tractor prices

I"ve had IH/Farmall, Case, Oliver, Ford, MM and JD, and there are good tractors of many colors. I have a 4020 that I wouldn"t sell for $20,000; it"s a 1972 with factory cab and A/C. It"s the best tractor I"ve ever owned, and I use it most every day.

Why bother worrying about $19k being too much for a 4020? I"ve seen a 4020 with front-wheel assist go for $22k at a sale a couple years ago. Tractor prices aren"t determined by what any one of us thinks a tractor is worth, but rather by what someone else is willing to pay.

I don't understand it either. I like green; but all reason has left this portion of the old iron market.

A decent 4020 is really worth about $5K or $6K, if it has normal hours on it. Why they bring that kind of money is totally beyond me.

Dunno,

Allan

Let's see. There's a 100 HP tractor with very simple, VERY proven design....One of the best powershift transmissions EVER. A good steady supply of OEM parts as well as aftermarket parts. A hydraulic system that's still considered modern. Stone reliable.

Go buy NEW with that description....$90,000 maybe. $10,000 sounds like a bargain now.....

I am not debating the fact. Geeeze!

What I am saying is that a feller can buy up to 150 horse in any other color and you can oftentimes get it bought for $5K, $6K or $7K. Plain old horsepower per dollar math.

It is in the color and the color preference alone that is driving the market; if it is green, darnit! It's gonna cost bucks, because that is what dad or grandad had, and I don't care if it is a tractor, a planter plate or a goofy cultivator shank.

And don't lay this "better quality" hog-wash on me either, 'cause I think we both know that's something of an overblown fairytale.

Now, ya just gotta agree with me on this score. Right?

Allan

There is a difference. There is a reason why John Deere outsells IH, Case-IH, Case-NH, ect.... It's not a marketing trick....You don't fool that many farmers.....

Yesterday, I saw a 6030 Deere sell for $8000 at auction. It belonged to someone I know. The tractor was on a dyno just a few months back.... WELL OVER 225HP. Now consider that IH, or anyone else for that matter, had a 225 HP (or 175 RATED hp) tractor back when that 6030 hit the dirt.

You can get your hands on later model Deere's, 150 HP and bigger for not much more than a mint 4020. Your comparing everything to the value of a 4020 isn't apples to apples. The 4020 will be one of those tractors like an 8N Ford... It will sell for WAY more than anything in it's class for all of time. Just a classic that's earned a name that won't go away.

I've got a neigbor still doing heavy tillage with a 6030, and it's STILL a BEAST!

WAR OVER....

There was NEVER another 2WD tractor that would rival the 6030.. The 4955/4960 was available in 2WD or MFWD, but NOTHING ever approached the brute force of a 6030.

I'm not arguing with you; I'm saying the same darned thing.

There just must be something special in the pigment of that green paint is all I can figure out. :>)

Allan

Until this very minute, I didn't know you had been captured over in Asia during that last spat.

Don't look now, but it is true. You are totally brain-washed. :>)

Yeah, I know what you are saying. If you farm and you farm big, having that rig running and running all the time, is absolutely paramount to anything else you do.

I just like to give ya a hard time, 'cause you are so dag-gummed GREEN! LOL!

Allan