Farm Equipment Removal in Brunswick & the Golden Isles

Yes, both, and they usually go together. The implements are the iron that stopped earning its keep and stayed where it was parked: horse-drawn plows, cultivators, disc harrows, seed drills and corn planters, hay rakes, tedders, square and round balers, grain augers, corn shellers, feed grinders and old wagons. Add the livestock pieces — troughs, feeders, head gates, squeeze chutes, stall dividers — and a place that ran cattle or horses can have a fair amount of it sitting around.

The barn is everything inside: old hay and straw, feed sacks, rubber stall mats, tack-room contents, rolls of wire and T-posts, stacks of tin, lumber from a project that never happened, and a mower or tiller that quit years ago.

Most of these calls start with a change. The land is being sold, a parent’s place is being settled, the horses are gone, or somebody wants the barn back for something useful. Anything that looks like it matters — a saddle, an old sign, a box of papers — gets set aside for you, not decided by the crew.

Three things: how far each piece sits from where a truck can park, what the ground is like in between, and how much of it is heavy. A plow at the edge of the yard is a short carry. A baler at the back of a wet pasture, behind a gate and a tree line, is a different day, and after a stretch of rain we stage where the ground holds and carry or wheel the rest. Wide photos showing each piece and the way back to it from the road are the most useful thing you can send.

Rust and time change things more than size does. Wheels seize, tires rot off the rims, and saplings grow up through the tines. A piece like that doesn’t roll anymore, so it gets worked loose, taken apart where the bolts will still turn, and carried to the truck in sections two or three people can lift. Inside the barn, the crew works bay by bay, loft to floor; stall mats, wet hay and a stack of tin weigh a lot more than they look in a photo.

A barn or a pasture sitting a ways back from the road is normal in this part of Georgia — out around Woodbine and north Camden, in the Liberty and Long County country, on McIntosh acreage or the rural west side of Glynn — and we plan the trip around the drive. If something big is part of it — a tractor, a combine, a piece that has half settled into the ground — send a few photos, tell us where it is and anything unusual about it, and we’ll tell you what it takes. Let us know about any propane tanks when you send photos, so we can figure out the right way to handle them.

Steel and cast iron, along with tin, wire and T-posts, usually go to scrap recycling, often at SA Recycling in Brunswick. An antique plow or a wagon wheel that somebody might want for a yard or a collection is worth mentioning, and where it makes sense we’ll try to find it a better home than the scrap pile. Everything else is sorted by what it is and the shape it’s in.

It prices on the load tiers, set by how much there is and how hard it is to reach. A single trough or a plow by the driveway is the light end, and a tack room with a few stalls might fill one of the smaller tiers. A hay loft, a back bay of rusted implements and a long walk across soft ground is a bigger load and a longer day. Recoverable scrap value in heavy steel can sometimes factor into the number; every job is different, so it’s part of the quote rather than a promise. The barn, the iron out back and the tires by the shed can go on the same visit when the volume allows, priced as one job. The minimum for any pickup is $95.