Why?

I had noticed, for several days now, this white and orange lawnmower or garden tractor, however you want to say it, sitting in the corner of someones yard. Every time that I would drive by there I would glance over at it and try to figure out a little more about it. I could not slow down much or stop because it happened to be off of London Kentucky's more traveled highways but I had drove by there enough to notice the following things about it. First off it was a AC brand mower. Secondly, from what I can tell it looks perfect. I mean the paint is not faded in the least, the decals still look new, the body and mowing deck are all in amazing shape with no visible dents or places where the paint is missing, and if you look hard enough you can even see the text on the back of the seat that says "Allis-Chalmers." The thing that kills me is that they have a big new, maybe John Deere, riding mower and have left the poor Allis sitting over there where it had last been parked with no visible plans of doing anything with it. The worst part though, is that now the mower has weeds growing up around it that are as tall if not taller than it is, and now when they mowed you can see where they cut around the AC leaving a big weed covered spot whith a lawnmower in it in the middle of their yard. The thing that I dont understand is why do people take a perfectly good machine and instead of selling it they park it and let the weeds take it over that way no one could never get any use out of it. This is far from the only thing that I have seen like that. It is unimaginable how many old dozers, Mustangs, pickups, and pieces in general I have seen sitting in 4 or 5 foot weeds. Another story like this that really bothers me is about this guy who has 2 1970 Plymouth AAR Hemi Barracudas that he has no plans of doing anything with and absolutely refuses to sell either one of them. That kind of thing just really grinds my gears.

Edited by AllisChalmers37 - 16 Aug 2010 at 3:19pm

I just picked up my second Simplicity, by Allis Chalmers, a model 6216 priced right, and the PO even delivered it.  He found out I had a 516 and want his to go to someone that knows something about them.  They both have the orange and whit paint that looks the same on them.

has anyone ask if its for sale

Doug northern IL wrote: has anyone ask if its for sale

 

Not a bad collection for a 16 year old is it?

Your story reminds me of a story of my own.