[AT] Demolition

[charliehill]

That's exactly the problem George.  First you have to find one that is in 
usable shape that you can buy.  Then you have to figure out how to move it. 
If you buy it for $200 and have to load it on a for hire low boy you can 
easily spend more on transport than you paid for it, even if it's just in 
the next county.  It needs to be close enough to drive home.   Many of the 
ones that end up in the derbies I'm sure appear to be in good shape but 
could have one bad part that cost 3 or 4 times the value of the machine to 
replace.  I understand that but it still makes it hard to watch the derbies 
when you wish you had one.

With all that said,  I'm a firm believer in property rights and if a guy 
owned a brand new one and wanted to drive it off a cliff it's none of my 
business.  It's his to do with as he wants and I hope it stays that way. 
I've got an old gas pump over on the farm.  It's mine and I want it to sit 
right where it is, right where it was when we stopped farming.  I don't want 
to sell it,   I don't particularly want to restore it.   I just want it to 
sit there where it's been for 50 years.
I got several folks that are mad at me because I won't let them have it, buy 
it or restore it for me but it's mine and I get to make the rules.  That's 
the way it should be.  Still I understand why the other guys are mad at me 
when they want one and can't find one.

Charlie

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Best, George" <George_Best at adp.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Demolition


> Usually it boils down to transportation costs on some of these things.  If 
> the local farmers/collectors don't want something then it goes for scrap.
>
> Although my neighbors combine was a perfectly good usable combine and he 
> could only get a couple hundred for it, I doubt anyone on the east coast 
> or Canada would have wanted to pay the shipping costs to move it.
>
> The combine destruction derby guys bought it and early one Sunday morning 
> they started it up and drove it down the back roads to their place.
>
> I'd bet anyone wanting a good usable older combine for a low price could 
> still find one.  Problem is getting it to your place for a reasonable 
> price.
>
> George
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charliehill
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 9:07 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Demolition
>
> George,  I agree with you too.  I just wish I could be there, just one 
> time,
> when there was a usable combine for sale for $200.00 or $500.  Most of the
> ones I've found were either beyond repair or NOT FOR SALE or the owner
> thought it was made of gold, silver and titanium.
>
>
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