Re: Long: End Of Antique Tractor Market

Posted by oliverkid on August 20, 2018 at 14:03:43 from (108.69.121.126):

In Reply to: Long: End Of Antique Tractor Market posted by Dean on August 20, 2018 at 11:43:50:

As part of the next generation in the hobby (Im 24) heres what I see going on. I run around with a group of guys between the ages of 16 to 25 that are all still active in the hobby. Each of us has anywhere between 2 and 10 tractors we tinker around with. Heres where things get different though. We all are also actively farming with them. Most of our collecting has started to focus on the heritage era muscle tractors and equipment that we can actually use in the field. I personally have been picking up more ground every year and I keep finding myself in need of more power to cover more ground while still working a full time job. I dont have much interest in small gas tractors anymore and after I bought my first diesel, for me to drag another gas tractor home it will have to be something super original or super special because I can get more work done in a day with a diesel for less money. Pretty much all the tractors on my future someday list are 100 horse and bigger. None of us own any that are 100 percent better than showroom condition new but they all run and operate like a million bucks. We all still like to play around with the old stuff but in order to get the power we need the old iron had to get a little younger and a lot bigger. If you look at the equipment market right now the prices of the pre 1960 stuff is falling while the post 1960 stuff is holding its own or increasing. I think fewer guys around my age are looking to buy trailer queens and more are looking to buy toys they can get out and really play hard with. Just look at tractor shows because they are changing to. At least around here the static shows are slowly dying out. I cant even remember the last time I took a tractor to a static show. After a while looking down rows and rows of A and B Deeres and H and M Farmalls gets old. On the other hand, working shows like Penfield and Rantoul are growing so fast they are almost getting out of hand. Then when you go to those shows, whats the most common era of tractors you see showing up, the 60's and 70's muscle tractors, and guys arent bringing them to sit and look at them, they are bringing them to work them. Plus when you go to those shows you will see off the wall stuff you never even dreamed existed anywhere except in a picture, and its out in the field making dust. We plan the trip to The next Rantoul show almost as soon as the last one is over because that is about the most fun I have ever had off the farm. The antique tractor market isnt dead, it isnt even dying, its just shifting eras.

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