Another Super C Junked

Went by the scrap yard today. There sat a very ragged out Super C. All four tires completely rotted away. Everything appeared to be there, just looked like it had been sitting outside for a hundred years. This was the third one I have seen there. The first two came in last summer about a month apart. They were in great shape but the guy unloading them with the trachoe thumbs crushed the life out of both when he picked them up right in the middle. Crushed fuel tank. Busted starter. Broke floor plate, and bent steering shaft. I asked him why he did it. He leaned out of the trachoe cab and spit backer juice on the ground and said, "It's all scrap to me."

I hate seeing any tractor or implement going for scrap. That is happening quite a bit with the high scrap prices. The whole world is all about money these days.

It's not like the only 3 made.Owner has the right to do whatever he feels like doing with them.To some people it is easier to go that route than end up trying to sell them.

Vito

sad, but, it makes ours worth more.

A salvage owner gave me a Farmall Regular that was sitting under a pile of scrap but was complete,the worker there took a trac loader and broke it in sever peices and could care less,I was so mad but I just keep my mouth shut and walked away

jimmy in charles town WV

Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to offend you, but were you willing to haul those home and put the time and money into them to make them whole again? Are you aware that in the process of restoring them you would probably be condemning a couple of far better tractors to the parts guy to fill your demand for parts? It is the sad reality of things. SOME tractors are just plain past the point of no return. Look at the bright side...somewhere in your neighborhood three fence rows are cleaned up.

They may not be suitable for restoration but in my area I depend on tractors like that to repair the ones I have because many parts just aren't available anymore. I will soon have to part some of mine out (or heaven forbid scrap them) because I can't find the parts. I realize now how many tractors with good useable parts have gone to the scrap dealers. Personally, if it comes to that I will advertise them first and sell them at scrap price if someone else can use the parts. I want to help others that enjoy the hobby instead of destroying parts tractors.

The comment that getting rid of tractors is good because then mine are worth more money is in my mind a selfish comment. Remember there are junior people out there who enjoy this hobby and the last thing we want to do is make it more difficult for them to collect or restore an old tractor.

Just my opinion everyone--I have been hauling IH tractors home for 30 years and have noticed these trends for a while.

I just sold the rear tires and rims off of one and I would sell you the rest for $400. That is what I will get for scrap.

(quoted from post at 19:23:07 02/24/13) Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to offend you, but were you willing to haul those home and put the time and money into them to make them whole again? Are you aware that in the process of restoring them you would probably be condemning a couple of far better tractors to the parts guy to fill your demand for parts? It is the sad reality of things. SOME tractors are just plain past the point of no return. Look at the bright side...somewhere in your neighborhood three fence rows are cleaned up.

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That doesn't mean they should be melted down. There are a lot of good parts that people need off them. Not to mention the fact that the tractor salvage yard pays the same or better than the scrap yard. Also, the salvage yard will pick up your tractor. Scrap yard sure doesn't do that!

I agree, but the deed was done. I would much rather parts were taken from tractors like that. We have a guy not far from here in a residential development who parts out really nice working tractors in his garage. He says people who restore do not want rusty, pitted parts. They want "like new" and he buys "like new" tractors and tears them apart to meet the demand.

This is the sad reality for anyone who is interested in "old things."

My Uncle always told the story of a distant relative who came to live with my grandparents during the Depression. Guy was a clock/watch repairman and did it out of his room to earn some extra money. When he passed away a few years later, they backed a wagon up to his bedroom window, loaded up everything he had there (including the tools he used) and filled in a washout in a turn-row. It was all junk. My Uncle was only six years old, but he managed to sneak a few of the pocket watches out of the pile.

A good friend told me the story about a salvage yard in New Jersey back in the mid-'80s. Guy drove into the yard in a very decent '55 Chevy four door that he wanted scrapped. He said people kept stopping and wanting to buy it. When the scrap yard owner did not have the time to crush it while the guy waited, he took an ax handle and busted every window, instrument cluster, each body panel and chrome trim. As he was leaving he muttered to someone standing there watching that he did not want anyone to use anything off the car - ever.

My buddy was not even interested in the car, but he said it was hard to watch someone do something like that. When the guy left, he had a look at the car and said it was a sub-50K mile car with almost zero rust in it.

It takes all kinds.