Re: Re: Re: advice on buying a tractor

Posted by Jumptrap on July 01, 2004 at 16:08:34 from (172.171.253.147):

In Reply to: Re: Re: advice on buying a tractor posted by Mike (WA) on July 01, 2004 at 12:48:10:

Well, knowing that the 1050 has held its value so well is good news. I haven't had any need to keep up with the prices they bring. For 21 years of service the 1050 has provided, I have spent the following; The clutch as I recall, was something like $315. I had the brake shoes relined at an auto parts store for the grand sum of $22. The seat was free and oil filters have cost me no more $6 each, so 2x$6=$12 times 21, equals $241, the battery was $79...the grand total is $657, plus motor oil and a few tubes of grease. Let's just say $800 total for 21 years..hmm, that's $38 and change, a year for maintinence.

As for the 8N, I had a good friend killed on one. He was pulling a hay wagon, the tongue caught on a high spot and flipped the tractor, crushed his chest under the steering wheel. Sure wasn't the tractors fault, but they are a POS, all the same.

Back when we had the Oliver 60, we had a double bottom 12" pull type plow, a JD sickle mower, and a drag disc. You had to say 12 prayers in the winter to get it started. The Allis CA had a pick up disc, 2 14" plows, and a set of 2 row cultivators. We really moved up in the world equipmentwise when the JD 430 came to roost at out place, we acquired all sorts of 3 point attachments for it...some I am still using! I like green tractors, but the Allis CA would out pull that 430 under any circumstance. In closing, the Allis and 430 are long gone, the old Oliver sits in pieces behind dad's barn....right where it belongs.

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