Don't you EVER pronounce that word..............!!!
(sorry, i can get carried away quite a bit when someone talk about scrap.....too many horror stories!!)
The missing part one need in order to get his old machine going might be right there.

CAT345,
I don't see it as junk.....for me such places are quite fascinating.I could wander in a place like that for hours and days, trying to imagine what kind of stories those machine would tell if they could talk!!!
Luckilly, some peoples see those machines as collectibles.Theire are quite a few old equipment museums that start to pop out here and there.Theire's also the HCEA(historical construction equipment association)
Very interresting topic.
Max.

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Cat 245.....Now and Forever

I am looking for industrial auction brochures from Ritchie Bros, Miller & Miller, Forke Bros, First Team Auction, Max Rouse, etc from the 70's, 80's and 90's.I am a collector and heavy equipment enthusiast and these pamphlets are loaded with nice pictures of cleaned and freshly painted equipment.Thet don't have much value once the sale is over but they are a great help to me in preserving the memory of machines that are no longer being built.Please, help my hobby by looking in your old storage boxes and file folders for these old auction sale brochures.Your help is much appreciated.