Re: Old Tractors=$?

Posted by Bill Smith on August 21, 2001 at 22:43:04 from (128.242.4.59):

In Reply to: Old Tractors=$? posted by Harry on August 17, 2001 at 22:10:53:

The big money in restored tractors seems to still go back, like anything else, to the real rarity. Like a one of a kind. You restore an average tractor and you got a restored average tractor when you are done. You sell it and you should get your money back and maybe a little extra but when you factor in your time you are working real cheap. I thought about restoring tractors for other people that wanted them restored but didn't want to do it theirself. After rolling this around in my head awhile I forgot about it. I don't see to many people willing to pay someone good wages to have a tractor restored either. You can easily put in hundreds of hours just on one single tractor. The bill would get astronomical especialy when you factored in equipment and everything. You couldn't work for like $9 an hour because you would have to factor in equipment, utilities at work place (even if in your garage) and long distance phone calls finding parts and so on. You couldn't provide everything working at $9 an hour. As for making parts I could see that there would be some money in that. Just look at the common wear points on each tractor. These parts are the ones that are hard to find in salvage yards. If not reproduced they are even harder. If you could make them at a fair price with profit margin than there would be some money there. You will just have to do some research to see what you need to make.

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