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Always searching for something else to add to the collection and hide from the wife :lol: . I mostly use tractor house and FB groups any other suggestions?
 
A lot of stuff on Craigslist but the prices are sky high. Kind of like a new Ebay. I watch for JD 630's and they are all about double the auction price based on condition
of the tractor. If you are wide open as to what you would buy sometimes taking a ride in the country will reveal some interesting things.
 
Keep your eyes peeled. Take a 'Sunday Drive' down country roads. Take the road less traveled on your regular commute. Talk to people.You never know what's out there till you ask.
 

Depends on what you are looking for and condition you require it to be in. A lot of stuff on CL is high. Some is cheap, but if it is cheap and a good deal, it won't last long. Like hours.

Best and worst places to buy I know of are farm auctions. Estates and retirement. A lot of those tractors and equipment are one owner rigs, and if the right guy, has been well taken care of. I've seen stuff at auctions go begging........or if two guys show up who really want it....sky high. If it has sentimental value to a family member, better let that one go and keep looking.

Saw a perfectly good NH 258 rake sell a month or so back for $200. One's like it on CL are all $1,000 or more. That kind of a deal.
 
I recommend cruising the back roads and black tops in something that sits up pretty high. Back in the late 90's, the last 3 years that I peddled ltl freight, I covered a large rural area. Driving a single axle Volvo/White conventional tractor the view was really good and I spotted a lot of things you wouldn't see from a car or even a regular half ton pick-up. gm
 
Like everyone's said, except as you drive by, try to get a good look inside barns and sheds.
 
I just found Facebook Marketplace. I bought a tractor on it this weekend. New stuff pops up every time I check it.
 
Anyone that says that there are no good deals at (insert website here) just doesn't spend enough time looking. There are deals but they don't last long. You have to be in the right place at the right time, with cash in your pocket.

If there's a phone number, CALL. You will usually get priority over the people who are too shy to use a phone, and try to email, "Is it still available?"
 
I don't have to look. I'd liken it to walking around with a pork chop in my pocket and having dogs follow me home.
 
My Late Father-In-Law'S method, I think I've posted it here before. We'd be out driving around, and he'd see someone out on their property.He'd pull over, and ask the person where "made-up name" lives around here? The person might think a while, and say "I don't know anyone by that name around here." My F-I-L would say"well I heard they had some old cars, tractors, trucks, or whatever sittin' around their place, and I just wanted to see 'em." Often the local would reply, " I don't know the folks yer talkin' about, but iffin' you go on about two miles, there's an old place on the right, with lots of the stuff yer lookin' for."
We may have tried that several times a day. He might ask the same question to anyone around an auction sale. He usually got good results.
 
This can be right on or sad, depending on your viewpoint. Back in the 80s, my old tractor crazy kid
(flat head Fords, anything old) and I were at an auction and I mentioned that we don't dare drag another
one home. The kid, around 10, says "Dad, you don't unload it and push it into the eqpt line from the
front, we have go around from the back, Mom never walks there, but she'll see the grass pushed down in
front........... I laughed, and we still do this day. I never clued my bride in on this one, she'd
still be chasing me around the barn........
 
Ethical question for you guys who spot something from the road and drive in to inquire.

Lets assume that the item you are interested in has a range in value of $500 to $1,500, depending on a lot of things, with an average in the middle of $1,000, meaning out of 10 transactions between informed buyers and sellers, the average price will be close to $1,000.

So you ask if they might sell, answer is maybe and your next question is......"what do you think you might want for it"? I'm guessing 99% of the time, that is how it will go.

Seller is UN-informed, and doesn't know its value and tells you $100.

Ethical question is.....will you buy it for that.....or offer more?
 
(quoted from post at 08:45:17 01/08/19) Ethical question for you guys who spot something from the road and drive in to inquire.

Lets assume that the item you are interested in has a range in value of $500 to $1,500, depending on a lot of things, with an average in the middle of $1,000, meaning out of 10 transactions between informed buyers and sellers, the average price will be close to $1,000.

So you ask if they might sell, answer is maybe and your next question is......"what do you think you might want for it"? I'm guessing 99% of the time, that is how it will go.

Seller is UN-informed, and doesn't know its value and tells you $100.

Ethical question is.....will you buy it for that.....or offer more?
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Years ago when I still had my mail route, one of my elderly patrons showed me an old tractor he had. A few years later he asked me if I was interested in buying it. He quoted a price about twice what it was worth. Being short on funds at the time, I offered him about half what it was worth. Needless to say, we did not make a deal, and we went our own ways. Some time later he passed away. Later on, his widow left me a note wondering if I was still interested in the tractor, and quoted a price less than what I had originally offered!
After I went over and looked at the tractor again, she mentioned that her kids had told her it was worth more than the price she had quoted me.
I agreed with her that it probably was, and told her to do what she needed to do, and that there would be no hard feelings. I told her that I never wanted it said that I had come in and ripped her off.
She then said that she would stand by her original offer and I could have it for the price she had quoted me.
So I believe honesty is the best policy.
 
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