Your not alone...
Almost been rear-ended a few times,when I put the binders on,after spotting some potential "treasure" rusting away in someones field or back yard before!..I need a bumper sticker that says "CAUTION:-I brake for JUNK!"...
99% of the time anything I do see and stop and ask about ,ends up in one of many categories ..
#1.. "Nope,not for sale,I'm going to restore it"..(been sitting there since WWII,but he's "going to fix it up--"someday"..
#2. Yes,I'll sell it!..but be forwarned,it'll "need some work"..I'll take 250 for it!
(it's been parked under a tree for 15 years,and everything is seized up,rusted,and is basically scrap!--worth all of 10 bucks!.--yet the owner says "just file the points and put in her,and she'll fire right up I bet"...ya,riggghhhhht!
#3."THAT old hunk of JUNK??..why,if you can haul out out of here,it's YOURS!..(heard that only a few times--usually from a disgruntled wife,or EX wife,of a tractor-holic like myself!..)..I got a few decent tractors and other things that way..divorcee's are usually VERY generous when it comes to disposing of EX husbands "junk" they were told to remove long ago,but did not..
I once had one husband come running out of his house when he saw me about to drive away with an old sit down mower,that his not so lovely wife said "take it,I'll be GLAD to see THAT hunk of iron outta MY yard!
I didn't know what to do--his wife was yelling "Take It --GO!--GO!"dont listen to HIM!..--and he's saying "you put that back where you got it,or I'm calling the COPS!..I put it back,and drove off,left them battling it out in the backyard!..wasn't worth the hassle to me!..
I wonder if they are still married?..--if not,it wont be the first marriage put on the skids because of an old tractor,antique car,boat,etc..women seem to hate men owning any of them,for some reason..(probably why I ain't married!)..
I recall one guy telling me when I asked if a hulk of an old lawn tractor in his back yard was for sale,he said--"naw,I cant sell THAT--I NEED it, to P*** off my WIFE!..otherwise,she'll hav nothing left to bi*** about!.. we both busted out laughing!..I think its still there too,and that was 10 years ago!..