IH TD9B Dozer value

markct

Well-known Member
So my father has owned a TD9B since the late 80s, was a pretty new machine to own for farm and home use back then but he bought it for a few big projects, putting in a driveway and some other small roads. Been a good machine, I later made a brush cage and root rake for it and then when it got a leaking head gasket 3 years ago while stripping topsoil around my house site I decided to give it liners and bearings the whole deal. Has about 50 percent undercarriage. Well it has come a time now that we own a newer loader backhoe and excavator with blade and really think that the excavator is going to just sit and deteriorate so considering selling it. What's a ballpark range nowadays, I know they are sorta orphans for some parts, my father paid 6,000 years ago, doubt it's worth that now tho
 
There are 3 for sale on Machinery Trader.com: $8900, 9500 and 15,500. Good site to check current prices by area/condition!
 
That's what I feared Bill, at that price it
likely will just sit. I may advertise it
next year for around 5k, if I don't get
near that number I think it can live out
it's life here. I always wonder about the
prices on machinery trader, yeah they list
them for that but do they ever sell?
 
Those are just asking price , cash money buys them much cheaper after sitting for so long , International is not a good buy today , parts are getting harder and priced pretty high when you find them .
 
I agree, when we bought it 25+ years ago it
wasn't antiquated, dealers still stocked
parts etc. Whole different world now, also
the general use of dozers has changed, at
one time they were the do all machine,
stumping, grading, digging basement,
nowadays the excavator is that pretty much
 
The value of your TD9B is impossible to really know without seeing lots of detailed, close up pics (especially of the undercarriage) or preferably personally inspecting it for a more accurate assessment. But as you describe it, with a perfectly running engine, all rebuilt and gone through, an U/C that truly has 50% left (including grousers, rollers, pins and bushings, sprockets etc) and everything works with tight finals and no major leaks? Then it could easily be worth well over the paltry $3000 provided by a previous poster with some sort of brand bias against IH.

Don't sell yourself short on your TD9B. The thing to remember is that that old machine is completely obsolete in terms of a professional earth mover wanting it. They won't be the ones interested in buying it. However, a farmer, rancher, hobby farmer etc or maybe a privateer of some sort would be the one looking for a machine like that. Old and obsolete as it is, it is still a very powerful and capable machine. It can still do jobs that could cost many, many thousands of dollars to hire a professional to come out and do for you. In the right hands, for a person who has a real use for it, it could be the bargain of a lifetime at $6000, or possibly even more. I know because I bought the loader version of the TD9B years ago and did just that with it.

I used my loader part time to work on a piece of property I own to clear, cut a driveway, grade, slope and log timber. Based on what I did, if I had hired a professional excavator/logger to come out and do it all for me, it would have cost well in excess of $50,000 and probably closer to $100,000. The total machine cost including purchase price, fuel/oil/filters, maintenance (a few hoses etc), transport to my site came to a little less than $10K since owning it. Now that I?m done using it (more or less), I could probably sell it for about $5k without too much fuss, maybe more to the right person. I didn?t factor my time because when working for myself, I work for free. ;-) But bottom line is that I saved somewhere between $40K-$90K by buying that ?obsolete? machine and doing it myself.

Oh and one other thing, I also used my loader to safely remove many dangerous and storm damaged trees right next to my house, saving me a small fortune in professional arborist fees. A professional tree removal service (bonded and insured, especially important for a tree next to your house), would have charged somewhere between $10K-$20K to remove these trees. I did it myself with a chainsaw, my loader and a long piece of steel cable for nothing more than the price of a paltry amount of diesel and chainsaw gas/oil. I couldn?t have done it safely without the loader. Just that alone more than paid for my machine all by itself.

Any prospective buyer understands (or should understand) that these old machines can be kept running for a long time, really almost indefinitely. But it requires a commitment from the owner to be willing to search for old parts that may be hard to find and to improvise when none can be found from the traditional sources (dealers). But with the internet today, almost everything can be found. You just have to be patient and persistent. And what can?t be found can be fabricated and/or adapted from something else. That process may take more time and effort than a professional can tolerate, but for a small-fry amateur, it?s totally doable. There?s a guy that just fixed up and completely rebuilt the powershift transmission on his old TD9B based IH loader on the redpower forum. He shows how these old machines are kept running, almost no matter what might be wrong with them. And in the case of the TD9B, it has a 282 diesel engine. IH used these engines in everything from trucks to combines. Very common engine and tons of used and new parts are widely available to keep it running essentially forever.

Anyone who says ?I don?t want to search for all these old parts or work on an old rusty tractor. I just want to go to the dealer, tell him what I need and walk out with the parts or have them fix it.? That?s fine and there?s nothing wrong with that. But get ready. Get ready to open your pocketbook to the tune of WAYYYYYYYY beyond a piddly $6000 to buy a new or newer machine that can perform as much work as a TD9B can. And get ready to pay dealer prices on parts and services for new machines. If the sentiment is, ?oh I?m just hiring someone, I don?t want to mess with al that.? That?s fine too. For smaller jobs, it usually makes sense to do it just this way. But for a big job that you have the time and reasonable skills to do it yourself? Hands down it?s a no brainer to get your own machine, IMO.

Getting back to selling price for your TD9B, it all depends. Scrap value is the baseline and up from there depending on condition and appearance (appearance matters a lot, that?s why so many auction queens have fancy new paint jobs). But it?s mostly depending on who shows up to see it. To the right person who happens to live in the right place, it could be worth a lot more than that. My advice is to advertise it with lots of pictures, a detailed description including hopefully a you tube vid of it running and working and a walk around of the machine showing its finer points. Then be patient. Don?t be in a rush to accept the first offer. If you can afford to wait, then wait. It?s just like fishing. Wait for the right person to come by and then strike the deal for a fair price for both of you.

My $0.02, good luck.
 

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