Saved a Cub from a excavator!
 

My friend texted me today to tell me he was gonna smash his cub 122 he bought at auction the other day and then take it to scrap, and with that he sent me this picture!

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I couldn't swing it today so I made a few phone calls and talked my dad into buying it so we saved it from the excavator and scrap yard

Boy, what kind of friend is that?

He buys stuff to sell it and if it don't sell within just a few days he wants it gone.

Should have kicked him in his genetalia.

:biggrin2: I could think of a few other things too! :biggrin2:

Glad you saved it! :beerchug:

Your friend has a mental condition...

Sad thing is it runs great and he still wanted to scrap it

With friends like that....

If he was only going to get scrap price for it, it should have been cheap! Weighs in a what 750#? Shoulda been like $105. You saved him time of hauling it off. Hope you didn't give more than $100. :bigthink:

Picture looks like a ransom demand to me. Many want to run this by the FBI .

We'll he was gonna keep the plow, deck and the brand new ags and front tires then scrap it.

Glad you saved it! I try not to think about all the cubs that have met their end at the scrapper. I've even thought about going to the local scrap yard a few miles away and asking the owner to call if any cubs are brought in to scrap. It just gets me, there are so many good parts and good machines that go to scrap all because someone is to lazy or doesn't know how to fix them. Seems like all anyone sees anymore is dollar signs. Don't get me wrong, I can understand parting them out. Where else would we get parts for some of these tractors?? But crushing one up is ridiculous . Just afraid that not to soon all state laws will be like California scrap laws on tractors. Once they come in they cannot be made to run nor can any parts be sold off to make another tractor run. They must be scrapped.

Lew has you trained well Jonathan, $100?:bigthink::biggrin2::biggrin2:

I have 2 scrap yards up here that won't sell anything either

Another attempt to mess with me

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The smart crushers here don't bring good stuff inside, but leave it outside the yard. They call whoever to come buy it. Usually tear a 20 dollar bill in half give it to the operator with your number on it. You give him the other half when you buy whatever for making the call.

Fascinating. What is the reasoning for this? Wanting to get old equipment off the road to reduce pollution? (Guessing)

I wonder if anyone has studied the environmental impact of scraping, instea I saving. Almost always the best environmental impact is to reduce consumption. Meaning use what you have. Ethanol seems upside down to me in this way, I doubt the considered how much waste was created due to engine problems.

I bet, he was pullin your leg! if hes a trader he had to know it had more than scrap value?

Most scrap yards pay only like, .08 - .10 cents a pound for number one scrap around these parts. There is no way a scrap man would pay him no more than $60 for a 750 pound scrap load @ .08 cents/ pound. I drag them home left and right, like catching fish for $120 to $140 all day from scrap yards. I would pay a tad more to save a cub cadet like that, J-Mech.

This guy is some sort of nut/job to take a hoe bucket to a poor, helpless cubbie.

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You beat me to it, I was going to say the same thing. I just took a 147 frame with trans and an entire 2146 in for scrap and only got about $53.xx. For the scrap price you're getting, John, I should have took it to your area! :biggrin2:

That is a great idea! They are sure to call if you do that.

That is a great idea 64fleetside! Yes I think it has a lot to do with pollution laws. They'd love nothing more than to get all old cars , trucks , equipment and such off the street/planet. Another way of (control) over us.

Exactly!!!

Let me know when he puts his house up for sale, because if it doesn't sell fast enough then maybe he will want to unload it before he crushes it. With waste like that, perhaps he works for the government....(Did I just say that?):biggrin2:

Cub Cadet 123