Kinda Sad

Chuck (CA) · Oct 30, 2015

It's a shame that one person would allow this many tractors get into this state of disrepair.
Tractor Grave Yard

ohiojim · Oct 30, 2015

at least he didn't haul them for scrap

Mike M · Oct 30, 2015

I've fixed up a lot worse ones.

Greg1959 · Oct 30, 2015

I like the hundred series Ford with the Mercury outboard hooked to it!

JRSutton · Oct 30, 2015

Thankfully there aren't any good ones in there. No farmalls.

- just kidding

But I agree - it's at least better than scrapping them. They could still be saved.

markct · Oct 30, 2015

A shame would be scrapping them, I have many tractors outback I keep for parts, I wouldn't call it a shame at all. They are not making any new parts for larger things so used parts are important to keeping our older machinery running

rrlund · Oct 30, 2015

That's where used parts come from. You can't make mayonnaise unless you break a few eggs.

Traditional Farmer · Oct 30, 2015

I have a bunch like that and almost all of them I bought that way,if I hadn't gotten them many would have been scrapped and crushed.So which way would you think is better?

Mike M · Oct 30, 2015

I had to go back and look again. LOL Must be for working in flood prone areas ?

Den N Ms · Oct 30, 2015

I like this amphibious Ford!

Galen Houk · Oct 30, 2015

My son has my yard full of 2 cylinder JD's. I wish they were in someone else's yard. I never thought we would have so many tractors with parts that deteriorate every day. It is impossible to get them all dismantled. Anyone want to buy a 2 cylinder parts business?

Dave H (MI) · Oct 30, 2015

Actually, I thought that too once. Then I needed some parts for a tractor and found a guy who had them for sale locally. I went to his home where he took me in his shop and showed me rows of shiny bright tractors...restorations he had picked up at auctions. He was parting out ALL of them. I was obviously shocked so he told me...."collectors do not want rusty pitted parts".

So he buys and cuts up only nice tractors.

rrlund · Oct 30, 2015

Back when Stamm was in business I saw them do that. Drive nice restored tractors in to the shop and start torching bolts to get engines apart.

Dave H (MI) · Oct 30, 2015

See now, this is why I roll my eyes when I read all the complaints about Marty whatshisname here in Michigan who sells all the old parts on ebay. The guy ships a lot of parts on a daily basis and most are dirty and rusty and look like they come off that imaginary "parts tractor". All kinds of people pitching a fit right and left because of it. Most of them need a reality check. I don't think most of us would be happy to find out the tractor we lovingly restored over months or years is likely to end up behind a garage in Commerce Township being torched apart and being sold for parts and scrap.

Geo-TH,In · Oct 30, 2015

It saddens me to see people leave the old girls out in the weather and they rust away. I don't think people realize just how much damage water does to the engines, carbs, tranny, rear ends, gas tanks.

rrlund · Oct 30, 2015

Most folks don't remember just how poor the paint was on those older tractors. I was just thinking yesterday about a Super H that a guy out east of town bought new,so it must have been a 53 or 54. It never had a roof over it. Dad and I went and got that thing and hauled it home to get it running,must have been about 1964-65,so it wasn't much more than ten years old. There wasn't a flake of recognizable red paint left on it. The gas tank and carburetor were full of rust.
Can you imagine a 2004 or 2005 tractor being that rusty today?

Mark - IN. · Oct 30, 2015

To your point, that's true.

Have you ever had something happen, something seemingly irrelevant but it causes something to flash before your eyes? Know what I mean? Your subject, "Kinda Sad". I read those two words and like a bolt of lightning, it flashed right before my eyes just like that from years, decades ago. Here, listen closely for those two words, "Kinda Sad" in that same exact order. John Anderson at the Grand Ole Opry on a Friday night. Haven't heard that in years. There was a flash, I saw his face and heard the words. Thanks for the epiphany, I owe you one. Turn it up.

Mark
I Wish I Could Have Been There...live

ShadetreeRet · Oct 30, 2015

Custom built for a cranberry farmer.

ShadetreeRet · Oct 30, 2015

I hadn't heard that song in quite some time, thanks for mentioning it. Kinda reminds me of another by Harry Chapin, "The Cat's in the Cradle".

ShadetreeRet · Oct 30, 2015

I used to ride by a place and wonder, "Why doesn't he just sell all those tractors, ( trucks, cars, you fill in the blank), but then I realized that I fall into the same category. If you have an affection for old iron, and you find a piece at a good price, you buy it, Because they don't make them anymore, they may increase in value, and/or, SOMEDAY, maybe I will have enough money to restore one and I will have all the parts I need without having to comb through salvage yards. At present I have four trucks that I would love to fix but fate. (If you want to call it that,) had other plans. One is a 1987 Dodge Dakota with a blown engine, but straight sheet metal and decent paint, that sat in a man's yard for a year with a "For Sale" sign on it and when I stopped and looked at it, he said if it didn't sell in a week it was going to the crusher. I bought it mainly to keep it from being crushed. But then there are those who say, "nah, not for sale, I might fix it some day." "OK, here is my phone number, if you decide to sell, call me." Next week it was gone and no one called you. So, Yeah, I kinda understand how it is.

Mark - IN. · Oct 31, 2015

You're welcome, but the real thanks goes to Chuck. He spurred it on. I read those two words, "Kinda Sad" and in a blinding flash knew right where I'd heard them, "...kinda sad...", and well worth hearing again for old tractor times sake.

Mark

Chuck (CA) · Oct 31, 2015

John Anderson has/had a great voice and loved that song. However, I didn't have that in mind when I made the post, (at least consciously.)
Didn't he also do "Straight Tequila Night"?

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