China Bound

I am in NW Kansas and I see many loads of tractors and machinery going for scrap, is this the same all over the country?

Had a local "big whig" die recently and his heirs had trucks hauling old equipment to the scrappers for several weeks. From what I saw and know for fact, as well as heard through the grapevine, some of the stuff was parted out too far and therefore was junk that needed to be at the scrappers. Some of the stuff, like a D375 Komatsu dozer with a ripper that had set for a good many years at a site where it had been doing some clearing also went. I tried to buy it for a customer a few years back as it wasn't in bad shape, but the guy thought it was gold plated when he came up with a price. As it went in the end, they messed with long enough to get it started and driven onto the trailer before going to scrap and being unloaded. One CAT grader that a friend of mine had looked at only needed a head to get it running and it too got scrapped. I know alot of pure junk went to the scrapper in this deal but alot of good older heavy equipment that only needed a few dollars and a little TLC got the torch too....MAKES ME SICK just to think about it..........

Same thing in Texas, I'd like to buy some of those things, but no, melt it down and send it to china. Back in the late 30's, we did the same thing for japan, then they sent it back!!!!!!

As I was driving past a scrap yard a couple weeks ago, a truck with 2 old cars, probably early 1940's, was pulling into the yard. These cars were both 2 door cars and looked complete from the outside, meaning all the doors, trunk lid and hood were on them. All the glass also. Don't people realize that these things are worth more as a collectible car than scrap?

Ya seems that way. Shoot look at Craig's list you see people wanting to buy scrap all the time sad but true.

The same thing happened on the eve of WWII (The Big One). Famous line of jewish junk dealers from Chicago was: "Vel, I von't give you anything but I take for nothing".

Yep that is why I keep saying one of these days China will throw it back at us just like Japan did in 1941. It will happen sooner or later and if we keep letting them have it they just have a bigger stock pile to throw back at us and we will not have the stuff to build what we need to throw it back at them

Well, seems to be if we would just swap governments with China, everything would work out fine. They seem a little smarter when it comes to making, and not just printing money. Is it a perfect country? Ohhh Heck no! There are still plenty of people still subsistence farming in my area. EPA is almost non-existent, OSHA would have a field day on any construction site. Ya"ll keep talking about Japan in the 30"s and 40"s... Why would China attack, when they darn near will own everything in the US? Not trying to be a troll, or a jerk, but we should do like they do, tax the crap out of anything not made in the country.. and yes, even the "American" stuff made here, is shipped out, and then back in again, so it can get taxed as import. So, you got a Chevy made in Mexico? Tax it.. Computer made in China? Tax it.. Will goods get expensive in the US? yup.. until companies start making things there again.. on an upside, repair shops will make a comeback. nobody, throws nothing away here, until it absolutely can"t be fixed. Sorry, rant over, and I know I don"t know everything, feel free to correct me.. Just ya"ll start talking mean about Chinese people, you are talking mean about half my family, and my kids.. And to keep it tractor related... someone send me an "H" or an "M"?

That way up here in PA. have to watch out for pices of scrap on the road by the scrap yards so as not to run over the stuff that falls of the trucks hualing it into the yards.

Yep,seems to be better'n 50% of what goes into the crusher just up the road.

Its a total, d*mn shame.
Oughta be stopped.
I've afforded the little I can to save a few from the scrap yard.
Case 830 and a 49 Chev 2-ton were my recent purchases.
Guy told me they were goin to scrap.
Had to pay a little more than scrap price to get them,
but I feel good about doin it.
It just ain't right.
Its American History, might as well have a book burning, too.

I've had some things here that I thought I priced fair enough,but a lot of people thought I was asking too much.
Then took them in for scrap and got as much or more for scrap,paid that day,and no worry about somebody griping 6 months later,because they had to tighten a bolt.
Now none of this was "valauble" things.

I know where there is an old Packard Sedan sitting in the woods. Tried to buy it. Won't sell because he is going to restore it(yea right). His son told me it is going to the scrapper. When the old man dies along with his other stuff.

Were already a "Third world Contry" we just don't know it yet. No Industry, no Manufacturing & No Steel Mills If the S#*t hits the fan we are done for you can just stick a fork in us. We have been hung by our own do goods who don't have a clue about what it takes to keep a country going. It isn't jobs like Wall Mart & Micky Dees.

Unfortunately Oldmax, I think you're exactly right.

Why would China attack us? Regardless of the outcome, they lose...

We buy all their crap. If they even cast a dirty look in our general direction, that's all over. They lose their best customer.

wow your just so clueless. sad. we literally would starve, if they
just turn off the key, as it sits right now, on all their ships. no need
to attack. they have all the $ we used to have before we became the
next 3rd world country, & with their huge population , all our
natural resources & wide-open spaces (cheap food), why WOULDNT
they take over. all they have to do is change the locks they own
more of it than we do now. we will work for them, their way, just
like the 9yr old girls do over there that make all your walmart
clothes. I could go on for months but i aint got time.