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Old Ford Boneyard Found Today

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RICK/GA

03-26-2003 17:04:43




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Well today was quite a day. I foubd an old Ford Tractor boneyard within an hour of my house in Athens, GA (GA Bulldog Country). Spend about an hour walking around trying to find the 740 tranny case I've been desperate to find. Found one! Now negotiating time. I try to take the whole tractor which is minus all sheet metal engine head, wheels, pto shaft all electrical components etc. Power steering seems intact, hydraulic ram intact (could lift cover) and Tranny case good. So what do you offer for something like this. I try $100 to haul it away (He laughs). Says send all the $100 tractors my way I'll part the rest of this out for $2,000. I think he'll be dead first. This yard is piled high of Ford parts. He wants $400 for entire power steering system. All I need is one small piece that right now I'm having machined.

I leave very dissapointed. His parts will be higher than new or ebay prices. He said he'd like to sell the whole yard. I can't afford that. Anybody see this happen often?

RICK/GA

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dale b

03-27-2003 04:34:46




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 Re: Old Ford Boneyard Found Today in reply to RICK/GA, 03-26-2003 17:04:43  
iv been going to the same bone yard for years.
the old timer who ownes the place would look at the part and give ya a price.
belive me, the price was always right.
he would let you go and brouse.
then aboout 2 years ago he semi retired.wow, did the prices go up. the new young guy looks the part up in the book and charges exactly half of the new price.
the old timer works a couple days a month. if i want parts, that ia when i go, and so do others.
i have mentioned the new pricing policy. he just laughs and says 'he is trying to beat me to retirement.....come in on the days im working"

i guess half of new is not bad, but being spoiled for so long.....
dale b

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Ron (8n509270)

03-27-2003 03:18:39




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 Re: Old Ford Boneyard Found Today in reply to RICK/GA, 03-26-2003 17:04:43  
Are you talkiN bout Billy Faulker's Tractor Salvage? I had heard he was on the high side. He thinks he is the only one in GA, he maybe. I don't know.



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RICK/GA

03-27-2003 04:15:52




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 Re: Re: Old Ford Boneyard Found Today in reply to Ron (8n509270), 03-27-2003 03:18:39  
I sure am. He seems like he's a nice guy but I don't know if I'll even go there anymore. I think I have a better chance on the web (ie ebay or classifieds for part outs). He's got whatseems to be 100 SOS trannys. I think it'd take him a month just to get the body out of the yard. Things are just piled high.

Where you at? You know of any other good place in south? I have found one near Cleveland TN (Madisonville) that may be promising.

RICK/GA

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Ron (8n509270)

03-27-2003 13:11:52




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 Re: Re: Re: Old Ford Boneyard Found Today in reply to RICK/GA, 03-27-2003 04:15:52  
I am on the NW side of GA, Cartersville to be exact. I haven't found another boneyard. Came across that one by the luck of the draw.

Right down the road from him was an 8n I went to look at. I thought any 8n was worth $500 bucks but everyone over there must think there stuff is made of gold. There wasn't $5 worth of scrap metal left between rust and shot gun holes.

Ron



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souNdguy

03-26-2003 19:05:30




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 Re: Old Ford Boneyard Found Today in reply to RICK/GA, 03-26-2003 17:04:43  
I discoverd an old guy with an n boneyard about 30 minutes from my house. redbelly Carcases literally piled on each other.. some with intact rims.. even a few peices of lightly rusty sheetmetal.. but no holes all the way through.

I made the mistake of calling it a junkyard.. he got real uptight about that... and he wants a mint for his stuff.. if you can even talk him into selling.... I had to really really do some talking to get an original set of 19" rims for my 8n and a tranny dipstick... They were just sitting out on a carcass in the weeds slowly rusting away... took me a week of asking to get him to sell them.. then we wants an arm and leg... I really didn't want to spend the kind of money he wanted.. but really wanted the 19" rims for my 8n.. so I went to get them.. On top of it all.. the guy is real old and in very bad health.. I had to go pull the rims myself.. and pay through the nose.. sheesh... oh well.... they look real nice on my N... And the dipstick sure beats the long nail that the original owner stuck in there...

His grandson comes over now and then to help him take care of the place.. but ironically.. I see this guy probably passing in the near future, and these wonderfull tractor bodies getting hauled off and smelted...

Soundguy

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2fordsmike

03-26-2003 18:14:27




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 Re: Old Ford Boneyard Found Today in reply to RICK/GA, 03-26-2003 17:04:43  
Rick: Some of our bretheren get a little funny in their thinking. Perhaps they sold some stuff too cheaply in the past and, somewhere along the way, decide they won't be taken again. Then they go to the opposite way of pricing. Yes, I've been there. Sometimes I walk away, sometimes I pay up. On another note, you do know that many, many parts for the 900 series will fit your 740? Powersteering for example. Transmission case? I have never seen a 940. Check a parts book and you will learn what interchanges. $400 for powersteering? Not bad if it is perfect, but I'll bet it is not. Mike-Iowa

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rick craig(harleys too)

03-26-2003 17:18:04




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 Re: Old Ford Boneyard Found Today in reply to RICK/GA, 03-26-2003 17:04:43  
ya, ive seen this happen but not with tractors. ive seen it happen with harley's. started years ago when harley started gettin big again.now if ya do find the part your needin it will cost ya an arm and a leg, that is if you can find any parts. europians started comin down here a couple of years ago, buyin every harley part they could get there hands on, there aint much left now.i know this aint a biker site, but unfortunately i dont think that its just harley parts that are going to get thin. be safe. rick craig

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