The old iron, down the road

[skyking1]

Sing it to the tune of creedence Clearwater revival.
The area around the shop is semi-industrial postmodern cludge.
One guy has an impressive collection of various bits and pieces. He seems to have a fondness of the 1150 Case crawler loaders, for one thing.



These funky ford loaders. I don't ever remember seeing one of these.



Here's a national 500 crane that should have never been demounted and saved. It's a marine special!

 

[skyking1]

By far the most rare chunk of iron. Here is the 224 rolling cat excavator based on the 225. I have never seen one of those and I'm really surprised to see one still intact

Here's the rest of the komatsu.


It's got a four barrel set of rippers on it. Pretty Impressive from the business end.

What made me want to stop? Was this 450 Johnny reaching for the sky and asking for help.

 

[skyking1]

When I came by Pearson's today I saw a truckload of somebody's dreams heading to the scrapper.


Cletrac engine


Some little flathead


Chassis we hardly hardly knew ye.

 

[skyking1]

By far the cream of the crop was this dozer with Hercules diesel power and a hydraulic winch.




I gave the fan belt a quick grab but it did not feel like it was going to spin easily.
We could lament that they are going to iron heaven, but at least we have preserved them on this page.

 

[digger doug]

I noticed all the crawler loaders had dozer pads (grousers) not excavator pads like I usually see.
Or however you say it.
Street Pads ?

 

[Pops52]

Whoever owns all that iron should/could charge admission to see it all! Of course only a few of us would appreciate all of it. I dont know why anybody would be fond of that Case 1150......

 

[skyking1]

Pops I counted a half dozen case crawler loaders there of various sizes and probably four or five Johnnys. It seemed like everything had a four in one.

 

[crane operator]

To a man with only a shovel, a JD with a 4 in one or even a 1150 would look mighty good.

 

[joe--h]

Maybe he's trucking them up to the King of Obsolete?

Joe H

 

[skyking1]

Joe, it is sitting on a Pearson truck in front of that giant Komatsu shear. I don't have a warn fuzzy feeling for their long term survival. It is right there in the background.

 

[Truck Shop]

New Hondas, Toyotas and Nissans.

 

[joe--h]

That does look like the end of the road, doesn't it ?

Joe H

 

[skyking1]

We went to the state fair today in Puyallup. This 100 year old tractor has a home here.


It comes with a nice story, one owner.




it is not wheat country but they have a new display about it.

 

[Truck Shop]

Gleaner-around here known as the {Silver Seeder}.

 

[skyking1]

I should have zoomed in on the Fordson for the cast iron gas tank, for starting only.
Maybe it is stamped but it sure looked like a casting.

 

[Truck Shop]

It looks like it, growing up the neighbor had one, used to pull his wooden orchard sprayer.
Like this one.
*

 

[skyking1]

I remember those wooden sprayers in Selah

 

[Truck Shop]

I remember those wooden sprayers in Selah

That one sets in Milton-Freewater, would look good parked next to that Fordson you posted.

 

[skyking1]

That would be kind of a fun project going around and picking up iron before it gets disposed of improperly and put it on display.
I could think of worse things to do in retirement.

 

[Truck Shop]

I could think of worse things to do in retirement.

Ain't that the truth.