Posted by JD Seller on June 01, 2016 at 23:28:13 from (208.126.198.123):
George has a post over on the Tool forum about tools you bought and wish you hadn't. Well lets list the tractors/equipment we have bought we wish we hadn't.
I will start out with a tractor. In 1985 I was at a sale. The equipment and tractors were selling CHEAP. I had went to look at a planter but it was worn out. I stayed until the tractors were selling. They were a mixed bag. They were pretty good tractors but things were tight for everyone then. Plus this sale was in early April. The fellow had gotten shut off by his bank.
They got to a AC 185 diesel. The tractor had great tires and paint. Only showed 3800 hours and was a 1978 model. The auctioneer struggled to get a starting bid of $2500. I ended up buy the tractor for $4000. I was making a lot of hay at the time and could use another tractor to mow and bale hay with.
Well I had not been around many AC tractors. A neighbor had a couple of 190s and there where a fair number of D-17s around. So I was not fully aware of how the PTO worked on this tractor. So imagine my surprise in learning a 1978 model tractor still had a hand control keep the PTO working. I hated that tractor for PTO work the POWER director lever was on the dahs and had real strong detents with a short handle. The D-17s and the 190s at least had a longer handle and you could ease them in and out of gear. This tractor was basically either stop or go, not much in between.
I could have learned to live with the controls but the rest of the tractor turned into a nightmare. I mowed the first field of hay with a NH 488 haybine. Came out the next morning and the oil pan was full of antifreeze. Cavitation on two of the sleeves with only 3800 hours. So I got to overhaul the motor. Got that back and used it 30 hours more and fourth gear went out in the transmission. The prior owner had speed shifted it so much that the corners of the shift collar was shot. It would not stay in fourth gear any longer. So I got to split the tractor and repair the transmission. By this time no one in the family LIKED running this tractor. So it was limited in what we did with it. So the wife was raking hay in Sept. fourth crop alfalfa. She came walking back to the house. The rear pivot pin/bolt ( don't remember which it was anymore) on the wide front end had broken. The axle frame had crushed the oil pan and broke the oil pump off inside the oil pan. So I got to do some more repairs on it.
Oct. of that same year the local AC dealer got in a real nice White 2-70 open station. I traded even up for the AC 185. That was the best trade I have ever done. My brother still has that White 2-70 and we have never done anything other than new tires and change the oil.
So I owned that tractor from April to October. I gave $4000 for it and had $3000 in repair costs added on. So I had $7000 in a tractor that was worth around 4500-5000 at that time. Remember this was in 1985 when $2000 was a lot more money than it is today. That AC 185 in the biggest LEMON I have ever bought, so far. LOL The thing that is funny is I know the fellow that bought that AC 185. He still owns it today. He has never done anything major to that tractor. He comments every time I see him about how good that tractor has been. So maybe I got all the bugs out for him. LOL I hated that Power Director shift lever on that tractor. So I am glad some one else owns that AC tractor.
So what have you bought you wish you had never seen????
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