Re: HELP ME EVALUATE A FARMALL 140

Posted by mark on December 21, 2008 at 13:22:21 from (172.130.120.91):

In Reply to: Re: HELP ME EVALUATE A FARMALL 140 posted by Hugh MacKay on December 21, 2008 at 06:13:38:

I generally try to keep my comments to myself..except when it involves enviro nuts and left wingers...hehe, but here goes:

In my neck of the woods, it is small farm country...meaning it's a rare thing to see some operator towing a 2,000 gallon tank of anhydrous through the field. The vast majority of fertilizing is still done with dry ferts. Furthermore, for a garden, dry fertilzer is easy to handle, transport and buy..i.e., you go to the feed store and buy 2 or 3 bags and call it done.

So, a dry fertilize side dresser is still in high demand around here (eastern Kentucky). But, I'll die and go to a devil's Hell before I'll pay any swinging dick $400 for one...even new in the carton.

I have one on my Super A and have probably seen a hundred just like it and there were thousands of them of them in use in Kentucky when the tobacco program was still in existence. Hundreds of SA's and SC's were sold off and many shysters shipped them out of country..one of those recent get rich quick schemes that makes me want to puke.

Anyway....there's a sucker born every minute and there's a man to take him...if you can find such a fish willing to bite the hook and pay $400-$600 for a side dresser.....set the hook in his jaw and reel him in.

All you fellers wanting a Super A with cultivators and a side dresser ought to watch for equipment sales going on in Kentucky, drive in with your trailer...gas is way down now...and get one for what they are worth and quit paying war prices for them. You can buy a good SA straight off the farm for $1500-$1800 and sometimes less. I bought 3 in the last couple years and the one I kept has almost new tires, had brand new spring tines on the rear....the price tag is still on them...and had already been converted over to 12 volt. I put a set of seals in the lift, plugs and points and a weather cap on the muffler...oh yeah, also a $4 shifter knob. Still has the same battery in it. The IH side dresser was on it too. Cost me $1650 and the guy I bought it from has just bought it at a sale..he sure didn't trade nickels with me either. He made some money and it saved me from having to wade through a bunch of tractors and freeze my a$$ off all day at the sale. In closing, I'll also add that you see very little difference in what a 140 brings compared to Super A's, 100's and 130's. When it was only farmers attending the sales and buying something to work with, the prices were pretty good. Now, with every snot nosed city slicker wanting a chrome plated tractor to ride around the block as a parade queen...hehe, the prices have gone up because they'll bid stupid amounts of money for them. The reasoning being they paid $7,000 for a 4 wheeler..so a tractor must be worth $3,500...right? HA! Idiots!

Replies:

• Re: HELP ME EVALUATE A FARMALL 140 Hugh MacKay 14:02:46 12/21/08 (2)
  • Re: HELP ME EVALUATE A FARMALL 140 mark 15:03:38 12/21/08 (1)
    • Re: HELP ME EVALUATE A FARMALL 140 Hugh MacKay 15:53:57 12/21/08 (0)

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