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thendrix 
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 Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 1:32pm |
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I'm kinda jealous. We don't have free tractors around here. The only "free" tractors are the tractors you see at scrap yards and trade the whole load plus $20 for
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Dan73
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Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 2:29pm |
 thendrix wrote:
I'm kinda jealous. We don't have free tractors around here. The only "free" tractors are the tractors you see at scrap yards and trade the whole load plus $20 for |
I was thinking the same thing. The only free tractor I ever saw was at the bottom of a big drop off with a tree where the motor once was. The PO pulled the motor out of an old farmall regular and then pushed it over the edge back in history probably the 50s would have been my guess. I was told I could have the tractor if I could get it out without cutting any trees besides the one going through the tractor. Well getting it back up a 20 foot drop off just wasn't worth it. I would have had to take it apart on site to get it out.  guess I have the wrong friends...
Edited by Dan73 - 27 Oct 2016 at 2:30pm
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Ted in NE-OH
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Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 7:27pm |
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Ask around, maybe there is a farmer who quit farming and has barn space.
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CA, WD, C, 3 Bs, 2 Gs, WC, I-400, 914
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Dakota Dave
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Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 9:56pm |
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I put up a portable shed from menards.just tubing with a tarp top for a temp shed the 10x20 were on sale for a hundered bucks.its made it through two winters till this summer we had 80 mph winds it was floating about three feet off the ground getting slammed against my barn till the wind died. I pulled it back in place and put a strip of gorilla tape on the tear and backed the tractor in and strapped it to the tractor. The mistake I made was not screwing anchors in . I anokored it to the 2x6 sill plates and the sill plates to the floor cross ties the car was sitting on the floor it didn't move the sill plates were still attached to the hoop legs but the 16 penny gavalinized twist nails didn't hold the sill plates to the floor cross ties. So the whole thing flew away. It must have got some air since it didn't touch the car or tractor and trailer sitting between it and the barn that stopped it from getting away.
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CrestonM
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Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 10:09pm |
Dan73 wrote:
guess I have the wrong friends... |
I know a guy who inherited some land from his wife's granddad. There's a styled A JD, missing a motor and 3 wheels, with a giant tree through it. A friend needed a couple parts at the time, and I'd done the guy a few favors, etc, and he wouldn't sell anything off that junk A. Don't know why. He's not much of a friend though. More of a guy that "I want to be on his good side so maybe he'll sell me some old implements with trees growing in them". He's really kind of a jerk. Before I found out the land was now his (didn't find out from him, found out from a cousin of his wife!) He always told me he didn't own it, that he rented it. Talked about how sad it was to see all the old equipment just sitting there with trees in it and that he knew it was going to scrap one day soon. Then the cousin of his wife told me that he was the owner and had been for several years. Phfffftt!!! Then I told the guy I knew he owned it. He got all defensive asking how I knew. I said, "You're not from around here, but I am. I know most all the local farmers." (His wife's cousin was one of those farmers) That upset him, and he finally said he'd sell me an Oliver 2-12 plow with a cedar tree in it for $500. He was just being absurd. What I really wanted was a JD 6' rope trip field cultivator, but he said no way, he's not selling that. (He told me on another occasion that he hates JD, so why not sell it to me?)
I know where he lives so...Shameless...you wanna bring some pashonate pink paint over? He has red tractors, so they'll be pink eventually anyways, but we might speed up the process! Lol
Edited by CrestonM - 27 Oct 2016 at 10:19pm
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dawntreader74
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Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 10:31pm |
theres people around hear the same way' stuff they will let set an rot' before they will let someone make use of it' then when they kick off the kids have the junk man just scrap it out for a quick buck. all things like that are just junk to them kind of people'' makes a man sick in a way.
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Dan73
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Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 10:41pm |
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CrestonM there are some odd ducks out there. Next time he wants something done just mention how you really wish you had one of whatever. When he grumbles say oh well i had better get going I have a busy day ahead. People like that typically take the hint and figure they got a deal getting you to do something they need for some old scrap metal.
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Alberta Phil
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Posted: 28 Oct 2016 at 10:21am |
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I must be luckier than most. I've got three Allis's that were given to me for hauling them away! A WC, WF and a WD with loader. They're all running and I managed to squeeze them into the shed somehow.
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