Tractor boneyard visit.

[Boone]

Went hunting for a gearbox with a slip clutch. This place is located in Black Creek, Wisconsin a big place, friendly folks but expensive. Good place to research models to watch for on auction bills for parts that will fit my plans on a PTO driven buzz saw rig.

 

[Boone]

I took this one for the guys that make caster wheeled carriers to move three point equipment around. I didn't have the truck, so I'm just as sad to leave these behind. They came in a choice of blue or green.

 

[Boone]

This is the style of gear box I was looking at. It has a auto type clutch for safer use, and are found on cut and throw choppers. Plug the breather and put a breather on the bottom. Flip it over so the bottom is the top and run power with v-belt pulleys back to the saw, that is the plan. This junk yard was to expensive, so I will search around to find a good deal.

 

[Boone]

This is what a IH #15 or #16 or #350 gear box looks like on my uncle's buzz saw. The previous photo shows a 770 or 717 Hew Holland gear box.

 

[Rch]

Boone, exactly, where is Black Creek, WI

 

[Boone]

Follow highway 54 west from Green Bay. WI tractor parts is west of Black Creek on Cty Hy A.

 

[frank_f15]

interesting photos, and interesting place. just think, at one time all that old stuff was someones new pride and joy.

 

[Pks]

I drove by a guy who had a 4 cyinder car motor hooked to an automatic tranny that was directly hooked to the buzz saw.

As I drove by, I thought I saw it smile in that evil Steven King sort of way.

 

[Boone]

Thanks Peter,
That is a good option. Reminds me that I have a picture of one set up that way.

Frank,
That is exactly what struck me as I went through the junkyard. Lots of money spent on equipment no longer in use but on the other hand helping other equipment stay operational.

 

[Taylortractornut]

I hate to see old iron go to the scrap yard, junk yards are better in that they offer parts to keep something else going. Or to be used in some home built contraption. IVe seen many a combines be argan donors for wood prcessors homebuilt tractors and the like. I had a cousin take a discarded combine header and make a 20 foot wide pull type cycle mower for his haying business, saved 2 hours on his mowing. Ive got 2 combines comming in a few weeks to be organ doners with good tires and one is running for 150 dollars each.

 

[Boone]

I use the word junkyard, scrapyard, and boneyard as meaning the same, I'm sorry if this confused anyone. The place in the pictures is a used parts place. There was a scrap iron trailer rig being loaded while I was there but this place gleans off whatever can be useful.

I just learned of another smaller place with older ag equipment and low prices. Going to be checking them out when I get a chance. I had just as much fun in the yard with the dead equipment as going to a farm show featuring the shiny new stuff.

What a deal on the donor combines, the thought of not having to buy tires for awhile must make you happy.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Here alot of folks dont see the value at the scrapmetal yard they see 10 cents a pound. I had a friend wanting to build a Caddigger but needed a valve he ordered all the steel and a 300 dollar 4 bank valve. I went to the junk yard and got a 6 bank valve for 15 dollars that didnt leak. I like the junk/salvage yards to, cant wait to get my binders home traded for a Deere today running gonna take the header off and drive it 10 miles home. I had a freind one time bought a cotton picker at a salvage yard and used the arts to make a leaf vacuum and grinder for his Kubota. I t worked great when it vacuumed the tank full it could be blown on the flower beds and also the woods. I d like to make a hay blower for my landscaping business. He may have had 75 dollars in the whole thing. Ill try to find some pictures of his machine. Our tin yard here had bought out a tractor dealer somwhere and laid the gas axe to 2 new 60 inch tooth bars, made me sick knowing how many folks here would like one.