Re: still using a 806

Posted by The tractor vet on December 05, 2013 at 07:41:36 from (75.19.119.134):

In Reply to: Re: still using a 806 posted by Dr. Walt on December 04, 2013 at 20:43:17:

Just before i bought this 806 i bought one off a guy in Kouts In. it was a one owner tractor , i bought this as a keeper not a resale piece just like the 706 before it . Got it home and went to work on it fixing every little thing i could find wrong . Had my buddy put a show paint job on it put new 806 decals on it found a new steering wheel for it rebuilt the seat had the head all redone and while the head was off put new bearings in the bottom the pistons and sleeves looked like new with only 34and some hours on her . Had the injection pump and injectors gone thru as she was a little lazy about starting . at the time you could find descent running 806's at the sales from 3500 to 4500 . I gave 4250 for this one . I had it setting outside the shop one day while wroking on a couple tractors when some guy i did not know came in and asked who's 806 that was setting outside . i told him it was mine and he asked how much i wanted for it , told him that it was NOT FOR SALE . His next words were well how much do you want for it , told him again it is not for sale . I was trying to get some work done with out anybody bothering me that day and this guy whom i did not know or had ever seen before would not stop with the how much do you want thing. Finally i just popped out 8750 and all i got from him was OH and he turned and went out the door and was gone . Now at just about any dealers lot you could buy a nice 806 for 5-6000 . I went back to work thinking well ya shut him up . About 20 min. latter i hear a car pull in and i am thinking to myself now who is this , in comes the same guy with wife in tow and say how do you want the check made out , Well i don't know you and there fore i want CASH ONLY Out the door they go and come back in less then and hour with CIF (cash in fist) . (1) i did not put a high enough price on it (2) never leave something you want to keep setting out where some body can see it . The only tractor that i still have that i wanted to keep is my S/MTA . As that one i did put a price on it a long time ago when someone thought he was going to show me he could buy it to prove a point. I vapor locked him dead in his tracks with about fifteen people standing around one evening . He was buying old tractors at the time and paying way more then anybody else was just to prove he could buy what ever he wanted and out bid the next guy . But he said that he was going to buy my S/MTA when somebody else said that they would like to have it . The one guy said that he would give 3500 for it and this other guy said he would top that and give 5 for it and to prove that he was going drive it home he wrote the check out and handed it to me . The look on his face when i tore his check up and threw it in the trash can was a true Kodak moment . He said what are you doing i gave you five grand for it, i told Jimmy boy that JIM you do not have enough money in your checking account to buy this S/MTA . Then he says OH don't say that everybody has a price and to prove it just what do you want i told him that if he wanted that tractor that bad then i would just take the deed to his farm. for it . NOW PUT UP OR SHUT UP. Guess he did not want it bad enough as he left. Turned down 10 grand for it at the 94 Red power show in Hookstown Pa. This 806 is plum UGLY runs like a scaled dog everything works with the exception of the Amp lite (need to remember to get some new bulbs) and it now needs new back tires . When someones tractor goes down and if i am not using it and working on there's they use it as a back up . BUT NOBODY has ever said that they wanted to buy it it is just to ugly and that is the way it will stay , also when in the field on a bright sunny day ya don't get the glare off the hood ,RUST does not shine.!!!!!

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