Strange phone call
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Topic: Strange phone call
Posted By: Wendell(OK/TX)
Subject: Strange phone call
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2010 at 12:39am
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Wife calls me today after I get up and says she got a strange phone call for me while I was asleep. Lady called to find out if I was still interested in a combine, I had left my number for her over two years ago! Now if I remember correctly, there is an allcrop, 60 or 66, what looks like the remains of a WD and then back in the trees was a big chunk of steel wheeled tractor with allis chalmers cast across the top of the radiator. (suggestions?) This stuff was found with binoculars. Don't know what is still there. Will call her back in the morning and see whats up. This stuff has been setting our for decades so I'm thinking somewhere close to scrap price if I mess with it at all.
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Posted By: LoggerLee
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2010 at 12:42am
I'd go look,then decide what I wanted to pay,but that's just me.
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Posted By: Wendell(OK/TX)
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2010 at 12:45am
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Thats my normal route but I've had a few scare me off just from the price on the phone!
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Posted By: LoggerLee
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2010 at 12:54am
Maybe tell her it's been a couple of years and you need to look it over before you talk a monetary value,I mean...scrap is up,but it's still a PITA to get it into small enough chunks to haul off sometimes.
If I were rich I'd buy all the old scrap up,but I sure can't afford that,I bite when the deal gets too good.
I respect the guys that will pay more than asking price,but I ain't one,if the seller thinks its fair,and I think it's fair or a good deal for me then I'll buy.
Do we talk about what we pay on here or is that taboo? I've noticed NOBODY says what they paid for a piece of equipment (or at least very rarely)
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Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2010 at 1:06am
I guess most of us are either embarrassed by either how much or little we paid for something....
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Posted By: LoggerLee
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2010 at 1:13am
bah,there's always someone who got a better deal,or got rooked big time.
Mom bought 3 DDH tractors for $750 this summer,one a running dozer.
(I get to fix em' and use them,but she buys the parts,works for me)
Then she wanted something smaller,so I found a Allis Chalmers M for $750,she thought it was a rip-off...so I bought it,then the fella gave me mostly complete Oliver 35 Combine to go with it,for free,I think I did good,Mom still looks at my little red crawler funny....
The guy who had the Cletracs I tried to tell him that it was too cheap,but I was not going to argue with him.
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Posted By: MNLonnie
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2010 at 8:32am
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My opinion is that if it has steel wheels and Allis on the radiator it's not scrap.
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Posted By: LoggerLee
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2010 at 9:00pm
I'm with you Lonnie,but I'd go farther and say if it had a radiator and a drawbar at some point it really should not be scrap,unless there flat out ain't no fixing it.
I ran Ma's DDH today,that DRXB Hercules ain't all bad,makes quick work of a snowed in drive,that's for sure.
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Posted By: WC7610
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2010 at 6:45am
So Wendell, we are all curious!! What did you find?
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Posted By: Wendell(OK/TX)
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2010 at 12:44am
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Took a quick look at the stuff as cold front got the better of me. First combine has a bent header, axle on ground. WD is gone. Found another combine, maybe a few parts on it salvageable. Then a bin and frame that may be part of a 40. 10-12 ft case grain drill, lids open/missing. Couple of plows back in the brush. Other tractor is a UC, front spoke rims sunk halfway into the ground, rear fenders but no rear wheels or tires. Gonna call back in a day or so to see what the asking price is. Lots of bois-d-arc (hedgeapple, horseapple, osage orange) sapplings so gonna be rough on tires to do anything. I was wishing for my boots and a better coat. Happens when you try to do stuff on the way home.
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Posted By: LoggerLee
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2010 at 1:18am
If the intake and exhaust manifolds are good on that UC then you could probably find someone to take em' off your hands,I need some stuff for a M crawler I bought,need a base mount Mag too if there is one on that.
If you weren't so far away I'd come help in trade for some parts,but DANG you're a ways away!
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