Tractor buying-selling

[Rickdeere]

Just wait and see how fast tractor value go down since the election. You will be able to buy them cheaper and not sell them for much as well.Hostess going out of bussiness , no more twinkies, or wonder bread,wal-mart trying to strike, man in vegas let over 20 people go.But hey everyone is do better, yell right. Hold on to your paints.Fact or fiction.?
 

[rrlund]

Ok,I'll bite. How does that effect the value of tractors? Sales of new ones continue to rise,so if a framer wants a collector tractor and can afford a new one,why wouldn't he be able to afford an old one?
 

[rickdeere]

NO JOBS NO MONEY, CANT PAY BILLS,SELL ALL JUST TO GET BY.And that effects ALL.Sooner or later.
 

[pete black]

let me state first that i voted straight republican party; now, tractor depreciation will not be the direct result of this past election. it is the changing nature of our society, for the first time in my 65 years as a hard working, family providing white male i am now considered a minority and worse yet viewed as less of a person and more of a threat to society than those living off of entitlement programs. society has forgotten: this country, great as it still is, was basicaly built by the white man. how it utilizied the means to do so may be questioned but it may not have been achieved by other means. for years we sat in our easy chairs watching tim allen, raymond and others portray us as bungling, stupid idiots being mealy mouthed by strong willed women while homos and other deviant life styles were portrayed as normal and desirable. i no longer watch history channel, tlc and networks that show made up scripted junk shows that appeal to those that enjoy the demeaning of manhood. actually; my tv viewing is typically limited to a few minutes of the select news, weather and preferred movies. good music and reading are now preferred. did i mention tractors at the top of this post?
 

[oldtanker]

[feedboy]

Chalk up the values dropping to this: The younger generation doesn't give a rat's behind about anything that is not electronic. They have no appreciation for older vintage stuff that can never be reproduced. Anything of vintage value will not be of value very much longer.
 

[Winchester1]

People just don't want to get their hands dirty any more. Had this discussion at the auto parts store yesterday. Few people even change their own oil these days.
Same thing at the store that sells work shoes/boots. Only one shoe store in a county of 125,000 repairs/resoles work shoes/boots.
 

[rrlund]

At that point I don't think old tractor value will be our biggest problem.
 

[wisbaker]

Fuel is getting expensive, things that use fuel will get cheaper because it costs to much to play with them. The current government wants to implement a middle class just like the great middle classes of the big socialist empires like say Cuba, or Poland, the Former USSR or the prime example of Eastern Germany (remember them?) We'll all live in 800-900 square foot apartments often with out heat or cooling, we'll put our name on a waiting list to by a POS sub compact car, but after waiting 8 years to get it we'll be thrilled to have it.

Look at the differences between Eastern and Western Germany after 45-50 years, one was an industrial powerhouse, one of the 7 largest economies in the world, the other a backwards economy making goods that were of the same or worse quality than they were making 50 years earlier.

Look at the differences in the economies of North Korea and South Korea.

Heck look at the differences between the North side of the Rio Grande and the South Side.
 

[Royse]

[Royse]

[Ray]

The last few farm sales i've been to there getting higher.
 

[rrlund]

Look at the brite side,they're still dependable tractors to use after you restore them.



 

[ROYD/KY]

I"ve been buying and selling old tractors for bout the last 4 years. When I started a Farmall 140 was bringing 4000plus around here and Fords were running 4-500. Now the 140"s are selling for 800-1000 average and the Fords are selling in the 12-1500 range, some higher. A refurbished 8N runs 2500 or so. But most of the ones that I sell are to people who are going to use them, not show them. They"re not too worried about how it looks, they just want everything to work.
 

[MSD]

hostess went out of business because the employees wouldn't take a wage and benefit cut to help keep the company going. Guess we know how that worked out for them. Tractor prices depend on what your selling. Take a look at Polks results. No slump there. A JD GPWT planter brings $70,000!!!
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