OT: sorta..opinions needed on tractor trades..

The way to do that is to figure out what else he wants. Does he want your A or does he need to be able to tell his wife he made a good deal on selling that M?

One option is to buy his M for say $1500, less a repair adjustment (just between you and him) of $1000. That way he doesn't have to tell anyone about the adjustment.

Don't trade.

I would take the M but not on an even trade but maybe if he was willing to give me about $1,500 boot--and even then, I am not sure I would want the potential heartache.

If he will get it unstuck and running so I can listen to it and make a decision...then another story.

TW

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I was trying to compare the merits of each tractor as one totally judged against the other and sure not trying to downgrade his or any one else's machine in any way, shape or form.

Allan

This is just my opinion so hope I don't get trounced on with fire-balls from every quarter.

All things being equal; both tractors in the same running condition: The A isn't even a tractor, its a toy and it's little more than a garden variety lawn mower. Don't care what the market value is, don't even blink, trade for a real, honest to goodness tractor....the M.

Trouble is: Things just aren't equal. Yours runs and his is just a hunk of stuck salvage yard iron.

I think this guy is trying to hussle you. Tell him "No Thanks" and keep what you have. A bird in the hand, or something like that.

Allan

You do the same with any one of your tractors, bear in mind you will have to make the plate larger to hold 3 times the weight of your tractor, thus you will have a bit more friction.

On may 1st 07 we will both head for Rusty's in New Market IA. No, heck that wont work, the steel plate will wear out before we get there. Plus I'll need a passport by then. Just let me know if you can pull 3 times the weight of any of your tractors, on a flat bottom stone boat. My Super A has already done it, and done it in front of stands at county fair.

I will give you fair warning, we used to do this when I was a teenager. Unlike todays tractor pulls, a tractor started with full load and had to pull it 10'. Super A will top the pack, Super H will come second, Super M will come 3rd and Super C in 4th place. A tractor driver started with a load he was sure he could pull, he could add weight after each try until he was stumped. Rules call for a 4' chain between drawbar and stone boat. The winner was the guy starting away with and pulling the highest percentage of tractor weight.

What else can it do except pull a small yard drag?

Allan

I know on our own farm we certainly did. Had a 7' semi-mount mower that would bolt up to either 130 or 300. Why do you suppose we always mowed with 130. We farmed in a country were 7' swath was all a baler could comfortably handle, even sparce second cuts two 7' swathes. In hay like that those little offsets were king on a rake. As I recall we found lot of other jobs for 130 around the farm as it was always on the go.

How about tobacco and small truck garden farmers, probably the single biggest users of offset tractors. Could these guys all have been wrong? I think not, some of them had some quite decent equity when they died.

I'll grant you they may not have been much of a tractor in Nebraska. You've just led a sheltered existance, you seem to have the opinion if it didn't happen in Nebraska, it just didn't happen. Well Allan there have been a vast majority of North American farmers lived outside Nebraska.

Oh, by the way, I'll up the chalange on pulling the drag. If I can find a well musseled team of horses, I'll take on your 966 on highest percentage of each team and tractor, pulling in relation to their own weight.