Posted by the tractor vet on November 27, 2012 at 07:17:37 from (76.212.227.196):
In Reply to: Re: Farmall 1206 posted by IaGary on November 27, 2012 at 05:12:12:
To me it is and old tractor , yes they did not make a million of them but it is and old tractor . Would i like to have one yes , would be put under glass and tucked away , NO it would be doing what it was made for working along side of the 706 and the 806 . Just like my S/MTA and the other 4 S/MTA's in my neighbour hood . Yesterday one of those COLLECTOR ITEMS was picking corn and the second S/MTA was hauling wagons . The third was grinding feed at another farm and mine was setting in the shed doing nothing . To me there are all kinds of nut cases with more money then brains. Case and point here , about 10-12 years ago i bought a one owner 806 off a farmer out in N/W Ind. and i gave him a fair price for it , it needed a little work and a paint job . Had real good tires on it sheet metal was straight but faded and org. Needed a seat and some lights and leaks fixed . Well i fixed them and had a friend do a paint job on it . I was going to keep it and become a BTO. with three tractors , the three being my S/MTA and my 706 . I had it setting outside the shop all painted up with a new seat and paint and i was working on a Farmall M carb when i heard a strange truck pull in and his guy that i had never seen befor walks in and says is that your 806 setting out there and i told him that it was and he asked how much i wanted for it and i informed him that it WAS NOT FOR SALE . But he did not want to hear that and kept bugging me about HOW MUCH . At the time you could go anywhere and buy a 806 for nomore then 5500 bucks in nice shape. Well i figured that oh what the heck and threw a 8750 price on it and setting next to it was a nice clean 1066 that i would sell for 8250 and i was making a good profit at that price on the 1066 . When i told him all he said was OH and turned and walked out the door and left. Thought to myself that took the wind out of his sail . and i went back to what i was doing . Twenty min. later i hear a car pull in and was thinking now who and in walks this guy and his wife and aid how do you want the check made out ?? Flat told them no checks strickly CASH and she went to the back and came back with CASH. Same with my S/MTA people have offered me a lot of money for it but i learned to turn them down and i also learned that IF i don't apint them the ones i want to keep that NO ONE will bug you for it . Case in point here my 806 that i have now is about as UGLY a one that yo will find , yep it has oil leaks it needs a paint job needs two lights fixed and did i say it is plum ugly , BUT it runs great good T/A the best P/S of any Farmall i have ever owned . Everybody has used it and all agree that it is a good tractor BUT NOBODY wants it . But let me fix the oil leaks and lights add a new seat and a paint job and it would be history For what ever price i put on it. To me they are just tractors , they were made to do work and as long as you can find parts to fix them they keep doing what they were ment to do . They will go put a crop in the ground just the same as a new one and what ever crop you do plant it does not care what it got planted with just the same as when you harvest the crop where it be a 1500 dollar combine or a half million dollar combine . In the end when all the dust settles i will put more dollars in my pocket then the guy with the big payments . Just like the old performance cars , would i like to have one , yes i would love to find me a 68 Plymoth Road Runner , would i pay the price what they are wanting for one , Not in your widest dreams . Why would i pay 20-30 grand or more for a car that i bought new for 2400 bucks for. Or like the 61 Ford Rag top that i saw in E/Bay that if that car had the correct interior and still had the imprint of my knuckles in the dash from when my Hurst shift broke on me going into third gear i would have sworen it was my old 61 with a 390 tri power in the same color but would i give the 52 K they were wanting . Nope. I have a 53 S/H thqat i will probable never get to as to me it is a worthless tractor for our use the only thing that it could be used for it running the elevator to put corn into the cribs . It needs and overhaul needs paint needs a seat all lights did work and needs tires now . The engine did run up till the sheep chewed off the wire one day when they got out and it has sat since . Since it does not have enough power to pull three bottoms or pull the planter or pull the baler with a wagon behind it in our hill or the weight why keep it and dump money into it .
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