Mother in law called out of the blue last night and wanted to know if I was still interested in buying one of my FIL's D17s - he had 4 of them when he died 4 years ago. My son wanted one to refurbish as a 4H project and I wouldn't mind having one to pull my baler. The one I am interested in looks fair and to my knowledge was running OK when he died - but that was 4 years ago. It has seen very little use since then with no oil changes and he was probably the last one to put gas in the tank. This one will come with horribly rusted out rear rims but currently has a set of combine tires and rims on the back. It has the normal rough spots from being used as a feed tractor and as the 4 or 5th tractor he would use - the seat consists of old feed bags, the grill was ripped off by something, the muffler is rusted and leaning, but the rest of the tin is fairly straight.
Naturally she didn't know what she wanted for it and would talk to her oldest son (my BIL) about what they were worth. I told her I've seen them sell from $1000 to $4000. To be honest I figured $1500 would be fair - its not a Series IV (Series III?) but it does have an add on 3 point and I believe a single hydraulic outlet. To my knowledge it doesn't pop out of gear - but then my FIL wasn't the type to worry to much about maintenance or "little things" like that. He was more the type to drain the oil from his car and use it fill a tractor that got low....
What's one worth like that in East Kansas?
Any specific thing I should look for on these besides them popping out of gear? I'm not looking for a big project and if it has any major issues I'll pass on it. I've never run one in my life as we've had IH (now Case IH) tractors since before I was born but my son wanted to work on something grandpa had.
Naturally she didn't know what she wanted for it and would talk to her oldest son (my BIL) about what they were worth. I told her I've seen them sell from $1000 to $4000. To be honest I figured $1500 would be fair - its not a Series IV (Series III?) but it does have an add on 3 point and I believe a single hydraulic outlet. To my knowledge it doesn't pop out of gear - but then my FIL wasn't the type to worry to much about maintenance or "little things" like that. He was more the type to drain the oil from his car and use it fill a tractor that got low....
What's one worth like that in East Kansas?
Any specific thing I should look for on these besides them popping out of gear? I'm not looking for a big project and if it has any major issues I'll pass on it. I've never run one in my life as we've had IH (now Case IH) tractors since before I was born but my son wanted to work on something grandpa had.