Old collections

DeltaRed · Apr 2, 2023

We are seeing more and more of the old collections being sold off.Sadly,I most is going for scrap these days. Makes me sad. A piece of history is lost each time tractor/implement/combine.....gets cut up.

grandpa Love · Apr 2, 2023

But. .. there is hope. Out of 50+ cubs we have fixed and sold over the last 3 years 90 percent were bought by young couples, 35 or younger. They ain't collecting them, they are using them......

grandpa Love · Apr 2, 2023

A lot of junk from fence rows is getting hauled off. Some ain't worth fixing, we have had a couple cubs like that, only good for parts. And even then not a lot of good parts.

rrlund · Apr 2, 2023

I guess I'd be kind of guilty of that too. If it's old and it isn't an Oliver, it doesn't mean much to me. There are even some Oliver pieces that I scrapped over the years and regret cutting up. This was back in the days when Oliver didn't exist anymore and I went all Deere for a while.

Living this close to the scrap yard, I can tell you, to somebody who has no connection to farming or farm equipment, none of this stuff means anything to them, no matter the brand or what it is. I bought half of two different loads one day that were bound for the salvage yard. Royse and I ended up splitting the stuff I bought. Those guys sold an estate and needed to get it cleaned up that day. They didn't know what they had and didn't care.

rustred · Apr 2, 2023

thats what i dont like, them scrappers putting adds out to come clean up your junk. then they haul it all in and make the money and give you little and the good stuff they sell.

38 Sears Roebuck · Apr 2, 2023

Very sad indeed. Most of our younger generation don't seem to care about old machinery. Even more they wouldn't know how to repair or operate it. As I am getting up in my years, I don't know what to do with my antique tractor that was my fathers. I don't have children to leave it to and my nephews don't seem to have any interest in it. I just know this that one way or the other it will not become scrap.

Philip d · Apr 2, 2023

Are there any museums in your area to gift it to?

Geo-TH,In · Apr 2, 2023

Good for you GP
Others could follow your business model and save tractors from rom the scrapers

Geo-TH,In · Apr 2, 2023

It saddens me to see old barns neglected and falling down . Same with tractor neglected.

Cash4Toys · Apr 2, 2023

I would say that the steel wheeled Era tractors would be the last to be adopted. Rubber tire can still parades, pull floats and such. Implements, no one seems to care. Heck, theses steam shows would be long gone it it weren't for the tractor collectors drawing the crowd.
I have been to a few shows, strictly steam, and they couldn't find enough spectators to even pitch bundles. Young people, especially close to a big city have 0 interest, in anything as far as that goes. Some bigger shows around here don't help the situation though either. They get a young guy that wants to learn and be part of it, and all they get is a scraper knife and a wire brush, with no rewards, such as seat time, so they get burnt out after a few years.
Needs more promoting, guidance and reward.

38 Sears Roebuck · Apr 2, 2023

Yes I am a member of a antique power association, It will probably end up there if they would like it.

ss55 · Apr 2, 2023

They met the needs of their times, but are no longer practical to use anymore. Cheap scrap prices and a nostalgia wave saved a lot of old iron back in the 1980s and gave them a second, third or fourth life as collector pieces.

Old barns and drafty old farm houses are fun to see and reminisce about. IMHO they are much like outhouses and crank party line telephones, I grew up with them and they were miserable 60 years ago already, I would not want to go back the them now.

They can't all be saved. If you can afford it, feel free to buy up as many as you like.

marloweg · Apr 2, 2023

think about us we get kind of cut up for scrap when we a wore out.it's the cycle of life

NY 986 · Apr 2, 2023

The last consignment sale for the area big time auctioneer saw a 9N non-running sell for 600 dollars and a Farmall M non-running for 975 dollars. Both needed quite a bit of money to make them running and usable. The last 3 bottom trailer plow which the wear parts were wore down to a nub was over 400 dollars. So for the most part rough stuff is bringing considerably more than scrap price at least around here. Don't see much in the way of old pull type combines to know where they stand. But tractor collections for sure are still bringing good money even for common models. Too much money chasing too few goods as the economists would say.

rrlund · Apr 2, 2023

There was an Oliver guy who lived about a mile the other side of the scrap yard from me, had a farm retirement auction 8-9 years ago. He'd have been way ahead if he and his sons had hauled most of his stuff over to the scrap yard themselves since most of it ended up there anyway. The few pieces that didn't, should have gone to a consignment sale. He had to pay a commission on all the stuff that got scrapped and the buyers still made a profit hauling it over there. Even the stainless steel milking equipment was bought by a scrapper.

I bought so much stuff myself that I had to make three trips. Would have been four, but one of his boys had his trailer there and he told me to hook on to that and take a load with it on the first trip. I bought the feed grinder and the blower to use, but the rest of it was just parts and parts machines.

SweetFeet · Apr 2, 2023

Delta Red,

I hope your friend's rusty Emerson- Brantingham never goes to scrap! That would be so awful.

DeltaRed · Apr 2, 2023

That tractor(1916 Emerson-Brantingham Big 4 20) is already willed to the local historical society, museum.They have a complete old tyme 'town' that is simply amazeing. Montrose Colorado. 5 miles east of town on US Hiway 50.My friend has several similar tractors/trucks donated/willed as well.

DoubleO7 · Apr 2, 2023

(quoted from post at 11:53:15 04/02/23) thats what i dont like, them scrappers putting adds out to come clean up your junk. then they haul it all in and make the money and give you little and the good stuff they sell.

Nobody twisted the sellers arm to call on the ad and make whatever deal they accepted, the seller could have said no.

J.Wondergem · Apr 2, 2023

When Stamm's went out of business there were a lot of semi loads of tractor parts the came into our yard. Just the castings pile alone was over 30 feet high. I bought a few parts, but was a tea cup out of the ocean.

NY 986 · Apr 2, 2023

A scrapper that I buy wheels, PTO shafts, and hydraulic cylinders from has bought very little this current auction season. Not because he was not trying. Just can't turn any money running the torch on stuff.

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