I sure wish I could justify spending the $2K asking price for this one.
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Wouldn't I be some proud to drive this one in the 4th of July parade 8) 8) I could probably get somebody else to drive my M. ;)
Quote from: Fraxinus on March 20, 2005, 07:59:19 PM
I sure wish I could justify spending the $2K asking price for this one.
Wow, it's VERY cute!
Could you get any sort of tax break for registering as a tractor museum??? :D
asy :D
Hey, this is NH. We already got low taxes. :D :D :D
Got a 1935 F-12 just like that minus the nice paint job ;) ;D
That's the year of this one. If I owned it, I'd promise it'd never have to work hard again unless it wanted to. I have tractors that are only 55 or 60 years old to do the hard work! :D :D
Justify? ??? I can give ya justification. A month ago, I bought $10,000 worth of Martha Stewart stock. I justified that by the fact that it was going up like a homesick angel. Made $440 in the first 2 hours. Right now, I'm $4,000 in the hole. :'( I coulda bought 2 of those, and my portfolio would look just like it does now, but I woulda had the tractors. Go for it, or I will. ;D
It's only about 65 or 70 miles from me. That puts it about 1100 from you, don't it? :'( :'(
Way I figure it this old iron is never gonna be worth any less. Friend of mine who collects JDs lost a bunch of $$$$ after 9/11 in the stock market. He wished it all would have been in Old Iron and he wouldn't have lost a cent.
Tell ya what, Les. Go ahead and get it, then, if ya just hate the thing, I'll meet ya halfway and give ya what ya paid, minus "wear & tear" of course. ;D
The problem with investing in old iron, as far as I can see, is liquidating it when ya need to get your money. I can never seem to part with anything. Stocks & Bonds don't have any personality or usefulness, so I have no trouble cashing them in. Selling off a tractor like that would cause me no end of pain. :'( :'(
It is a good thing that tractor is not about 4,000 miles closer.
I know whatcha mean, Frank. I got enough temptation starin' me right in the face, as it is. A buddy is trying to unload a 3/4 ton Dodge 4wd with a 5.9 and a new tranny for $3000. Another guy has a bucket truck for $2200! Jeepers, why would I go a thousand miles just to get a deal?
that tractor is worth 2k up here without the paint and tires. ive wanted a f-20 for a long time to play with (rake hay and draw wagons)
nice tractor, get danG to buy it for ya.
You guys are making it awful hard for me to resist this tractor. I believe it is well worth that money.
Do the words "You can't lose" mean anything to ya? ???
Better yet..."if you don't buy it I will". ;D
Okay, okay, you've talked me into it. Now who is going to talk to the secretary of the treasury for me? :-*
Actually, I had a welcome email on my 'puter at work this morning. In a couple of weeks, we will be getting our annual bonus check. In past years, it's been in the neighborhood of a week's pay. Now that won't quite buy that tractor, but............it will go quite a good distance toward the purchase.
You've made the right decision 8) 8) 8) 8) I'd like to find a Farmall Regular to add to the collection and an F-20 too and then might just as well get an F-30 to round it out..... So many tractors so few $$$$$$$
http://www.tractorshed.com/cgi-bin/photoads/classifieds.cgi?search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=97751&query=retrieval
Well said "so many tractors so little time"
I wend to our local spring equipment auction and passed on a F 12 on steel with cultivators, not bad condition, did not run but it was all there. I bit my lip and turned away, Went for $450, Then a F 20 on rubber nice condition, older restoration went for $650. I was chewing my nails back. Next to it a 44' M that did not look happy at all, sitting on 3 flat tires, bad rims, bad metal, oil pan was MIA. went for $650. I'm wimperin like a puppy before dinner. Why, why, WHY!! ... glad you asked. I told myself that I am going to finish a tractor prodject before buying any more! That's why. So I'm almost done with a brake job on my 8N, that counts, don't it... ;)
just get rid of the ford! :D
Quote from: Weekend_Sawyer on March 21, 2005, 06:59:51 PM
Well said "so many tractors so little time"
I wend to our local spring equipment auction and passed on a F 12 on steel with cultivators, not bad condition, did not run but it was all there. I bit my lip and turned away, Went for $450, Then a F 20 on rubber nice condition, older restoration went for $650. I was chewing my nails back. Next to it a 44' M that did not look happy at all, sitting on 3 flat tires, bad rims, bad metal, oil pan was MIA. went for $650. I'm wimperin like a puppy before dinner. Why, why, WHY!! ... glad you asked. I told myself that I am going to finish a tractor prodject before buying any more! That's why. So I'm almost done with a brake job on my 8N, that counts, don't it... ;)
Those prices sound pretty good. That F 20 sounds like the buy of the day.
I went to an auction last spring that had a real nice Super M and I mean REAL nice. It went for $1950. I couldn't believe that it went for <$2500. Same guy had an M that was not restored but purred like a kitten and had power steering (so does mine) and it went for $1250, as I recall. Sure seemed to be a buyer's mkt last year. We'll see how it is this year.
They had a real nice looking square baler at that same auction that they practically had to beg for somebody to bid on.
Every famly has a black sheep, my brother has a JD 40! :o
Red and Green in the same famly!! ::)
I agree with Redpowered.
Got one of those 8n`s. Great if ya want to race tractors :D High geared and slow hyd.
Got a little 320 JD 2 banger that will pull circles around the 8n.
