Having STUFF...anybody identify with me here?

[Redneck in training]

BTW, exactly what would you do with a broken rake tine? :laughing:

Maybe my wife and yours are related someway or is it just female nature?

When I discovered that the tine was broken I took my metal detector found it buried in the dirt and threw it to my junk pile. You never know when you need nice piece of spring metal.

 

[cropdusting]

Alright sorry folks. I was away from the computer and didn't tend to my response properly. I will try and respond to all the questions.

Video of two of my "vintage" bikes in action. 78 DT250 (mono) and 73 F11M (250cc)
Vintage motocross riding - YouTube

JDgreen227: White bike= 69 H1 (500) not possible to be a 77 H1 as 75 was the last model year. It is awaiting restoration. Here is a 1969 black H1 that I have about 80% restored (the 20% is the body work all mechanicals are new and it is rideable)

Here is a 1974 example of the H1 (finally got a disc brake in front and CDI ignition to get ride of timing 3 sets of breaker points)

1968 Kawasaki A7SS (350 rotary valve twin) all original bought new by my dad

CarDoc: I have 3 DT's 81 DT100, 72 DT 175 and a 78 DT250 (mono shock) none of which pictured (not enough time to take all the pics I wanted that day)

No YZ's unfortunately but a pre YZ and a runner up to the widowmaker (Suzuki's TM400 "Cyclone") 1974 SC500 4 speeds of wildly erratic power

Same bike in 1978 up on top of Webster pass (12,000 feet) that is my mom and her 1967 Yamaha YCS1 (90cc)

1974 Yamaha TY250 I compete in the twin shock observed trials class

My first "modern" trials bikes 97 Gas Gas JTX270

My current "modern" trials bike 2002 Gas Gas TXT321 (I built a rack so I could haul it on my car since the bike only weighs 150lbs)

One of my hand built pit bike racers (yes it is in my kitchen)

Oh yeah did I mention that our family collects Pontiac Fiero's? Have one for every year of production and every engine/transmission combo and trim level.
Here is about the 6th or 7th we have restored/modified up on the lift for restoration.

 

[Car Doc]

WOW nice write up! And to think I thought I had a lot of projects you sure DO have stuff haha!

 

[jonyyuma]

Crppdusting, You definitely have a lot of stuff, thanks for sharing. I feel much better about collecting stuff here?

 

[ultrarunner]

I bought a home in a decent neighborhood once because it was scheduled for condemnation...

The honest truth is I took ten 30 yard dumpsters from the place and lots more to two huge storage places for the owners daughter... I paid the first months rent and filled them, giving her the key.

When the county got wind of the sale the inspector was livid... they had to go through the entire notification process... they tried to pressure me... I told her one dumpster a week till everything is gone is all that I could promise... she stopped by every week for the first several weeks.

The family didn't have much money and neighbors would drop off food...

At the back of the garage I found a freezer filled with frozen meat... the family had forgotten about it and hadn't seen it in years... they ate well for months from what was in there.

My problem is I see value in many things...

15 years ago, a friend built a home and had lots of threaded rod left over... he asked me to come and get it... maybe 75 pcs... I just finished using the last of it and it saved me a lot of money as anyone who knows what metal costs today...

Same thing with cars... many of the cars I have are gifts... people say come and get it, they know I restore cars and would rather give them to someone that appreciates it than sell it for scrap...

 

[JDgreen227]

UltraRunner, if the township I live in wasn't so restrictive I would have a LOT more vehicles than I do...here you cannot have ANY non-running, unregistered vehicles UNLESS they are in an enclosed building. However, many farmers have dozens of junk cars, trucks, etc stored outside and the township cannot do anything (grandfather clause) but IMO the laws should be equal for everybody.

