I’ve been to your yard
Also it’s probably due to folks thinking that they will get to sorting that drekkly. My landlord had 29 bits of heavy kit (Lorries/flt/360s) dying around the property last time I counted.
Every single one means something and represents value to him in one way or another. 100s of places like that in Devon alone I imagine.
guy I used to know - bit of a wheeler dealer (sort of) .. was at an auction with him one night when he paid way over the odds for a Daimler double six .. was nice but not that nice -- scroll forward several years and was at his place, he opened one of his sheds and there's the Daimler, rotting as we stood there .....
" Jeeezus mike, you still got THAT!? ... must've dropped a stack of wedge on that mate ?" "
Nah, ain't lost a penny on it, 'least not until I sell it "
and that was his attitude to everything
his two brothers and his old man financed him -- to keep him out of the family transport biz
used to call him "Plus VAT" ..... no matter what deal you struck with him for notes, it was
always --
Plus VAT !! ... was a likeable numpty
