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I HATE to see stuff this old going for scrap. There are so many people out in Tractor Land who love to restore and keep these things as part of our agricultural past (in my case, it's my own past, because I used to use the kinds of machines you talk about--tractor-mounted and pull-behind, some even meant for horses but used behind a tractor in the 40s when I had begun to drive tractors). Just make it available and somebody will buy it from you for a decent price. I get a little sad when I see tractors sitting in the woods, rusting and rotting. I know that some people aren't sentimental about their cast-offs. I can think of a dozen cars, trucks and tractors that went that way on my father's farm. He'd just park 'em and leave 'em. A 10-20, an F-12, two H's, a '32 Chev truck, a '41 and a '52 Chevvy car, all left out "behind the barn." A bulldozer took care of them a few years ago. Unfortunately, this stuff doesn't have much nostalgia value when you're using it and getting tired of the mechanical problems the tired old car or tractor has, and at the time, it would have cost more to fix them than they were worth.
I let 'em go, too, and now I'd love to have most of those things back.
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