Regrets-The ones that you did not get

tractorkrum · Apr 30, 2015

Just wondering what got away from you that you regret not getting. A few that I have lost sleep over are: an old CASE elevator that had beautiful Case signs on it, but was otherwise junk. Sold very cheap, but did not want to deal with the junk that came with it. Have regretted ever since. Missed a few tractors over the years like a John Deere A and an old Minnie at $200 each that have been offered to me.

RLA · Apr 30, 2015

The regrets are sometimes a longer list than the great buys in my case.
But I can't look back, must look ahead. If at the time I was afraid to use
the dollars I had to spend on an item I really didn't need, I could use
but could also live without. Sometimes we win & sometimes we loose. I can
think of a few items right now I brought home, I would have been much better
off it I would have let someone else take up the task to save or scrap....
Namely one J/D A for 300.00 that a tornado basically destroyed & dummy me
is in the process of resurrecting. ???

Nick m · Apr 30, 2015

Missed out on a couple farmall 1206's a couple years ago because I was too nice to ask. Another guy bought the pair for what one was worth.

Came across a deere 4240 with 3xxx hours, duals, and aloader with joy stick controls for 18k. Not super cheap fir one, but it was for that one. Guy even told me it was negotiable. Passed. Didn't have the money and didn't want another bill. I'll never find another nice original one like that again.

Mike M · Apr 30, 2015

Main one that comes to mind was a JD720 hi crop. It didn't get away I looked at it and could of bought it but just had nightmares from going thru a 720D. This was right before the prices went thru the roof on them. IIRC I learned years later the guy that did buy it made about 10,000 on it and didn't even have to work on it just resold it. Also learned years later this same fellow was the guy that looked at a mint original JD 320 and passed on it. My cousin bought it and still has it.

Traditional Farmer · Apr 30, 2015

All the ones I lost $$$$ on.

psimmer · Apr 30, 2015

Allis Chalmers G with an underbelly mower deck. It set for a while with a flat rear tire. Finally one day I stopped and asked about it. Guy had been there an hour or so ahead of me and bought it for $300.00. A year or so later I ran across the former owner. He had overhauled it prior to him getting rid of it, and it didn't have many hours on it after the overhaul. I didn't know that I needed it or even wanted it, but for that money I would have bought it.

01gentdc · Apr 30, 2015

1969 , maukport ind , big 4 ford tractor co , offered to dad for 450 bux , but he passed on a foot clutch DC ,Case , lookt as good as new .A-1 condition like it had been put away since it was built ,.. pop had just bought mom a new galaxie 500,and sorely needed a new truck ,,often wonder if I ended up with that nice DC some 30 yrs later ...

VaTom · Apr 30, 2015

No regrets about any of my tractor decisions. Only one for another vehicle. Years ago I had a client who told me to go look in his detached garage. There sat a Pantera, with 4 flat tires. He invited me to make an offer, thrilled with what I was doing for him, nearly any offer. He had used it as a traveling salesman, then decided an SUV would work better in the Rockies. That one, I'm still kicking myself over. I didn't have a garage at the time, lived in a barrio. Here's what I missed:
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J I Case Man · Apr 30, 2015

I have two regrets both over Case 400. One was sitting in a tractor salvage yard, but I did even try to buy it. went back a little later and it was sold. The other one I try to buy it at a local auction and it went above my price range.

wilson ind · Apr 30, 2015

long brown hair, perfect figure , great personality , loved me like no other. It just was not to be!!!!!!!!!!!!!

howdy1960 · Apr 30, 2015

wilson, mine had short blonde hair

State of Jefferson · Apr 30, 2015

Yup. Long sandy blonde hair, six feet tall, legs that would stop you in your track, walk like a jungle cat, smart as a whip. Grew up on a big cattle ranch.
I still have good dreams about that one.....

