"cleaning up my Grandpas Farm"

[Tupperville]

Today's the day I go look at some over-priced farm items to help someone reinvest in their farming operation.

"Hello,
We are cleaning up my Grandpas Farm
We are farming the land now and need to find a new home for these old gems to reinvest into our farming operation
Massey 1085 3500 hrs nice condition $8000
3 furrow plow x2 $500 wash
3 3PTH Cultivators $500 each
New idea manure spreader needs floor $500
Old land lever needs a bit of work $250
Forage blower for filling silo piping included $500
1 row corn picker make a good wood chipper $500
Massey 124 Bailer $4000
Hay Rake $500
International 510 drill $1500
International 4 row corn planter for part $500
Hay Sickle Mower Massey $500
Thanks for looking
Make an offer"

 

[MoMike2]

Location will help a lot.

 

[Loosehandle]

Hello scrap man

 

[TerryfromSWIowa]

Wow I don't see the gold in any of those items.

 

[rrlund]

I hope they take whatever somebody offers. Their prices are a bit over the top on some of it. It's worth what the scrap yard will pay because that's probably where most of it will end up.

 

[NDIHC]

I'd take the hay rake, but not for $500. Maybe $150, just because I have a small tract with some really good hay but not a lot of room to maneuver around. My neighbor would bale it if I cut and raked it, and I'd like to see the fire fuel gone. It just isn't worth the hassle for him to come over and do it all.

 

[RedMF40]

I remember a Massey 1085 coming up for sale locally a few years back. Excellent running condition and almost new rubber all the way around. Auctioneer tried and tried but could barely get $2500 for it. And the seller got even less. I thought it was an impressive looking tractor, expected it to sell for more.

 

[used red MN]

1 row corn picker make a good wood chipper $500

Just FYI, what you are calling a “corn picker” is actually ensilage chopper (usually shorten to silage), it looks to be built by Gehl Bros. same as the one we had on our farm in KS. It chops the foliage fed into it into pieces that are 3/4” or shorter depending on how it is set. The feed prepared by this unit would be fed into a silage wagon equipped with PTO driven self-unloading mechanisms that would unload the feed into the silage blower. The blower as you likely know blows the feed up into the “upright” cylindrical silos you see not db4600 post on Saturdays. I don’t think it would last long as a wood chipper if you fed it anything over an inch in diameter.
In addition, a corn picker does not cut the corn off, it strips only the ears off of the stalk. Then depending if the corn was to be stored with the husk or without would determine if the picker was equipped with a “husking beds” that stripped the husks off the ears before the corn ears were delivered by a chain elevator to the wagon pulled behind. Modern combine headers strip the ears from the stalks as well, but the threshing mechanism in the machine separates the corn kernels from the cob and husks. The fact that the combine cuts or removes the crop from the plant and also threshes/separates the crop seed/kernels is how they got their name. They are a combined harvester-thresher-separator.
Edit: Per rrlund’s reply 11 it appears the naming was not done by Tupperville, but rather by the seller of the items he is apparently “looking”
at. Apologies for any confusion. At least maybe someone will get some good out of the information I posted here somewhere down the line even if it doesn’t apply to the thread quite as directly as I first thought.

 

[560Dennis]

Oh my, see the new idea manure spreader that’s 3500 on face book sp.

 

[JIM MN]

Location--Look at your prices- should be listed on Market Place?

 

[rrlund]

Location--Look at your prices- should be listed on Market Place?

If I'm reading it right, it doesn't belong to the poster. He said he's going to look at it.

 

[Tupperville]

If I'm reading it right, it doesn't belong to the poster. He said he's going to look at it.

correct, I was being sarcastic in my posts this morning, how can you not be when some kid who likely inherited a farm tells you an old one row corn picker would make a good wood chipper.
I copied and pasted his prices into the message to show you how greedy people are.
I did go and take a look, no one was home, I didn't see the tractor but the rest of it you would have to pay me to drag the stuff away.

