Posted by Dave on March 16, 1998 at 19:48:46:
In Reply to: Re: Ford Tractor Values posted by Richard on March 16, 1998 at 11:21:55:
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: : Many people want to know what various tractors are worth. Here's one bit of info on Ford 8N, 861, and 4600. I just now came back from a farm auction where these three tractors sold. All were nicely maintained, though not "restored." None showed signs of abuse on drawbar, steering mechanism, sheet metal, etc., and all ran very nicely. The 8N needed new rear tires. The 861 looked like the seals on the rear wheels were leaking. The 4600 was a 3 cyl. diesel, and showed some evidence of leakage around the left side of the block, possibly head gasket. The 861 included a loader with a trip bucket. It went for $3100--I thought that was too cheap; by the way, it had a manual transmission, no SOS. The 8N went for $2,400. The 4600 went for $7,000. What do you think fellas, too cheap, too high, or about right? There was also a 1941 Minn. Moline "Z" with narrrow front that ran well but looked pretty rusty, and it went for $450. Does anybody ever buy old MMs for collecting?
: Where was the auction? Back here in the NE
: that price for the 861 is dirt cheap. I would've
: gone to 4K easily. The $2500 for the 8N is about normal around here. The only thing that I've seen in the 4000 series is a 4000 non-pto and they were asking $5k for it without too many offers. It seems that every time they were asked about the tractor the non-pto would kill any interest.
Dave here again--the auction was here in Wis., and as I said, it was a farm auction on a cold day.