PicsResults-Farm Sale L2 Gleaner-850 Massey + More

1206SWMO

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Today I attended the Crockett retirement sale 22 miles away near Irwin,MO...It was gorgeous sunny 71
degree winter day in SW Missouri...There was a nice crowd and things sold pretty good..We've had one of
the warmest winters ever with only 2" of snow so far..I heard that someone has corn in the ground?

Heres some of the results.

1-1981 L2 Gleaner with RWA with 320 flex head---new cylinder bars-----$7,000

2-Gleaner 6x30 corn head with reel---- -$1,000

3-Massey Ferguson 850 with RWA-18 ft flex---$1850-- nice

4-MF 24 ft rigid head --$175-----MF head with Hesston Head Hunters ----$50

5-1979 GMC Brigadier twin screw-318 Detroit,13 speed-20 ft bed with tarp-----$6800

6-1980 AC 7580 tractor-Engine in shed with 400 hours on rebuild-PTO coupler bad-----$3700

7-1981 AC 7060 tractor-rebuilt engine----$5000

8-1979 AC 7000 tractor----$5300

9-1973 AC 200 tractor with Koyker loader-3rd gear bad----$4700

10-1982 AC 6080 tractor-needs PTO work-----$4600

11-WD-45 AC Diesel-pan full of antifreeze---combine rear wheels---$1800 coming to my place---spare
injection pump ----$250 which I got---- I may put a 262 in it??? The WD AC to the left sold for $400..

12-AC pedal tractor in middle sold for $685

13-900 IH 12 row folding planter----$2900

14-New Holland 276 twine baler--like new---$2500
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That MF 850 is a lot of combine for the money. The Rear wheel drive would be worth more than the combine brought.
 
Thank You for the great reports you do,, I agree the MF machine was a great buy to me, I ran a 760 for a custom cutter several years,, not bad machines in small grains,,, the AC 4x4,, I seen three around here in the 70's,,, they all had trans problems here,, the people I knew that had them could never keep them running long,,, that little NH baler was a great buy too,, thanks again
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It all looks to have been in very nice shape. I stopped at one yesterday to look at running gears. There's wasn't a thing on that entire farm that had ever seen a shed or hadn't been cobbled up with an old inner tube and baling wire. Oh, and plywood. Each tractor had the platform extended with plywood and nails. If you soak it in enough used oil plywood will last a while apparently.
 
Guys,the 850 Massey looked very well cared for and was a bargain at $1850.....Combine 70 acres and its paid for...I think that it belonged to a neighbor...There used to be a huge Massey-Ferguson dealer (Haubeins) near Lockwood,MO and he sold tons of Massey combines..This 850 was probably one of them..
 
Thanks....I figured $17-20K on the 1468 IH.....What did the other tractors bring? I'd have been at Waverly if it
hadn't been for the sale near me...
 
I rather have the gleaner for that price then the Massey. Looks like this was the auction to attend if you were an Allis guy.
 
I would have poked the 850 a few times and not gave the gleaner a second look. At least you wouldn't have to worry about a rod going through the block with the MF unlike the silver seeders.
 

Thanks for the sales results. That wd45 is interesting, I didn't know they made them in diesel. Were there a lot of diesels made in that model? Did you see the 456? new Holland bar mower sell and what it brought? Thanks again for taking the time to post the pictures and results.
 
I just got back from getting my WD-45 diesel and wheels home....There were lots of WD-45 AC diesels sold new in my area...I'm not sure on the total number built.....They had the 6 cylinder 230 Buda engine...Most had problems with cracked heads and blocks so were converted to a 4 cylinder gas...Some put Buda 6 cylinder gas motors in them..Original WD-45 diesels are getting hard to find...

The New Holland mower sold for $1450....Its 73 degrees here today and we need a shower...

While I was loading my tractor the family that bought the L2 Gleaner came to drive it 18 miles home.....I've known them for nearly 40 years...They farm lots of ground using older AC tractors and Gleaner combines....This is their 8th L2 Gleaner....They keep (3) of them in the field with 20 ft heads..If theres a sale with L2-L3 Gleaners on it, they will be there buying parts-belts-etc....They also bought the 7060 Allis at this sale..

The bottom picture is a beautifully restored WD-45 AC diesel that sold in Aug 2014..It was on the Moody sale at Kincaid,KS and sold for $11,000..It had been torn down to the last nut and bolt and totally rebuilt...
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I am in Tennessee and from the auctions around here I was going to comment that looks like all the AC s brought about twice what they were worth. With the condition as he described them just seemed high.
 
AC tractors wouldn't fetch that much hear , but the combines would have done better. Lots of guys want to harvest 50-100 acres of grain here each year. Straw is a valued crop , and rotary combines chew up the straw and leave too much in the stubble that the baler can't pick up.
 
Thanks for that story and information. There were a lot of wd45's around the neighborhood years ago, great haying and chore tractors, but I think all were gas. Same with the L2 combines. There were 5 or 6 within 10 miles of us, I never ran one, but the neighbors seemed to get a lot done with them.
 
All three MF's I had could easily add up several thousand dollars of repairs doing 70 acres.

They were broke down more evenings when I went to that house than running.

Never had an 850, but a 300, 510 and 750 were the worse machines ever on this farm.

Went CIH Axial Flow and have never looked back.
 
Thanks for posting. Nice buy on the diesel! I have seen ones that look a lot rougher bring more money. I wouldn't mind a black from 7000 either like the one at the sale. Looked faded but had potential.

Jim
 
So tell us all the things that were broke every night. Either you don't keep your machinery up or you are full of bs. There were lot's of Masseys around here and people got their crops out. The only mistake people made was replacing a broken shaker shaft with one from a&i instead of getting one from massey.
 
(quoted from post at 12:56:24 03/06/16) I would have poked the 850 a few times and not gave the gleaner a second look. At least you wouldn't have to worry about a rod going through the block with the MF unlike the silver seeders.
the only gleaner combines that would chuck a rod was an N6 due to the high RPMS that engine was set to run at. Same engine used in the 7080 and 7580 tractors, if ran at 2300 rpm they never had a problem.
 
You name it, and it was broken.

The only thing that was good on those machines was the Perkins engine.

And, they went through the dealer shop every year pre-season.

You ask on most any farm board how reliable the later MF combines were.

I'll give the 300 I had a pass...it was well used when I got it....the 510,0750 were junk when new.
 
You just can't argue with Massey guys. You should have learned that over at the Bash board. Our 760 I wouldn't call junk but you can tell it was a cheap combine. It showed more wear after 3 years of use then the 8820 did that had almost 1,000 separator hrs. Not the mention the cheap bearings, that wonderful feederhouse with them paddles and 3 miles of double roller chain, the wonderful electric variable speed reel drive and so on.
 

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