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kestrel

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How many times have you driven around and seen perfectly
good working vintage tractors left to the ravages of the
elements ?

This one hasn't moved since last July.

I'm thinking of sneaking out some night and taking this poor ol' Farmall Super H hostage and hide her out in my barn. Maybe leave a note for the farmer demanding he provide shelter for her.

Otherwise, he'll never see her again.

What do you all think ? Good idea or let her rust away ?
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Yes and if stopped and tried to buy the tractor, they would say how much they need, and want a small fortune to sell it!
 
Agreed. I'm friends with the landowner but still enjoy giving him a hard time. Just being neighborly, swamp yankee style.
 
After removing the rear weights and giving them to me, just let her rust away. Just kidding. He should take a chain saw to the end of that barn and remove the muffler and at least park it in there.
 
I have found numerous, mostly IH, tractors sitting in the weeds rusting away here in southeast Nebraska. I don't know why they were parked, any number of reasons I suppose, owner got a new tractor and just parked the old one, major break down or even a minor problem and owner just got a different tractor. Most of them still look to be in pretty good shape and are very restorable. At the very worst they can provide parts for another tractor. I asked a guy about a Super M one time, I had seen it setting in the same place for several years and the guy said he still used it :? It is his right to say that he does not want to sell it, so why lie about it?
 
Notice the nice green "patina" growing on the wheels! When they"ve sat long enough to grow moss...they"ve not been earning their keep for a long time.

I went and looked at a raggedy SC today....the more tractors I go look at, the more I appreciate the one I already have. Sadly, most of these old-timers are ragged out, seen way better days and if a part isn"t broke...it"s ready to fall off. The owners aren"t a bit bashful to ask 3X what it"s worth either....that"s mostly why they are left sitting and rusting away.
 
(quoted from post at 15:44:52 01/09/10) I have found numerous, mostly IH, tractors sitting in the weeds rusting away here in southeast Nebraska. I don't know why they were parked, any number of reasons I suppose, owner got a new tractor and just parked the old one, major break down or even a minor problem and owner just got a different tractor. Most of them still look to be in pretty good shape and are very restorable. At the very worst they can provide parts for another tractor. I asked a guy about a Super M one time, I had seen it setting in the same place for several years and the guy said he still used it :? It is his right to say that he does not want to sell it, so why lie about it?
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OK, so he doesn't use it real often. :lol:
 
You better come get my Allis WD then! I have no place to put it under roof, and am not ready to get rid of Grandpas tractor either. You seem abit pompus with that attitude! Greg
 
I guess it was just the times, but late 50s early 60s this part of the country was not big row crop area, rather cattel & tobacco. Must have been very succesfull farms because when the 400 ih and latter came out many of the old h & m tractors were not traded just parked out in the fence row.. I doubt that any part of the country has more of that vintage tractors parked
out back than this area. (West middle Tn.) Untill the original owner dyes and then it passes on it is almost impossible to buy the things. I have seen scrap buyers with the rollback and money just get laughed at..
 
I know what you mean. There is an IH Cub sitting in the woods outside of town. Been in the same spot for over twenty years I am told. Guy will not sell going to restore it some day. We also have a 1948 Packard Commadore in the woods. Same reason for it still sitting in the woods.
 
Kestrel,

I don't row crop here in Middle Tennessee, I just grow hay and raise black Angus cattle. However, I used to row crop 160 acres in Minnesota a long time ago. Just for the heck of it, I'd like to grow a few acres of corn and beans here on my farm.

A little old lady down the road from me has a small John Deere combine sitting out in the trees. Her husband used to use it, but he had died many years ago. I was thinking I'd offer her $500.00 for it. I talked to her, and she said she'd sell it for $4,000.00.

Guess where the combine is still sitting.

Tom in TN
 
Not likely......He knows I live down the road and that I just want to get at it with some sandpaper and a few rattle cans.

I'd return it when the ground thaws. A tractor bailout thing. No charge.

Scout's honor :)
 
Perhaps I should have mentioned the landowner and tractor owner are my friends. I tell them as well I'm going to take and ransom the thing. It's all good natured

Just trying to have a little tractor related fun here.

So no, I don't worry about my re-election...........
 
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