Funny thing. About four years ago, I contacted the guy in northern MN that has a web site offering all sorts of incubators and parts.
He drove a hard bargan. I drove hundreds of miles and unloaded three perfect Jamesway 2940 incubators without trays. He traded me trays to fill three incubators. He didn't have any place to keep them, so I put them just barely inside an old pole barn. Several other brands of incubators sat outside.
A couple years later, I put one incubator up for sale on ebay. It was beautiful, everything worked and it had all its trays. Well the guy up in MN, contacted me and peppered me with questions. It was like he was buying the Hope Diamond. I'm new to ebay and started the bidding at $10.00. Well this old guy bought it for $10.00. Then he wanted to know if I'd deliver it to him! I'm $00 miles away from him. The ebay auction said local pick up. Well he said he'd get back to me. Meanwhile, I'm paying storage on this incubator and I haven't heard a peep out of him for a few years. Last week, I posted on this site, talking about my incubators. Well, well, you'll never guess who called me and left a message on my phone? Yup. He still thinks he owns an incubator that I'm storing. I think he won't be able to afford three years storage. He'd like to buy the rest of my incubators while he's at it. I wonder if he thinks he can get them for the same $10 that he paid for the last one?
Makes me wonder if he surfs this web site and thought there was some interest in those old Jamesway 2940 incubators and wanted to get mine cheap and resell them.
Truth be known, there isn't any market for those old beauties. A real commercial operation has new ones with all sorts of electronic gadgets. The small time operation can't used a unit that churns out so many chicks. Add to that without the turning apparatus, the incubators won't work. The automatic turner pushes every other rod in the back of the unit, causing the eggs in every other tray to swing to th right. At the same time, the other rods are pulled, causing the other trays to swing to the left. I think they do this twice a day. This way, the eggs are packed in there like passengers on an economy air flight.
I expect when the weather turns warm, I'll be stripping a few of my incubators for spare parts, save out 2 or 3 (don't know what for) and burn the rest. Really sad. Not worth the trouble of selling them for a few dollars.
