Posted by rrlund on October 14, 2011 at 10:28:25 from (207.241.137.116):
I've said for a long time that if I was going to quit farming,I wouldn't call an auctioneer,I'd just start hauling things up the road to the crusher. Monday,I was hauling manure and the apron broke on the spreader with a load on it for about the 10th time this year. That did it. I went up the road,asked Julie what she was paying for farm machinery and she said $250 a ton. I came home and ate lunch,cooled off for a few minutes and called the Agco dealer because I knew there had been a New Idea 3732 spreader on the lot. He gave me a price I thought was about what I had in mind,so I went and bought it. I hauled manure Tuesday,then hauled equipment Wednesday and yesterday morning. I took 3 whole manure spreaders,2 stripped carcuses,a John Deere feed grinder that I was keeping "just in case" but was just taking up space in the tool shed,a CaseIH 781 chopper with a broken feed roll,a four row wide corn head that I never would have used,a bunch of broken gates and round bale feeders and a pair of Farmall cast wheels for an F12 or F14. I kept all the tires and wheels,PTO shafts,hydraulic cylinders and hoses,tongue jacks,newer chains,idlers,tighteners,a hydraulic drive auger off the grinder,even the spout and corn head off the chopper. Came home with over $3150 and a lot more room around here. No,I didn't quit farming THIS time,but there's a whole bunch more that's going there if I do. Julie jokes around when she writes the checks and I know nobody's coming back to camplain that something's not right. On top of that,no commission. Next thing on the list to be replaced is that worn out John Deere 1020 loader tractor and if I don't park that one in the back of the tool shed thinking I'll restore it some day,that one's going to Worthington as a donor tractor. At my age,I faced the facts Monday that this junk sitting around here ain't gonna get fixed when I find another parts machine and nobody's gonna want parts off this junk. Good ridance to the bunch of it!
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