I won't say some of the things I got were "bad", but I have a list of things that were a much better deal for the seller than for me (no names given to protect the guilty as well as innocent). I'll give just two examples.
Paid far too much to an old couple in need of some cash for a manure spreader that made it home, then realized it needed far more repair than it was worth before ever spreading a load. Rather than scrap it and admit to She who would say "I told you so", it's now in pieces as a "restoration project".
Got a heavily used diesel tractor from a dealer who must have seen me coming. 38" rears were better than fair, it started easily and I ran it around in their lot, and the essential things seemed "ok" on a once over. They obviously rolled it backward off their roll-off in the driveway while I was out working. I found it stuck in a forward gear. Got that figured out and fixed (temporarily), and realized the (inboard) brakes that worked ok on their flat lot had a lot to be desired out here in the hills, even without a load behind. Tore it apart and fixed those. Took it for a test drive after getting it back together and the water pump started leaking. Fixed that, then noticed one of the rear rims on the inside was rusted out badly at the bead line. Replaced one rim, and soon realized the front axle pivot had had a hunk of brass sheet hammered in that had worn and mostly fallen out. Took the front end pieces to a machine shop for a "no hurry / spare machine time / good deal" that took 3 months. Used it for a few months and started hearing a grinding in one final drive only to discover it had started eating a bearing because even though the oil fill plug showed oil, there was no drain plug on this early model to check for water. Got that fixed and was teaching a young relative how to use a tractor to back blade snow. Reverse, low range... "take your foot off the brakes and ease out the clutch...". Foot still very firmly on both brakes, she pops the clutch and snaps the internal shear coupling to the pinion gear. I chalk it up to how well the brakes now worked. At this point I'm into it so deep that the only way to get my investment out of it is to fix everything else and get another few decades of work out of it. It was a good tractor when built, and might as well be again. I just wish I hadn't bought it in the first place.
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