 

[hosspuller]

I remember going away to college ... two suitcases and a flight bag over the shoulder. 15 years later... married, two kids and a dog. Mover's van netted 22,000 pounds and I still had a truck & horse trailer full of liquids plus two cars full of stuff. (Movers won't pack anything containing a liquid for obvious reasons) I got a great deal on cases of synthetic motor oil $5 per case . :laughing:

 

[JDgreen227]

I remember going away to college ... two suitcases and a flight bag over the shoulder. 15 years later... married, two kids and a dog. Mover's van netted 22,000 pounds and I still had a truck & horse trailer full of liquids plus two cars full of stuff. (Movers won't pack anything containing a liquid for obvious reasons) I got a great deal on cases of synthetic motor oil $5 per case . :laughing:

OP here, thanks for jogging my memory, back in 1976 I moved my brother (he didn't have a car then) from Jackson, Michigan to Ann Arbor. Everything he owned in the world fit neatly into the back of my '73 Nova hatchback, and there was a ten speed bike in there too...

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Here on the west coast there is a great market for junk steel, and the state just changed the law so you can recycle anything worth less than $500 with a "junk slip." Enterprising guys have been buying tow trucks and mining the county for steel. Some of the old logging equipment sitting around weighs tons.

 

[Taylortractornut]

The local Goodwill store 3 1/2 miles away had people dropping stuff off at night in the back although there are signs posted asking people not do that, and I have observed pickups backed up to their dumpsters at night, pretty sure people are rummaging thru their castoffs and not dumping stuff. I am sure you, as a TBN member, are an honest man and report the income you make from selling those discards....:laughing:

Im honest just not that d@mned honest lol. Made good pocket money back in the day. Still got a half a 55 gallon drum full of them. Back then I could pick up some aluminum drops I picked them up about 5 gallons per day of end drops of 2by2 tubing 3 inches long. Saved them for years then when scrap went outrageous I got 3800 for 4 top load municipal garbage bins full.

I ll post a pic of the out side of my shop one day just as long as yall promise not to call the show hoarders lol. I get scrappers by each week lol.

Cropdusting Never mind the cars and bikes theyre nice but Is that a Hancock paddlewheel scraper in those pics at the back. I like the grader to. Also whats the model of the MF combine in the pics. I was given a 300 back in 97. I used parts from it several projects per year since then. Now theres just a few tin peices and some drive line waiting for a project. I was just given a 205 by a neigbor. Ive got several farm projects lined up with it.


Ladia your list of material in your post is exactly what I picked up at work today. Except the rake tooth I do have a spring tooth cultivator tooth on the back of the track with the conduit and wire.

You are right on the money about folks and the developing world. I salvage anything I can use. My grand parents on moms side grew up during the depression. They wasted nothing from metal to wood to leaves and grass trimmings. Grandma used to take every leaf that fell and put them on her garden in the fall. Grandad hoarded metal and built alot of stuff from it. His parents came over from Poland and made use of every thing.

My dads parents grew up in the same way with my grandfather being the care taker of the others when he was 9 years old. Here in the area that they grew up in and raised my dad and his siblings grew up was poor till the 60's. I ve hear Mamaw talk about when a car died and was beynd repair it was stripped down of everything usable then made into a wagon or cart. I know of 4 home built tractors made from car parts that actually raised crops that folks depended on for survival.


I recon I was the only one of my family that got both sets of genes. Plus I worked with some folks from rural parts of the world that didnt take a tidbit of metal or other material for granted. I was recently talking with a friends wife who was from Eastern Europe and she said she stopped her husband from hauling scrap from their newly bought farm.

 

[JDgreen227]

Taylortractornut, good post. Given our standard of living here most people throw something out rather than try to repair it, while in many other nations people salvage everything they can to be able to fix or modify what they have.

Funny thing is, my dad, who was born early in the 1920's, was very thrifty but he never felt the need to keep things or hoard them. He, like my in-laws who are 80 years old, was just plain THRIFTY, never buying anything unless he actually needed it. Quite unlike my wife and I who are compulsive buyers. He owned one push lawn mower, I have a half dozen as well as my two tractors.

