16 thoughts on “Somewhere, A Redneck Backyard Mechanic Is Crying His Eyes Out”
Damn, that’s sad.
I could barely watch it.
That IS criminal, no DEF or Re-Gen or computer chips to worry about on that machine. You won’t ever see today’s Foo-Foo equipment last as long as that one did.
The previous owner probably got $200k+ of taxpayers cash from air resource board as a trade in on a new tier 4 one. It’s too good of a deal so please don’t ask me how I know.
If a bargain with Satan can ever be said to be a good deal, maybe.
CARB will pay 80% of the price of a new 5115ml John Deere if I let them destroy my 1 owner JD 4020, about $70k. I will sell it to you for that price instead of them, step up big guy. They are offering incentives now, mandates soon. What would you do? Easy to judge when it’s not your bank account.
THE TRACKS WERE STILL FREE!
That was worse than watching the Fauci beagles.
Big machine, one day it will be your turn in the pit.
Makes a grown man weep.
Ok, so it can do that. But did it have to do it???? Why???
kind of like seeing scrapyards in the mid 1970’s to early 80’s. there where a LOT of machine shops that closed their doors for good and sold off the tools as scrap.
55 gallon barrels of tooling dumped by the dozens. lathes, mills and grinders of all types just scrapped. I picked up a south bend lathe for 100 bucks there once.
3 and 4 jaw chucks, collet set and taper set up. 100 bucks.
sold it years later to 2 grand, as I didn’t have a way to move it anymore.
I still have a couple of 5 gallon buckets of tooling from that time. more drill bits than I even use or need. so, yeah. what we scrap will make some people cry.
I remember back in the early 1980’s . Sears dropped off a few barrels of broken tools. Craftsman stuff. there was a mad dash to grab as many as you could. my buddy John has like 2 or 3 big tool boxes full of Craftsman tools that he turned in and got replaced, just a few on each trip. took him a while, but he did trade in all of them for new tools.
Not to mention the obscenity that was ‘Cash for Clunkers’.
That was sad. They should park those old guys in a lot free for the taking.
It must have been one of those .gov incentive plans or something similar as that thing would part out for way more than scrap at the current prices. That, or someone got sick of looking at it.
Damn, that’s sad.
I could barely watch it.
That IS criminal, no DEF or Re-Gen or computer chips to worry about on that machine. You won’t ever see today’s Foo-Foo equipment last as long as that one did.
The previous owner probably got $200k+ of taxpayers cash from air resource board as a trade in on a new tier 4 one. It’s too good of a deal so please don’t ask me how I know.
If a bargain with Satan can ever be said to be a good deal, maybe.
CARB will pay 80% of the price of a new 5115ml John Deere if I let them destroy my 1 owner JD 4020, about $70k. I will sell it to you for that price instead of them, step up big guy. They are offering incentives now, mandates soon. What would you do? Easy to judge when it’s not your bank account.
THE TRACKS WERE STILL FREE!
That was worse than watching the Fauci beagles.
Big machine, one day it will be your turn in the pit.
Makes a grown man weep.
Ok, so it can do that. But did it have to do it???? Why???
kind of like seeing scrapyards in the mid 1970’s to early 80’s. there where a LOT of machine shops that closed their doors for good and sold off the tools as scrap.
55 gallon barrels of tooling dumped by the dozens. lathes, mills and grinders of all types just scrapped. I picked up a south bend lathe for 100 bucks there once.
3 and 4 jaw chucks, collet set and taper set up. 100 bucks.
sold it years later to 2 grand, as I didn’t have a way to move it anymore.
I still have a couple of 5 gallon buckets of tooling from that time. more drill bits than I even use or need. so, yeah. what we scrap will make some people cry.
I remember back in the early 1980’s . Sears dropped off a few barrels of broken tools. Craftsman stuff. there was a mad dash to grab as many as you could. my buddy John has like 2 or 3 big tool boxes full of Craftsman tools that he turned in and got replaced, just a few on each trip. took him a while, but he did trade in all of them for new tools.
Not to mention the obscenity that was ‘Cash for Clunkers’.
That was sad. They should park those old guys in a lot free for the taking.
It must have been one of those .gov incentive plans or something similar as that thing would part out for way more than scrap at the current prices. That, or someone got sick of looking at it.
Damn even with no audio again