When I was working for Deere dealers, 60s up to the 90s, we often sold off tractor-trade-ins to places down south in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. At that time, used equipment was going a lot higher down south then here in New York. It had to be, or nobody from down south would of wasted time coming up here to get it.
Around 1980, we did many Chevy and GMC truck engine swaps (diesel to gas) - pulling out the Olds 350 diesels. We had a literal mountain of engines - and again - some dealer from down south came up and bought them all. He said they worked well as power units in warm areas. True or not, I do not know - but I DO know he bought them all. They only had scrap-metal value here. As I recall my boss got around $75 each and most were running take-outs.
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Today's Featured Article - History of the Cockshutt Tractor - by Danny Bowes (Dsl). The son of a very successful Toronto and Brantford, Ontario merchant, and himself quite an entreprenuer, James G. Cockshutt opened a business called the Brantford Plow Works in 1877. In 1882, the business was incorporated to become the Cockshutt Plow Company. Along with quality built equipment, expedious demand and expansion made Cockshutt Plow Works the leader in the tillage tools sector of the farm equipment industry by the 1920's.
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