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Kubota JD Oliver Fordson Ferguson Schaef

Nice!

By the way, send that snow this direction when you're done with it. :wink:

I would gladly take that snow here in Central KS. We are bone dry and very little chance of moisture in the near future. Bob

Have them bring that Dexta right to my place. It's not snowing here.

Use to have a lot of Majors and Dextas come through her but we don't see many anymore.

My uncle bought one brand new. Traded an Oliver 60 in on it. I don't know if one of my cousin's sons still has it or if it got away somewhere.

Little Ollie has power steering!

I'll send you some rain from south La. just as it starts to dry up:bam another round of rain!

Hi Fred, you mentioned in an earlier post about auctions a man called Mike from England. I believe that would be Michael Hansard from Lincolnshire about 35 miles from me I have known and delt with Mike since the mid 1960 as a tractor and machinery dealer myself in the 1960s and 70s. Since 1980 I have been involved in selling and repairing Manitou fork lift trucks and telescopic handlers. Telescopic handlers are good buiness as most farms here in the UK now use them. The reason I vist this site on a daily basis is because I am involved with the vintage tractor moovement for 50 years after buying a 1942 Allis WC tractor and I now have over 20 tractors in my collection. Michael Hansard is still with us and I will be seeing him arround the tractor shows this summer. Michael Hart

I would love to come and attend auctions and tractor shows in your country. You have such neat stuff! If you ever get my way look me up. Mike shipped a lot of equipment to the US.

What do you get when a Ford and a Oliver mate?---Tee

More and more these auctions are trading the same machinery back and forth from jockey to jockey.

How does that work, to haul the stuff around, bend and beat it up like those mounted two surely have to be, and then try to make money off of doing nothing but haul them around.

I don't really understand the concept, and as a buyer it kinda keeps me away from such games.

I would think it's a losing proposition, but it must work, enough seem to be doing it!

Back in the 90s I remember not buying a corn elevator at a farm sale, it went $40. 2 months later I was at a consignment farm sale, and I bought the very same elevator. For $35.

I guess it can work for us end buyers, but seems a odd way to go.

Paul

Auctions such as the ones that Fred Goodrich has provides a great service to both farmers, collectors and used equipment dealers by bring all the farm stuff in one place instead of running all over the country looking for a certain item. The Goodrich's are traveling auctioneers and as such they travel to many auctions in several states. They buy items that they believe will be of interest to their local farmers and others who attend their auctions on a regular basis.

Like any purchase it is the "buyer beware" and if you are not talented enough to see if an item will not be a good buy than you should not be a bidder. Just stay home and wonder how your neighbor managed to get such a great deal.

an Olivord>>

Nearly ever piece of machinery on my real, working farm has come from an auction. There is an art to understanding what is going on behind the scenes. I've been an auction junkie for decades, as was dad before me.

Sounds like they are a specialized auctioneer for collectible Ag stuff, never heard of them. I sure enjoy seeing the pictures posted here from time to time of their stuff.

Auction jockeys don't really bother me, we all find a way to make a living, or pocket cash. They do seem to be middle men, and to get their pocket change, they have to take away a little from the auction seller or the auction buyer. No big deal tho, just part of business.

I still don't see how it works for them tho.

The few times I get down to the Floyd, IA auction, can see big flat trucks lined up by the older 'cheap' items and they stack on 10-15 implements on on top of another, if you can get there when you see them unload before the sale kinda the same stuff on the same trucks packed 12 high..... I would think a lot of bits and pieces get wrecked handling it so much and so high, as to take out any profit from the reselling of it. It is exactly the sharp buyer that looks over the stuff and sees bent and broken bits from all the traveling that will not bid on scuffed up equipment and lower the overall value of a truckload of treasures.

Is what it is and auctions are what they are and people can make money along the way, that's all good.

I just don't see how it works for them, wouldn't seem anything in it for them.

Paul

We cannot load the Kubota rtv 900 cross ways, they are watching all the time makes one six inches over 9ft 6 ,. I can not tell that might be a rtv 500 or you are just braving it. The KUBOTA r 420 and 520 loaders like that Shafe bring good money in these parts. hard to find a used one at any price.

Thanks for the kind words, we try to run a business that would make my Dad and Grandpa proud, the family name has been in the farm machinery business since the 30's and I have run this place since 1973 and we haven't been run out of town yet. You guys that don't like to see the equipment stacked, you have to understand that you have to get it on so you can spread the cost over more pieces so the end user doesn't get hit so hard. I spent lots of hours when I was young playing with toy trucks and tractors to learn how to build those loads.

Hey Jerry, Those guys have had years of practice evading scales and DOT traps. Sort of like old time moon shine runners.
Loren

RTV X900

We have been stopped more than once with an RTB cross ways. Lost of times say we are going to a farm to pick up a tractor with a 15 ft cutter attached that is back in a field. Driver will take a rtv go back in the field get the tractor & cutter and either hang the front wheels on the back of the cutter or walk back. Anyway he gets to the trailer ,everything loaded long ways he cannot get the cutter wheels on the back of the trailer. Turn the rtv cross ways and come home, but the police watch for dealers over-width.

Where are you putting all of these loads of tractors?

The Schaef were built in Germany and shipped to Schaef in Sioux City Iowa where tires were installed and any other changes that were needed or ordered were done. I did not work on them, I worked in the machine shop. I left in the early 1990's and that one has a better looking cab than the early ones we had and used.

We are in Newark Valley NY 19 miles west of Binghamton.