Old Bobcat/Farmhand M200

jgl1962

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Hi All,
I work for an equipment dealer in Upstate NY that recently sold the Bobcat side of our business.

We have a restored (not sure if accurately) M200. It supposedly is either the 57th or 157th built. I can find no SN on it however.

We have had it for 30 +years as a conversation piece and used to run it in the antique tractor parade at Empire Farm Days here in NY.

Wondering if anybody has a clue what it's worth. We don't want to give it away and we don't want to get rich on it.

Thanks for the input.
Jim
 
If I remember right that is a tricycle machine.We took one in trade when I worked at a JD dealer in 1978,it was only about 20 years
old back then.The boss took it in trade figuring we were going to own it forever,and it would be handy for a yard helper.Any kind
of tractor with a shovel will sell here,and he did put a price on it and it sold.Ours had an Onan engine in it,but we had reason to
believe it had been repowered with it.It did lift pretty high though.I wouldn't know where to start on pricing it though.
 
Have not seen one sell in a long time the last one was in boxes and brought $700 on the auction.
The photo is of my dad (Right) and Lou Keller (Left) in front of our 1958 Grass Hopper Arm, formed rear weight M60 Melroe
In the 1950s, Louis and Cyril Keller operated Keller Welding and Repair near Rothsay, Minnesota. In 1956, Eddie Velo, a turkey farmer in the area, described to
the Kellers a need for a machine small enough to maneuver inside a pole barn and light enough to operate on its upper level. The brothers developed a small,
three-wheeled design with a belt-driven transmission, and delivered it to Velo on February 4, 1957
And as they say --- The rest is history
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That pretty much looks like the one we took in trade.Ours had some kind of enclosure around the engine,so that could have been removed on yours or it could have been an add-on to ours.Ours came from a man that sold his farm in Indiana,and brought his equipment with him when he bought a piece of land here.
 
Depends on the year model. Some of the early ones has a one cylinder Wisconsin and others had a Twin Onan. The Onan was a CCK 12.5 HP. Possible that someone swapped out the original engine.

The first Bobcat is or was at the museum in Fergus Falls MN. Interesting contraption.


Rick
 

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