mkirsch said: (quoted from post at 19:44:16 01/13/12) There's no secret to finding a tractor. You just have to keep looking everywhere until you find "the one."
That's true... I looked every day for years in the paper, on the internet, did searches etc. I often drove by a kubota dealership and would always slow down and look in there, even though I knew I'd never be able to afford one of those.
One day I saw an oddball sitting there. An old red 300u with a front end loader. I did a u turn and back to look her over. Went inside and inquired ... didn't belong to them, they were allowing a friend of the owner, who bought a new kubota, to let it sit there and try to sell it. I started it up and drove it around the lot, picked the front end off the ground with the loader etc.
I called the guy up and he came up and I bought it for 300 bucks less than what he was asking for it. I have it in the garage I built for it this summer, and I like it a lot. I rigged up a 7' snow plow that replaces the front end loader bucket and it just works slicker than hoot owl poop.
One time I tried to sell a PowerKing tractor and implements... what a time I had. a parade of doofuses who wanted to get it for nothing... who didn't understand what it was, even though I made it very clear before they got there. Guys say they're comin to look at it so you wait and they don't show up...tried for two months or more. One guy I told to get lost... he told me the engine was no good, wanted to give me half what I wanted for it.
One day a guy came down and walked around it a couple times, and told me he "believed he'd have that tractor", and wrote me a check for the asking price. Asked me if I'd haul it to his place, which I gladly did... no charge.
So, rust red, when you sell the right tractor to the right guy, things will happen fast. Till then you gotta kiss a lotta frogs.
This post was edited by realolman at 05:32:04 01/15/12.
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