Originally Posted by ChuckKY
You can't find an old used cultipacker or parts for one around my area because of the last surge in scrap prices. Every piece of equipment not being used got sold as scrap. I ended up buying a new cultipacker, don't want to do that again soon.

5 or 8 years ago when scrap briefly hit $300/ton locally, a banker friend said "Who knew that to clean up the county all we needed was $300 scrap?" People were pulling old cars and equipment out of hollers and fence rows and river bottoms to haul to the scrap yard. BUNCH-O-Stuff went down the road on trailers to be scrapped.