John Deere Greatness

If there were more for sale, the prices would drop -- and you could pick up an old JD for as little as you'd expect to pay for an old IH, Allis, Case, etc.

Please go out and restore bunches of old JD's to add to the supply, so there will be more reasonable prices for old JD's.

If you think free markets don't work like that, do some farming and watch grain and livestock prices go up and down as supply and demand changes.

It is really a matter of supply and demand but it is actually more complicated than that. The number of green tractors for sale is directly proportional to the number of wives making men sell their green because they actually told their wives how many green tractors they have. The key is to never let anyone know how many tractors you have. Then you can just keep on buying. Some men, early on, make the mistake of telling there wives or setting their green iron out in the open where it can be seen and counted, hence they are made to sell some or all of their green tractors.

PS, I cannot imagine ever selling my 4020.

RLA

Sure now you'll say i can get parts from here or there. Well us John Deere guys can get parts from John Deere and lots and lots of others.

I have twenty-eight IH's and three JD's. I far prefer an old Farmall but all the tractors designed in the late '30's were good, from Allis Chalmers to W-9's.

In the '20's and into the '30's the emphasis was on reliability and that reached a peak about 1937 with the design of products ranging from the Cadillac V-16 and the Deusenburg to Farmall M's and H's. From the '40's on the emphasis has been larger and cheaper, hence less weight, so few of the newer tractors measure up to those from the late '30's and '40's.