Posted by JRSutton on October 13, 2015 at 06:32:29 from (96.237.53.59):
In Reply to: Scrap steel $30/ton??? posted by fred werring on October 12, 2015 at 18:51:49:
GOOD.
Worst thing to ever happen to anybody interested in old farm equipment was that spike a few years ago.
Especially around here where the urban sprawl had already decimated the old equipment population. What was left could bring a tear to your eye watching it all go by on flatbed trucks to the scrap yards. They were everywhere. You couldn't take a ride without seeing one go by, all loaded up with great old stuff.
Even if you could catch somebody before they scrapped it - it was too hard to justify trying to beat the high scrap price on an old tractor. A couple got saved, but a majority of them didn't.
I have an old new holland super 66 baler I like to play with - used to be if you needed parts they were everywhere. Within just a few years, that baler's now considered "rare".
I know I'm preaching to the choir here - but just need to vent.
It really is too bad it happened. Hopefully the prices will just stay low and we won't have to see the little that is left disappear too.
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