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Post by joebill on May 22, 2019 3:17:34 GMT
I knew a guy who used to buy from insurance auctions in Chicago. Most were strippers but he would go to the junk yards on Archer avenue and often buy the very parts that had been stripped off of them.
He was a second generation guy who fixed up auctioned cars, but he liked the big cars too much. Went broke during the first phony gas crisis. Nothing lasts forever......Joe
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2019 15:05:26 GMT
The cost of farm equipment is absolutely outrageous. No wonder so many farmers go bankrupt. I have a little tractor and a 4’ brush hog for it costs $1500! I hate to buy used as I’m not a mechanic and fear I’ll end up with a mess. My little hayfield is only an acre or so. I hate being dependent on the neighbor to put it up but I can buy a lot of hay for the price of a sickle bar mower. It may come down to me biting the bullet, but it will be a couple years.
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Post by joebill on May 29, 2019 1:39:25 GMT
When I was selling auto parts and equipment in an outside territory, I expanded the territory a bit to take in another small town, and one of the new accounts I called on was a John Deere dealer. They had a big old pot bellied stove in the sales area and every time I passed through there that first winter I spoke to the old fat guy sitting by the stove, because I figured since he was there every single moment the place was open he had to own it. He even ordered everybody else around wanting more coffee and another bucket of coal for the stove.
Come spring, he disappeared from his chair and after I had not seen him for a few weeks I inquired with the guy I was in the habit of selling parts to at the parts and service counter what happened to the "chief". I was REALLY glad I did not use the word "owner", since he was the guy I had been dealing with and the guy in the chair was a farmer who had spent the entire winter at the dealership trying to chisel his very best deal possible on a new piece of farm machinery, hanging around all day every day hoping if they got sick enough of him hanging around they would carve off a few hundred dollars more from the price......Joe
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