Re: Long: End Of Antique Tractor Market

Posted by oldtanker on August 20, 2018 at 20:25:26 from (66.228.255.59):

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

Chiming in here a bit late.

Guys look at the members here and on other old tractor sites. Most of us are older. We ain't going to be here forever. Many younger folks haven't had the opportunity to learn any mechanical skills. And no, it's not just the youngsters that don't have the skills. Tons of folks that are a bit older don't have those skills either. I grew up in NJ, Red Bank. The high school out there graduated more kids than a lot of small towns total population. They graduated about 1000 a year. By the time we left NJ in 1971 none of our neighbors did their own tuneups or oil changes. Several years later I was a young married soldier. 1974 is when I joined. I made a lot of extra money working on people's cars off duty. I was on tanks (armor crewman). Lot of my fellow tankers could check the oil and that was it. So it isn't us older guys that learned all this stuff, just SOME of us LUCKY older guys and gals did. Now the ones who never learned it? What could they pass on to their kids?

So when these no 50-60 year old's buy a piece of property out in the country they buy something new with this thing called a warranty. If they do buy something older it either never works or they spend way too much paying someone to keep it running.

So that segment of the market is about gone. And as others have mentioned you have the old guys who collected and restored tractors they grew up with of that grand dad had. Lot fewer farms today so fewer people with a connection.

Now add in the other problems brought up about transport and storage with lack of interest, lack of space and lack of knowledge.

So yea it's dying. Going to be sad to see it go but it's dying. I don't think it will ever go away totally but it is going downhill.

As far as users? Lack of implements is going to be the killer there. The only 1 and 2 bottom plows available new today that I know of are Cat 1 3 point. Same with the other small implements. So as more and more implements go to the scrapper and or are raided for parts to fix another the older tractor will become less useful. Right now I don't personally know any farmers using real old stuff. Most are running augers that require 60 or so HP. Haven't seen anyone cutting hay without a haybine in 20 years. So there really isn't much of a future market because of the implement issue. Fact is I don't see much equipment on farms around here older than mid to late 60's still being used. And then it's tractors.

Yea, if a guy is thinking about getting out IMO now is the time.

Rick

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