[AT] Oliver Tractor for sale in MA

[Gayle Chew]

Very thankful to hear that Diana's test on Monday resulted in good news.
Happy Thanksgiving every one.
Blessings,
Ron & Gayle
On the CASE

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:21 PM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > There's three ways to price old iron.
> >
> > What is it worth to part out or resell?
> >
> > What is it worth to me to do some job I need done?
> >
> > What is it worth to a collector who has been looking for that
> > particular tractor for a while and this is the first one he's found?
> >
> > All three result in different values.
> >
> > At a minimum, assuming it will run and perform reasonably well,
> > consider what you'd have to pay to buy something new that will do the
> > same job and it will probably look like a bargain.
> > I suspect Grant can address this as he runs a large farming operation
> with
> > just such tractors.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
>
> There is another whole tier of old tractor pricing...
> I have a few I would probably sell pretty cheap (Incomplete hulks). A WD
> Allis I have sort of falls there. I'm just holding on to it hoping to find
> a cheap complete one with the the tranny or rear end that was destroyed or
> maybe a bad final drive.
>
> Some I just don't especially care for the way they operate or are difficult
> to climb on and off or something else I don't care for. Those I could be
> arm-twisted into selling for the "right" price (don't read that as cheap).
> My Massey Harris Pony kind of falls in that class. I almost need to be
> hoisted up and lowered into the seat like some of the knights of old... It
> was not designed around an overweight old man.
>
> Some like my Farmall Super-MTA would take some pretty serious arm
> twisting... I'm very fond of that tractor even though it is generally
> bigger than I need these days. For the kind of stuff I do now (when I can)
> for the horses or trying to keep buildings from falling apart I'm
> especially fond of the little TO-20 Ferguson. I have two 8N Fords, one just
> apart and needing to go together and the other a not-stuck non-runner with
> a good Sherman and a roughly "welded" block that may have to wait another
> year. I would be pretty hard to talk out of any of those. The same with my
> 1947 Farmall Cub, its part of the family.
>
> Then I have a Minneapolis Moline R that I restored several years ago that
> belonged to an uncle. That makes it worth more to me even if not to anyone
> else... I need to change a rear tire on it and clean it up some.
> I have a restored Allis C that was bought new in 1946 by a very good older
> family friend who I greatly respected. It has been on this farm since the
> early 1960's. Two of his grandsons have tried several times to buy it from
> me but I will not even listen to offers... It just isn't for sale at any
> price.
>
> What I need the most right now (besides both of us staying away from all of
> the doctors and the hospital) is a building  next to my shop that will hold
> all of the excess crap out of the shop so I can work in it. I'm making slow
> progress on both fronts but I keep running out of places to sit the stuff I
> pick up...
> BTW, Diana had a brain MRI Monday which had me kind of worried but it came
> out as good news. So many tests...
>
> --
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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