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

[crawler]

Well there is some hope ,scrape took a serious drop last week and it is not
worth cutting as far as I can see.That should slow down some of the Iron.
ED


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald L. Cook" <rlcook at pionet.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Really depressing loss of old iron...


> It is a shame for us "accumulators" to lose all these goodies to the
> scrappers.  The scrappers just want to turn the quick buck and not have to
> deal with actually selling these old things that are worth far more than
> scrap.  A local amateur scrapper stopped here Sunday with a speed jack in
> the back of his pickup.  He wanted to know just what it was and if it was
> worth anything.  It had been set up to an old John Deere elevator and
wagon
> hoist which he had already cut up.  He couldn't find any John Deere
> markings on the speed jack and was asking me if it was indeed a John
> Deere.  I said, "No" but it is a functional speed jack to be driven with a
> flat belt.  He said seeing as how it wasn't John Deere he would just throw
> it in the cast iron pile.  I said it was worth more than scrap and he said
> it would take too long to find a buyer unless I wanted it.  Well, I have
no
> cash for anything, so it is gone.  Worth probably $3.65 at the scrap iron
> place.  I said there should have been a couple of tumbling rods and 4
> knuckles to go with this thing.  Really heavy.  He said with much
> enthusiasm, Yes!  They really added the weight to the load with the
> elevator and hoist on it.  Gone!
>
> Ron Cook
> Salix, IA
> >         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...   :-(
>
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