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Post by chuckie on Oct 14, 2020 7:59:11 GMT -6
We are increasing finding that people who post equipment on these Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist don't want to answer the questions you ask. And when you ask for a better picture or other pictures of the item, they seemed to be agitated that you would ask this. In the advertisement picture, you can only see a small portion of the cutter hooked up to the tractor. We know it is a ten footer which would be about right for my 3020.
We were wanting to buy a second cutter for the land here are around the house so we didn't have to tote the one from the farm here each time we needed to knock the weeds down.
I asked the man for a model number of the cutter and some extra pictures. The first time he responded he said, "Drive down to look at it."
I can see doing that if he was close and had other cutters for sale as well. But this cutter is over 100 miles from us.
I then asked for the model number, and he writes back, "540 PTO" shaft.
I wrote back to please send the model number of the cutter and did he consider his cutter to be in good shape. He won't give a price either. People are nuts!
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Post by bulltrader on Oct 14, 2020 9:36:55 GMT -6
Sounds like an add to forget about.
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Post by Allenw on Oct 14, 2020 10:13:35 GMT -6
He doesn't know the answer is my guess or even what you are asking for.
I sell hay and some misc on Craigslist, I can usually feel zomeone out and know if we're on the same page. I've had one or two that I've just quit texting with we just weren't on the same page and weren't going to get there after multiple attempts.
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Post by ebenezer on Oct 14, 2020 11:43:10 GMT -6
Had trouble with folks on livestock sales. Some are obvious cranks.
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Post by chuckie on Oct 14, 2020 12:02:26 GMT -6
The man just responded to my questions, and once again sent the far away photos of the cutter hooked to the tractor. There are couple more, but they show less than the original one did.
I am going to have to agree with all three of you. Either this guy is attempting to do something that he is not good at...selling to the public.
I am not going to write him again as there is definitely a lack of knowledge or trying to cover something up that he knows will turn a buyer away.
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Post by ebenezer on Oct 14, 2020 17:43:50 GMT -6
A fellow was advertising fruit trees fairly close about 2 years ago. The pictures looked like there were a lot of good trees, the varieties were the best for our area and the prices were good without S&H. I figured how to drive by and did so after a Dr appt for my wife. Fred Sanford would look like an amateur around the guy and if there were trees there they were hidden behind the junk. He contacted me several more times about my interest and I did not have an armed guard to ride shotgun so I ignored the "opportunity".
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Post by chuckie on Oct 14, 2020 20:25:43 GMT -6
I can totally understand your skepticism about the fruit trees ebenezer. Might have tripped on some rusty metal he had piled up and caught tetnas. You lived to tell the story.
I know several people that hang on to every piece of junk they ever owned. It slowly rusts and if anyone asks to buy something, the prices are crazy high. I am not sure why they hang on to all that crap till they die. It surely is an eye sore.
One thing I have wondered about this situation, does the scrap lower the value of the land. Often I will see old wheels that held some form of pipe that are really large. Then I see old refrigerators and washing machines piled up. Then there is a pile of old toilets. Old combines, two ton trucks that are useless. Rusted hay equipment, rusted shelving out of factories. and the list goes on. This one man has all of this and it covers a large portion of his property, and is all the way around his house and tool shed.
There is so much piled up that it is hard to see it all.
There was a tornado that hit the area in 2006. When the helicopters came over taking pictures for the news, they took a picture of his place showing the destruction. The really funny part was they were taking an actual picture of what his place looked like before the tornado hit. It came out in one of the big papers and the people around the area were all laughing about it. The tornado did actually tear a portion of his shop roof off. But it did not look like much else was moved.
Does this mess bring down the price of the property? I just don't see how you could make a profit on so much junk.
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Post by backhoeboogie on Oct 17, 2020 7:18:31 GMT -6
I sold the farm to the gravel company. They only wanted it for the gravel. I torched off my working pens at ground level and loaded them on the trailer. I think there are 19 gates out there too. Three squeeze chutes and a weigh scale. There's 17 acres here and I have a 125 HP Massey, 16 foot disc, 10 foot cutter and 6 foot cutter. Stock trailers, flat beds, a backhoe - way too much junk to mow around for certain.
There is an 8 by 12 shed packed full of antique blacksmith tools and gear. I don't even know what some of the stuff is or how to use it. Lisa pulled a lot of junk out and decorated a bedroom with it. It looks awesome. It was my great-grandfather's blacksmith shop tools so it has sentimental value to me.
We fully intended to buy another 100 acres or so. I was going to weld 3 foot pipe extensions on the bottom of the working pens and reset them in concrete.
Then I have your typical junk and scrap piles.
Two acres or so around the house is pristine. No junk. 15 really nice chicken runs and pens on the perimeter of that. But once you get outside of that area, I can give Fred Sanford a run for his money.
My portable pens are set up and functional and they get used for my Mickey Mouse cattle "operation" here.
As far as prices go, if people don't price something, I am out. If their price is too much, I am out. No bartering. I am too old and too tired to dicker. I price something and that's the price. If people buy two dozen hatching eggs we ship 30 but that's just extra. If they buy 15 pullets we will throw in a few more.
My word is good. Everything else is just cosmetics. If junk bothers you, don't walk outside of our 2 acre yard.
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