antique tractor prices ?

swindave · Aug 28, 2020

how are old tractor prices holding up in your area?
i m talking 1965 tractors or older,

here in southwest indiana it seems the prices has really came down,

so , whats it like in your area?

thanks

cuby · Aug 28, 2020

They have fell off here too in Iowa

1948CaseVAI · Aug 28, 2020

They have been headed south for years as interest in the hobby slows down. Some running machines are going to the scrapper.

Hayfarmer · Aug 28, 2020

Seems like they have stayed high out here in Washington. We have lots of hobby farms and guys want a little Ford 8/9/2N or Ferguson to play with like a horse. Put a loader on it and they really get expensive. I have seen gys talk on forum about the prices coming down on the old fords. JD prices still high, IH and Oliver a bit lower in my area but other parts of the state the IH is still the king.

GeneMO · Aug 28, 2020

Hhmmmm. Good to hear for me. I am wanting to buy a good solid M Farmall. Mostly to just use on the farm. Wouldn't have to be fixed up parade nice, but would consider a nicely painted one.

Gene

buickanddeere · Aug 28, 2020

The old guys that like the old stuff have moved to town ,
, have health problems , pension only income or they are dead .
Hobby types are purchasing new equipment with the low interest rates . Todays purchasers dont
want to be bothered with the low performance and high upkeep of old equipment.
Bottom has dropped out of the market for anything older than the late 1960s . Goes for highway vehicles and other collectables too .
My 1987 Grand National is an old car .

TomIn · Aug 28, 2020

How can I find some of those low prices in SW Indiana? I'm a geezer who splits his time between a city home in Indianapolis and 120 acres in Sullivan County. It seemed that Craigslist and Facebook had a number of interesting tractors advertised at reasonable prices up until Easter. Then the pandemic hit and I was afraid to look. Now I am really in the mood to buy a new-to-me toy and all I see advertised junk Ford N's for $2500 plus and questionable looking newer looking tractors two or three times that amount.

old popper · Aug 28, 2020

Went to an auction a year or so ago, a fellow I knew sold all his tractors. Around 25 or so. I went with the idea to see what they brought, thinking of thinning my herd, but changed my mind. I'll let them rust away before I'll give them away. This is in NW Iowa.

David from Kansas · Aug 28, 2020

Gene, check this one out. It's an auction so who know what it will bring.

https://www.bigiron.com/Lots/1953InternationalSuperM2WDTractor-2

wilson ind · Aug 28, 2020

Have 550 cockshutt wide front 3 point 200 cubic inch displacement 3 point $ 2500.00

47fivewindow · Aug 28, 2020

At one time a smaller tractor that would spin a woods mower was gold. Now a zero turn is what everyone wants.

Traditional Farmer · Aug 28, 2020

So far this year at mostly on line auctions antique tractor prices have been up,especially the ones from the 60's and 70's.

ss55 · Aug 28, 2020

Outside of Case Spirit of '76, Deere 4320 and 6030, and some 2WD V-8's, which other 1970's tractors are actually becoming collectable?

Traditional Farmer · Aug 28, 2020

Not really for collectors but for people to use as,guess what? Tractors.

Dean · Aug 28, 2020

Continuing to decline for the last 15 years or so.

See no reason to believe that prices will ever come back.

Dean

aFORDable · Aug 28, 2020

I think it is exactly what will happen to muscle cars from the 60's-early 70's. When the generation of baby boomers is gone so will their value. Old tractors will not appeal to later generations for the most part. Some exceptions might be "my granddad had one of those".

Dean · Aug 28, 2020

Agreed.

Dean

Hobo,NC · Aug 28, 2020

With today's labor rates who can afford to pay a shop to fix one... If I could not fix it myself YES new is the only way to go...

Music to my ears is my dad brought it new : )

Traditional Farmer · Aug 28, 2020

Its not like a new tractor won't break down and once out of their sorry excuse for a warranty it'll take a whole lot more time/$$$$$$$/expensive parts to repair the newer than the old ones.

muleboss · Aug 28, 2020

How about a 1948 Avery model "V"

Welding man · Aug 29, 2020

My brother bought a super nice Farmall Super H the other day for $1200.00. The guy he bought it from paid 3 grand for it 3 years ago. He had been trying to sell it for over a year and finally just got frustrated and said make me an offer, brother did, and he took it. Fords still bring big money in my area but anything else is about worthless.

Meangreen · Aug 31, 2020

They're down, but I find it rather amusing to look through Craigslist. Nothing beats seeing a restored tractor selling for $2000 and two ads over is the same model tractor in it's work clothes selling for $3000.

I saw a Farmall C a year ago and the owner had fully restored it and it looked nice (if purple is your color) and just wanted out of it what he had put in - $5500 had all the receipts to prove it too.

You get all kinds, but to me that's part of the fun of the hobby.

BarnyardEngineering · Aug 31, 2020

(quoted from post at 20:30:51 08/28/20) Its not like a new tractor won't break down and once out of their sorry excuse for a warranty it'll take a whole lot more time/$$$$$$$/expensive parts to repair the newer than the old ones.

Doesn't matter if:

1. You can't get parts. The parts supply for the old ones is going to dry up with the interest. Once people stop fixing them up and stop buying parts, manufacturers will stop making parts. That's becoming an issue with tractors from the 1970's now.

2. Nobody can work on them. They may be simpler, but where do you hook up the analyzer so it can tell you what's wrong?

These are problems for the next generation, though. You're not going to suddenly forget how to fix a tractor, and there are still parts and parts machines out there for a while yet.

I do emplore some of you older gents, TEACH the next generations how to work on things. You didn't come out of the womb knowing how to do this and neither did they.

You shoo the youngsters away, "Go inside, it's too dangerous out here." Then you complain because all they do is play video games! I don't know what you were expecting to happen.

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