720 Diesel Row Crop

Hi, I'm new new to the forum and to old JD's. I'm looking at 720 and trying to figure out what would be fair to pay for it. I see the range on this site is $4500 to $14000. Thst's a little broad. This one has an aftermarket electric start, decent tin, good tires and the wide row crop front end, says 3800hrs but the engine has been rebuilt. Could do for some paint. What do you think?

Maybe $4k-$5k . I don't know what variant brings $14k except a high crop. It is however easy to sink $14k into one restoring it!

Assume it originally had a pony engine start. Unless you change the entire system (hood, etc.) to a factort electric start set up the value goes down a lot. From a collectors standpoint nobody much wants them.

If you just want it as a chore/work tractor I would guess toward the lower end of the prices you listed. Does it have 3 point hitch, flat top fenders, float ride seat and other options?

If you could get pictures several people could give you prices. They also vary with the area of the country.

The reason you see such a wide price range is the options make the world of a difference. You really need to post us a picture to really get an accurate price. Like the others have stated the after market electric start takes it out of the collector class. Then if the wide front end is a JD or an aftermarket that makes a difference too. Does it have the factory three point still on it? That is several grand if it is. If it does have the factory three point then does it have the factory top link??? If not that is several hundred off.

So as you can see we need a little more information to work with. In general the whole market is down now unless the tractor is something special like an high crop or one of few made. The run of the mill common tractors are half the value they where 10-15 years ago. The styled letter series are not selling for much more than scrap. Sometimes that is restored.

A word of caution. If you are just wanting something to play around on then fine but remember that an diesel is going to be much higher to work on than a gas engine. These old JD diesels can run up a big repair bill real quick even with an overhaul. The fuel system is the big cost item. The piston, rings, bearing and such are not that high to replace. So you need to know what kind of an overhaul it had done. I have seen guys put new rings and gaskets in a motor on the old pistons and call that an overhaul.

Black faced guages, round front axle, originally a pony start, 3 point with the level pointer intact, pto with single hydro, a second set of puller tires.