I was like “why let the White 2-135 go”? But 3 for 1? You can’t walk away from that deal! Awesome! You’re getting to the point of an implement per tractor.
Interesting trading! I have seen people advertise stuff on marketplace that were to lazy to even take their own listing photos- they used the pics from the auction listing LOL
The 86 series has a closed center 12 gallon per minute hydraulic system...A 2-135 is 21 from the factory.....Upgrade the hydraulic pump ( direct bolt on) from a 9675 Agco Allis and get way closer to 25 gpm.
One can never have too many tractors or shed space for that matter. Im currently looking at something similar to the ford 7000 you mentioned. 4 months ago a SAME condor 55 4wd came up for auction at our local auction house, I got too $5000 on the day for it was out bidded it went for $6000. That very day it was on market place for $12,000 they just used the auction houses photos and description. The same auction house is having a multi site auction that tractors now up for auction again. I'll try and buy it again..
Yeah we had a lot of "vultures" sweep in and ruin our auctions... little auction company got started up just over the county line, started making some money so a lot of guys started looking for whatever they could pull out of a fence row or out of the vine brush that grew over it after Grandpa parked it years ago and haul to the auction... I'd go by there as a younger guy a lot looking for bargains I could fix up. Mostly older stuff and if it's been sitting for years (to decades) you have to bust the rust to get it going, not like you're pulling it out of the barn and going to the field with it. Well, come auction day all these "equipment flippers" would show up with their new diesel pickups and big goosenecks and proceed to bid up all these bargains just out of reach... I'd go in knowing about what it'd cost to fix something up after inspecting it, and figure what it was worth minus the parts (and perhaps a little labor on my part) to get it going and what it'd be worth as a resale down the road if I didn't need it anymore or found something better... Needless to say these jackwagons would bid stupid high prices on stuff just to get it. Oh well, they can have it I thought, I'll keep looking--only thing worse than NO deal is a BAD deal... not looking to get skinned or worse yet, skin myself on buying fenceline stuff that needs a lot of work and parts and then using it awhile and go to sell it and get skinned a second time because nobody will pay close to what I paid BEFORE fixing it! I remember there was one disk I was looking at... solid rust and half the bearings were locked up or plain GONE... running on the races because the ball bearings had left the building long ago... thing still had all the dried out vines and brush stuck to it where they pulled it out of the bush that grew up through it where it sat in the pasture for years if not decades... needed a LOT of work, blades were pretty well shot and bearings were toast or would be even if they were there from sitting and moisture over the years... Could be rebuilt, but it'd cost some money. Well, one of the jackwagons paid stupid money for it... just bid it up out of all sense. SO a couple weeks later I'm on a parts run over to the next county and take some back roads just to look at crops, and guess what I pass-- a disk sitting in front of a house by the road with a 'for sale" sign on it... I stop and have a look and YEAH its the EXACT SAME DISK that was at the sale... guy brought it home, pulled the dead vines and brush off it, pressure washed the lichens and filth off it, and shot it with a light coat of TSC paint, and put it by the road for a couple hundred bucks more asking price than he paid for it... which was already too high. Didn't fix a single d@mn thing that was wrong with it-- still bearings with no balls in them and others locked solid and everything... i was flabbergasted. Looking for a sucker, some of the new "hobby farmers" moving out and buying a few acres in the area... probably found one too, I'm sure... Well, these same jackwagons would low ball price tractors or anything that wasn't selling (no buyers for it there that day or whatever) and walk off it with it. Had a neighbor sell a tractor, he got a little greedy and was there to shill bid on it and make sure nobody walked off with it cheap if there wasn't a buyer there that day... he ended up buying it back three times himself and paying the commissions on it and FINALLY let it go for less than the one kid and his old man who were bidding on it for real the first time... It was a rough old 1466 that he was a little too proud of, so he screwed himself out of several thousand in commissions before it was over with his shill bidding, trying to drive the price up. The kid was real interested, the old man I could tell thought it was rough and pointing stuff out to the kid, he had a good price on it and SHOULD have let the kid have it, but he drove it up til finally the old man convinced the kid he was getting skinned and they walked away... serves him right! Probably did the kid a favor because this neighbor rode everything hard and put it away wet... Word got around NOT to take anything worth having to that auction because the jackwagons would swipe it from you... and fenceline junk row stuff eventually runs out, and then the whole place just dried up and blew away in the wind... auction closed and that was that. I don't have a problem with guy flipping stuff, but some of that nonsense that goes on is just plain dirty...
I am biased, but I’d say you got a good deal. Not familiar with the White tractors but those older Case and IH’s were solid machines. That Ford 7000 you mentioned would have been a nice addition to the farm as well.
Boehm Tractor Sales is our local dealer here in Shiner, TX... no relation I think LOL:) Good guys to deal with, we've dealt with them for 60 years at least...
Shoot Jacob you find all the deals 😉 I wish I could find a 1486 for less then 10. Craig is turning into Oliver central, hopefully Ross can get his parts 1365 home🤣 I was the 530 sounds good I wish my skidloader still ran that well, both have similar engines. I hope all is going well for you👍
Long as you're both happy it's all good. Hope you post some videos of the hay unroller working. I was at an auction that had 2 exactly the same. As that one. Thought long and hard about buying one. Went around $$1500 ea. The deal killer is they both looked weathered but hardly used. Like yours. This guy had cattle and I mean a lot of cattle. So I figured they must not have worked well and didn't buy. So I hope I am wrong since you have one.
