Are non stock tractors harder to sell?

[farmajohn54]

I have an H with Schwartz wide front, power steering, live hydraulics etc. Potential buyers tell me they are looking for narrow front end stock tractors. I have owned this tractor about 20 years and all the things I really liked about it nobody seems to want. Has any one on here had that experience?

 

[SadFarmall]

I went to Red Power Round Up this year and saw only one Farmall H with wide front end and that was on steel wheel. If yours were in Australia, someone would snap it up quickly, because the number of Farmall H tractors with those extras here is just about zero.
SadFarmall

 

[used red MN]

I have an H with Schwartz wide front, power steering, live hydraulics etc. Potential buyers tell me they are looking for narrow front end stock tractors. I have owned this tractor about 20 years and all the things I really liked about it nobody seems to want. Has any one on here had that experience?

Hello John, welcome to YT! What are you asking for it and what is your location? I do think power steering and live hydraulics would be selling points. However, the most common look of a Farmall H is the narrow front model.

 

[farmajohn54]

Hello John, welcome to YT! What are you asking for it and what is your location? I do think power steering and live hydraulics would be selling points. However, the most common look of a Farmall H is the narrow front model.

I am in southern Maine, $1400.

 

[urbancase]

I would think someone would buy quick being odd ball like that. I myself do not own one out of the 15 I have, all wide front. Had enough of narrow front tractors when I was a kid.

 

[Powered By IH]

I have an H with Schwartz wide front, power steering, live hydraulics etc. Potential buyers tell me they are looking for narrow front end stock tractors. I have owned this tractor about 20 years and all the things I really liked about it nobody seems to want. Has any one on here had that experience?

It's the sentimental "stereotypical H" part that people want.
Most people are using these as more of a show tractor and not a work tractor, so the originality piece is a big factor, and they want what an original "stereotypical H" is.
If I'd take a shot, I'd guess the buyer you're looking for is a person that doesn't really care about those features, or would really like them because they are working the tractor?

 

[Ray,IN]

If I were a potential buyer I wouldn't like much about whatever I was buying used. It's the game.

 

[bmaverick]

I am in southern Maine, $1400.

If you lived in a hilly area, a wide front stance would be perfect to have. Trikes are a no-no.
Your price is too low if sold out my way.

The only grip I have with a Farmall deals with the tiny fenders. Every time I've used one to work with, I get sprayed or covered in dirt or mud.
The fenders are nearly useless, more of a decoration from what I see and experienced.

 

[560Dennis]

Yup , good antique 2 plow competition plowing tractor , easier to hold straight line and looking back to make plowing adjustments . I got a narrow front on mine .
What implements you got to go with it. Got any cultivators for it ?
Just my thoughts , but not many competitive plowers any more so , ain’t much help am it .

 

[Mark EC.IN]

I think if someone wanted to use the tractor for work, they would like the wide front... For tractor shows, they would prefer a narrow front.
I think this is because 90% of the tractors back in the day had narrow fronts.

I don't think they live hydraulics and power steering would detract. There were a few companies that sold those back in the day.

 

[NY 986]

To use the way yours is setup is quite good and IMO the Schwartz WFE is better than the early WFE that IH offered for the H & M. I don't think that you will have much trouble getting 1400 dollars for it.

 

[MeanGene1]

Having some friends who take their M's and H's to shows, they like the narrow fronts so they can easily load 2 of them nose to nose with the front ends overlapping

 

[MARK ROBKE]

If I was going to use it, I would much rather have your 'extra' features. I also think, 'everyone else has a narrow front, I want to be different'. Mark.