Found this today...

[japody]

Let's say scrap iron is $150 per ton. That's 7.5 cents a pound. Let's say there is 500lbs there. That's $37.50. You'll spend 3 hrs getting it out of the timber and hauling it to the scrap yard. That's $12.50 an hour for your efforts with a tractor w/fel, a pickup and a trailer involved.

Maybe just leave it there and show it to your friends and family. Letting them dream up their own story about how it got there. Imagine a young boy or girl looking at it and discussing this.

This is our heritage.

Wouldn't ever think of selling it for scrap. Look at my avatar. Those are our yard ornaments.

 

[ovrszd]

Wouldn't ever think of selling it for scrap. Look at my avatar. Those are our yard ornaments.

Yep, I noticed that. Thank you for being a good steward of our heritage.

Bought a new wagon the other day from the scrap iron guy. Paid $10.

 

[japody]

Nice wagon.

 

[Creamer]

Saving our heritage is good but as a young Russian guy told me one time - they were so beholden to the past they couldn't get it out of the way to build the future whereas America didn't constrain itself this way. It really made me think about what value do things really have. this wagon for instance was a tool for someone but it is no obsolete as far as economic value whereas the steel it is made out of isn't. Is it not of more value to us as scrap iron - where do we draw the line?

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Yep, I noticed that. Thank you for being a good steward of our heritage.

Bought a new wagon the other day from the scrap iron guy. Paid $10.



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Is that some sort of gear on the inside of the rear wheel? Makes me think it might have been a horse drawn manure spreader, although the pictures I was able to Google up pretty much had smaller wheels in front.

 

[dstig1]

Saving our heritage is good but as a young Russian guy told me one time - they were so beholden to the past they couldn't get it out of the way to build the future whereas America didn't constrain itself this way. It really made me think about what value do things really have. this wagon for instance was a tool for someone but it is no obsolete as far as economic value whereas the steel it is made out of isn't. Is it not of more value to us as scrap iron - where do we draw the line?

While I get your point, I don't think we in this country are at any risk of saving "too much" of our history. Way too many treasures have been destroyed even in a place like Mpls/St Paul that has only been around ~150 yrs. Metropolitan bldg in Mpls being probably the best example Metropolitan Building (Minneapolis) - Wikipedia

Saving the occasional wagon or old car in no way is a risk of stagnating here... IMO

 

[/pine]

What's changing is value...these days it's more important to be politically correct than it is to be loyal to historical legacies and heritage...

 

[ovrszd]

Saving our heritage is good but as a young Russian guy told me one time - they were so beholden to the past they couldn't get it out of the way to build the future whereas America didn't constrain itself this way. It really made me think about what value do things really have. this wagon for instance was a tool for someone but it is no obsolete as far as economic value whereas the steel it is made out of isn't. Is it not of more value to us as scrap iron - where do we draw the line?

We sold restorable 67 Chevy pickups to China and they shipped us cheap Wal-Mart hammers that the claws will fly off of the first time they are swung hard at an object. Which has more value??

 

[ovrszd]

Is that some sort of gear on the inside of the rear wheel? Makes me think it might have been a horse drawn manure spreader, although the pictures I was able to Google up pretty much had smaller wheels in front.

This wagon has been heavily modified and changed from it's original intent. I can't confirm any of it's history.

Yep, it had a drive system of some kind on the rear axle. It's been gutted and discarded.

At some point in it's life it's also had a tilting bed, note the hinge rings at the rear.

The front axle is an automotive type, even has greasable king pins.

Again, my imagination runs wild. I think it's an automotive frame and springs with horsedrawn type axles and wheels mounted????

It came from an Amish farm.

 

[ovrszd]

What's changing is value...these days it's more important to be politically correct than it is to be loyal to historical legacies and heritage...

Stately quoted.

 

[japody]

You guys did well on naming the car, so I'll try to get close ups of my avatar so we can play "name that tractor". I think that will be more difficult. They both have metal wheels.

 

[AchingBack]

I found this old Case seeder in one of my fields.

 

[ovrszd]

I found this old Case seeder in one of my fields.

I grew up on a farm outside a town of 600. On main street there was a Case dealer. Had a large sign hanging on the front of the building in the Case symbol shape. Wish I had that sign now!!!!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I know. Every time I see an old car or piece of machinery I think about the fact that at some time that was somebody's pride and joy. When you see an old homestead that is falling down and know that at one time somebody was very proud of that place - it was very special and now it is just junk to everyone who sees it. Kind of sad but it does show us where we should put our faith and what is important! Still it is fun to reminisce.

Right there with you.

My dad hates to see his home place in ruins....
Dads will probably be the same fate, no one wants to live there but me. Wife doesnt want to. He built everything there.

 

[Creamer]

Right there with you.

My dad hates to see his home place in ruins....
Dads will probably be the same fate, no one wants to live there but me. Wife doesnt want to. He built everything there.

When I moved to the area where I am now a retiring farmer said to me that "you spend your whole life getting the place just how you want it only to watch the next guy spend his whole life getting to just how he wants it".

 

[lennyzx11]

Maybe just leave it there and show it to your friends and family. Letting them dream up their own story about how it got there. Imagine a young boy or girl looking at it and discussing this.

This is our heritage.

I know a place on the backside of a relative's place that had 3 or 4 old cars and a motorcycle lined up in the woods. Had to be done prior to the 60s.
Many happy miles, races, and stories were made there by my cousins and us kids at that secret place.

 

[wngsprd]

While I get your point, I don't think we in this country are at any risk of saving "too much" of our history. Way too many treasures have been destroyed even in a place like Mpls/St Paul that has only been around ~150 yrs. Metropolitan bldg in Mpls being probably the best example Metropolitan Building (Minneapolis) - Wikipedia

Saving the occasional wagon or old car in no way is a risk of stagnating here... IMO

That was a beautiful old building. Seems like the '60s were really rough on old city buildings...a big trend of urban renewal and steel and glass replacements.

Great thread!

 

[Rustyiron]

This shows the critical importance of a gas cap, or lack thereof :laughing:

 

[Sigarms]

You guys are lucky, the only thing I've found on our property is a discarded washing machine.

 

[dodge man]

I am a land surveyor and found these in the past couple of years. The log cabin was on a co workers property and was suppose to have someone living in it up until the 1950's. The chimney was near the Quad Cities Illinois and was near a newer subdivision. You could see part of the out line of where a house had been.