The problem as I see it has a few causes: 1) Tractors are NOT muscle cars...unless you have a rare tractor, your tractor has a relatively rigid top value, no matter how nice you make it or how much you poured into it! Common JD A,B,H IH H,M C, Ford N, AC WD 45, Ollie 77,88 MH 33,44 etc are really $2000 and under tractors no matter what they have had done,,,but we see tons of people sking $3000, $4000 and even $5000 for theses tractors! That is the sellers perogative, but he has no reason to wonder why there is no movement on his tractor; that guy in New Hampshire that has been listing alot of really nice tractors for waaaaaaayyyyyy too much money is a good example. 2)Parts: Tractor manufacturers are trying to price themselves out of the antique parts business as it is just not profitable, yet they don"t want to pizz off alot of their customers (imagine if Deere discontinued all prior to 1960 parts, how many customers that still but new Deere tractors for their business would be turned off?) After market suppliers are popping up but providing parts that often need machining, ore reengineering prior to use, and the dealers as a rule don"t have a parts gut that even knows what a JD A or Farmall C is let olone how to find the proper part. 3) Fuel prices: moving tractors around to fun things like pulls, parades, plowdays, shows...is getting prohibitive, as long as we have leadership that wants Volts and non American and non Country ways, and will not drill or even appear to stand up for America...that"s just gonna get worse. Of course rare tractors are their own market, guys will open their wallet for them...that";s great, but when I think of American tractors, I don"t think of a 720 LP HiCrop...I think of the tractors I mentioned earlier, if is stumbled on a rare bird I"s sell it and buy more As! But sellers that don"t know see a 720 HiCrop LP listed for 70,000 on Ebay and figure that the B that"s been sitting in the ding weeds out back must be pretty valuabe! The other thing is the younger guys grew up on 4020s and 1066s...who can afford them? But they aren"t interested in As and Hs!
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Today's Featured Article - Talk of the Town: The Saga of Grandpa's Tractor - by The following saga is from the Tractor Talk Discussion Forum. Someone. The saga starts with the following message: Hey guys I have a decision to make. I know what you all will probably suggest and it will probably agree with me way down inside, but here it is. I have a picture blown up and framed in my "tractor room" of a Farmall M. It was my Grandpa's tractor, of which whom I never got to meet. He froze to death getting this tractor out of the barn to pull a truck out of the ditch before I was born. Anyway my dad and aunt had to sell it at the auction,
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