What's this worth?

[kolanuraven]

"a friend of mine has a fairbanks/morse platform cattle/livestock scale with 16000 lb. capacity for sale and has no idea of it's value/?"



A friend asked me this via email and I have no idea.

 

[redrobin]

What size?

 

[kolanuraven]

What you read is all the info I have to tell ya.

Other than the 16000 lb capacity...................................

 

[Mike]

I would guess not much at all. Maybe scrap price. Urine & manure has a way of rendering most anything useless over the years.

Is it a beam type where the weights slide, or does it have the big dial readout?

Will it print a weight ticket?

Not enough info.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

With the advent of load cells ect those old scales are becoming obsolete. If it needs a pit if has to be government inspected to weigh anything to sell and it costs money to get them set up after a move.

 

[Brad S]

Put it on purple wave and you'll get all it's worth. I could see a farmer feeder in the cornbelt using an old beam and knife scale

 

[kolanuraven]

Put it on purple wave and you'll get all it's worth. I could see a farmer feeder in the cornbelt using an old beam and knife scale

It's not mine I had a friend email me about this.

I think it belongs to his father and they are getting rid of some things as they no longer have cattle

 

[Larrry]

With electronic scales now days it's not worth really anything. I can think of no reason why anyone would buy it. It's bad but I'm afraid hats what you will find.

Kind of like trying to sell a console tv

 

[kolanuraven]

With electronic scales now days it's not worth really anything. I can think of no reason why anyone would buy it. It's bad but I'm afraid hats what you will find.

Kind of like trying to sell a console tv

I know but I told them I'd get them a guess-timate about it

 

[Larrry]

Maybe you will get lucky for them. Can always ask. The most anyone can say is no

 

[jigs]

neighbor sold his for scrap price, but it had the mechanical ticket printer... he kept that part. Used it to make fake weigh tickets to fool his insurance agent.
when they spot checked him, they found it odd that the scale tickets were hand stamped on a 25 year old scale, and he used a new digital scale at the bin sight....

 

[flyingS]

I would guess that you won't get more than scrap price if that out of it. A beam style scale can be really hard if not impossible to certify once it is moved. My Dad spent a lot of money setting a beam style with digital readout only to have it rejected.