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

Lane Freeman lmfree at ptd.net
Tue Jun 14 16:53:35 PDT 2005


I guess those T-5's all went for scrap. The only thing I can figure since no
one at Crawler Heaven returns phone calls or emails regarding prices and
shipping/pickup.
Lane Freeman
New Tripoli, PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "crawler" <crawler at lynnet.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Really depressing loss of old iron...


> 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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