Where to put a free tractor
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Topic: Where to put a free tractor
Posted By: Lon(MN)
Subject: Where to put a free tractor
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 5:33pm
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So you got a free tractor in pretty nice shape but you have no room in the shed for it. But you really want to keep it. What is the solution?
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 5:35pm
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Add on to the shed, build a bigger shed, or move to where there is room for a bigger shed. I guess you could always find a friend to store it for you too. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Lon(MN)
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 5:39pm
| Thought of the shed, $50,000 shed with $10,000 worth of stuff in it. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 5:47pm
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That's what tarps are for ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 5:49pm
Give it to your buddy in MO that you've never seen before.  ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |
Posted By: Orange Blood
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 5:54pm
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This is the age old dilemma. You put the item worth the least outside. Worth is not always monetary. While sheds do cost a lot, they keep the depreciation down, and the up time up, what value is that? I have gone round and round with my dad, about a building full of "stuff" while the equipment sits outside. The particular shed in question is 60' x 120. We quickly filled it with stuff, except for the N7, which was inside every year until it was no longer used every season. So I say to dad, conservatively by collecting all this "stuff" (junk) you saved approximately $20,000.00 dollars not having to buy new over the course of 40 years, but your equipment has depreciated well beyond 20K solely because it was not inside, and downtime due to weather related repairs, is in addition to that number. So dad did we really save money? The only answer is nope. ------------- Still in use: HD7 WC C CA WD 2-WD45 WD45LP WD45D D14 3-D17 D17LP 2-D19D D19LP 190XTD 190XTLP 720 D21 220 7020 7030 7040 7045 3-7060 Projects: 3-U UC 2-G 2-B 2-C CA 7-WC RC WDLP WF D14 D21 210 7045 N7 |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 6:07pm
Here ya go, Lon! A few pallets and something to cover the sides and roof with is all you need! What tractor is it?
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Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 6:10pm
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A storage unit would get you by for a little bit ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 6:19pm
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Each of my D-14s have their own 9by12 shed.It's the max allowed up here before you get nailed for permits,site plans, $$$$$......sigh. basic 2 - 12' , 2by4 walls,3/8ply,steel roof, 7 homemade trusses....total cost including roof screws,nails,etc. 500 Canucks. Now shed #5 is already rented will pay for itself in one year. Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: rpropst
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 7:01pm
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After going through and a paint job on a 800 ford that had spent it's entire life outside I handed the bill to the owner. He said I guess its true . You will pay for a shed whether you build it or not. ------------- 1950 snap coupler B 1948 WD 1951Ca 1952B 1952adjustable axel B |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 7:04pm
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Humm? The pallet shed fits my style! I like it! So I need about 8 of those!:) Yea I have the same problem! Way too many toys and not enough storage. Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 7:14pm
Wow that is the best looking use of pallets I have seen. |
CrestonM wrote:Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 7:19pm
| If it was a free tractor here it probably won't be harmed by sitting outside any free tractors I have seen have already seen too many winters outside. |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 8:01pm
| store it at my place? |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 8:36pm
Trying to cut in on my action??? ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 10:20pm
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I'm closer Lon and I can make room.....
------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 10:32pm
| Carports are pretty reasonable priced, then add sides if you'd like, even fill in the ends and you've got another shed. |
Posted By: Bill Deppe/AC Salvag
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 11:12pm
| Won't the loving wife leave the car outside? |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 11:41pm
| she would Bill....if I needed overnight cover for a load of grain...much past that....nope! lol we have one of those metal car ports, bought it new about 30 years ago. bought the next size tall one. the 7010 and a 350 bu. wagon fits in it. best quik tarp made! |
Posted By: bigredisb
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 7:50am
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I use friends farms that have some space or storage units. I live in the middle of town with a 2 car garage so I have to spread the wealth around to some buddies out in the county. Basically the deal is that they can use my stuff all they want if I can keep it at their places. ------------- 1961 Allis-Chalmers D15 1949 Farmall Super A |
Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 8:51am
| You should move to NH I am sure I could find a place here where you cold get a deal like that... I will even let you use them on my farm if you want to go play.... |
Posted By: Fred in Pa
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 8:55am
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MAKE ROOM ------------- He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless ,still dead. If all else fails ,Read all that is PRINTED. |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 10:41am
| Good used Sea Cans work well. I've got a couple here 40 ft and 45 ft. Pretty reasonably priced storage and varmint proof. Mine are hidden behind the shop behind an 8 ft fence. |
Posted By: Steve in NJ
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 10:57am
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How bout' one of those storage tents. They run about 400 bucks that would fit a mid size car into. Goes up quick to. ------------- 39'RC, 43'WC, 48'B, 49'G, 50'WF, 65 Big 10, 67'B-110, 75'716H, 2-620's, & a Motorhead wife |
Posted By: BrianC
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 11:05am
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Jay, The 9x12 shed, is it a dirt floor? I can't get potential cost of a shed down that much, care to give details? |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 11:15am
I always think I'm out of room. I have, in a 20x40 shop, a B, G, 8N, planter, sprayer, David Bradley, misc garden tools, etc. It's packed, I can barely squeeze through, and somehow I managed to fit a grain truck in there! With that in there it really is impossible to get around, without walking on top of the tractors!
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Posted By: rtr
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 11:17am
| I want to know where the pictures of this tractor are!!! |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 11:20am
^^^^ |
Posted By: alleyyooper
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 11:29am
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I was given a seized up Massey Harris model 81, My wife already has a 81 so this one is setting in the to do lot outside covered with a tarp that gets replaced every other year. Along side it sets my Allis D 17 also free from the same person only different times. The D 17 was due for its work to fix every thing this past spring but some health matters won that pot of money. So now spring of 2017 is supposed to be its time now. Al
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Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 1:05pm
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Those portable garages are pretty cheap at HF. especially if you use the 20% of coupon ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: thendrix
Date 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 ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 2:29pm
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...
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Posted By: Ted in NE-OH
Date 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. ------------- CA, WD, C, 3 Bs, 2 Gs, WC, I-400, 914 |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 9:56pm
| 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. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 10:09pm
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
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Posted By: dawntreader74
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 10:31pm
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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. |
Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 10:41pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2016 at 10:21am
| 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. |