Posted by torwood9 on January 01, 2014 at 19:37:25 from (71.87.25.72):
This past weekend I was out of state visiting my wife's family and on Craigslist a tractor that my farming buddy and I were looking for suddenly appeared. I talked to the guy a couple of times and he seemed very nice, told me lots of good information, seemed honest. Tractor had 2200 plus hours on it, tin was all nice and straight, rubber at 80%, paint was good, but the engine had a knock. Happened when they were blowing corn silage. My buddy told me to make an offer on it if it was everything the guy said it was. My buddy is a mechanic fien, loves challenges and loves fixing. So he was excited. On our small farming operation/hobby we buy all the machinery together, and buy tractors with our own money. Just something we decided, and it works very well. Anyway today, I was going to take the guy the money for the tractor. When we get there, I went and looked it over. The draw bar looked like it was used up, which made me go check the tach and hour meter right a way. There was one after market hour meter at 2241 and the original had 3971 on it. Fenders were all bent and one had a tear at the base of it. There were so many wires running all over it, and all the lights worked, except for the broken ones. The paint wasn't terrible, just not a lot of effort put into it. They torched out a pin on the 3 point, and left a mess. When it was all said and done, the price was still not bad, but I just couldn't hand him the money. I guess my expectations were to high, as my buddy said. I felt bad for saying I was going to take it, but I felt that 3900 more hours on something than what was said amongst many other things made it more justifiable. He said no big deal, other guys were interested if I didn't take it. Just frustrating. No money lost, checked out a tractor, learned something. That's a good day.
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