Thinking of up grading

Must be start loosen it . Got this goofy idea i need a new TONKA toy .Been looking at Steigers, Versitals , even Massey four wheel drive . Getting tired of fighting the working ground with what we have and the time involved . Then the lack of implements in the size that we can handle now . Last year we dropped the ball on getting a field cultivator that the 1066 could handle on the ground we have , now ain't found one as they are all bigger and well for less money . Back in 89 the devil made me do it at one sale as i bought and 1805 Massey for NOT much more then i was giving for 1066's at the time with the T/A's out . It had a couple issues that were easy fixes like new battery's , make the brake work that was easy a pint of brake fluid and a quick bleed , was not charging and a stop at the local bone yard for a 10 dollar alt. One light bulb and one new flasher . The A/C would hang ice sickles off your nose . Had excellent tires and three point , no PTO , three days later at another sale i bought a set of Massey 880 hyd reset 8x18 plows for 200 bucks . I used it to do my plowing . What use to take me four evenings and sometimes five i did it in one evening . Took a bit getting use to something that big and long but i even got the little 3.2 acre done with out dropping it in the creek . It was loads of fun listen to that 3208 Cat talking . Then the thought of disking with the 706 and a 13and half foot 370 disc HUMMMM . I had to go down to a local auction yard and work on some new arrivals for the upcoming sale and did not have any extra time to get back to the farming thing as i would just about have everything p and running when another semi would pull in and the driver would tell me tha OBTW Bob said to tell you to fix that one on the back . I now had everything do9ne and waas gather up my stuff when Bob pulled in and right behind him was two loads and he suckers me into running loader to unload Last think i lifted off was a NICe kewaanie wing disc , a little weathered but NICE BIG blades but rusty . Tld bob ya know i should take that up to the farm and POLISH up them blades a bit before the sale He toold me to back my truck over and drop the pin just have it back by 9 Saturday morning . Had to change ends on the hoses . Wow i could not belive how nice a job that disc did with the harrow on it with one pass not two or three like normal 22 inch blades over my 20's . Took me longer to plant then it did to plow and disc. Should have kept it but i sold it . So now looking for something in the 210 to 250 Hp range . Missed a 1805 saw the add and did not call that min and when i went to call i went looking for the add it it was GONE , then saw and add for a PT 225 Steiger and it was there one min and GONE the next.

I remember being at Green's sale in London OH years ago a MF 1805,1135 and a 135 all sold for the same money. Something like $4000 each. Dad said he should have bought all three and put in the yard for sale at $5000 for choice. Back then I know the 135 would have sold first. Tom

Something like this might spin your beanie. A bit of applied Tractor Vet and viola. Jim
Local ish CaseIH

A wee bit to far out as freight would be more then the cost of the tractor.
Need to keep it in around 250-300 Mile radius due to RGN rates .

I think you could pull that home as a legal load if the wheels are off from it. Would need to measure it. I knowI hauled a St270 home from ID legal with the tires off. The duals have to come off anyway so if the wheels are just taken off it is legal width and legal height on a step deck. I hauled 2 of them home that way. Took the intake for the filtered air in the cab off too. Set the front axle on blocks just off the diff housing rear just off the drawbar.

Really big iron sells cheap! Both the tractors and the implements. too big for the hobby farmer to look at and too old for the full time farmer. Go for it!!

Here's one: JI Case 2870 300 HP in Rosewell Indiana for $3500. Only 6,000 hours.

Heres one: JI Case 2870 300 HP 600 hours Rosedale Indiana. $3500.

Yea Cases are cheap , what i do not care for on a Case is the axles with the steering , same with the 4166 I H and i have worked on one of them . And Big iron is way to far out for us . Back when i closed up the shop i went to driving and RGN and got out into the Dakota's and saw a ton of used smaller 4 wheel drives setting on dealer lots and it got my mouth watering and thinking about maybe looking into dragging some of them back home . BUTi never had the time to stop and get serious as i was always under the gun . I was hauling circuit breakers out to a power plant for a change over and i would load Monday morning and beat feet . And it was a two day ride to Bismark , bed down for the night and be up in Stanton by 7 in the morning And by noon we would have them all off the wagon and start loading the old ones back up so i could be back at the plant by noon on Friday to unload ONE at a time unload the one side of the trailer then back out turn around and Back in and unload the other and be home around 6:30 So just no time to go shopping . And it is a LONG way out there and a LONG way back here then ya have Chicago to contend with , yea you can by pass and add in a ton of miles wiggling your way thru the back country and get down i U S 24 and head east to U S 30 and decent running to Canton Ohio it's the last 30 miles .

Like you said YOU hauled it . Way different story when your not the one hauling it . Yea i have had to break loads down to haul BUT today where ya going to find someone that would do this three quarters of the socallde drivers can't even operate and load themselfs let lone remove duals and pull the base tires off stack block and even chain down a load proper . Now if i had my own RGN now it would not be a big deal , If the ol sale was sill going here again no big deal as i could have got them to move something like they did when i bought the 1805 at another sale , there one buyer was there buying like the rest of us and i talked to him about hualing it and all i go was when ya want it moved and where do you want it dropped . There drivers were use to dropping duals and had what was needed on the truck to do the job and since this was at a sale lot they had the loaded to stack and set the duals on the trailer and i had them haul it to the local sale lot where i had use of the dock loader and anything else we needed . And while there they could gather up any iron that was left to take back to there lot as back then some stuff at sales suffered from shell we say SHIPPING FEVER