Re: Re: Re: Re: Collector value vs. practical use

Posted by Indydirtfarmer on September 19, 2003 at 08:38:42 from (205.188.209.105):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Collector value vs. practical use valu posted by Trevor on September 19, 2003 at 06:47:59:

Everyone see's things from a different perspective. I have to look at what is best for me. You see what is best for you. The "collective thoughts" of all of us, make for an "average". The "average" person, buying a new tractor, has to justify the cost. (Excluding the doctors/lawyers/lotto winners that can afford what they WANT) There are but a few full-time farmers today that can go out and buy new. Those guys are generally buying the 200+ HP 4wd, and so on. Some of these same farmers are buying "small" and "mid-sized tractors" for utility use. A 450 HP 4WD doesn't do very well with a hay rake. That leaves the rest of us, struggling to get by with our "old" tractors.
Those older tractors are still very capable of putting out a crop, on some fairly large acrage.
I live in an area where no-till is the rule, rather than the exception. Just a guess on my part, but about 90% of the soybeans, and 75% of the corn is no-till. I know of less than a dozen farmers in our county that have a "primary" tractor that is less than 5 years old.
I see the newer small tractors as just too outragously expensive for anyone to buy for farming. They ARE nice. They MAY last. They will get the job done. I can't see me buying one.
If someone has the urge to buy one, more power to them. BUT...my point is that the numbers are WAY DOWN, as far as what the major manufacturers are producing. With a percentage of them being "just too expensive to repair" when they start having troubles, in the future, the 20 year old tractors of today, will be a lot less expensive to rebuild. I just see the tractors of the late 70's, the 80's and even the early 90's as a much better investment.
I won't argue with anyone elses reason for buying whatever they see fit. I guess that I'm just making my case for farming with old junk!

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