e-Bay shamer vrs foolish farmer

Posted by Delbert from Lincoln on January 09, 2006 at 11:04:41 from (152.163.101.7):

A acquaintance of mine, who farms about 2000 acres scattered over 12 or 15 square miles, is always buying and selling tractors, trying to upgrade his fleet and acquiring more. His ambition on numbers is to have a tractor hooked to every implement he owns so that he never has to pull a hitch pin or crack a hydrulic hose. If he has to change implements in the middle of the job, he wants to get out of one tractor and into another. Just about the end of fall harvest in Nov, he noticed a Case-IH on E-bay that would fit right in with things on the no-till soy bean drill or planter. He started biding and found out that it was owned by an Implement dealer about 3 states away. The dealer had good feedback and my friend thought well a reputable dealer wouldn"t pull anything shadey and risk his reputation in the business world. He got the tractor sight unseen, and found a trucker going that way that needed a return load. During the buying process the dealer ignored the question of who he had got it from. Advertized as 4100 hours and field ready to go. In time the tractor arrived. Wouldn"t start to unload it. Trucker volenteered that they had had to pull start it to load it. It looked field worn, and like it had been rode hard and put away wet. After getting some sort of diesel additive into the tank, and pulling it, it started. Ran but was missing bad. Found the operators manual and it had the original owners name in it. To make a long story short that dealer had replaced the tack or clock or whatever it hasat 4550 hours so it actually had 8650 hours on it. No wonder it looked field worn. It had been overhauled by same dealer at aboutr 4000 and not run right since. They had tinkered with it and reset the valves at the dealership, and that didn"t help. So it had got traded on a new one. My friend called the dealer and told him that was the same as tweeking the speedometer on a car, and either come and get it at his expense, or refund $4000. If the dealer didn"t do one or the other he was going to call the State Attorney General. The dealer reluctently rewfunded 4000. A trip to the local diesel shop disclosed a bolt that holds the rock arm to cylinder head (it has 3 cylinder heads) and both exhaust valves burned up on that cylinder. Regardles of how busy you are, don"t buy big buck items with out seeing them or having somebody knowable see them Sorry this got so long but I think we all need a reminder once in a while

Delbert from Lincoln

Replies:

• Re: e-Bay shamer vrs foolish farmer Stinky Cheese 12:11:54 01/09/06 (1)
  • Re: e-Bay shamer vrs foolish farmer RustyFarmall 13:15:40 01/09/06 (0)
• Re: e-Bay shamer vrs foolish farmer RustyFarmall 11:21:15 01/09/06 (1)
  • Re: e-Bay shamer vrs foolish farmer Jrry 10:34:09 01/11/06 (0)

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