Lost For Words; Pic.

[Mike in MI]

I seen this JD 318 as I was driving thru an auction yard today looking at machinery and wasn’t sure if I was just seeing things. The closer I got to it I thought you got to be kidding. I had to take this picture of it as they say (picture worth a thousand words) Anyways you just don’t see this every day. It’s up for auction this next week. Was told it doesn’t run. Mike
JD 318

 

[NC Wayne]

What, you mean there's actually a tractor under all that rust and grime???

 

[Anonymous-0]

Man that donkey fazoo even looks to have rusted
the plastic parts. I bet it goes cheap.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Did it fall into the manure pit after cleaning the barn?

 

[Allan in NE]

Acid rain. :>)

Allan

 

[onefarmer]

Was they plowing their barnyard after the thaw?

 

[cadet trooper]

The manure pit is the best answer but I don't understand the red mower deck unless it don't belong with it. Hey, where is this sale? I like the little Case IH compact diesel in the background.CT

 

[Mike in MI]

Maybe with $50 dollars worth of quarters and some elbow grease you could get it to look like this?
JD 317

 

[Anonymous-0]

what do you all expect for a green tractor (just kidding)

 

[Lanse]

Been there, done that

 

[rockyridgefarm]

I thought it a had burned when I first saw the pic. Wow. You gotta be seriously abusive or negligent to make a piece of equipment look like that.

 

[495man]

Set up as an alley scraper tractor, likely all it ever did day after day and never was cleaned off.

 

[RodinNS]

So..... it spent it's life in a free stall barn scraping alleys. Why would you clean it off?
I'm sure they more than got their money out of it. It probably ran twice a day for the last 15 years like that. It's a dirty job.

Rod

 

[Texasmark]

Got her looking mighty spiffy.

 

[Texasmark]

Just a good lesson in buying used equipment.....don't buy it sight unseen nor untested, and if you are real lucky, find all you can about the habits of the previous owner..... And even then cross your fingers and hope for the best.

Mark

 

[Mike (WA)]

Have seen lots of N Fords and the like, in similar condition in dairy country. Its kind of a toss-up whether you should clean it up for sale, or not- Looks bad either way. It'll bring a few dollars for parts or scrap, but main thing is, you're rid of it. Why not clean it up after every use? Because if you're a dairy farmer, there aren't enough hours in the day to do the stuff you have to do. "Scraper tractor" is a category where the machine just gets "used up".