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Rob

05-10-2005 10:50:57




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There"s a long-standing boneyard called Abilene Machine not far from my place. I"m located 30-miles from Abilene, Kansas and Abilene Machine is 5- or 10-miles this side of Abilene. They have many, many acres of old tractors, a branch in California, and they manufacture some tractor parts. A year ago or so, someone set fire to their office, phone center, will call, and storage/manufacturing to the tune of $1M damage. They are located out in Sand Springs known for some very fine melons grown in the river bottom sand.
Anyway, they have all these 10ft or 12ft wide rows and rows of parts out there like radius rod caps, running boards, foot pegs, and iron parts that don"t need inside storage. Maybe only 100ft or 150ft of N parts but otherwise they have a mile of rows or more. I was only looking for a running board and a radius rod cap so I don"t know if they had other N parts in other rows. They normally fetch the parts I need and bring them to the will call counter so I don"t get to play in their yard much.
Thing is, that fine river bottom sand gets every where and drifts and gathers around every bush or stick up. Well, now after all these years you drive out between these rows and rows of parts stacked out there are which are now on top of two or three feet or more of drifted sand with parts sticking out the side. You got to climp up the dune and parts sticking out the side to get to the parts on top to where you can walk around on parts thrown our there and buried in the sand to see what they got. No telling how many parts are buried on that 2 or 3ft of sand. No telling.
I just wonder how many parts are long buried in that sand and lost forever. They got so many parts and they don"t seem at all concerned. How many iron parts piled in a row 2 x 10 row, 100ft long? Or even 50ft long?

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Dan

05-10-2005 17:15:42




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 Re: Boneyard story. in reply to Rob, 05-10-2005 10:50:57  
That truly brings a tear to my eyes! I only have one antique tractor bone yard close to me, and I spend HOURS every time I am there just wondering the rows. I found a 1939 9N tractor there once (by the serial number), and got the original "FORD" badge off the front - cool find.

Dan



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Russ SoCal

05-10-2005 22:36:36




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 WHAT???!!!??? in reply to Dan, 05-10-2005 17:15:42  
YOU LEFT THE REST OF IT THERE????? ?



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Dan

05-11-2005 13:02:53




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 Re: WHAT???!!!??? in reply to Russ SoCal, 05-10-2005 22:36:36  
You have to understand the nature of boneyard operators. You look at a non-running 1939 tractor with a few parts missing as a "parts" tractor worth $500 or less, maybe $750 because it is a 39 model. They look at it one part at a time - $25 for each upper hydraulic lift arm, $30 for the water pump, $75 for the fenders... That tractor is worth several thousand dollars to them, and I WILL NOT pay $2k for a non-running 9N with missing parts - not even a 1939 9N.

Dan

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