I don"t know why this isn"t merged with my original thread on my computer, tablet, and multiple browsers. And when I click modern view on the top, it shows my original thread with my one reply from yesterday, but none of these others.
I guess I"ll go into the adventure a bit more. What was around. 70 miles away, "72 Ford 8000 7500hours for $9k,-- Ford 8700 16k hours $9k,-- JD 4440, 9k hours, hyd. fwa, motor/trans. never touched, with loader, quad. $19k didn"t look bad but was nothing but a loader tractor it"s whole life, likely feed lot-- Private party 4430 with loader, over $20k-- 4230 with 10k hours, untouched, quad, wouldn"t start when I looked first time and leaking oil bad, ran like junk second time, $15k. 2290 Case 8k hours $15k, 986 with 10k hours, $15k. Within a 100 mile radius, that was all of them below about $30k. 4240 powershift showed up but was sold by the time I called, within a day of the listing, that was the only powershift I found for sale, and coming from a White 2-105 I didn"t like going down to 8 gears anyway. I drove 300 miles one day and circled back another way stopping at every dealer within range of driving, saw two total tractors below $30k, the 140 White and it was barely below $30k, and a $15k Allis. In $30k example, ih 5240 with 10k hours for $34.5k with loader. A couple times along that day there were guys ahead of me, looking for the same type of tractors. Lots of them sold within hours of listing, or the listings are left up and they sold long ago, or out on rent, etc. Only thing "cheap" around that looked decent otherwise were the "88 series, but none on the route I went, and the ones I looked at were absolute junk.
One White 2-105 was $11k, unknown hours, usual oil leaks out the side, and hydraulic leaks, figured not worth driving to. Another about 6k hours that probably wasn"t terrible but a guy from a couple states away had it spoken for. If I had gone White, it would have been 100 series most likely, but none in driving distance, can"t go more than a day, and really didn"t want to order something without seeing it, with the shenanigans I saw at dealers.
This one was in a different direction close to 200 miles away, and aside from paint which doesn"t matter other than the hood being rusty, it was the least leaky, best running out of absolutely everything I saw. So I got it, wasn"t much higher than an Allis considering the loader. If it hadn"t of worked, I was going much newer and much higher because I was done looking after this long, had two picked out within 100 miles of there. I could afford them, just don"t see a reason to when I don"t farm, only bale, run a Haybuster, and general ranch duties. It may be a mistake, but 99% of my neighbors are green and some have similar in the 15k hour range and say they are great tractors, so I hope not. And it"s something I can actually get worked on easily if I need to now. All I could do was check all the fluids, get it hot, drive it around, shift gears back and forth, slam brakes, run everything, etc., and it passed that part. Started it cold, fired in less than a second, no stuttering, no smoke at all when running. 3 point had a heavy dirt drag thing on it, lifted it easy. Seat came up when I started the tractor too.
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