[AJD] Plow for B

[Guy Fay]

At my grandfather's auction, where things went a little high, two bottom 
Deere with good paint, straight plow, needs one tire, $175. One bottom 
Allis on steel (little harder to find, lots of people want them for the 
small tractors) went for same, sems average price. This summer I got a 
two bottom IH Little Genius, on steel, missing one share, for $150. 
Couple weeks ago, at an auction where everything else went higher than a 
kite, three bottom Little Geniuses on nice rubber, painted well, were 
going in the 400-450 range.

Sounds like money could be made in the plow business if it wasn't for 
the high cost of transportation these days- bent up plows are about 
25-50, but with the high scrap price these days might be worth some 
more. Spencer, you've just got to start shopping in Wisconsin, although 
at the rate people are starting to collect plows here, it might not be a 
buyer's market long. Glad I got my Red-E plow when I did.

Guy

Spencer Yost wrote:

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>On 10/17/2004 at 3:55 PM Dean VP wrote:
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>>Spencer:
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>>Wow, $550 is too much money for a 52 even if it is in really good
>>unrestored
>>condition. I would struggle paying half that. 
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>My sentiments exactly.   You bring up a good point to discuss though.  I am
>not sure what a good price for a plow is, though the few I have paid
>attention to over the last 3 year have had prices that I thought were a
>little alarming.   Here are the prices I remember over the last few years
>while shopping half-heartedly(I have only had this B for 3 years).
>Everyone chime in and let me know if my memory is serving me well or not:
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>There seem to be 3 different plows:
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>$150-$250 are missing stuff (like $50 coulters) and are really beat up and
>welded.  Rubber tired models need new tires.
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>$250-$350 ones seem to have something significant wrong - ie bent stuff,
>maybe welded, munged up hitch but usually reasonably complete.
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>$350-$450 ones are good to excellent unrestored and complete.
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>Couple of notes:
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>Every once a while you can get lucky and buy one for $25 a yard sale - I am
>not talking about those plows 
>12" bottoms seem to add a bit 
>More common models (like the 44s) bring the price down a tad.
>Sand blasted and painted only adds a little - unlike tractors where a $50
>paint job can add $500 to the price at an auction
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