Re: 706 VS. 656

Posted by Allan in NE on November 17, 2004 at 04:08:44 from (148.78.243.26):

In Reply to: Re: 706 VS. 656 posted by John A on November 16, 2004 at 21:18:46:

Mornin John,

This deal is kind of a weird one and the very first thing I have to do is to assess what is really there and what isn't. I had found another one across town, but had to decline on it, as that one was pure, uncut junk.

The story goes something like this: The dealer here sold this feller a new loader a few years ago.

For some reason, the tractor ended up setting for a number years in a lean-to shed; I don't really know if the engine locked first or not, but the dealer says that no, he is sure that the engine has locked because of non use, because the owner didn't even know it was locked.

The owner thought the batteries had gone dead from setting for so long and had called the dealer to bring out some new ones to the farm. In the course of trying to start the tractor, the dealer is actually the one who discovered the locked engine.

Anyway, the owner, so the story goes, has fallen on hard times and needs to generate some cash so he's come back to the dealer to sell back that almost new loader, knowing full-well that the tractor is now all but worthless with it’s having that locked engine.

End game is that the dealer tells me that he has always done the service work on this tractor, knows it well and is confident that it is a good clean, straight unit except for the cab (which the kids have broken all the windows out of) and of course, that darned engine.

He has found a new owner for the loader and then it is up to me to decide if the tractor is salvageable or not. He had quoted me a price that is lower than what I paid for my old H, so who knows?

If, when it gets into town, I think I can save the tractor, I'll have the dealer drop in an engine and have him just pull that cab and put on a pair of fenders.

It all depends on the hours on the tractor and what everything else looks like, I guess. Should be interesting.

The downside is that the dealer knows fullwell that I am dumber than an old milk-pail full of fencing staples and that I will do just about anything to own another 966.

It’s the same old story; everybody comes out a winner except my bank account. :>)

Allan

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