Re: Question concerning a 856 international(Diesel)

Posted by the tractor vet on August 14, 2007 at 08:15:19 from (75.19.124.170):

In Reply to: Question concerning a 856 international(Diesel) posted by KBath on August 14, 2007 at 02:20:41:

Well IMHO since i have run both in the fields see if ya can get him up 500 bucks more then make the deal . Then with the extra 2000 grand in your pocket go find a second Farmall of say like a 450-560 for a second tractor . Then ya can get to some real farmen. My one best friend was a JD man till he got into money problems and had to sell off all his newer JD equipment but was able ot keep his farm and ahd to start all over again . This is when i met him as he had bought and old raggedy S/M and ran it till there was nomore left in it and wanted me to rebuild it from the ground up , nw i have never turned down money but i am not going to stuff it to someone . I told him that i could make that old S/M like new BUT by the time we did the motor the transmission, brakes electrical system and had it painted i could sell him a decent 706 gasser for half of what he would have in the S/M , So i took his ratty old S/M in on trade allowen him 650 buck off 3450 for the 706 gasser with a wide ft. and three point and moved him up and all the time he kept sayen tha how much he liked Deeres . Over the years i have sold him just about every pice of equipment that he has and i am the one that keeps it all going . Well his oldest boy bought a 720 Deere diesel and we do use it every once in a while . With the price of fuel this spring he got the bright idea that this is what we were going to mow hay with . Well we tryed to mow hay with it BUT it lacked the hyd. presure to lift the haybine and it was clumsie to run , so now it is where it always is setting in the barn in the way and the chore work falls onto the old 706 and the heavier work falls onto my 806 and his 1066 . Like a guy told me years ago at the john Deere Expo and this came from a hardcore Deere lover it is a good thing that people started collecting the old two lungers as ya sure as he-ll can't farm with them , They are like tryen to walk with two left feet and tieing your shoes with two left hands. IF God had wanted man to run them old Deeres he would have given him two right hands and a left . Even Bugger King ya only need two hands . As for my buddy if ya asked him today if he would part with the 706 there ain't noway .If you make the swap if that 856 is even just decent and ya put some work into it maken it a GOOD tractor and maintain it it will give ya a lot of years .

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