Honey Hole or Bottomless Pit?

[menageriehill]

A friend of mine here in Arkansas, told me that he had some old equiment and that he was thinking of selling it for scrap. Don’t do that I said, its worth something. So he called me up this morning and said come up to moms, a 45 min. drive, and look at this equipment. I took pictures of what he had. Its sitting in a hay pasture, and the hay hasn’t been cut, so the pictures aren’t real good. It looks like he has an IH sickle mower, a planter, a disc or two, a plow. A few other assorted pieces. most of these still have tongues and single trees. It looks like they were parked and never gone back to. Assessing these pieces for me is out of my league. The tongues are “gone”, but all the hardware is there. I will send pictures as soon as I can download them from my phone. Anybody have any suggestions/interest?

[nihiljohn]

Scrap in Michigan is around $240 ton. If it’s got one piece in the bunch you can use, Local scrap +10 % is a deal for him and you. Just my mind set. Most of that stuff they dont make any more.

[Jonathan Shively]

Scrap price. Or cheaper than scrap if he actually wants to see it used and appreciated. Will cost you something to get it up and going. Worst case scenario, you have some yard art or can scrap it yourself.

[menageriehill]

His daughter found a similar piece on the internet selling for $400.00 So…….hes thinking 400. for each piece. Im not interested at that price. The Michigan man said that most of the stuff they dont make anymore , and he is right. Just because its in one piece now doesn’t mean it would be that way after working a day!! Any more ideas?

[Jay]

Scrap or scrap + makes sense to me. If he is motivated enough to sell it on the internet, let him. Check back in a week or 2 – if all the hardware is there, that’s the best in my book, if you don’t mind the time to go over it. I just mowed a 1/3 acre today with a rebuilt mower – what a pleasure to hear it hum and see the hay fall nice and smooth…. Good Luck, Jay

[Donn Hewes]

Scrap price is really the only answer you can give from any distance. You need to be careful or you will end up with a load of scrap. Some (most?) if this will never be useful for anything. If I lived five miles away I would walk through and buy exactly what I wanted, in some cases paying more than scrap prices for it. That only works if you know what you want and what you are looking at. For example, there are a couple mowers I would buy in almost any condition for 100 to 200$. Most others I won’t buy.

[Bill Doyle]

Keep in mind that “scrap iron price ” that everyone always talks about, is the price delivered to the scrap yard. That means he has to get a trailer, get a front end loader, load the stuff,chain it down, haul it to the scrap yard, maybe take a day off work, hope he dosn’t have a flat. If you buy a piece from him you will go pick it up. I don’t think the scrap yard is gonna do that ! If you give him scrap price, that is plenty, in my opinion.

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Bill

[menageriehill]

Its only been a week since I went up there to look at it. He will be calling me probably tomorrow. (He knows my day “off”). You all are right. I hate to see anything go to scrap. He said it wouldnt go to scrap. You are right to that scrap prices are at the scrap yard. It is decent looking stuff but some of the small steeL is pretty thin. He has a tractor so it would take me two days and probably foUr loads on a 16 ft trailer, to pile it up at my place.

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