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Southwest Cotton Picker Salvage Yards

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Wardner

07-16-2007 17:02:34




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I know cotton is grown in AZ and Southern CA. Could someone point me to a salvage yard that might have a few cotton pickers built on M thru 560? I am looking for some of the specialized gearboxes and PTO configerations that attached to the tractor.

Ya, I might be making a portable ice cream machine with 28 flavors. Thanks JimN and Dick from IA.

This will take me back to my youth when I built an ice cream body for my '32 Ford Pickup. I made money at 5 cents for a fudgsicle and 10 cents for an ice bar or sandwich.

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CNKS

07-16-2007 18:10:40




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 Re: Southwest Cotton Picker Salvage Yards in reply to Wardner, 07-16-2007 17:02:34  
Try this location in central Texas, west of Dallas, Ft Worth. I am not sure that this is the large salvage yard on US 83 that I have driven by many times, but the owner of this place probably knows the one I'm thinking about, it could be 50 miles or so north or south of Wellington, perhaps in the Abilene, TX area. Sorry I can't be more specific. Some of the Texas readers may know where it is. It is in cotton country: Kim does not want me to use the word "tractor". Put it between the Wellington and Parts -- probably offers competition for this site.

WELLINGTON PARTS P O BOX 391 HWY 83 S WELLINGTON TX 79095 PHONE 806-447-5346 WATTS 800-992-5346

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John A.

07-16-2007 20:41:02




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 Re: Southwest Cotton Picker Salvage Yards in reply to CNKS, 07-16-2007 18:10:40  
Guys, Wellington,Texas is 40 mi. due North of Childress, Tx. Also about 80 mi. Northwest of Altus, Okla- as the crow flies. In the SE corner of the Texas Panhandle.
Wellington is really more of a Salvage yard than tractor/truck/car/steel parts place.
Back in the 80s we bought a 7 tower Zimatic Sprinkler. It was a Tornado wreck from out of Uvalde,Tx. We boughht it for little of nothing back then, fixed it and it is running to this day for my relatives in the Okla strip. Anyway, Hope this helps.
Laater,
John A.

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CNKS

07-17-2007 05:36:14




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 Re: Southwest Cotton Picker Salvage Yards in reply to John A., 07-16-2007 20:41:02  
I'm originally from Carrizo Springs, about 50 miles south of Uvalde -- now live in Garden City, KS, 720 miles N, or 420 miles N of Abilene TX. I still don't remember the sequence of towns along that 720 miles -- the salvage yard I was referring to is closer to Abilene on the W side of 83, but I may be all wet.



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Wardner

07-16-2007 19:24:46




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 Re: Southwest Cotton Picker Salvage Yards in reply to CNKS, 07-16-2007 18:10:40  
CNKS,

Thanks for the lead. I am heading west from New England but I don't expect to go much further south than Topeka while in the mid-west. I'll be dropping a Ford 600 off nearby. Wave if you see me this weekend.



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CNKS

07-16-2007 19:36:00




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 Re: Southwest Cotton Picker Salvage Yards in reply to Wardner, 07-16-2007 19:24:46  
Can't see that far, Topeka is 300+ miles from here, whole other world in eastern KS.



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Larry in Mo

07-16-2007 17:48:45




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 Re: Southwest Cotton Picker Salvage Yards in reply to Wardner, 07-16-2007 17:02:34  
Bet you wish you had that 32 Ford Pickup now!! LE



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Wardner

07-16-2007 19:11:45




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 Re: Southwest Cotton Picker Salvage Yards in reply to Larry in Mo, 07-16-2007 17:48:45  
I still have it.

That circumstance happens because I have a large barn and have expanded it over the years. I even have the ice cream body and the KB-5 IH truck that I hauled the '32 PU home on.

Occasionally, I sell something. A year after I built the '32, I bought a '23 Graham Bros fire truck. It was actually a dressed up 1 ton PU with ladder racks, extra lights, and hose reels. I built an ice cream body for that too. Although it looked nice, I never did like selling ice cream from it. It was a walk-in style body. It's been gone fifteen years.

I started on a ice cream side car for my '40 Knucklehead Harley many years ago. I still have the fiberglass molds and one complete shell. Whereas the other two trucks were equipped with refrigeration systems, the side car would have to run on dry ice. I get nervous thinking about several hundred dollars worth of product sloshing around in a tangle of wrappers.

I have a good head start on the tractor ice cream truck. My 400 has a side mount Electrall. I also have an ex-military SS water buffalo. Board of Health requires the vendor to have water when dealing with scooped ice cream. And scooped it would be. The ice cream would be made on site and the customer would self serve after leaving a "donation" in a box. Jim's idea of running four tubs might just be the beginning.

Ya, I am dreaming a bit here but I do think there might be a way to do this. I need to do alot more research.

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