What Have I done now? 8 Pieces saved from the salvage yar...

[steve_in_mo]

funny a lot of the posts on this subject sounded like lawyers. Lets see, we have the YT DOT, the YT grammar police, the YT osha inspectors, now the YT lawyers. The one stop shop for any counseling you need. lol gobble

Don't forget we do lifestyle counseling and relationship coaching here as well. All guaranteed to be worth what you pay for it.

 

[Jim.ME]

Don't forget we do lifestyle counseling and relationship coaching here as well. All guaranteed to be worth what you pay for it.

5-year-old thread

 

[GeneMO]

Go get everything you want NOW. It will "walk off". Disappear. Do not leave it set.

 

[showcrop]

I think that NO ONE parks working front loader tractors, back hoes, skid steers, and crawlers. Something is wrong with each and every one of them, or they would be out earning money, or sold for house payments when parked. Plan to drag all of them a long way, then work on all of them for weeks before they are ready for any kind of industrial work.

Get to know a tractor supplier real well because you're going to spend thousands on parts, and hundreds of hours making each of them do any work. Skid steer 'just needs carb' likely means a whole engine rebuild, and then start on the hyd after that.

My neighbors used to park stuff with only minor problems. They would get another mortgage and buy a new one rather than work on old stuff.

 

[Crazy Horse]

Last weekend my neighbor texted me, and said that his brother (mid 70's) was about to go bankrupt due to his wife taking him back to court to double his
alimony.

The second text read "you better get over here as soon as you get off work, Tom called the scrapyard because he needs cash but he's selling a lot of old
equipment for steel price because he doesn't want the bank to auction it later on and get nothing, I know a lot of it was running when he parked it!"

So, maybe a mistake, but I went over there with a flashlight at night and offered him $4200 for everything his brothers didn't claim. (They had already beat me
to several old olivers, a dozen bushhogs, sawmill, square bailers, fuel tanks, spreaders ect.)

So he was in a hurry, I believe the bankruptcy story was legit, but don't know about everything running....its been sitting for no telling how long.

I went over there for a about 15 minutes the next day when he was about to leave and took a few pictures of everything and wanted to see what you guys would
think would be worth getting back to par ( I can rebuild engines, but I'm slow and have 4 kids at the farm still so time is sometimes lacking) The scrap man was
there at that time making his offer on the remainder.

So here's what I bought to the best of my estimation, and HIS summery story of their condition.

Allis-Chalmers HD-7G Crawler Loader. (Running when I parked it, it should start with a new battery and some Aether) I looked over the tracks and the rollers
and tensioners arent scorn or rounded.

Massey Ferguson 3165 Industrial W perkins diesel + backhoe and loader. ("That thing should crank up pretty easy, but has bad hydraulic leaks and valves")

Case 1830 Skid Steer ("It just needs a Carb")

Ford 841-941 Series? Diesel with old loader (It ran when I parked it, the sheet metal is in the barn)

3 Redbellied Fords.... 2,8,9N, Jubillee?? (No explanation)

Whisper Chipper, big wood chipper on kart, looked industrial...had an inline 6 on it I'm thinking 100 HP or better car engine on it...has stickers of a
woodchuck on the side ( I bought that thing not running, and I never got around to looking at it)

My estimate is that I can't get hurt too bad on much...Most of it will probably scrap for 3/4 what I paid for it.

What do you guys think would be worth putting a little time and money into for work and use?

What should go right to the scrap yard?

What should I take off and part out?

I don't mind putting money into something if I know I'm going to get ten years use out of it after the rebuild.
freshly rebuilt my Massey 50 for bushhogging ect. I have 52 Acres, Half timber, Half pasture, and I was planning on buying a used dozer, digging a big pond,
and selling it before this came along.

I have access to a full machine shop and hydraulic shop at work.



Just my gut feeling at first glance.

If the crawler has any major engine issues, main bearings ect......scrapyard

MF 3165 industrial, if it runs should be worth fixing because of the heavy duty frame.

Case 1830, was already an under-powered skid.... if the Renault parts are hard to find...put a 35 HP kawasaki in it.

The diesel ford with a loader....would be better than my gas massey for utility work.

The three redbellies...may have enough parts between them to make 1 good running tractor.

The whisper chipper, if the motor is too much trouble maybe adapt it to run on PTO?

Let me know what you guys think, I'll post pictures below. A lot of experience on this forum....I need to get one of them running and useful to get my money
back out of the scrapyard on the rest.

Uploading Pictures...Thats a Dead limp on the ford...Didnt didnt the gas tank.

DOYBLE THE ALIMONY .... ha, sounds like something a guy might add to get a bit of sympathy. Something smells rotten in Denmark.

 

[curtkeiser]

I am glad I did not get in a mess like this. Divorce lawyers use social media when checking on litigants. Why would any one be foolish enough to get invoved in schemes like this???? You just advertised your envolvment to the whole world for a menial profit potential.