one for the record books !

[Guest]

kramer sale today , a 1998 case 9370 , 360 hp (18 yrs old) , no power shift or shaft , 2670 hrs , original bias dual tires , outback auto steer sold for $122,000 !!
machinery Pete will definetely be talking about this one .
how is this possible ??
anyone know what this would of cost new in 98 ?

[grassfarmer]

$139,000 US in 1999 according to TractorData.com

[iceman]

Why exactly are farmers getting into these long cocking games at auction sales? Keep it in the bank you fools

Ice out

[perfecho]

Probably because it is a basic tractor??? Don't have to deal with high repair bills from untraceable electronics.....kinda like old semi's that are good but not too much electronics...
but that is a fair bit of coin for an older tractor.

[Klause]

Wow...



That's all I can say.

Wow.

[furrowtickler]

Figured it would go for 100G or so , but ya that's high . Almost irreplaceable good pulling power though.

[fjlip]

So we all agree "keep it simple stupid", old is in demand, complication adds cost and downtime/stress...soon my 5710 will be the in thing again, NO moving parts! The 2003 tandem with ZERO emissions/EGR will be worth more than newer stuff! Pre 2000 emitting but clean burning simple diesel tractors ARE worth more already.

[Partners]

Spring auctions are the time to sell if one is quitting..Farmers are all gung ho to go play in the dirt with some thing new..At any cost it seems..

[iceman]

Partners

It like a bunch of farm cats fighting over kitchen scraps at this sales this time of year

Iceman nonbidder

[farmaholic]

Is this when someone is supposed to chime in and say "the market is always right"?

At least that's what they tell us about the grain prices.

[Ache4Acres]

Try to find an old school 620hp tractor. 380hp is obsolete by most standards today...maybe a good puller 15 years ago but don't put that on an 80ft drill.

If you aren't willing to adopt newer technology your days will be numbered... It's one of the fundamental laws of business.

[riders2010]

It's easy with 75 bushel peas all locked in at 10 bucks. You can buy a spare one even. Lol.

[oneoff]

Know a number of farmers with "armrest controller error"

A tractor is not much good or dependable enough for any operation when the error occurs very intermittently and at random any time during its lifetime.

Makes it pretty much worthless when work needs to get done.

There is a place for near computer computerless machinery; and as has been noted; it may be worthless in your operation; but not necessarily worthless to others.

It may even move a few thousand miles in todays world.

[Ache4Acres]

Long live the big bud. Tractors way ahead of their time!

[Guest]

I wonder why some manufacturer doesn't go back to simple ? that big bud came out in 1977 with 747 hp and simple . we don't need all this technology . it's expensive and lots of problems that we can't fix ?