Bryce Frazier
Well-known Member
I put that new Farmall H on Craigslist the other day for $1500 just to see what would happen. Not totally sure i want to sell it, but, I don't have a need for the lower 1st/reverse, and I already have a nice running and driving H, and mine has a Gas engine in it too!
I was thinking that I might swap my wide front and tires over to this new H and keep it, but, I thought why go through all the work just to have lower 1st and reverse gears? I can tell it's engine just isn't quite as potent as the gasser too. Less compression.
Anyways, I said in the ad that the tractor starts and runs good, BUT, it struggles to accelerate without coughing/choking, but if you move the lever slowly, it will throttle up just fine! (Carb just needs cleaning and a rebuild I suppose) Said that it is on okay 14.9 x 38s, with SOME checking and cracking in the tread, good front tires. Narrow front, REALLY nice hood/fuel tank, but the grill is pretty rough. And then at the end of the ad I said that it was an X6 with the lower 1st and Reverse gears, and "I personally think this makes the the tractor a little more valuable, just because it is rarer than the average H". $1500
Okay, I see nice, stock H's on CL all the time for $1600-2000, and thats too much, and most of the time they just sit on them!
I was thinking that an average H, in the condition mine is in, $1000-1200, X6, I am asking $1500.
I get an e-mail from this guy yesterday, and he is literally just chewing my a$$ out!!! Tells me that the coughing is because the engine is about to "fall apart at the seams", and that "the X6 designation doesn't mean sh_t to me!". And a few other just down right nasty things, insults towards my tractor for that matter! Finally he says "I guess I could give you $400 for it, e-mail me".
I wrote back and told him to put his $400 where the sun don't shine!
I thought I had a pretty reasonable ad up, maybe not?
I was thinking that I might swap my wide front and tires over to this new H and keep it, but, I thought why go through all the work just to have lower 1st and reverse gears? I can tell it's engine just isn't quite as potent as the gasser too. Less compression.
Anyways, I said in the ad that the tractor starts and runs good, BUT, it struggles to accelerate without coughing/choking, but if you move the lever slowly, it will throttle up just fine! (Carb just needs cleaning and a rebuild I suppose) Said that it is on okay 14.9 x 38s, with SOME checking and cracking in the tread, good front tires. Narrow front, REALLY nice hood/fuel tank, but the grill is pretty rough. And then at the end of the ad I said that it was an X6 with the lower 1st and Reverse gears, and "I personally think this makes the the tractor a little more valuable, just because it is rarer than the average H". $1500
Okay, I see nice, stock H's on CL all the time for $1600-2000, and thats too much, and most of the time they just sit on them!
I was thinking that an average H, in the condition mine is in, $1000-1200, X6, I am asking $1500.
I get an e-mail from this guy yesterday, and he is literally just chewing my a$$ out!!! Tells me that the coughing is because the engine is about to "fall apart at the seams", and that "the X6 designation doesn't mean sh_t to me!". And a few other just down right nasty things, insults towards my tractor for that matter! Finally he says "I guess I could give you $400 for it, e-mail me".
I wrote back and told him to put his $400 where the sun don't shine!
I thought I had a pretty reasonable ad up, maybe not?