[AT] AC All-Crop for sale

[charlie hill]

Financial concerns and a need to clean up some have caused me to sell a good 
bit of metal over the last couple of months.  80% of it was stuff I didn't 
want to sell but I needed the money
and with #1 selling for $15/100, #2 for $12 and "shredder" selling for 
$11.25 it's hard not to let it go.  Fortunately I haven't needed to sell any 
tractors or tractor parts,  just an accumulation of steel, sheet metal, cast 
iron (like brake rotors, etc) and a bit of scrap copper, brass and aluminum. 
I have to tell you I had to turn on my hard heart every time I went to the 
scrap yard.  You wouldn't believe the stuff that are in those piles.   I'm 
talking functional plows and cultivators,  complete tractors,  a wrecked 
fuel delivery truck with the cab torn up but the tank, cabinetry and even 
the delivery meter in good shape.  Some of the stuff was not even old.  I 
suspect a lot of it was stolen from barn yards and hedge rows around farms 
where no one lives.  Thankfully the guy that runs this yard pulls the good 
stuff over to the side.  He has an AC B, wide front C and another tractor of 
a brand I couldn't identify from my vantage point sitting over by the fence. 
The AC C even has the cultivator frames on it and the paint on them is much 
better than on the tractor which tells me they've been put up under a barn 
for most of their life.   If I hadn't needed the money I was getting for 
what I sold I probably would have spent it all buying up stuff he had bought 
from others.   But if you think about it, an AC B weighs in at about 2200 
lbs or so.  It's cast iron so it sells for #1.  That means and old B with a 
stuck or blown up motor will bring $300 or more.   Where else can you get 
that for it these days?   I have one B that I paid about $25 for several 
years back.  I could turn a nice profit on it as scrap and it's a basket 
case.  No, I'm not selling it.................... yet.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Spencer Yost
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 8:11 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] AC All-Crop for sale

All old iron eventually ends up in the scrap yard in the sky;  but it's 
tough when it is by our own hand.  Especially when one cares about it like 
we do.

Their so big, you often get put into the box of having to decide.  Can't 
give it away, can't sell it, can't reasonably part it - but have to do 
something with it.  Doesn't leave much choice.

Good luck!

Spencer

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 9, 2011, at 14:36, Len Rugen <rugenl at yahoo.com> wrote:

> That's about what I'm finding.  While it's a shape to scrap old iron,
> it's more of a shame to put up with the wife having to scrape frost
> because the garage is full of stuff I don't use :-)
>
> On 9/9/2011 1:06 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>> I started to part mine, and then realized I never could make enough money 
>> from parts to justify the effort.  The scrap man gave me $125 so I took 
>> it.
>>
>> Btw, I had a beautiful wheat screen and a brand new belt from Agco - 
>> these extras came with my all-crop from the P.O.  The scrap man didn't 
>> get these and I still had them.   I took them to Portland this year and 
>> priced them at $25 and $35.   Tens of thousands of antique iron lovers 
>> looked at them and never bought them so I donated them to tri-state for 
>> their fund raising auction.  Just think of that story before you spend 
>> time pulling parts and advertising.
>>
>> Good luck though!
>>
>> Spencer
>>
>>
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