[AT] Re.. High Old Iron Prices in Wed News Cockshutt 540 not selling either.=high transport cost?

[Reise David G NPRI]

I agree.... have reduced price over $1000 plenty of response but complaint is shipping will cost as much as the tractor....Of course being in Rhode Island doesn't help....one thing though most tractors as mine are not worn out as farming gave way to houselots years ago...So how do we sell without giving them away


Subject: Re: [AT] High Old Iron Prices in Wed News Article


Where is the stampede of people to buy the JD 40T that
I have for sale? It is a good runner, good sheet metal
and tires, working pto and three point lift. It would
be a perfect trtactor for the new ranchette owner. At
an asking price of only $2500, I am still hardly
getting any response on my ads!

John Boehm
Woodland, CA
Visit my web site at http://vintagetractors.com


--- Chuck Bealke <bealke at airmail.net> wrote:

> 
> Friends,
> 
> So the monied folks buying small pieces of farms to
> get away from
> the city - and thereby converting remaining farmland
> to a solid grid of 
> suburbia - have discovered a piece of our fun.  They
> are buying our
> favorite iron at auctions.
> 
> Wednesday's Wall Street Journal has an article
> titled,
> "Old Tractors, Maserati Prices." The online paid
> version has
> some pictures taken at auctions.  One well known to
> us auctioneer
> claims to have sold a Deere 3020 Orchard for $160K. 
> There is also a nice plug for a well known restorer
> from Sully, Iowa, 
> and mention of a $50/hr or more rate for
> restorations.
> 
> However rosy and fanciful the picture it paints for
> sellers, the stuff 
> does indeed seem to be getting harder to take home.
> 
> 
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