I can't just walk in to a scrap yard, point at an item, say "that was mine!", and expect the police to believe me and confiscate the item. Unfortunately, you almost need to catch the thief in the act, or have documented evidence that the unit is indeed yours. Like JD says, that's awful hard to do unless you mark and catalog every item. Otherwise, it's your word against theirs.
Neighbor went to the local consignment sale a couple years back and saw a chisel plow *exactly* like his. Turns out it was his. The auctioneer's hired hand went up the road to his place, hooked onto it and pulled it to the sale. Auctioneer swore up and down that the fellow was honest and that my neighbor was a liar. Neighbor offered to call the sheriff. Suddenly, maybe a mistake was made! Turns out he was supposed to go to another guy's place to grab a plow.... "Here's your plow back sir, and sorry for the inconvenience." Probably just hauled his next ill-gotten gain to the scrap yard.
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Today's Featured Article - Oil Bath Air Filters - by Chris Pratt. Some of us grew up thinking that an air filter was a paper thing that allowed air to pass while trapping dirt particles of a particles of a certain size. What a surprise to open up your first old tractor's air filter case and find a can that appears to be filled with the scrap metal swept from around a machine shop metal lathe. To top that off, you have a cup with oil in it ("why would you want to lubricate your carburetor?"). On closer examination (and some reading in a AC D-14 service manual), I found out that this is a pretty ingenious method of cleaning the air in the tractor's intake tract.
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