Saved a Cub from a excavator!

[wm-webb]

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

Originally Posted by J-Mech

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.

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

[bocephus1991]

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.

[cubcadet]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

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.

Lew has you trained well Jonathan, $100?

Originally Posted by bocephus1991

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.

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

Another attempt to mess with me

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[64fleetside]

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.

[yeeter]

Originally Posted by Hoadihcub105

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

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.

[robpa]

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

[johncub7172]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

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.

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.