makes no sense
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Topic: makes no sense
Posted By: shameless dude
Subject: makes no sense
Date Posted: 04 Aug 2021 at 9:06pm
| i have 2 working IH rotary combines, both are in good working condition, and do want to sell them, and have been watching on line auctions and other auctions with the same combines on them. they are only brings from $250.00 to $450.00 so far. i can get over $1500.00 for them at the local scrap yard. and can make more if dismantled and sell parts off them. seems just wrong to take a good working machine and crush it. i worked hard to get nice machines to farm with, and it kinda hurts when i see this. trying to decide what to do. |
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Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 04 Aug 2021 at 9:54pm
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If you don't need the money then sit on them. That doesn't hurt as bad as scrap or giving them away and somebody might need them someday. Hopefully somebody just starting out and needs something to get them through. Then you can be the hero again ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: Adam Stratton
Date Posted: 04 Aug 2021 at 9:58pm
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I feel your pain. The bigger conventional Gleaners of the late 70s seem to be selling for pennies on the dollar in my opinion too. We aren't running them as much anymore, and had built up quite a donor collection for our running machines. Even though I wont take the low dollar for what I dont need anymore, I haven't quite given in to dragging more home, but it's an awful temptation sometimes! I dont have a solution for you, but just commiserating. |
Posted By: JohnColo
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2021 at 1:00am
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The engines are worth several hundred by themselves! Same as in trucks I thnk. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2021 at 7:30am
| Wish you weren't so far away.....I kinda need a combine! |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2021 at 8:40am
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maybe it's the cost of hauling, advertise them locally maybe someone there will need one |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2021 at 7:59pm
| Only farm sale I went to this year, a real nice deere combine, th he auctioneer cried and cried to get a bid on it. Finally bought about 1/6th of what it should have. Good luck with selling them. I think both heads brought more than the base machine. |
Posted By: JohnColo
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2021 at 10:52pm
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They still seem to sell well on big iron. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2021 at 7:10am
| They seem dang expensive around here! Did I mention I need a combine? hahaha |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2021 at 7:55am
| I have not seen a rotary combine in any local combine demolition derby. Most of those are old John Deere's and Gleaners. The problem with selling a good used Rotary Combine is the loss of small farmers. Everyone near me has to farm 1,ooo acres to make a living and they buy big rotary combines. Which is why I make hay on small patches of 4 to 10 acres that the big boys can't get their equipment into. And that has its problems as my disc mower is broke awaiting parts because I hit a rock I didn't see where the landowner pushed them into the hayfield from installing a septic system drain field! Rock about the size of a volleyball does a lot of damage!And the hay is very tall as late cutting because of all the rain we have been getting! My John Deere 6600 went almost 500 miles from me as I advertised it in the Farm Paper that covered Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. That was 15 years ago. That same paper is out of business! |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2021 at 6:56pm
Sadly, IMO, his machines will be even MORE of a deterrent to the "somebody's"
 . I've got a bad feeling that dad's F2 will be in the scrap yard sooner than needed   |
thendrix wrote:Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2021 at 7:19pm
Shameless, I had to think of you today after I drove past a farmstead that's had a '60 series IH rotary under a blue tarp (no barn/shed of ANY type on the property ) that magically was uncovered and MOVED to a little different area of the yard and had a fairly "new" JD 6 row corn head attached to it  . This machine has NOT moved in 5 years, let alone have I ever seen green equipment on the property  !! He does have I think a "M" narrow front IH tractor with rear dualls on the lot, it looks as bad-ass as our D-17 did with dualls in the '70's 
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