I suppose we all look for a bargain....I certainly do. If I want to get raped, I buy stuff new.....where the minute the cash exchanges hands, I lose at least 1/3 of the value.....ask the friendly dealer below if that isn"t so. Yup...suddenly if I bring it back to trade it in."it"s USED" and therefore worth nothing compared to what I paid him maybe a week or a month before. Yet if he takes it in trade after socking it to me sans Vaseline, he"ll have it on his lot for not much less than what he sold it to me for. That makes me bleed along with the burning sensation.
These yuppie types and the big bad deer hunters are the worst, are killing the old equipment market for us "users". WE go looking for an old disc harrow, only to find the weekend warriors have drove the prices through the roof by paying whatever some slick dealer throws at them. You can"t find any old Cub equipment anymore because some retard with a 4 wheeler has paid $500 for Cub disc, that"s actually worth $50-$75, so he can sow "food plots". Any damned moron who thinks he can go to the middle of the woods and sow a crop, isn"t too bright to begin with. That also ought to give a hint of their hunting prowess.....they hope to bait the beasts in so they can assassinate them during supper!
I wouldn"t give $1200 for an 8N with fresh paint and new tires, let alone $3000! When I was much, much younger, I worked for folks who had those death traps on the farm. I also had a good friend killed on an 8N.
The biggest factor in escalating prices on old tractors and machinery, are these slicker types who have taken up "tractor restoring" instead of car restoring. The price of old cars got so high....folks suddenly fancied old tractors. Drive through a yuppie development sometime.....you"ll see shiny parade queens parked in the yard. They"ll not be within 50 miles of nearest farm.
It"s a disgusting state of affairs, all around. I"ve never seen the attraction in an old worn out tractor, in the first place. People bought them new, many years ago in order to reduce their workload...as to replace a team of farting mules. They used them until they were used up....worn out and went and got another one. They were ragged out junk when they parked them, alongside the ragged out old car in the fence row. Forty years later, some nut comes along foaming at the mouth wanting to buy that "rare" beast that only 129 were built. If they had any sense, they"d know why only 129 were built.....they weren"t any good when they were new, nobody would buy them, so production ceased and something better replaced them. DUH! Oh...but to the slicker, they have just acquired one of the Crown Jewels!
I"ve owned many tractors over the years and the newer ones have always been better than the old ones. If machines built in the 50"s were so superior, the companies would still be building them to meet the market demands. My dad is 75 years old and one bit of wisdom i heard him spout that sticks with me is: Son, the good ol" days, is right NOW.
I have exactly one old tractor on the place, a "52 super A, that I cultivate the garden with. It all the "vintage" machine I can stand. The 2005 model JD does the real work. The $32,000 I paid for it was a rip off, but still yet, it was a bargain compared to the asking prices for the clunkers offered for sale.
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