What's your "sold it but still here" story?

that is kinda funny 

Oh, Dad had a gravel crusher come in and expand the old pit. Took a lot of crushed gravel out but left a huge pile of crushed gravel Maybe 20 feet tall by 75 long and 40 feet wide but was always going to come and get the rest which he already paid Dad for. That was back around 1980. Eventually Dad sold a bit here and there and we used some of it until now there is a pile left about the size of my pickup. Wish he never resold any of it. Would come in handy today.

Dad being on the other side of this kind of deal where he bought an old McCormick reaper/binder but he never picked it up. About 10 years later the guy who he bought it from showed up pulling it down the road and parked in Dad's woods. It's still in that spot all rotted to pieces.

That's funny. Here's one. About 25 years ago, I had a pretty clean 66' Nova that I sold to the kid down the street. After he bought it, he said he'll be back up to pick it up next week. A few weeks go by, and haven't heard from him. Figured, well he only lives a mile down the road, I'll just drive it down. Pulled it into his driveway and saw his Mom outside he told her "here's Kevin's Nova". She looked at me like I left my other head home. She didn't know he bought it. He went out West away to school. About 4 months go by, I come home from work and here's the Nova in my driveway! (WTH?) Turns out the father didn't want the car sitting in his driveway taking up room. Brings it back. Sooo, I go down to give the father his sons money back and he says "settle up with him". He won't be back for a long time. Now, at this time, I didn't know whether this kid is really out West in school or in jail. So I put the money in an envelope and put it in the drawer. A feller drives by, see's the Nova asks if its for sale and I said sure. I sell it again. Guy says he'll be back with his trailer to pick it up. Weeks went by. He never showed up. I didn't have his phone number, so here I am again with the Nova still in my driveway. So I sell the car to another guy and finally he picks the darn thing up with a rollback. Woo Hoo! the Nova is gone FINALLY. (I was really startin' ta' like it to, but had to many of em' already at the time so it had to go) About 4-5 years later, one of our customer's comes up the driveway to pickup some Nova parts and wouldn't ya know it, he's in the same damn Nova!! Now, of coarse he didn't know I owned it at one time, and he says to me: "hey you buy and sell Nova's, ya know anyone that would be interested in this Nova?" I said, "well there was kid down the street that was lookin' for one, but I haven't seen him around in almost 10 years. Ya know, I still had his money in that envelope all that time... Ya just never know... LOL!
Steve@B&B

Dang Butch, kinda wish I had sold my #2 more than once  I don't think I ever got paid for something and it didn't go away, I did agree almost 2 years ago to sell some crawler parts to a guy. I heard from him a couple times since then and yesterday, he emailed me and wanted to know if Sat. would be OK to come pick them up. I have thought since then I let em go too cheap, and sometimes wish I hadn't agreed to sell the rollers but, I won't go back on my word.

When dad had his farm sale back in 1986 to sell all the big equipment he allowed a neighbor to sell his IH 5 bottom plow at the sale. It was purchased by my old high school history teacher who lived about 4-5 miles away. He said he would come get it in a couple of weeks. It sat for about two months in near the barn and dad got tired of it being in the way so he moved it to the fence row. Fast forward 25 years. Dad has passed. Buyer has passed. I'm cleaning up the farm so I call my BIL who is a big IH fan and ask him if he would like a plow. He brought a chainsaw and dragged it out to the road and loaded it up, painted it and put it back in operation.

George Straight ,can't Give it Away .

Guy paid cash for snap coupler 4 row cultivator, didn't know who he was, resold it many years later, got paid again.
Cultivator is still here, been many years now.
It is for sale again. Anybody want to be number three?????

Sold a grain bed to a fella, he paid for it and said he would come back the next weekend to pick it up, 10 years later I still have it.  Store fire wood on it.

Not a sale but similar , A good friend of mine Kenny is head of Maint. at local mall .He has worked there since high school and has been in charge for over 20 years . The mall had a major remodel 15 or so years ago .The out of state tile company that retiled the entire mall floor left a brand new Bobcat skidsteer when they were done .Claimed they would be back for it. My friend Kenny told them the mall would store it if they could use it until they come back to pick it up . Tile company agreed . Well about 10 years went by , Kenny says a rep. from tile company would call around the end of each year to check on the bobcat , claiming they would be back soon to get it ... The mall guys used it ever day , someone would borrow it every weekend .There was a waiting list of guys that wanted to borrow it . I used it several times . God knows how many hours were on that thing . Kenny said when they finally came back to get it the tires were flat and it would not start . Had to be loaded on a trailer with a crane .

I have sold my crank start B three times and it is still here. I never took any money. It was not actually for sale but I gave out a price and three time I was told not to sell it as they would be back with the money. It was a year or two apart. I have not used for about 12 years. It still has the cultivators on it. I used it to cultivate pumpkins until I got the first G.  

Edited by Dick L - 21 Apr 2016 at 6:54pm

Gary U need to sell that Planter .LOL

Dad sold a great big old cement mixer to a guy over 50 years ago. When ever they met on the street the joke got to be"will be over next week for my cement mixer". This thing was big, mounted on 4 steel wheels, run with the flat belt off the belt pully on the WD45. Both men are gone now, cement mixer was stolen along with a whole bunch of other machinery 3 years ago.

what have you been doing? whew!

IG....maybe if'n you and me goes all over and picks up all the stuff that has been mentioned on here, bet we could make a BIG HAUL! uh...just to help these fellow members out, gittin the stuff outta their way!    

ILGLEANER wrote: I bought a 1500 disc chisel a year and a half ago. I haven't got. And a disc about 4 years ago, I have never went to pickup. I need to get these done !!!!!

I looked at the chisel last year if it's the one just west of FS