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Rob Ellis
08-01-2001 07:02:51
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I am looking real hard at a MF 165 gas(1969). It has 10 hours on a totally(i mean totally) rebuilt engine(still has the break in oil in it). THe tractor has new paint, decals, and the Tires still have the nubs on the tread(Less than 6 hours on the tires). The tractor has been completely apart and back together by the best tractor mechanic in southern ohio, all seals and bearings/bushings were replaced, carb rebuilt new muffler, plugs wires an much more. The tractor comes with a Massey Front endloader that has been reworked and repainted(the single ram with a double cyl pump), and a brand new bucket that has never seen the dirt yet. The engine is clean enough to eat off of and the tractor has no rust whatsoever. The guy wants 7200 for the tractor, but he won't sell the tractor without implements. He has a brand new brush hog (6ft.) a scraper blade, a new set of potatoe plows, a newer set of discs, and regular plow, and a 55 gallon drum of hydraulic oil. He wants 1000 for the implements(which brings the grand total to 8300, and he said he would take 8250), and says he paid 1200 just for the bush hog, and the discs & blade. I cannot make my mind up, some people have said it would be like buying a new tractor, so the price was cheap, other have said no matter which way you cut it the tractor is 30 years old. What advice would you offer a young man on this decision. I plan to hold on to the tractor as long as we have our farm which will probably be more than 20 years. Thanks.
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