Old collections

[moresmoke]

Im about ready to liquidate all the rubber tire tractors around here and focus on one with steel wheels and hand cranks. Eliminate the tire and battery budget.

 

[grandpa Love]

Comments about the younger generation, not caring or knowing how to use or repair are unfortunately a little bit true. Of course as the older generation gets more and more cranky it's harder to get true help instead of put downs and rude comments. I've spent hours texting young folks all over the country helping fix a cub, A or B. Is it inconvenient, sometimes yes. But it's worth it. When that 20-35 year old gets the tractor plowing or mowing I'm as thrilled as they are. I soak up all the knowledge I can from the older folks who are willing to help. Then I happily pass it on.

 

[RBnWA]

Good job Kevin. Need more people like you. I help when I can. RB

 

[sandcastle1]

I think that you collect what you remember when you get to the point in your life that spare money for that exists. The collections therefore move in time, when I was a kid collecting model T and A was a thing, you do not hardly see them anymore, everyone moved forward in time and now muscle cars from the 60's and early 70's are the hot thing. To my mind tractors out of the 70's would be what I would want to collect, 2+2 and 66 series are what come to the forefront.

 

[SweetFeet]

That is fantastic to hear.

 

[rustred]

sure the seller can say no,,... but i have run into little old ladies that want the farmyard cleaned after the hubby dies and i think that is
why they put adds out there to catch easy money like that. all sorts of crazy adds in circulation nowadays.

 

[rrlund]

I agree with you about giving advice to young folks or newbies, but when you've tried to help or give advice and NONE of them take it, and they end up getting burned, it wears on you. You start to get calloused and wonder if it's worth it. Too many times, they don't want advice, they want validation for a decision they've already made.

I probably shouldn't even be saying that much.

 

[David from Kansas]

Attended a consignment auction Saturday and watched a 14' CCA John Deere cultivator with tires holding air, pretty good sweeps, good paint sell for $100 to the scrapper. If it hadn't been 70 miles from home I probably would have bid on it. So sad. Would have been a good match for my 820 tractor.

 

[farmallboy15]

I may be the odd 29 year old who loves old rusty junk. I watch pretty much all the online auctions near me. There is some GOOD stuff that does go scrap cheap but usually it is a 3hr drive each way or they dont have loading assistance I still come home with my share of junk but it seems like the stuff that brings scrap price BELONGS in the scrap pile as sad as it is. It seems like about anything decent now days goes sky high though.

As easy as it is to point the finger at youngins not wanting the equipment, there are more old timers that abused equipment, set it out to rust away and sent it to scrap themselves!

 

[plowhand]

A lot of times poeple wont sell things at the going rate for someone to enjoy so it sits outside and engines get stuck and cost to much to get running or rust away so then it goes to scrap.

 

[37 chief]

I often wonder how much was scrapped during the scrap drives, in WW 2. Especially old motorcycles from the teens, 20's and 30's that are worth thousands now. Stan

 

[redforlife]

People aquire thier collections one piece at a time. But when they liquidate collections for whatever reason, this isn't thought about. Often times posting it all for sale online at once, or have a 2 day auction, or haul it all to a consignment sale for it all to be sold at once. Whenever this is done, a higher percentage goes to scrap. Collectors of old equipment are not only getting fewer for the pre 1960 stuff, but it is not thier style to buy out entire collections at once. They are accumulating it one piece at a time just like the seller aquired it.

You can sell to much stuff at one time, when it comes to liquidating life long masses of stuff. The few collectors who are still left out there, can't absorb it all if it has to be all at once. Pushed into this situation, they will just make a few top chosen selections, and let the iron guy have a hay day with the rest. They have no choice but to be that way. They can't and won't buy it all. They don't have the capability to buy it all at one time.

As far as just calling the iron guy from the git go to clean up the farm yard?? It literally depends on the iron guy that gets called. Some won't crush things that shouldn't be smashed. I know one of those. And some will crush anything that is there so much as it is made of iron. I know one of those too. Won't even pull wheel weights off of a tractor to sell separately. If it's in a lot that he buys, it'll be hauled to the place that melts stuff down.

Definately something to think about if you got a large mass of stuff, and have any care at all about what happens to it when you liquidate it.

I don't have the answer. But I just know that whole collections are not just going to miraculously end up in another collection. If you don't have a plan for it, nobody is going to come up with a plan for ya. That's for sure!!!

 

[grandpa Love]

Last 2-3 auctions we attended, the stuff the scrap guy got wasn't worth anything anyway. Y'all have seen the stuff I haul home, and I wouldn't bid on some of that junk.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

Problem is the so called going rate is a matter of opinion.People get upset because the owner won't sell something for next to nothing.I had an old Dodge truck the scrap yard said $500 if took it to them only about 5 miles away.So I advertised it for $600 got a bunch of under $500 offers,got tired of the B-S took it to the scrap yard dropped it off,got the money no hassle.