Bne

James Howell · Apr 30, 2015

Once had a chow dog like that named "Puddy".

bison · Apr 30, 2015

I have more regrets of what i sold than what i didn't get.
The one regret i have is not buying a hardly used 20' twin haybuster 107 disc drill with transport sight unseen for 10 grand.(it was gone a day later)
I have never come across an other one for less than 15 grand for a single 10 footer that needed repairs to boot.

Fullers Farmalls · Apr 30, 2015

Farmall Super M in great shape for 1500. Guy didn't know what he had and wanted it gone. WIsh I had got that one.

Brown Swiss · Apr 30, 2015

It was a 166 New Holland baler my great uncle had, he was a bachelor his whole life. He bought the baler almost new at a consignment sale for 650 dollars, used it a little and stored it in his shed along with a million other things. When he got older he started selling things off for what he paid for them, I thought about buying it but wasn't excited about collecting yet. Had a sale in 2008 and that baler brought 17,500 dollars, and I am still kicking myself today!

Mike(NEOhio) · Apr 30, 2015

Passed on a '53 Indian Chief in a basket for $1200. About a year later, same ad for $900 and talked myself out of it. I still give myself a good kick-in-the-a** every now and then. I wish you hadn't reminded me.

rrlund · Apr 30, 2015

At a flea market right across the road from Lee Little's house,there was a blue 1950's Tonka cattle truck. It wasn't new in the box,but it did have the box with it and was barely played with and it was complete. All the livestock,the loading ramp and the corral were with it. The guy wanted $550 for it,but offered it to me for $500. It was the wife's birthday and if you think that payback carpet for that new discbine looks expensive,you can't even begin to imagine what that toy truck would have cost me.

Trkr · Apr 30, 2015

Not a tractor,but back in the old days a friend went in the Air Force and offered me his very nice 59 Corvette for 2500.Was all original 283 with two four barrel carbs,auotmatic.Just didn't have the money then.

CCer · Apr 30, 2015

My Grandad had a nice Weber wagon, never outside overnight, always kept in the shed, on planks. When I met my Girlfriend, now Wife, her Dad told of the Weber wagon that his family had, same story, kept inside, on planks. One time He put a short tounge in it and hooked it behind a tractor, He got the THUNDER for that. Turns out that My Grandad bought THAT Weber wagon at Her Grandad's farm auction. That Weber wagon was a piece of both families' history that somehow got away.

Old weldor · Apr 30, 2015

Small town where I was raised had a good sized Ford dealer, back row on used car lot were cars from $25 to $100. I passed on a 55 ford crown Vic.for $35.00 that ran and drove. I was in high school about 1967.

formerly ny bill · Apr 30, 2015

about 1976, my brother had a 1969 road runner 440 6pack, never run in winter, that he got tired of keeping in tune. offered it to me for $1500. told him no, i was saving my money for a farm. he traded it in on a fury III, tried to buy it back the next day, it was already sold. new kid had it a week and wrapped it around a tree. oh well i still have my farm....

there was a super W6TA that sold in the early-mid 80s. for $1600. my next bid would have been 1700, but i was already bidding past my limit...

W_B · May 1, 2015

Not me but my parents... had the chance to buy the whole farm from a family when grandpa passed away, 36 acres, small pond, with house, barn, and some outbuildings, about a half mile of frontage on two roads. With 6 kids they decided to just buy the house and barn with 6 acres that included most of the pond. That total land today would be worth well into 6 figures. It has totally developed into major retail, office and living units, it was just outside of New Albany, OH. Dad sold the 6 acres for a relative pittance to a friend who put a large nursing home there. I thought about buying it but my impatient wife wouldn't live in the old 1870s farm house, impatient because she wouldn't wait for the pay off that was coming. I'm guessing it would have been a an upper 4, low 5 figure sale, fifteen or so years ago.

mj · May 1, 2015

I'm gonna stick to old iron and not think about 'young things'. Besides, the list is much shorter for the old iron than for the young things :roll: Here it is: a Case VAC Hi-crop and an Earthmaster (don't know the model)

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