HELP ME EVALUATE A FARMALL 140

I'm new to Farmalls and recently found a 140 for sale but has not run in 10 or more years stored in a shed. Other than battery, fuel system and iginition system please share any ideas for starting one that set up so long. I think the block may have a repaired crack from freezing. The repair was done with liquid steel and apparently held up for several years before being parked. I check oil and it appears ok, no sign of water on dip stick. What should I expect to find with seals and hydraulic unit operation such as leaking o rings etc. The tractor is a 1964 model with a fast hitch, cultivators and fertilizer distributor. What would be a fair price for this tractor with fair rear tires and no front tires?

Your biggest problem is the fuel system as if it has set for 10yrs have fun. The oil system is nothing to worry about as there will still be lube in the bearings but the fuel system will be the problem. Price is what you and seller can agree on. What does the seller asking.

Pacer man: I'm a bit shy on tractor that have been parked for 10 or more years. It always costs more to get them in shape than you count on. I'm maybe high, but I'm saying $1,000. tops.

Just to add to what the others have said, if the fertilizer distributor is an International one, complete, and is good shape(not corroded or eaten away fron fertilizer), the distributor and the fast hitch alone would be worth $1000 in my neck of the woods. Is the engine stuck or free?

I agree with Hugh. $1000 tops. You just don't know what you are going to run into when you buy a tractor that doesn't run and hasn't for several years. It can be kind of fun to bring one like that back to life but you can run into a lot of expense too. Keep in mind that cracked block may have to be addressed as well. I changed my mind. I think about $800 is probably all I would give for it. At least you could part it out and get your money out of it if you had to.

Jim: There are a good number of folks want one point fast hitch, however most think they should get it for $150. Side dressers little more than scrap, anyone doing serious side dressing is useing liquid.

I am not saying that you are wrong Hugh. Based upon what I have seen at local auctions, it is very common to see a distributor bring $500. Maybe it is a regional thing.

Jim, I`m thinking you`re right about the side dresser- that is if it`s complete and bucket not rusted out. My 140 HC I bought a few years ago had a complete #101 fertilizer unit on it(same side dresser as regular 140),so not knowing what it was worth, started watching on ebay to see what they are bringing. I can positively tell you that they brought a minimum of $400 on there and I`ve seen at least 4 or 5 sold on there.Saw one bring $674 if I remember correctly.The fertilizer buckets alone were bringing well in excess of $100.Last one was probably 3-4 mos. ago so now with economy the way it is,maybe they wouldn`t be quite as high. Mark

I generally try to keep my comments to myself..except when it involves enviro nuts and left wingers...hehe, but here goes:

In my neck of the woods, it is small farm country...meaning it's a rare thing to see some operator towing a 2,000 gallon tank of anhydrous through the field. The vast majority of fertilizing is still done with dry ferts. Furthermore, for a garden, dry fertilzer is easy to handle, transport and buy..i.e., you go to the feed store and buy 2 or 3 bags and call it done.

So, a dry fertilize side dresser is still in high demand around here (eastern Kentucky). But, I'll die and go to a devil's Hell before I'll pay any swinging dick $400 for one...even new in the carton.

I have one on my Super A and have probably seen a hundred just like it and there were thousands of them of them in use in Kentucky when the tobacco program was still in existence. Hundreds of SA's and SC's were sold off and many shysters shipped them out of country..one of those recent get rich quick schemes that makes me want to puke.

Anyway....there's a sucker born every minute and there's a man to take him...if you can find such a fish willing to bite the hook and pay $400-$600 for a side dresser.....set the hook in his jaw and reel him in.

All you fellers wanting a Super A with cultivators and a side dresser ought to watch for equipment sales going on in Kentucky, drive in with your trailer...gas is way down now...and get one for what they are worth and quit paying war prices for them. You can buy a good SA straight off the farm for $1500-$1800 and sometimes less. I bought 3 in the last couple years and the one I kept has almost new tires, had brand new spring tines on the rear....the price tag is still on them...and had already been converted over to 12 volt. I put a set of seals in the lift, plugs and points and a weather cap on the muffler...oh yeah, also a $4 shifter knob. Still has the same battery in it. The IH side dresser was on it too. Cost me $1650 and the guy I bought it from has just bought it at a sale..he sure didn't trade nickels with me either. He made some money and it saved me from having to wade through a bunch of tractors and freeze my a$$ off all day at the sale. In closing, I'll also add that you see very little difference in what a 140 brings compared to Super A's, 100's and 130's. When it was only farmers attending the sales and buying something to work with, the prices were pretty good. Now, with every snot nosed city slicker wanting a chrome plated tractor to ride around the block as a parade queen...hehe, the prices have gone up because they'll bid stupid amounts of money for them. The reasoning being they paid $7,000 for a 4 wheeler..so a tractor must be worth $3,500...right? HA! Idiots!

Mark: I just do a garden, don't use Anhydrus, and I don't side dress with granular. I buy liquid solutions in 5 gallon pails, and built my own SS aplicator for about $150. I buy two produces, 28% N and a starter solution. Been doing this 5 years now, so are a lot of folks around these parts.

If you wish to sell granular side dress aplicators for SA, 100, 130 or 140, I'll pay a dollar per dozen.

Dear Hugh,

You are in a different part of North America and things vary from region to region. Whatever works for your needs is perfect with me...but....I have never seen anybody in this area use a tractor mounted liquid fertilizer side dressing 'system' in their gardens. They might walk the balks with a bucket of Miracle Grow or tobacco starter solution and hand pour it...but that's the extent of it.

I like my dry fert side dresser...handy contraption, but it sure isn't worth $400.

I'll give you another example of this Farmall attachment madness: I found a front set of Cub cultivators laying in a neighbor's shed, They followed me home. It wasn't a week later that this half baked nut heard I had them and here he came. "I want to buy those cultivators." Before I could answer, he said "I 'heard' you'd take $400...here you go." I never said anything but...there they lay, thanks. Hehehehe! A few days later, my oldest son stopped in and asked, did you have a nut come here looking for some cultivators? I said...damn right, I hope he comes back wanting something else! The son says...I told him you had some but they'd cost him $400.

I slipped the son $100 and told him to keep up the good work! I had $35 in the cultivators.

Mark: My garden might be larger than most, besides one get a more uniform application with tractor mounted equipment and speed calibrated.

I would say 800.00 to 1,000.00 . If their turn out to be major engine problems the dollars begin to add up quick. Even if you easily get it running again that cracked block will really hurt its re-sale value. I bought two a's several years ago to restore one. I knew that one of them had a cracked head and a cracked block but was not worried since I had the seconed one for parts. I ended up with two cracked blocks and two cracked heads after I got them home. I had about 700.00 in engine rebuild " did it all myself except for the 300.00 in machine work" and a four hundred mile drive each way to get a good block for it.