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<p>Tractors of that year and size don't bring that much here. We
parted with ours about 12 years ago for $3500. About what we gave
for it 20 years before. My 7030 Allis was $4000 back in 2007.
John Deere is another story, but that's Deere. A Big IH is
about 20% less than Deere. Here, the 4wd tractors are in
demand. No-Till has cerated a demand for the 4WD tractors.
When you get in a soft spot with those big drills, that front axle
pulling can save a day of getting something to pull it out...</p>
<p>Cecil<br>
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<div>Son Scott did buy the MF 1155. I figured that he would. He
has wanted one for too long and this one was in too good of
general condition for him to pass it up. He had asked me to go
with him when he first looked at it when there was no one
around. It was sitting on the lot of a dealer I have bought
stuff from for a very long time. Not constant purchases and
not big stuff. I never farmed very big, couple of hundred
acres most of the time. The farm is a lifestyle thing, I made
most of my income from other enterprises. Still it takes a lot
of equipment to do the job. Over the years I bought a couple
of combines from him, a 20 something foot wide harrogator, a
wider set of wings for my big disk, field sprayer etc. Several
years ago we bought a Vermeer round baler from him. He always
treated me well. When I started dealing with him he was a
small independent dealership and a farmer like a lot of other
small dealers were. Today he and his sons have a huge
operation with one huge building that is absolutely full of
classic tractors that are not for sale. Over the years he has
bought most of the farms that surround him and he now has his
own system of private roads from one to another. We became
business friends over those years and I was always impressed
that when I walked in he always treated me the same as if I
was one of the biggest farmers in the state. That is the way
you should do business.</div>
<div>Anywho... Scott had his mind mostly made up but wanted me
to go along to help check it over carefully with it running
and him driving it to check each function. We studied it
pretty carefully for maybe 2 hours or more and if anything had
popped up he would have backed away but he was confident
enough that we went in a semi with a low-boy. I had to meet
him at a local shopping center because it is pretty tough to
get even a 40' trailer in to this farm and this was a 52'
trailer.</div>
<div>Everything seemed OK and they were willing to drop the
price $500. He asked them to pop the duals off and load them
on the truck.</div>
<div>Kind of a funny bit of irony here... They have large
industrial battery electric impact wrenches so they don't have
to drag air hoses around. Worked really great but to get the
duals off they had to jack the tractor up a little. Yep,
pneumatic jack and an air hose dragged out to the apron where
the tractor was sitting. :-)</div>
<div>It all went well, of course Scott loads and hauls big stuff
almost daily, sometimes several times a day. He spends more
time behind a desk these days but he is still on job sites
most days.</div>
<div>The 1155 is quite wide. It has power adjust (spin out) rear
wheels but also wide slide out axles. He is considering
cutting down the axles some so the don't stick past the
wheels. Thinks it might save some doorways. The duals are
clamp on and don't use the axles. I doubt he will ever use the
duals.</div>
<div>I have a little Case VAC that has the wide axle option and
I'm still considering chopping those... (shrug)</div>
<div>We have 3 ways to get to the farm here, none of them semi
friendly. :-) Coming in from the north requires going
through an oddball 20' tall rail-road underpass that was built
long long ago as a bridge over a fair sized creek and then
back in about the 1920's people started driving around one
side of it in dry weather on a gravel bar. It wasn't even a
road then. Later a heavy one lane "U" shaped concrete "shelf"
was poured around there for traffic. Scott comes through there
fairly often with a tri-axle dump truck towing a tri-axle
trailer with a backhoe/loader or maybe a good sized excavator
but it is not suited for a semi at all. The other two
directions are only slightly better due to utility poles in
too close to the corners and narrow culverts. Scott
considered parking on the wider road and unloading the tractor
and me driving it home but then we would still have had to
deal with the duals and it was a cold day. :-) He managed to
get the longer trailer "buttoned" past the corners with only
minimal damage to the road ditches which were about like
quicksand.</div>
<div>He has already been working on the 1155 for several days
now off and on. I can about guarantee you that the first thing
he did was rework all of the wiring. I noticed yesterday that
he has the hood off and I think the whole exhaust system. It
had some minor exhaust leakage where the manifold mounts to
the heads and I know that he ordered a batch of gaskets for
it. I know that he was planning on putting some money in it
trying to get everything just right.</div>
<div>It is important to understand here that while this tractor
will not be an actual "trailer queen" this pretty much falls
under the heading of "a toy he always wanted" like his Harley
or his 4 wheeler and not a tractor to farm with productively.
He works very hard and makes very good money and he plans his
fun stuff too. I am not sure of the value of this tractor, the
big tractors (this is 140 HP and about 20,000 pounds
ballasted) have never been on my wish list so I have not
followed them. The 10 to 60 HP tractors are my choice and I
like the smaller ones more all of the time like my Cub, Pony,
VAC, Allis C etc.</div>
<div>I don't guess he would mind me saying that he paid $7,000
for it. It's a nice tractor and when he asked me I told him
that if he didn't like it after he bought it or something
failed badly he could probably at least part it out for more
than that...</div>
<div>I'll have to see if I can convince him to take it to
Portland. Then if he uses the semi he can haul a couple more
for me. :-) :-) :-)</div>
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aka "farmer"<br>
Central Indiana USA<br>
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