Most of your maintenance sounds like it's due to time and aging rather than use and wear on each individual tractor. In a year, how many tachometer hours do you put on all five tractors combined?
A second tractor is very handy, especially if you need a front end loader. Would two highly reliable tractors work for you? Which two would you use the most if those two were reliable?
It sounds like you are not a tractor collector. You could sell two or three tractors to finance part of the repairs on the remaining two, or maybe even trade-up one of the remaining two tractors. Your maintenance on the two remaining tractor probably would not change much from what it is on those two now.
If your 756 sold new for around $6,000 in the late 1960's that would be around $50,000 in today's dollars. I'm surprised you can buy a new replacement for the 756 for only $25,000.
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