just been rebuilt and a new timing set installed along with a water pump and power steering pump. I drive it daily right now, and I use that truck to haul scrap to the same scrap yard.

Best I can figure, someone died and the relatives just wanted it gone.

I ALWAYS glance around when I take a load in.

mike pawlek · Feb 28, 2010

years ago I worked for a Idiot Pipeline Contractror that had 3 Oliver OC-3 Crawlers with Angle blades and Midwestern Hydraulic Sidebooms and didn't use them much any more a couple of guys including myself expressed interest in them he says no and proceeds to break them up with an Excavator and throw them in a Dumpster. When I say low hours there probably wasn't 2500 hours between all three of them combined. Nothing wrong with any of them he just wanted more room under the Shed.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 28, 2010

i know I am on the wrong side of this discussion but, there comes a time when sometimes it just has to go. Hauled IH crawlers in from 6 ro seven states for years. Ended up with about 9 acres of old parted out td 15, dt9 td6 you know everything ih made , even had some td 24 & 25s
but after you sell for awhile off those things
and scrap gets up to a decent price it is just time to let it go. About 3 years ago called the cutter and let them have over $65,000.00 worth of iron. I would have been years getting that much more from the individual parts, even though their was things like radiators and final drives there. I guess what I am saying is can we save it all ? I will be the first to admit ,even being retired now, there is still times I think of swomething I should of saved from the scrap man. Had my 20 yr old grandson helping me clean out the shop ust this afternoon and belive me these kids don,t want to save anything. I a bolt is in the flooor it gets swept right out the door so I guess there is two sides to everything..

Dean Olson · Feb 28, 2010

It is sad. But trying to part out a tractor is a real PITA!! I enjoy the whole process except for the part where some idiot expects you to give him the part. Or commits on the phone and never sends the money. Or the guy that complains and calls you a rip off artist because the 60 year old part you sent isn't good enough. And that's after sending multiple pictures from every angle. I now use what I need to complete my project and scrap the rest.

Loren in MN · Feb 28, 2010

Was talking to a local scrapper at an auction last month. It sounded like he might have lots of interesting stuff as he told me what he'd been buying. I said I might stop by to look, he said it's all gone. He has a quota of 400 ton a month to keep up his scrap prices. I can't hardly believe how much iron must crushed each month state wide or nation wide, if one small scrap dealer is shipping that much!

Anonymous-0 · Feb 28, 2010

And to add insult to injury, they actualy trow them with the cranes, they can launch a A JD at least 60 ft. farther than the crane can reach, at 60 ft high as well.

Kinda like pulling a downer cows leg off with a winch the way they grab the rear tire and sling it. They could at least have a moment of silence to show proper respect.

And for goodness sake at least let me grab the carbs and mags off them.

My nephew found out that a old cannery that Green Giant bought out hauled two pallets of 2 cylinder carbs---new ones in the boxes yet, and one and a half pallets of mags to the scrap yard.

PJH · Feb 28, 2010

I hafta be careful when I haul scrap to the yard. I'll bring home a bigger load than I hauled away. But it's "new" junk.

Paul

Tony S. · Feb 28, 2010

I know where there are at least 40 restorable tractors rusting away, not in one place, just here and there. They will all go to scrap sooner or later, probably sooner. I really don't think anybody cares, just a few tractor nuts. Same with old trucks and pickups.

Mike (WA) · Mar 1, 2010

My dad was a carpenter- was working on a Weyerhauser building one time, they were instructed to strip the concrete forms and take the lumber to the burning pile. When private parties build, they use the form lumber in the building later. Several guys asked to buy the salvage- the boss (a Weyerhauser employee) just smiled, and said, "Weyerhauser sells new lumber, if you need any."

Geo-TH,In · Mar 2, 2010

In Indiana, IDEM is sighting farmers and anyone who has tractors, trucks, cars, tires or equipment with motors sitting around not being used. They say it"s an enviromental problem. If you want to keep it you need to make it run or put it under roof.

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