Flooded tractors from Hurricane Katrina, deal or n

I explained the situation to another friend and he said that he wouldn't touch a flooded tractor with a 10 foot pole...

Thoughts from the group?

Thanks,

Scott

Back before I was born, an 8N caught fire on my grandpa's farm. The only thing they could think to do to put the fire out was push the thing into the canal with a truck. The canal was 40' wide and 20' deep.

After pulling the heap out of the water they repaired the damaged wiring, flushed all the fluids and they were still using it when I was a teenager. All the plastic was burned off the steering wheel and there was not a spec of paint on it anywhere, but it ran. It had a loader on it and was used to clear manure out of the corral where the cows waited to be milked.

I guess the moral of the story is if the tractor is pre-historic enough it may withstand a good dunking.....or maybe don't buy a flooded tractor unless it's also been burned!

While you may find some from the gulf coast that were from a farm and were not under water that long they will be beat to He!! because of the wave action of the storm serge.

New Orleans is a city and the only tractors around would be owned by collectors or the city's grass cutting tractors. I have been to the auction for the city and can tell you they will not go cheap. The parts guys will buy them all up to part out.

Both areas were flooded by salt water and any equipment would need to be torn down to remove all residue or rust will set in.

I personally would not buy anything from the Katrina/Rita area.

I spent a month working the MS, AL, TX and LA (New orleans) areas. Had to be real carefull how and what we touched and then make sure we got cleaned up after words. Most of the tractors that I saw were down in the sugar cane fields and were not flooded. The ones I saw that were flooded were ones that had been sitting for a while before the storm

My advice is RUN.

Mark