What is a good B worth?

Posted by John Nelson on March 22, 2002 at 19:35:57 from (12.222.104.64):

I want to buy a Farmall B in any condition in order to restore it. I have a five car garage (yes, I'm a city slicker... but I grew up on a small Wisconsin dairy farm) so I have the space.. I have the tools.. and I have the ability..(I worked for eleven years as an automotive mechanic in engines and transmissions... and the last twenty years as a computer specialist) It's just that only now do I have the money to consider taking on a project like this. I grew up sitting on the left axle of a Farmall B while my father did whatever in the fields... learned to drive(OK, steer) by age 5 with my dad throwing down fence posts from a platform bolted to the back of the B. I was raking hay with an Allis-Chalmers CA when I was seven, cultivating corn with the B at that time, cutting hay with a sickle mower by age eight, baling loads of hay (200+ square bales in a piled thrower rack) pulled by the CA when I was nine... my next younger brother got the job of piling the bales on the wagon... he was seven... and please don't yell at me about child abuse because as a parent today it scares the bejesus out of me that what I did... what I was expected to be able to do... is something that I would be terrified about my 23 and 21 year old sons doing. At the same time, I was married at age 19 and neither of my sons have shown any interest in venturing away from the family food trough. My sibs stood and hitched a wagon while I backed up the tractor from the time I was eight years old (I'm the oldest) and I would be very careful today to stand behind a tractor driven by either of my sons. We got a brand new Ford 4000 when I was eleven and I plowed fields by myself at farms we rented over a mile away from home and did this by myself at night while everyone else was milking... (I was just happy to get out of milking) So... now I want to return a Farmall B to pristine condition. I have no illusions about making money doing this... I know it will cost me far more than the tractor will ever be worth. I just want a `like new' Farmall B to own.

My youngest brother is now on the farm and he bought a farmall B seveal years ago... the original one was traded in for the Ford 4000, then purchased by my uncle who did not put antifreeze in during the winter... the engine block was severely cracked when winter hit... I assume that tractor is renewed iron in some other application by now.

So, my brother does not use this tractor... not in the last four years. It just sits in the shed. I think he paid $450 for it 7-8 years ago. I took the crank and turned it over... it is not frozen. I assume it would run. What is a fair market value for this tractor? It is plain and normal.. no new paint.. 6 volt original system.. no attachments that I know of.. average and usual tires.. normal rotted seat cover and all.

I appreciate all comments.

Follow Ups:

• Re: What is a good B worth? ff316 08:46:49 03/23/02 (2)
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