Well with mine it sat for probably 6 months and I just last month went out to use It and it fired right up. All the ones that I see that are under about $8k with loaders are about 40-60 years old.
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 18, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > The problem with an old one is you'll have to end up working on it each time > you use it. > > Maybe it'd make more sense to sell yours and rent one when you need it? I can > rent a small tracked excavator for $360/day delivered. We'd talked about > buying a tractor with a backhoe but the backhoe is like $9,000 by itself... > > -Curt > > > On Sunday, February 18, 2018, 10:18:15 PM EST, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > I think I paid about 20k for it 3 years ago at 0% interest. That was for the > whole package. I see them on Craigslist at around 13-15k. As a test I put it > on yesterday at 14.5 to see what would happen and immediately had a guy > wanting to buy it today for 13k cash. I had another guy wanting to send a > deposit on it and come down from St. Louis. I then realized the other ads > were the tractor only, not the brush hog and box blade. I pulled the ad and > may post it again in a few days at a higher price. In the end I will probably > keep it but it is a lot of money tied up in something I might use a handful > of times a year. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Feb 18, 2018, at 8:45 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > You'll find that tractors hold their value really well so while you'll get > > most of what you paid for yours to get something significantly cheaper > > it'll be REALLY old. Alternately sometimes you can get a real deal on stuff > > thats big. The smaller the tractor is the more valuable it is since the > > homestead crowd is into them. Something like a big payloader doesn't hold > > value as well but since it started as big money one thats from your > > lifetime will still tend to command a high price. > > > > I'd like to have a loader for our farm and would normally go oil but I > > think we'll probably end up going new. Yours is probably still worth one or > > two thousand less than you paid for it. At that price I can't see why > > anybody would ever buy a used one but they do. > > > > -Curt > > > > > > On Sunday, February 18, 2018, 4:01:23 PM EST, Kaleb C. Striplin via > > Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > > I have been thinking about selling my 2 year old John Deere 3032e that I do > > not use very often and buying a cheaper older tractor. Anybody got any > > suggestions on what to look for? I would prefer something with a front end > > loader that would be able to possibly lift the front or back of a 124 for > > example. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
