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"Always happens when a hobby hits the mainstream and the demand skyrockets." Pretty much my observation. Not too many years ago you could drive around the country and see old critters abandoned in the weeds by the dozens. Once people started buying them up to restore, fewer of them sitting around getting rustier and prices have increased accordingly in line with demand. Like anything else, such things are market-driven. They ain't making any more old tractors. What there is, is what there is. As a sidebar, one farmer over the hill from my hunting camp, has had a pair of rusty JD two-lungers in the brush for about the past 20 years. Last spring they were gone. My cousin that farms in the area, said someone showed up with money, thought they had to have 'em and off they went. Another neighbor up there has several Farmalls and other old tractors in the brush behind his barn, but like his daddy, won't sell a blessed thing no matter what the offer, or who wants it. My uncle tried to buy an M from this bunch 25 years ago, for parts for one of his Ms. They weren't even interested in helping a neighbor, with a tractor they hadn't used in 10 years.
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