Hi Larry! Yes isn't it a rock in hard place, this old iron, so many of us appreciate the old equipment and its potentially useful secondary life in obsolescence, so much so, guys like your nephew end up with a darned collection of it, which is fine in my book LOL ! Hey I'm no angel either, have a few things in the yard, but I am disciplined enough to not add to it LOL, well that and if I was working making the money I used to... LOL now maybe that is a good thing, I sure have enough to fix and repair now anyway LOL !
An old tired D8 can be a huge lunker to own, outfit probably had to dispose of it, I've seen yards full of idled and old caterpillar equipment, down your way and around here, sitting for 20-30 years or more, scrap prices must not have been enough incentive, like they have been in recent times.
Well here's another subject for your theme night, Best Scrap Yard Find or Save, and Most Shameful Item You Have Seen Being Scrapped, or something along those lines, I like the first one best, second one can be a downer, but.... interesting stories may arise from either !
Hey in 1 week the clock goes ahead, and before you know it..... tillage and garden time !!!!!
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