Shortest amount of time you have owned a tractor?

M Nut

Well-known Member
After attending an auction today, I got to thinking back to an auction I attended back in June. I had no intentions of buying a tractor, but the only
tractor on the sale was an Allis Chalmers 190 with a Westendorf quick tach loader. The tractor had been sitting outside and not run in about 8
years, but I knew it had run pretty good when last used. It had one new rear tire, one that was fair to poor but holding air, and a set of tire
chains on it. When it came time to sell, no one would bid, so finally when it got down to $500, I bid. They got a $600 bid, and I bid $700 and
was the high bidder. I now had a 190 that didn't currently run to try and haul home. Within 5 minutes, my brother's cell phone rings, and long
story short, it was his father-in-law who couldn't attend the sale, and he wanted to know if the tractor had sold, and for how much? He was
really bummed, and wanted to know if my brother knew who bought it? When he found out it was me, he asked what I was going to do with it,
and I said sell it. He offered me $900 for it, and he would take care of transporting it to his place. I knew he needed a tractor, and I didn't, so I
sold it to him. He picked it up with his dump truck and trailer and hauled it home. He overhauled the carb. Replaced the points and plugs, and
had it running again in short order. So, for all of maybe 10 minutes, I owned a 190. That's the shortest amount of time I have owned a tractor.
How about you?
 
I have sold only one farm tractor in my life, I owned it three and a half years. I did own a semi truck tractor two weeks before I Sold it.
 
Couple of weeks is the shortest time I've owned a tractor but there have been I few I "wished I didn't own"in less time than that.LOL
 
in 88 I bought a ford 8000 from a bank( bankrupt dealership)for $1000.as is.(no battery in it)
Gave it a tug with the truck and off it went, I drove it home, i cleaned it up a bit and fixed some odds and ends + a new batt, used it four a day or 2. I decided i did not like it and put it in a consignment sale.
It sold 4 months later,..i netted $7000.
 
Shortest time I have ever owned a tractor would be about 3 weeks. I bought an old Farmall H that was rough as all get out but had almost new tires all the away around. I needed tires for one of my other tractors so bought it for $800 took the 4 nearly new tires off it and sold it for $500. $300 tires and a couple hours of labor to change them are worth it in my book.
 
I owned a 90 377 Peterbuilt for as long as it took to do the paper work. It was on a bankruptcy sale where the owner could come up with the money to pay for it but the bank would not sell it to him. The bank made sure the title was transferred to me so we had to pay sales tax and transfer fees on that truck twice in the same day.
 
I has a Massey Harris 101Jr for about a week. I don't remember if I ever had one for less time for that or not.
I bought a Deere 3010 diesel one time that I would have saved about $7500 on if I had hauled it right from where I bought it,to the parts yard and sold it for half what I'd paid for it instead of bringing it home.
 
How about five minutes or less. I bought a SA at auction for $1800. As the next item came up for bid a fellow came up to me and offered $2000 for the SA. Didn't want it that bad anyhow.
 

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