I purchased my first Craftsman roller cabinet and tool chest combo back about 1983, my dad, who had so few tools he could carry them around in a handbox, came over one time, opened a drawer, and exclaimed "wow, everybody needs five hammers!" well my dad if still alive, would have a heart attack if he saw how many I have today :laughing: .

I honestly don't think you can be called a hoarder IF, repeat IF, you have a good idea of what you have and where you have it. My wifes best friend called her yesterday, asking if I would possibly know where her husband could find a small 110 volt electric motor with reduction gearing, and cheaply. Well, it took me five minutes to go out and grab two of what is shown in the attachment...he is helping his grandkids and sons build a parade float for a Christmas parade. Well, he is getting these motors free and fast :laughing: nope, I am not a hoarder if I can locate something like this that could have been in our huge basement, our garage, or one of my three barns, and in five minutes.. .Just DON'T ask why I had them in the first place.

 

[cropdusting]

Cropdusting Never mind the cars and bikes theyre nice but Is that a Hancock paddlewheel scraper in those pics at the back. I like the grader to. Also whats the model of the MF combine in the pics. I was given a 300 back in 97. I used parts from it several projects per year since then. Now theres just a few tin peices and some drive line waiting for a project. I was just given a 205 by a neigbor. Ive got several farm projects lined up with it.

The scraper is a 9 yard Soil Mover pto driven model. I have some video I took (back in 94) that I will get uploaded sometime, when we used it more for filling in ditches and such in our "rougher" fields that have a lot of bottom ground. Also used to use it more with the motor grader to rebuild our own terraces. Recently sold it because we just didn't use it much anymore. We have a removable dozer blade for our Cat Challenger 75C that is more convenient for our minuscule dirt work needs. Side note it came with 2 different V blades for snow, but we have a truck mounted snowblower for that.

The combine is (not sure on the year exactly, 1960??) a MF Super 92 (gas) with an aftermarket cab. Also have 2 MH 82's and Great Grandpa's MH 27A
Also have two of his first Van Brunt wheat drills

Farmall F20 (converted to rubber tires)

Still drive this one 1947 Ford (pre F series) it hauls dry fertilizer durring wheat drilling. Funny story about the dents in the fenders. My great grandma put it on its side in a ditch sometime in the 50's. Mechanically it is in reliable weekend driving shape. Converted it to 12v years ago, modern u joints, bearings and seals in the driveline, Original flathead V8 with about 50,000 miles. It is one I want to restore badly, but detail and body parts are harder to find than a 48 and up F series.

And my 1949 Willys Overland "Jeep" truck restored this in high school won a few trophies in some shows back then. Its a near factory restoration meaning I updated things like the leather oil and grease seals for the front and rear ends, modern u joint's with modern grease zerks, modern radiator (in the original tanks so it looks factory). I left it 6 volt but replaced all the wiring. The paint is near factory color (best could match) I also put an "aftermarket" PTO driven belt pulley the mounts on the rear for powering equiptment much like the Agri-Jeeps of post war W-O. I also have pickeup over the years literature, adverts, and such that go with my display at shows.

 

[JDgreen227]

Cropdusting, do you have any idea how envious you are making us with your collection of toys....:laughing:

 

[creekbend]

I truly enjoy working on my 30 acres. My tractor, truck, trailers, sheds, barn, implements; etc are helpful tools and assets that help me to enjoy working the land even more. But over the years there are other things that I have accumulated also, and these are the assets that bring me the most joy. In addition to material items that I have accumulated over the years, I have acquired my loving wife of 39 years, two grown children, 4 grandchildren, trust worthy friends, and too many close acquaintances to mention. I have and will continue to enjoy my accumulated material possessions throughout my life. But these possessions could never, ever take precedence over the love and pleasure that i have had the blessing to receive from a loving Family and true Friendships. I sincerely hope that everyone has a good day.