 

[Tupperville]

Just FYI, what you are calling a “corn picker” is actually ensilage chopper (usually shorten to silage), it looks to be built by Gehl Bros. same as the one we had on our farm in KS. It chops the foliage fed into it into pieces that are 3/4” or shorter depending on how it is set. The feed prepared by this unit would be fed into a silage wagon equipped with PTO driven self-unloading mechanisms that would unload the feed into the silage blower. The blower as you likely know blows the feed up into the “upright” cylindrical silos you see not db4600 post on Saturdays. I don’t think it would last long as a wood chipper if you fed it anything over an inch in diameter.
In addition, a corn picker does not cut the corn off, it strips only the ears off of the stalk. Then depending if the corn was to be stored with the husk or without would determine if the picker was equipped with a “husking beds” that stripped the husks off the ears before the corn ears were delivered by a chain elevator to the wagon pulled behind. Modern combine headers strip the ears from the stalks as well, but the threshing mechanism in the machine separates the corn kernels from the cob and husks. The fact that the combine cuts or removes the crop from the plant and also threshes/separates the crop seed/kernels is how they got their name. They are a combined harvester-thresher-separator.
Edit: Per rrlund’s reply 11 it appears the naming was not done by Tupperville, but rather by the seller of the items he is apparently “looking”
at. Apologies for any confusion. At least maybe someone will get some good out of the information I posted here somewhere down the line even if it doesn’t apply to the thread quite as directly as I first thought.

I didn't say that or price the garbage, the guy who posted the ad in Market Place did.

 

[used red MN]

I didn't say that or price the garbage, the guy who posted the ad in Market Place did.

Hopefully, you were devoted enough to read/skim my entire reply and saw that another reply tipped me off to my misunderstanding of your opening post, which I admitted to in the edited portion of my reply.

 

[a49deere]

The title of the post is deceiving! Used red, you are not the only one that didn't interpret the post correctly! I also thought the OP was selling this stuff!

 

[Tupperville]

Hopefully, you were devoted enough to read/skim my entire reply and saw that another reply tipped me off to my misunderstanding of your opening post, which I admitted to in the edited portion of my reply.

Yes I did and never new much about silage.

I just remember the smell of it at my uncles farm when it was forked into the galvanized tub

But I never witnessed the silage process.

Now my father had cattle and I know we never had a silo or fed silage but my uncle did.

I am up in Canada and we get, if I remember correct, three cuttings of hay per season.

 

[rrlund]

Yes I did and never new much about silage.

I just remember the smell of it at my uncles farm when it was forked into the galvanized tub

But I never witnessed the silage process.

Now my father had cattle and I know we never had a silo or fed silage but my uncle did.

I am up in Canada and we get, if I remember correct, three cuttings of hay per season.

Up in Canada or over in Canada? I'm in Michigan, so when I think of Canada, I think east of here.

 

[Tree-Farmer]

What's a Land Leveler? How would that work?

 

[paul]

Grain drill might be the only thing close, if the discs are in great condition.

Manure spreader could be close if the mechanical stuff is good, enough small farmers around those have some value sometimes worth rebuilding the wood.

But both of those are ‘if’.

Planter is scrap iron, two years after the IHC 400 planter came out everyone around here was pulling green planters, took until the 1200 models before you saw red ones again.

Land leveler looks like scrap angle iron for a project, that sure can’t hold up to real dirt?

NH and JD balers can bring that money, but not the other brands.

And the other things mentioned.

Paul

 

[the tractior vet]

Today's the day I go look at some over-priced farm items to help someone reinvest in their farming operation.

"Hello,
We are cleaning up my Grandpas Farm
We are farming the land now and need to find a new home for these old gems to reinvest into our farming operation
Massey 1085 3500 hrs nice condition $8000
3 furrow plow x2 $500 wash
3 3PTH Cultivators $500 each
New idea manure spreader needs floor $500
Old land lever needs a bit of work $250
Forage blower for filling silo piping included $500
1 row corn picker make a good wood chipper $500
Massey 124 Bailer $4000
Hay Rake $500
International 510 drill $1500
International 4 row corn planter for part $500
Hay Sickle Mower Massey $500
Thanks for looking
Make an offer"

Welp yep i know it is today , BUT depending on where this is i am not going to say prices are high . Last 124 Massey baler i bought at the Kidron auction i gave 25 buck for and took it to the field and baled hay. a 510 drill as it is OLD around here is a 750 dollar drill A 1085 Massey 35-4500 . If your lucky .