Brothers auction and tractor accessorys

super99 · Sep 7, 2015

My brother passed away last spring and they are getting ready for his sale later this month. He has mostly Oliver equipment. He has a 2050 fwa that has what I think are factory hydraulic couplers, you take a cresent wrench and screw them together under pressure. His 1800 has factory couplers on one side, I think they are called aeroquip. He had several cylinders and pieces of equipment that have these male ends on them. If whoever buys the tractors doesn't but the corresponding implement , the male ends will be most likely useless to the new owner and thrown away. I'm wondering if I should buy some male Pioneer ends and replace the special hose ends and give the correct ends to whoever buys the tractors. With the exception of the 2050, I don't think this will be a high dollar sale, but if I were buying the tractor to use, it would be nice to have the correct hydraulic ends so I didn't have to replace the couplers in order to use it.
The auctioneer is from Mt. Pleasant, Ia, Steffe I think. Sale bill is listed online, Sept 22 or there abouts. Chris

JD Seller · Sep 7, 2015

I would just put Pioneer ends on the implements and sell both halves of the couplers with the Oliver 2050. The implements he has will not sell high anyway. Not knocking his stuff but little it is in good condition. The scrap fellows will be top bidders on a lot of it. So make the Good equipment bring as much as possible. The hydraulic couplers would be junk to anyone that does not have the other half so sell them as asset/pair.

ss55 · Sep 7, 2015

I like JD Seller's suggestion. Taking that one step further, can you lock any implements in the transport position, remove the hydraulic cylinders with the odd couplers, and sell the cylinders separately after the tractor is sold? The cylinders might sell for much more than scrap prices, or the tractor buyer might bid them up to get the mating odd couplers.

evilboweivel · Sep 7, 2015

I would suggest taking all cylinders off of the equip and setting them next to the tractor that they are set up for. Then sell the cylinders AFTER the tractor sells. Also any other specific equip such as heat housers, duals, etc. set by tractor and sell after
good luck
Ron

Don-Wi · Sep 7, 2015

Unless they're hydralectric cylinders that function, they probably won't bring much more than $20-40 each. (first one might bring $50, but every one after that will bring less) I've been at auctions where the cylinders brought $10-20. Personally, we have enough cylinders for almost everything we have, which is a far cry from where Dad started when he took over the farm when Grandpa only had 1 cylinder, which was an Oliver hydralectric cylinder and he had to switch from implement to implement.

I'd consider paying up to $100 less per implement if the cylinder were pulled off, just because then I might have to buy one to use it, or have to monkey around swapping cylinders. Neither one I like to do.

Donovan from Wisconsin

DeltaRed · Sep 7, 2015

I agree. Buy poineer for the cylinder and leave em on the good implements..Sell the ends with the tractor. Put em in the tool box.

jeffcat · Sep 7, 2015

Now that sounds like a very good idea! On the farm we had three pieces of equipment and ONE cylinder. What a pain.

Traditional Farmer · Sep 7, 2015

I'd as others have said put the equipment in the locked up position and if you want to spend a little $$$ make sure they have a set of towable tires.I've passed on equipment before where I was a ways from home that I had no way to get it in the raised position
and/or the tires were flat or obviously won't make it over a couple miles.As far as the cylinders I wouldn't worry about the ends just sell them as is after the tractors and equipment because who knows what kind of ends the buyers will want.

flying belgian · Sep 7, 2015

No, No. Do not put them in the tool box. They will not be there when come to sell tractor. Wire them on back of tractor with 3 or 4 pieces of wire. Someone will notice before thief gets them undone.

ss55 · Sep 7, 2015

It probably depends on the usefulness of each piece of equipment. For a high demand machine in field ready condition, leaving the cylinders and adding new hydraulic tips or usable tires should help it sell better. For an obsolete machine likely be scrapped, leaving the cylinder and spending money on new hydraulic tips or tires probably won't pay at all. On marginal pieces, I'd ask the auctioneer or err towards not spending any new money on it.

ss55 · Sep 7, 2015

Maybe put the tips in a zip-lock bag and keep them with the operator's manual? Let the auctioneer's cashier hand them all to the buyer when payment is received?

GeneMO · Sep 7, 2015

Well, if it wasn't my sale, and not my tractors, I wouldn't worry about it.

Gene

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