Posted by Don-Wi on July 11, 2010 at 17:35:02 from (75.232.139.137):
Found a Fox 3000 around the Dells/Reedsburg area, guy was asking $650. I got him to send me a few pictures, and from those it looked pretty good. "Just need to grease it up and oil the chains and you could bring it to the field..." he says on the phone.
Dad and I took a 2 1/2 hour drive (in my car thank God...)to go look at it, only to see the knives were just as shot as ours, the shear bar was worse, and there were several other things that didn't impress us. Got there 1/2 hour sooner than we had planned so I gave the gent a call, got the voice mail, but said we found the chopper and we're there looking at it. Called me 10 minutes later and told me he was moving some bales and he'd be over in a little bit. 20 minutes later he calls, says he's just geting to his place and that is a good 20 minute drive away yet.
He asked if we were planning to take it with us today, and told him no, we came with a car just to look at it. Asked him what the bottom dollar was, he said $500. Told him with all that's wrong with it, our price would be a max of $300. Said he'd think about it and call me if he decides to take it.
In all honesty, even if he does call back I doubt we'd take it because just to get it home I'd have to go down with 2 better tires, repack the wheel bearings and come up with 1 dust cap for the missing one on the chopper, plus a few other parts that it would need just to be safer to pull 130-160 miles home. Plus, it's a much older 3000 than our own so lots of parts are different and wouldn't even work with ours. Sometimes it'd just be better to stay home... Doubt I'd go that far again for a peice of equipment unless it's really, really nice.
Did I mention on the way home the GPS took us a completely different route and another 30 or so miles? Dad hates rolling back roads so he was about to turn green by the time we hit some flat roads again.
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