[AT] Really depressing loss of old iron...

[charlie hill]

I know how you feel Farmer.  A few years ago some folks logged out a mature 
pine forrest near here.  It was about 30 acres and in the middle of it was 
an old saw mill and shed.  Under the shed along with the saw mill were 2 JD 
unstyled A's (I think).  They had been there long enough untouched for the 
former field to grow into pine trees that were 20 inches or more on the 
stump.

They dragged the tractors out near the road and angled them as if they were 
on display but with no for sale signs.  At the time I didn't have much extra 
cash ( I never do.  LOL) and I don't know much about JD's so I never stopped 
to look at them or ask about them.
I figured the guys either intended to keep them or wanted big money for them 
based on the way they had "staged" them.

After several weeks, months, they disappeared.  I found out later that they 
cut them up for scrap.

Made me sick.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:57 AM
Subject: [AT] Really depressing loss of old iron...


> There was a property not far from me that I (and others) had been watching 
> for years. It
> belonged to the parents (now deceased) of the wife of a neighbor of mine. 
> Her parents had
> a tiny farm of maybe 20 acres and the guy was an "accumulator". The lot 
> around the old
> unused house was all grown over and filled with all manner of old iron. 
> One day a year or
> more ago he asked me to look at the stuff and try to give him an idea of 
> values. Just
> hitting the top of the stuff I saw there were maybe 8 to 10 cars, half a 
> dozen trucks, a
> couple of combines, several old rust eaten Model A Fords, several other 
> old vehicles I
> did not recognize, a Fordson, 3 or 4 F-20's (a couple with road gears), an 
> Allis WC and a
> bunch of bits and pieces of tractors and other implements. I had left him 
> a low offer on
> the WC. He had been using it but someone slipped in and took the manifold 
> and carb that
> winter. Several people had made him an offer on different stuff but he 
> would not sell
> them. A couple of months ago I noticed that someone was starting to drag 
> some of the
> stuff out into the field and figured that he was going to have an auction 
> sale which was
> what I had suggested to him. Then I heard that he was cleaning it out 
> because the county
> had given him notice. I already knew that he wanted to clean the property 
> and build a new
> home there further from town than here.
> Saturday when Son Scott and I were talking to a friend of Scott's that is 
> the son-in-law
> of the owner of the local junk yard and who is the co-operator of that 
> yard, he gave us
> the bad news (this friend lives just around the corner from that 
> property). It seems that
> our neighbor struck a deal with some local scrap cutter for the whole mess 
> and ---
> "EVERYTHING"--- was cut up for scrap and hauled to a salvage yard about 25 
> miles south of
> here... Seems the scrapper is a bit of an idiot... Scott's friend went to 
> see him at the
> site and took a "bunch" of cash and tried to buy several pieces telling 
> the guy to just
> give him a price but the cutter just kept saying everything was worth more 
> as scrap and
> would not consider quoting an asking price of any kind.
> The old iron flag is flying at half mast here...   :-(
>
> -- 
> "farmer", Esquire
> At Hewick Midwest
>      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
>
> Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
> Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. In America 100
> years
> before the revolution.
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
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