[AT] Buying tractors

Al Jones farmallsupera1 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 19:33:40 PST 2016


I always buy high and sell low.  Every time!

I would love to run across a $1350 Farmall M!

Al

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Phil Auten <pga2 at basicisp.net> wrote:
> Yep. That was the way things always seemed to go for Cecil!
>
> Phil in TX
>
> On 2/12/2016 7:32 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:
>> I always pay way too much, I suppose.  Not on purpose, of course, but my
>> usual tractor-purchase mode is to have been simmering on the need/desire for
>> one, casually paying attention to for-sale ads for a long time without any
>> real intention to buy, being my normal boring, responsible,
>> fiscally-cautious self.   Then all of a sudden one comes along that looks
>> especially nice and strikes me as the holy grail of whatever particular
>> model I've been thinking of, and I rush out to write a big check before
>> hordes of other folks beat me to it.   A while later it occurs to me that
>> there didn't actually seem to be too many hordes lining up.
>>
>> Not really complaining, I guess.  My Super M and John Deere 620 are still
>> extremely nice tractors and serve me well all the time.  The 3020 I'd bought
>> quite some years ago wasn't such a good deal in the long run, but I long
>> since sold it and took my beating and moved on.   The 1950 Farmall M had
>> seemed an okay deal at $1000, and it was really fun and satisfying to tinker
>> with it in my garage for a few years while I still lived in town, so it
>> didn't hurt too much when after putting another $2000 or so into it on
>> numerous little odds-and-ends I sold it for $1350.   The first Super M, 20+
>> years ago now, would have been a good long-run deal if I'd hung onto it
>> instead of getting love-struck by that 3020 and needing to raise some cash.
>>
>> Current purchase is a little Ford 3600, not yet picked up but soon to be.  I
>> think it'll be a very good tractor for what I need, but I probably should
>> have stayed in boring-responsible-fiscally-cautious mode a while longer.
>> Time will tell.  I've been kicking myself a little about rushing out to buy
>> it, but then this morning thought "Heck, don't know why this one would have
>> been different from any of the other times."
>>
>> So I guess that's just my pattern.  Probably a pretty minor vice in the long
>> run.  Still, can't help but wish I had the skill/patience/luck to have a
>> somewhat less expensive pattern.  I recall the occasional
>> tractor-acquisition tales from the late Cecil Monson, who always seemed to
>> come up with something like "I was driving past with my truck when someone
>> flagged me down to haul off their old junk tractors, which turned out to be
>> an Allis G and two WD-45s that just needed the dust wiped off and the fuel
>> shut-off valve turned back on."
>>
>> Dean Vinson
>> Saint Paris, Ohio
>>
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