Anyone Have Any Old Tractors To Give Away?

Tom in NE · Feb 21, 2011

They want your old farm equipment.

I read this in today's paper and had to chuckle. I don't have any comment....except to say, "I don't have any to donate."
Give Us Your Old Farm Equipment

C.R. · Feb 21, 2011

too bad nobody is interested in helping family farmers here

senoj · Feb 21, 2011

I would be VERY leary of this gimic.The cost to ship this to outback countries would be FAR more than they could purchase new machinery in most of these countries. It is a gimic. ggp

Adirondack case guy · Feb 21, 2011

Some one posted on here this weekend that he saw two semis loaded with old machinery, at a truck stop, and had asked what scrapper it was headed to and was told it was going to be restored, but driver wouldn't offer any more info.

RayP(MI) · Feb 21, 2011

A couple years back, a group of churches in this area gathered up some old farm machinery, refurbished it and sent it to an agricultural school in south America. A potato digger, and corn picker were part of the shipment. Not stuff you would find new on the market, today, but suitable for their needs. This equipment aided the educational process, and helped growing food for the school"s needs. If I remember right, they also had worked out a deal with Kubota to supply them with a modern tractor.

oldironman · Feb 21, 2011

There is a new scam every day.

tlak · Feb 21, 2011

Heard quite a while ago that somebody was gathering some of the older small fords because they were cheap and easy to work on.

Charlie M · Feb 21, 2011

It could be real - the rail road museum I belong to had a lot of old construction equipment and a guy was buying it all at scrap price to send over to India. I think the intent was to fix what was fixable and use the rest as scrap iron.

Zachary Hoyt · Feb 21, 2011

I heard of an organization once called Tractors For Our Daily Bread that sent N series Fords to somewhere in Africa. I think that was a legitimate charity, but I don't know for sure.
Zach

rrlund · Feb 21, 2011

I was talking to a friend today who gave away a car and a pickup. He didn't intend to though. Somebody came driving in claiming he was in desperate need of something to repair. Said he was teaching auto repair to handicapped kids. He let him take a car that needed a brake line and I don't remember what he said was wrong with the pickup. The guy told him he lived just south of town. Well,after a couple of weeks,he hadn't heard from him,so he started looking for him. Found out he lived north of town,not south. More important,both vehicles were gone. He had cut them up with a chop saw and had taken them to Greenville Metals. He said the guy sure was surprised when he came back with the cops.
They couldn't do anything but start an investigation. He said he went to the scrap yard and they remembered the guy bringing in the box off the pickup,but they had crushed it.

Tom-TX · Feb 21, 2011

That guy is lucky he didnt get the cars from me. It would have been his LAST two cars to steal, and I sure would not have envolved the cops. Nuff said. Tom

RobMD · Feb 21, 2011

Believe it or not, donations of cow schitt is more legit than donating tractors/cars.

RODGEinIL · Feb 21, 2011

Lord almighty, if they can't get us to give them to China fast enough they got to try to send them somewhere else! Where is the help for the AMERICAN FARMER???

Kippster · Feb 21, 2011

Amen to that.

LJS30 · Feb 21, 2011

Guys I hate saying this but I'm to the point now where I believe we need to hunker down and take care of our own nation.

LJS30 · Feb 21, 2011

Guys I hate saying this but I'm to the point now where I believe we need to hunker down and take care of our own nation.

BIG ED · Feb 21, 2011

If I had any to give away,I'd sell it,if even for scrap.
Then take the money and use it to help some DESERVING person in THE USA.
For example an old couple who have to choose between food or RX meds.
Or children of people who can't work, not ones who DON'T WANT WORK.
We need to help at home prior to trying to slove problems worldwide.

kyplowboy · Feb 21, 2011

Egg zackly!!!

It would be cheaper to buy new 30 hp tractors made on that side of the world than it would be to ship an old tractor over there. Scam! They will scrap your old stuff, keep most of the money and send a little of it if any over seas.

RandyB(MI) · Feb 21, 2011

The nnalert Bible (Curan) says , allows , condones our destruction. 'nuff said? Aw shucks , I forgot , Barrack Binl--- I mean external_link is really a Christian. My mistake.

DeltaRed · Feb 21, 2011

The 'fundraisers'are only required to give the charities 2%-the rest is thiers to keep.Same goes for telemarketers.

Dialed In Restorations · Feb 21, 2011

WOW!!! I was laughing so hard I almost spit my beer out all over the key board. I feel we should fix whats going on here before I let some 12 year old girl run my super 88 through a rice patty

LJS30 · Feb 21, 2011

(quoted from post at 05:21:51 02/22/11) WOW!!! I was laughing so hard I almost spit my beer out all over the key board. I feel we should fix whats going on here before I let some 12 year old girl run my super 88 through a rice patty

I'd be darned if some Armenian kid ends up with my Ford 861.

Eldon (WA) · Feb 21, 2011

If it were legit, it is a poor plan. Anything with an engine isn't going to last long in these countries. Besides the maintenance necessary, the people will use the gas or diesel money for something else. We have a local guy that is building a pedal powered combine for 3rd world countries....I think that has more of a chance. Of course they may just scrap it and send it to China too.....as long as countries ship food to them why should they try to grow any??? Then when they do get food, they do what they do best and just multiply the population....and the problem escalates. It is a "no win" situation in most cases.....

Traditional Farmer · Feb 22, 2011

The Tax Credit might be worth more than the
equipment for some people

mkirsch · Feb 22, 2011

Oh please... How is anything this charity is likely to receive going to be of any use to an AMERICAN farmer?

This equipment was abandoned because the farmer couldn't make money with it 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago, either because it was too expensive to maintain or it was too inefficient. Good stuff for subsistence farming, if you can fix it and keep it working, but we haven't been reduced to that yet.

It's a PRIVATE charity, so if you want to "hunker down" and help out this country, DON'T DONATE.

Besides, American farmers don't need charity. They need a system where they're not the victims of rampant greed at every level. Everybody is trying to squeeze every last dime they can, and the farmer is low man on the totem pole.

These feed, seed, fertilizer, veterinary, and equipment industries have created a vicious cycle that can't be sustained. You can't keep raising the prices to maintain "profit margins" for the investors. You're destroying your market. At some point you'll have nobody left to sell to.

jackinok · Feb 22, 2011

I'd have to think long and hard about this one.the concept is a good one in my opinion,I always said you could make peace better with a jd tractor than a sherman tank, but in most countries whatever you grow would be taken away by different fighting groups anway.Lots of countries in africa where they will give you land if you can farm it.Just on a side note,3000 national guard troops shipped out of oklahoma last week,quite a few were in the so called agriculture detatchment, going to help train afgan farmers how to grow something besides poppys used for drugs.Probably is a legit deal,but I'm like you all,it would make more sense to buy tractors you could get parts for locally.

Leroy · Feb 22, 2011

I don't know anything about this but years ago there was somebody buying and restoring onld Ford 8N tractors and sending them to some countrys where they were still only using oxen to farm with. They were simple enough that they could teach those people that had never seen a tractor how to operate and maintain and the small size and simplicity of the plows mmade easy to ship and handle. Can't remember any of the details. But one tractor would outwork a dozen oxen with a wood plow.

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