Hey Fraxinus Don`t sleep on tha tractor too long. 65 0r 70 miles south puts it in my neiborhood. ??? Wheres it at ??? even north, whats 130 or 140 miles,Just means i can`t drive it home :D
Lenny
DanG, $2k puts it in anyones neighborhood! :D
Quote from: Lenny_M on March 21, 2005, 08:11:15 PM
Hey Fraxinus Don`t sleep on tha tractor too long. 65 0r 70 miles south puts it in my neiborhood. ??? Wheres it at ??? even north, whats 130 or 140 miles,Just means i can`t drive it home :D
Lenny
Here's a link to it.
http://www.tractorshed.com/cgi-bin/photoads/classifieds.cgi?search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=95721&query=retrieval
It's located in Dunbarton, NH but the owner lives in Allenstown. Go for it if you want to. Much as I'd love to have it, I wouldn't feel bad if somebody else got it.
Where are you located, Lenny? You've got to come to my tractor show in Woodstock July 16.
I know where there's a little Cub tractor with hyd, belly cultivators, and a belly mower that could probably be bought on the cheap. I don't know what year but it's a old one. Everything's there but it needs a carb rebuild. Still runs good though, I think the tank needs cleaning is what tries to stop up the carb. Belongs to my brother. He replaced it with a little ford 8 n and he's let it set out for nearly a year now. I'm on his tail to get it under cover, or sell it. He says it won't bring nothing much.
I'd like to prove him right! ;D
Did I ever tell ya about the time I went with him to a Dodge Dealership for a 10 dollar part and I started helpin the salesman and we like to sold him a brand new Dodge Dakota! ;D
I posted this on the "Tractor Colours" thread, but shoulda put it here. There's a 8-N for sale here for $4400. Maybe that'll light a fire under him. ;D
Nice tractor Frax , I like watching rfd tv when they have old tractor shows on
So who's buying the tractor?, it's to far away for me, but if you want the figure to look nicer $2000 is only about £1150 at the moment ;)
iain
As a complete thread hijack I thought you guys might like this story.
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QuoteChugging's a drug for backroad boys and their Farmall tractors
22 March 2005
Two tractor-driving brothers have been traversing the byroads of Taranaki with a wave and a grin.
Every March, Waikato farmer Bill Storey (66) and his Auckland-based brother, Murray (65), get on their matching 1943 McCormick Farmall H tractors and head for the backblocks.
This time they pointed their wheels towards amber-and-black country.
"The Taranaki people have been absolutely marvellous. They can't do enough for you – and we are total strangers," Murray said yesterday.
On Saturday and Sunday nights, the men stayed at Hawera, where a motel owner lent them a ute to drive about in.
"We used it to go to church," Bill said.
They opted to ride their red machines to see the tractor collection at Tawhiti Museum. On the way, a man in a big American car pulled up to offer them directions and took them home to see his own vintage trucks and tractors.
Another man fixed a broken throttle lever and dropped it off by 7.15am yesterday so the Storeys could get back on their sheepskin-covered seats.
By lunchtime yesterday, they finished visting Murray's old mate Merv Turner in Stratford and were taking the Forgotten Highway to spend a night in the Whangamomona Hotel.
It took them four hours to get there. "We've had a great reception here, by the people," said Murray from the pub.
"Apparently we have to buy a passport because it's a republic – we haven't done that yet, but we will."
At their Stratford stop, the brothers said the trip to Taranaki had taken them two days.
"This is the furthest we've been," Murray said. "This one will be 700km and we've done it in stages."
Avoiding main roads, they chugged from Matamata to Piopio, where they stayed Thursday night at the pub.
The next day, they journeyed on one-lane metal roads between Aria and Ohura, meeting only one car on the steep and winding, bush-lined metal roads.
Between Ohura and Waitaanga, they saw four cars – and an incredibly low railway bridge. "We had to take our mufflers off to get under it," Bill said.
The men stayed Friday night in Urenui.
Sitting in the open air and high on their seats, the men said they had an amazing view of the countryside and the paths cut by European settlers.
"We went past derelict farmhouses and closed-down schools, and it just makes you realise your past," Bill said.
While the tractors travelled at a quarter the speed of a car on the open road, Murray said it felt like the old farm vehicles were motoring. "When you are doing 25km/h and those wheels are right by you, you're are moving – it's all go."
Bill said the tractors had brought the brothers together over the past four years and taken them back in time.
"When we were boys, the first tractor our father bought was a Farmall H, exactly like these – so it was a bit of nostalgia."
Over the years, with Bill on a dairy farm and Murray teaching at primary school, the Storeys had grown apart.
"We hadn't done anything together for 40 years," Bill said. "We've filled in the gaps now."
Their trail has taken them to the Coromandel, Waikato and Bay of Plenty. Today they head for Benneydale.
Seems they have done about 500 miles on those machines, this trip. Been past Ernies place up in North Taranaki, down south of here and then out along the Forgotten Highway from Stratford on the way home.
What a cool trip 8)
Ian
Had an old F 12 years ago. Was told by the dealer it was 15 horse (I think horses were bigger back then). Not sure of the year but was told it was an earlier one (the patent date was July 1923 according to the decal) Bought it from an old farmer who bought it new. Dad paid $125 for it in about 1960. The farmer hadn't used it for years because he preferred horses and ran a small dairy farm with horses. Dad gave it to me about 1975. After a few years I sold it to a collector (late 80's) for $750 (came on rubber but included original steel wheels)as I had bought my current tractor in 1982 (Ford 1500 4 x 4 compact diesel). Sure wish I still had the F 12.
The F 12 used to have 2 fuel tanks, gas to start it and then keresene could be switched to when engine was fully warmed up but you had to remember to switch back to gas before you shut it off. The crank start worked ok sometimes, at other times you had to tow it. When it was good you could crank once over the compression hump and it started, at others you could crank until exhausted and then decide to do a different task. 8) 8)