Wide front end question

Rayman66 · Sep 26, 2016

Have 1947 Farmall H in I would say very good condition. It has a tricycle front end and am considering replacing it with a wide front end. Can someone tell me if this will increase the value of the tractor enough to off set the cost and time to do all of this?
Thank you in advance.

DeltaRed · Sep 26, 2016

Will probably add some value,but not the $500 to $1000 dollars the wide front will cost. But it will make a nice little tractor
better. If you are just looking at the 'dollars and cents',then you are missing the point.

Leroy · Sep 26, 2016

You have to think about usuability for you if you are keeping tractor. If selling it might actually hurt value of tractor as possible purchaser might just not want a wide front and deduct what it would cost him to put it back to narrow.

Gary Mitchell · Sep 26, 2016

Rayman,

I've had a bunch of potential buyers turn down a deal due to narrow front ends. I've never had one balk at a wide one. Just saying. That doesn't necessarily increase the value but it sure broadens the sales floor.

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rustyfarmall · Sep 26, 2016

A $500 dollar H, equipped with a $1,000 wide front axle, might be worth $800.

Dick2 · Sep 26, 2016

We put the narrow front on the H only when we mounted the 2-row picker on it. As soon as the corn was picked, we took the picker off and put the wide front back on.

JRSutton · Sep 26, 2016

Doubtful.

I'd say you'd be doing well if you recouped the cost of the wide front.

Then ignored the cost of your time to do the work...

Of course there's a always a chance you'll find a buyer who'll pay a large premium for it with the wf. But - I wouldn't do it with that expectation.

caterpillar guy · Sep 26, 2016

Not sure what you are trying to gain. As it will sell about the same price with or without. I wouldn't buy a wide on an H they take to much room to turn. The newer ones will turn much shorter than those old wides will.

Janicholson · Sep 26, 2016

A narrow front H will pivot on one rear tire print a Wide Front Nope. I take a narrow front every time. Jim

jon f mn · Sep 26, 2016

A real IH wide front will add some value around us for the xolpectors, but most h wide fronts are Schwartz after market, and altho a better wide front than the IH, don't add much to the value.

rrlund · Sep 26, 2016

I don't think there's much of anything you can do to an antique tractor that will make you money.

gab · Sep 26, 2016

No, all it will do is make an easy steering tractor hard to steer.

Texasmark1 · Sep 27, 2016

If I were row cropping, at the end of the row, lift the implement while turning loose of the wheel while stomping the appropriate brake, thus spinning on a dime while dropping the implement and starting the next lap. Can't do that with wides but for some reason I prefer them. Agree on easier steering but to me, turn best with correct braking which I can do with the wides, especially since I just redid the brakes on the Fords.

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