[AT] Wanted: Small grain drill

[Francis Robinson]

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From: "Herbert Metz" <metz-h.b at mindspring.com>
> P.S.  Farmer, what you got sitting over there in the corner!
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    Bad timing Herb... I just scrapped out a working 1926 Van-Brunt drill 
about 6 weeks ago (I did save the wheels for the yard). I am keeping my John 
Deere FBB and I also am keeping a John Deere "pasture drill" (sort of a 
no-till drill) to seed hay and horse lots.
    I sold "a lot" of stuff to a young fellow that is scrapping this year 
and let him do all of the work. I'm not sure how much he is getting for it 
but he has paid me a fair rate for it and is cleaning up a lot of crap at 
the same time. I was talking to an old farmer friend last week who told me 
that he sold one load of "short steel" last winter for $200 a ton... That 
sure changes the picture for collectors... I had tried to sell some of what 
I scrapped at Portland swap-meet last year and found little interest in most 
of it at almost give-away pricing. It went well as scrap. I sure hate to see 
so many tractors being hauled off for scrap. I know of dozens in my 
community that have gone that route. A large old tractor salvage yard in 
Central Indiana (Everett Bros. Monrovia, IN) sold out completely to scrap 
not so long ago (maybe a year or so). I understand that he sold it for $100 
a ton for absolutely everything and didn't have to touch a piece of it. Just 
guessing I would say maybe 300+ tractors and 30 combines and some misc. 
stuff. I suppose some of those old WC's and F-20's are now just highway 
guardrail...   :-(


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"farmer"

Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
robinson at svs.net