[AT] A little afraid of this one.

[DBigdog]

I agree with Chuck- cash-in-hand deal only!

Farmer - I'm not sure I'd even want to bring a 16' trailer down your road - 
much less a tractor trailer rig.  : )

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Indiana Robinson
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 3:59 PM
Subject: [AT] A little afraid of this one.


I have a guy in NC that claims to be very interested in a 22' John
Deere field cultivator I have on Craigslist (Indianapolis list). I
took a very crappy picture one cold day of it sitting in the weeds and
that is all he has seen. It shows "something" green sitting in weeds
with a little of the upper folding frame and top-link connection
sticking up out of the weeds. I sure wouldn't buy something from a
picture like that... Here is my ad:
http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/grd/1053553324.html
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Here is his message minus the phone number:
"hello. I am wondering if you still have the field cultivator
available.  We sure are interested in getting it.  We have a tractor
trailer truck up that way, if you still have it, do you have any way
to load it. The trucker was going to do it as a backhaul.  We are
located in North Carolina."
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A search on his phone number comes up dry. At least it is a NC area
code. He only gave a first name.
It just all seems a little "off" to me. Scams are a serious problem on
Craigslist and they warn you constantly to only buy and sell locally
and avoid transactions where you cannot meet the buyer/seller face to
face.
I think I will take a pass on this one and wait for a local buyer.
I could help load it on a low trailer or even deliver it locally but
I'm not sure I could get it up on a semi. Anyone that has been to my
farm will also tell you that my road is not semi friendly...   :-)
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BTW, I did sell my 16' IHC disk this week to a fellow Scott and I have
visited with at auctions for many years. He used to work for an
auctioneer that I knew fairly well who died not long ago. I didn't
feel too bad about the disk sale, I bought it from a neighbor many
years ago for $600 and sold it for $950. I had put a set of blades on
it about 5 or 6 years ago but they were off of a disk that a friend
with too much money to spend bought new ones for and he gave me his
old set. They were 18" blades and still measure about  17.5" I have no
idea why he replaced them. The old ones I took off of my disk were
down to about 14" and the edges were getting too soft. It was a great
disk but I just had no more use for it, my CUB won't pull it.   :-)
I also sold my Glenco chisel plow recently and was very happy with that 
deal.

-- 
"farmer"

"Good clean muck never hurt nobody!!!"
Morris Moulterd


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Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
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