Big ag tractors auctioned as salvage, engines trashed w cutting torch

[CalG]

Alas! Retrofitting the gps and nav /auto steering would make restoration un profitable.

A one man Ag business in the Dakotas can easily run through 3.5 millions cash flow every season. No time to dick around with "tractors". ;-)

 

[California]

Alas! Retrofitting the gps and nav /auto steering would make restoration un profitable.

I was thinking 'recondition' more like the photos I put in this old post:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/yanmar/242982-how-identify-vietnam-refurb.html#post2827043

 

[California]

I bet they reached through that hole and cut the crankshaft, too.



Bruce

For 'Cash for Clunkers', they were required to drain the oil then run wide open until the engine seized. I hope that hasn't been done to these!

 

[Rara Avis]

Wow, seems weird that they didn't ship them elsewhere. Only in California.

Tier IV has arrived nationwide for the big diesels...

Regulations for Emissions from Heavy Equipment with Compression-Ignition (Diesel) Engines | Regulations for Emissions from Vehicles and Engines | US EPA

 

[RickB]

Alas! Retrofitting the gps and nav /auto steering would make restoration un profitable.

A one man Ag business in the Dakotas can easily run through 3.5 millions cash flow every season. No time to dick around with "tractors". ;-)

Precision Farming components are added to tractors and equipment older than these every day. If you are going to post about a topic, at least have some grain of knowledge about it.

 

[HillbillyFab]

For 'Cash for Clunkers', they were required to drain the oil then run wide open until the engine seized. I hope that hasn't been done to these!

And pour "Liquid Glass" down the intakes, at least the ones around here that I ran across in the junkyards.

 

[Thomas]

What a waste.

 

[Spanner]

Very 'hard' to read this.

Several pics show significant staining from (likely) oil on the ground which looks more of an environmental crime than what the tractors are accused of being.

This:

For 'Cash for Clunkers', they were required to drain the oil then run wide open until the engine seized. I hope that hasn't been done to these!

is like daggers to the heart of any Tractor enthusiast.

:bawling:

 

[flusher]

I've seen ditch pumps and trucks advertised for sending out of state. I wonder if the explanation here is the owners got a subsidy for trade-in, a 'Cash for Clunkers' promotion.


California unfortunately needs clean air regs, the air was unbreathable years ago. The politicians didn't go nuts, they responded (reluctantly) to the voters who demanded they Do Something!! about the unbreathable air.

Sorry this impacts others as well.

Added: Photo. The State Capitol building is out there somewhere in that mess.

Post in 2011 where I originally posted this photo.

You're right about that. Air quality was and still is a big problem in the Great Central Valley from Stockton to Bakersfield. All the traffic on I5 and Hwy 99 coupled with the huge number of farm diesels in the Valley make air quality places like Fresno still marginal.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

You're right about that. Air quality was and still is a big problem in the Great Central Valley from Stockton to Bakersfield. All the traffic on I5 and Hwy 99 coupled with the huge number of farm diesels in the Valley make air quality places like Fresno still marginal.

I guess you need to get rid of all the tractors! AND put a shovel in the hands of all those folks on welfare there, to do the tillage! A good place to start would be in the sanctuary cities...

Wouldn't THAT be a win, win??

SR