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Don't know if they wuz comin' or goin'

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JerryS

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Was steaming out of the Port of Galveston a couple of weeks ago aboard a Royal Carribean cruise ship, when from my balcony I saw this congregation of various forms of tractors and equipment on the dock. I don't know if they if they had been off-loaded or were awaiting loading for export, but I thought it was an interesting panorama. Heck, for all I know this might have been some YT'er's personal collection.
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The rule at most ports.....if they are parked facing the water, they are going, if facing inland they are coming....makes things simple. Most of the machinery going out of Galveston is bound for South America.
 
Very interesting. I live about 140 miles from Galveston and sailed out on a R.C. cruise 5 years ago. Didn't see this type of activity then. Port of Galveston has been growing in tonnage over the past several years though. Port of Houston is huge in import cars. Port of Beaumont is either first or second largest tonnage for military equipment coming and going, has been for many years.
 

Way back in the late 70's to mid 80's I picked up JD tractors that had been built in Mannheim,Germany and shipped to the port in Houston but never picked up any in Galveston.
 

I can pick out Linkbelt, Komatsu, Deere and Caterpillar. I bet that they are from end of season, job completion auctions and are headed to South America.
 
All the incoming equipment I have seen at the port of New Orleans has been new and all the same brand. Have never seen used equipment headed into the USA via a port but I guess it happens.

Like others said I would think that is used stuff headed south.

Everyday you can see 3 cars/trucks hooked together with tow bars headed west on I 10 around here. All of them have auction markings and headed for Mexico.
 
I have a Mennoite friend that owns a farm with some partners in Bolivia,he said used equipment prices there are very high,they send a container of farm related equipment down sell half and it pays for the part they keep.
 
I've been hauling heavy equipment in and out of the port of Baltimore for the past 40 years.Will be there Monday,hauling in a track drill.No such thing as which direction stuff is parked,has any bearing on where it's going.
There is usually more new equipment coming in than going out.If it wasn't for John Deere tractor export,there wouldn't be much export at all.We just don't make much here anymore.Used equipment,allways more of that being exported,than imported.
 
Between Dallas and Oklahoma is a sale barn and it's common to see big rigs from Mexico loading up equipment. Makes it hard on guys like me to get decent old stuff at a decent price. Seems there is a vacuum down there.

Mark
 
I have a friend that drives for a company that hauls oversize equipment exclusively. He makes regular trips to Galveston as well as other ports with Cat equipment. due to size his rig requires oversize permits even empty in most states.
 
In the past year as the US economy has surged in several areas, we are (or will be parallel with China, and at the top of world production Dollars. The private sector is making stuff in quantity. The issue is that we are high in productivity and as a result each employee creates radically more output than a laborer in China. Industry here in Central MN is hiring solidly. IPM company makes gears for Caseih tractors. New Flyer Makes Busses, Arctic Cat Makes Engines, Gredy Foundry makes Castings for automotive companies, DeZuric Makes Valves for Fluid control (Nuclear) The list goes on. Jim
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Ya, stop the boat and let me off ! L.O.L. My cousin drove float for years and hauling equipment from Baltimore up here to Ontario and said that the dock is always full of iron -- he's like a kid in a candy store ! L.O.L.
 
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