Around here there's no shortage of road tractors around for 7-10 grand. These are good running light tractors. A trailer will cost you probably the same or more depending on what you're looking for. I'm not suggesting that you will find any grain trailers here... but you'll get some kind of end dump for that money. Straight trucks can be had anywhere in the 5-15 grand range. Again, this is with an end dump body, not a grain body. If you want to get picky, you pay. I don't think it's beyond the means of most people to do some modest work on that gear to tighten it up for grain. If they can keep an old single axle gasser on the road, they can do some mods to a good used tandem or tractor. I know we used to spend close to 5 grand a year on the old ton between brakes, suspension work, front end work, frame work, cab work.... and on and on and on. That was all done in a shop because I didn't have the time to do it. Damn thing near ran us broke and it didn't come close to bringing that much money in throughout the year. We've got a 9400 IH now that does all the work the ton did, hauls 50-60 loads of gravel for our own use and sale, hauls firewood comercially, hauls our silage and grain, and a few other odd jobs. We've got about 15 grand in the truck, 10 of which was for the tractor itself before I stripped it and mounted the box on it. Sure.... I need a CDL to drive it, and there's more hassle from the DOT, but it still made life a lot easier, and it's far less money to maintain... UNTIL something major blows in the drivetrain. That's the one downside, but I don't anticipate much going wrong there so long as it's looked after a bit. I remember having the same argument with the old man about going to tandems. He didn't want to. He still doesn't want it. He'll argue until he's blue in the face that a single axle gas with a trailing axle would be better and cheaper to run and blah blah blah. It boils down to one simple fact. HE doesn't want a tandem and doesn't want to drive a tandem. Period. If only his pencil could show he's right, I might listen... I s'pose everyones situation is different, but here the twin screw is the only way to go. It's just more economical 'here'.
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