Re: Used Tractor Buying

Posted by Ash on August 16, 2005 at 14:53:55 from (66.218.23.108):

In Reply to: Used Tractor Buying posted by Ash on August 15, 2005 at 19:29:12:

I really have found 4X4 compact tractors with loaders from $1500 to $4500. They where all grey market ones and usually too far away for me to pick up and gone in no time. My cousin picked up a 4X4 Massy with loader ran good he just had to weld a part in the front drive, he picked that up for $1500. at a dealer! He traded it for a newer 4X4 Fourwheeler (worth between $3500. to $4500.).
I want to thank most of you for the advice. I kind of think I would be better off looking for a small farm tractor about the size of a 8N(something I can get parts for easy, too). I mainly need it for snow removal, small garden work, and loader work, also be nice to do some brush cutting. I know a set of chains would work fine on a two wheeled drive farm tractor in the winter, driven many Farmalls and a Case in very deep snow with a load with no problem also done a lot of snow plowing with one.
A smaller tractor would have be nice because I would have liked to been able to haul it down to my parents property where we have 25 acres next to there 200+ acres about 60 miles from here(we will eventially build a house there in a few years). Dad has retired and sold his IH 460. I wish we had at least kept our JD 40 crawler for some clearing and logging jobs. We do get to borrow a JD 550 dozer a couple of weekends this year, used it last year too for logging.
Back to my question (sorry for rambling). What other good tractors are there about 8N size or smaller that could have a loader in my price range? The farmall cubs where nice but never seen one with a loader. Whats the weights of some of these tractors?
Our neighbor had a IH404 with homemade hyd. blade for $2500. no PTO and just a draw bar, also I worked on it for him and know it will need a clutch soon. Also seen a couple of Fords not sure of the models, newer than the 8N but similar in size not sure of the prices. I will keep looking.
Thanks for the advice,
Ash

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