841 With Elenco

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What would you pay for one? This morning the eBay auction for a very nice original looking 841 with Nice working Elenco, nice loader with no apparent welds, Sherman, and very good tires, in western Michigan ended at $4960.00. If it had been closer I would have gone easily $1,000 more. Essentially it was a very nice 841 with free Elenco thrown in. This evening I got a call from the owner of another 841 with Elenco that I had given a bid for $600 about a month ago. He called to tell me that it had sold for $1800.00. This one had no drive shaft, welded on Elenco housing, two broken front axles, the only sheet metal on it was the upper and lower dash, Very badly beat loader, no air cleaner,no hydraulic pump, no hitch parts, junk rims all around, and perhaps best of all, a spin on oil filter that was so old that it was rusted through and weeping oil when the motor was running. I am glad that someone else got it. Every few days I would think about what I would have to sink into it to make it halfway decent. easily $5,000 with nothing for labor. A thousand miles away somebody gets a nice one with Elenco thrown in for nothing.
 
This one broke my heart to miss out on, I would have loved to bid on it. I am only an hour and a half away but already have too many
projects. Somebody got a real nice tractor like you put it with a free Elenco thrown in. To me it seems like the interest in Elencos has slightly
dampened, there was not even many replies to your email showing the auction. Like you, I would have loved to have had this one, but
already have a project 841 with Elenco and an 860 with a Sherman Napco. Hope the new owner enjoys the tractor, they got a bargain on it.
 

I puzzle about this often... I like the challenge of playing with a beater and see more potential than I probably should. (Much much more than my wife sees. :-D )

My labor? I don't put a price on it because I enjoy the process and working on old iron gives me some satisfaction (usually.)

But when you have to put more $ into it than it'll be worth after you're done- sort of takes some of the joy out of it.

I'll stick with the ones that need work, but not so much work that I'll regret it after I'm done. I don't want to buy someone else's finished project though... I'll admire it and respect him/her for the good job, but I'd feel like a cheater if I had it in my barn.
 
By the time you figure on traveling 1400+/- miles , I felt it was to rich for me too, but an awesome deal if close , the 4 wheel drive would be nice in this louisiana mud!!
 
Best way to score something like that at a halfway decent price is when the seller doesn't know what he has and/or doesn't know it's desirable. I bought my '73 4000 with a 5' Woods rotary mower about 8 years ago off of ebay for $1730.00. It was about 15 miles from my house and the seller had it listed as a "Ford tractor model D1024E". I didn't have much knowledge of Ford tractors at the time, but I was pretty good with computers and the internet so I started doing my research and I knew way more than he did about it before the auction was over.

It is getting harder to find things where the seller doesn't know what they've got though, as almost everybody has a computer, tablet or smartphone and knows how to search on Google, but every now and then I run into a deal on craigslist and make a score.
 
I would agree but to a point, its nice to score a nice deal, but not take advantage of someone, but I know what you are saying, as much as I'd like to get a steal as much as the next guy, I'd prefer it to be fair just the same.

This one went quite reasonable, though I have seen a few in decent shape list for similar prices, some go way higher, so it seems every so often you have a chance at one.
 
After watching the auction throughout the week, and seeing the selling price I was questioning if I should continue restoring my 821 with Elenco Logging Axle. It
seems it may not be worth the efforts put into it. I was estimating 7,500 with the sherman and its original condition, not to mention the working front axle.
 
(quoted from post at 18:38:57 06/03/15) After watching the auction throughout the week, and seeing the selling price I was questioning if I should continue restoring my 821 with Elenco Logging Axle. It
seems it may not be worth the efforts put into it. I was estimating 7,500 with the sherman and its original condition, not to mention the working front axle.

The only way to make money restoring an old tractor is to be getting paid by an owner with very deep pockets who for sentimental reasons NEEDS to have acertain tractor restored to like new.
 

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