Re: Pricing opinions

Posted by Pete76NY on October 24, 2012 at 14:13:12 from (69.205.203.144):

In Reply to: Pricing opinions posted by Pete76NY on October 24, 2012 at 00:07:52:

Hey guys...TY for the replies! I work nights so I"ll try to answer everone at once; we have I believe (rough estimate) about $3500 in the Super H (I"m not being uppity but I don"t use straight Hs as comparison as there is a fairly significant difference) including purchase price, but not including time, we NEVER consider time because of a few reasons: we NEVER sell one when it"s done, We realize that if we added in time we"d have so much more in them then they"d ever be worth we"d choke! The time spent working on them with Dad and occasionally one of my Brothers or nephews is worth way more than any dollar value! When I hook it to a sled, or spend a day in the seat plowing at a plow day, or Dad shows it or parades it, or someone in the family uses it for a tractor ride, it feels so much better knowing we did the work.
Every tractor we have gets "used"; for the affore mentioned, or a lil "hoggin, or yanking some firewood or logs around...IF we HAD to use a tractor to earn a living or make some money we are well aware that a new compact 4x4 dsl hydrostat is much more efficient and handy (I used to sell Kubotas full time and still play at it occasionally on the side) but we don"t have anything that we could justify that expense for...we need traction for big stuff we get the JD 70 out, we need a loader we mount the #45 loader on the 70. For hoggin usually the JD A or the Super C, genetal chores the JD B, the JD 420 or one of the Ns gets the nod and yes we have too much in every tractor I have just mentioned! LOL ...and even more waiting to get splurged on.
Won"t even think about how much is in the Super M that is being done now!
We usually get a tractor that need some work fairly reasonable, peck at the basic mechanicals until we get them running enough to use for a while and really get it sorted out, then when it"s that tractor"s turn we have a handle on what needs to be done parts and work wise, tear it down do what we need to get it cleaned, primed, and painted the back together. Like everyone else, we sometimes win: never have to do much except beautify, bit others need the full monty!
My point for the original past was that people are starting to treat antique tractors like muscle cars: put a lot in "em, add up your time the tack on some profit and advertise them for stupid money. I was pointing out by using a Super H as an example that unless you have some real rare bird of a tractor, each model kinda has an upper limit what ya could expect it to sell for...my experience is that a well tended nice Super H is gonna be worth closer to $3500 than it is $7250 no matter what"s been done to it! I could have grabbed a pic of one of those New Hampshire tractors that get put on here periodically (the $7000 JD 70 for instance) and compared that to ours, or one of the "Expo Quality" late As or Bs that guys are asking $5000 plus for and compared them to one of ours, or that $5500 Super C that was on here a lil bit ago.
And it"s not just on here or craigslist or Ebay: I noticed an 8N with no sheet metal or radiator sitting out for sale down the road the other day...older fading red paint, steering box looser than a goose, side distributer, but older skinny 19" style front wheels with ok tires, one dried out cracked rear tire and another unmatched dried out but not cracked tire on the other side both on good looking "hat" style rims. No dash, lift held up with a pc of 2x4. So I called the number: "Runs good, lft and tranny work good...well they did before the fire so I guess it all works now, the tins, fenders and radiator all got singed pretty bad and are in the garage...bot it"s a side distributer! I need $2000!" well considering that on it"s BEST restored, beautiful completely working day it"s a $2500 tractor (maybe a tad more now as new rubber is so damned expensive ya"d have to compensate a lil when the rubber went on) that seemed a lil much....so there it sits right where it has all summer...but I"ms sure come spring it"ll still be a $2000 tractor!

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