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Dave from MN

12-19-2007 04:38:55

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Seems like a year or 2 ago you could find a 1206 for sale in most areas at reasonable if not cheap prices. I rarely see a 1206 for sale anymore and if I do it is $10,000 or more. I do remember some one saying a while back that the 06 series is becoming the new gotta have for collectors and that the 1206 was jewel in the basket.

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Dave Feltenberg

12-24-2007 15:06:29

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Re: 1206 getting scarce? in reply to Dave from MN, 12-19-2007 04:38:55

I have one in working condition. Remanufactured the engine about 5 years ago. I am managing a small place, so the hours on the rebuild are not large. Cannot tell, because the hour meter stopped working before I got it 13 years ago. I just had the fuel injection pump replaced. It has several hydraulic leaks, but runs well. I would sell it to the first comer at $ 5000. I live in New Braunfels, Texas.

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perrycountyfarmalls

12-19-2007 08:08:18

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Re: 1206 getting scarce? in reply to Dave from MN, 12-19-2007 04:38:55

I just got really lucky with mine. $2,000, needed a throw out bearing, some odds and ends and a manifold and only 75 miles from home...guess it was meant to be. A real straight tractor with a full rack of IH 100lbs weights, one set of rear splits, wide front and dual hyd. Found it on Craig"s list. We got it running and it seemed to run real good, just couldn"t use the clutch, but the t/a works! But the tractor is split and the clutch should be in by the end of the week. I have no plans to sell it as I"ve already been offered to double my money. I said I can"t replace it for that... It will be getting restored somewhere in the near future. I"ll post pics of it in "tractor photos" soon.

Rusty

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Nat 2

12-19-2007 05:31:48

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Re: 1206 getting scarce? in reply to georgeky, 12-19-2007 04:38:55

There IS a 1206 collector's craze. Just look at the Red Power magazine over the last year.

The difference here is that 1206s are rare to begin with. Compared to Hs and Ms, they made very few of them. Now that they're the hot collectable, everybody thinks they've got gold.

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Allan In NE

12-19-2007 05:36:00

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Re: 1206 getting scarce? in reply to Nat 2, 12-19-2007 05:31:48

Yep,

The ever-running "Circle of Events". Back in the early 70s the farmers couldn't trade those 06s off fast enough.

Go figure. :>)

Allan

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dhermesc

12-19-2007 08:07:30

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Re: 1206 getting scarce? in reply to Allan In NE, 12-19-2007 05:36:00

"Back in the early 70s the farmers couldn't trade those 06s off fast enough."

A lot of the 1206s saw some hard use. Farmers turned them up to match the 1456s & 1466s and their transmissions just aren't that heavy. Personally I'd rather work a 56 or 66 series over an 06 series anyday.

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Allan In NE

12-19-2007 05:25:05

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Re: 1206 getting scarce? in reply to Dave from MN, 12-19-2007 04:38:55

Must be the red buyer's answer to the 4020? :>)

Allan

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Hugh MacKay

12-19-2007 05:14:52

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Re: 1206 getting scarce? in reply to Dave from MN, 12-19-2007 04:38:55

Dave: I doubt if it is collectors, a well restored 1206 will match any 110 hp tractor out in the field, and built since. Those tractors are still out farming. Only one basic difference between farming with a 1206 and a modern 110Hp tractor. It wont be any cheaper, long term, but at least with the 1206, you don't have to make the payment next month.

I think you'll find as we enter the economics of 2008, fewer and fewer farmers will enjoy finding themselves married to the banker.

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Dave from MN

12-19-2007 05:23:25

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Re: 1206 getting scarce? in reply to Hugh MacKay, 12-19-2007 05:14:52

Yes, We have money tied up in cd's and it funny how fast they hand me cash for a note, then when I get in and pay it back well before the term they kinda have that "crap" look. I cant complain too much, our rural bank always gives us good rates and the loan on our farm was so good that Agstar laughed at us when we asked them to match the terms and said we were full of balogna about the rates. Well, they were wrong. Plus our banks have very cute country girls working the teller stations!!!

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KRUSS1

12-19-2007 06:36:06

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Re: 1206 getting scarce? in reply to Dave from MN, 12-19-2007 05:23:25

We have cute country girls working in our bank, too. (SW Manitoba) Now here's hoping one of them knows someone who lurks on this site.

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Hugh MacKay

12-19-2007 06:12:33

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Re: 1206 getting scarce? in reply to Dave from MN, 12-19-2007 05:23:25

Dave: Those cute country girls are important, even the older cute ones. I used to truck logs for a logging operator. His wife worked in our rural bank. We were into some very miserable weather, I had a bad cold, and I knew there was not a lot of trucking ahead of me. I phoned the guys house to tell him I was going to sit by the fireside next day. Got his wife, told her my plan. She then suggested I was a wimp as she had worked 3 days at the bank with a bad cold.

I said, " I know, I been working everyday, I climb up on that cherry picker in rain, sleet, hail, snow, low temps, etc., you name it. If I didn't have to take those checks your husband gives me and go into finincial institutions full of sick women, I wouldn't catch a cold." She was a neighbor, and I think she enjoyed getting one off on me as much as I enjoyed returning the jabs.

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IaGary

12-19-2007 05:00:13

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Re: 1206 getting scarce? in reply to Dave from MN, 12-19-2007 04:38:55

There is one advertised in last weeks Ia Farmer Today paper.

They are asking $8500 for it.641-522-5533

Gary

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Dave from MN

12-19-2007 05:17:46

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Re: 1206 getting scarce? in reply to IaGary, 12-19-2007 05:00:13

Thanks. I hesitated on one 30 miles from here last year for $3500, the day I called to say I was coming to get it, the guy told me it was being loaded up by someone. It had an awesome cab on it, duels, t/a was poor in low, sheetmetal perfect and ran perfect. Boy did I mess up there. Father in law new the guy that bought it, he had 3 at that time, ended up selling all I guess. I think he surfs these boards, but not sure of his handle.

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MN Rick

12-19-2007 17:44:41

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Re: 1206 getting scarce? in reply to Dave from MN, 12-19-2007 05:17:46

If you are talking about the ones that were in Royalton, I suffered from "snooze you lose" on those as well.

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