[AT] Kenny Farm Auction

[drupert at seanet.com]

Dean,

Yes, you're right on the 70D.  My friend Mike did say $9k plus 10% (for a
total of $9.9k) but somehow I got it stored in my head as $9.9k plus 10%
for the auction price.

Mike also told me about the manure spreader ... and I was speachless.  If
that thing had been on my property I would have gladly paid someone the
price of a reasonably good diner to haul it off.

It sounds like you did well ...very well.  I saw the pony motor but didn't
associate it with the 70D.  Interesting that the tractors (and spreader)
went so high but some good parts went so low.

Maybe it was the beautiful day and auction setting that got the bidders
all amped up.  Anyhow look forward to seeing all the tractor prices when
you get the time to put them up.

Thanks -
Dudley,
>
> I was able to get there in time for the tractors sales. The 70D sold for
> $9,000 plus the
> 10% = $9900.  That is what I wrote down and I think I am 99% sure I'm
> right on that. That
> price is completely crazy. The 70D  had a bunch of warts such as wrong
> color green paint,
> Electric Start Conversion (the 70D never had Electric Start from the JD
> factory), no PTO
> covers  and either non-painted or Chrome fasteners. This is about $5,000
> over real market
> value for it ...maybe even more.  No knowledgeable JD collector would ever
> pay that much
> for a JD 70D. Fully correctly restored 720D's and 730 D's can be purchased
> for less than
> that and are much better tractors. The prices on all the tractors were
> also high IMHO
> including the other brands but not as crazy as the 70G. Most everything
> sold high except
> for a few items which I bought.  The JD 40 U  which also had a bunch of
> warts including
> the hood that didn't fit right, two different colors of green, wrong
> lights, steering
> wheel moved 180 Degrees and no three point before the front wheels moved,
> etc., etc. sold
> for $3750 plus 10% which I also thought was high due to a cosmetic
> restoration only. It
> did run good.  I wrote down the prices on all the tractors which when I
> find time I'm
> updating the descriptions of all the pictures I took.   The no name Manure
> Spreader which
> had wood all rotted out on with no wood floor under the chain web sold for
> $900 plus 10% .
> That almost had me go into hallucinations. I wouldn't have paid $50 for it
> for yard art.
>
> Now I did get three lots:
>
> I bought 70D Pony Motor, plus another MS Carburetor and another set of
> ignition coils for
> the Pony Motor for $75 Plus 10% . The owner told me that he had put #1300
> into the motor
> and then couldn't get it to run and that is why he switched to the
> Electric Start.  He
> said he was up against a deadline for a show. I find that hard to believe.
>  But I know I
> can get more than my purchase price back hopefully much more.  The second
> item I bought
> was the pristine JD 730 hood for $25 who had bought it as part of a
> bundled sale with a
> gas tank. I wasn't willing to pay for the gas tank to get the hood but he
> didn't want the
> hood so I got it directly from that buyer. Then much to my surprise the
> buyer of the 40U
> wasn't bidding on the three point hitch off of the 40 and I also got it
> for $75 plus 10%
> I expected the 40U buyer to be all over that. I don't think the 40U buyer
> knew what he had
> bought.
>
> So I was quite happy with my purchases but had gone to the auction to buy
> a tractor if the
> prices were reasonable. They were not.
>
> Here are the pictures I took at the auction:
>
> http://public.fotki.com/deanvp/auctions/2013/wa/kenny-farm/
>
>
>
> Dean VP
> Snohomish, WA
>
> A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll
> never need one
> again.
>
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>
> Dean,
>
> I didn't get up to the auction on Friday but a friend who did said the JD
> 70 went for just shy of $11k ($99 hundred plus the 10%).  He then asked me
> what I thought
> of the price. As I haven't bought any tractor in several years now and
> haven't been
> following prices I said I had no idea.  When he told me the prices that
> some of the other
> tractors went for I said they all seemed a bit high.
>
> I was just wondering what your' take was -
>
> Thanks -
> Dudley
>
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