Now I never got the opportunity to use a JI Case, but my cousin says he hates the 1030 he has access to which kinda bums me out cause my grandfather had one and I think they r one of the coolest looking tractors of all time. However I am happy with my Ford 5600 so all is well
What's he hate about it? Everybody has their own preferences. Might be something trivial or just his predilections... I've got some Cases on my channel... BIL farms with Cases and I was going up there to help him during planting and harvest... ran a 2290, 2390, and 4890 big 4WD 4 wheel steer. Nice tractors. Powershift but simple. Nephew has a 1070 it's a nice tractor but the stupid seat has side armrests that are simply too narrow for my wide hips and fat backside, so that's a no-go for me. Basically it drives the same as the 2290, only it's an open station. He was going all the spraying with it pulling a 45 foot trailer sprayer before he bought an old Hagie four wheeler high boy... does all the spraying with that now. The 1070 is still his 'toy" pulling around gravity boxes and stuff like that, doing a little plowing, etc. Recreational tillage LOL:)
Sounds like crop insurance proved as worthless to you as it did to us... We tried crop insurance for a few years on the row crops... after all, the gubmint pays half the premiums anyway, right?? SO I figured for the money, it had to be better than the $100 per crop per county requirement to pay the gubmint for CAT insurance, right?? So I found small local agent figuring well he'll be more honest that some big shady outfit. Yeah, well, he just WORKS for a big shady outfit (the insurance companies). SO I experimented with several different coverage levels... I had 85% one year, and 80%, and 75% and I think the last year we did it we dropped it to 70%... One year we started the year off with a drought, and had grain sorghum end up very short because of the dry conditions... it headed out fine (booted) but the heads never really exerted themselves (grow a stick under the head to get it up out of the whorl of leaves). It flowered and produced some pretty decent looking heads despite being down in the whorl of leaves and was looking pretty good all things considered. Then we got a Gulf storm that blew about 45 mph out of the east all night long and half the next day and it rained about 7.5-8 inches in the process... leaned the stalks pretty bad, but it was still upright though at a 45 degree angle... then it turned hot and humid as all getout. Well, we were getting ready to combine, and the agent calls me, "Hey we're seeing a lot of fungus in the grain, if you have load turn up with it at the elevator, STOP combining and call me right away!" SO I started combining a day or two later. I was hauling all my grain sorghum directly to Maxim Egg Farm about 13 miles west of the Needville farm... they paid a premium for grain sorghum because they had their own elevator and were grinding semi-loads of feed daily for their dozens of gigantic laying houses... SO since I was driving a school bus at the time, I'd haul kids, go home and jump in the truck and run over to the egg farm, dump, come back and grease up and gas up the combine and by that time the dew was off and ready to start cutting grain, I'd combine til around lunch or so and have a bite then finish off the load to go to the elevator, and make a quick run to the egg farm. Get back maybe combine another little while if I had time, then quit by 2 and go shower and change for the afternoon bus route, haul kids home, get back around 5 and combine til about dark by which point I'd have another truck load ready to go the next morning, back it in the barn, and go to the house for a shower and supper. Wash, Rinse, Repeat... SO one day I haul in at around 1 and wait and wait and wait... they ask me to pull off the scale, they're still testing the grain. Then after awhile longer they come and in broken English the Mexican guy tells me to "please wait, honcho is coming!" so I wait a big longer, and a shiny big pickup pulls up, he runs in and is in the office a few minutes, and comes over to the truck to talk to me. He's got a paper about 3 feet long, with all these chemistry diagrams... "sorry but we can't take your grain... it's got xearlenone"... I was like "what is xearlenone?" He shows me this mile-long molecule, says it's a type of fungus and that it interferes with egg shell production in laying hens. "If we were raising meat birds it'd be fine, but for laying hens, we can't use it. They'll take it at the elevator no problem". Thanks. There went my premium... SO I haul it 13 more miles to the closest elevator in Hungerford. Pull across the scale, they sample it, I keep my mouth shut. I go in for the scale ticket after I dump and the owner says, "well, you have a little fungus but it ain't bad... not much dock at all". I was like , "Seeing a lot of fungus?" He pulls a ziplock bag from under the counter of what I thought was used coffee grounds... "Yeah, this is BAD stuff... " He pulls a kernel out of the pan of my stuff and holds it up to the light... "you see that TINY little thing on the side of the kernel that looks like a broccoli head?" I strain my eyes looking for a teeny broccoli head growing on the side of a BB... "yeah" I'm amazed I can see the tiny little thing... "that's the fungus" he said... SO by this time it's after 2 and I boogie straight back to the farm as fast as the old truck will carry me, jump in the pickup, and fly up to the school just in time for the evening route. I get home just before five and call the insurance guy and tell him the story... "They're taking it at the elevator?" he asks... 'Yep" I reply, "Good!" he says, then go on cutting and if you have any more issues call me back, but so long as they're taking it keep going. Be sure to keep all your weight tickets and after the season we'll have an adjuster come out and figure up the damages". SO I keep harvesting. Call him up a few days later "all done, got the tickets when you're read" and "'we'll let you know" and a few weeks later I get a call, "Hey, adjuster is coming out tomorrow, that okay with you?" Yeah, "just have the tickets ready he'll do the rest". I have a rental car and some guy from Iowa knocks on the door wanting my tickets. I ask if he wants to come in; it's early August in Texas and 100 degrees in the shade... "No, thanks, I'll figure it in the car" and off he goes. After about 30 minutes or so, I go out and knock on the car window... he's sitting there in the idling car with the AC cranked, got actuarial tables spread across that car so it looks like the dashboard of a 747... He's startled by my knock on the window and spools it down... "you need some water or a cold drink?" I ask... it is after all 100 in the shade on a typical scorching Texas coastal August afternoon with 1000% humidity to boot... "No thanks, I'll be done in a few minutes!" and up the window goes. Okay... i go back in and a few minutes later a knock at the door... "all done, here you go, the local agent will send you a check... here's the tally". I go in and read the papers... I'm getting about $750 back in dockage on the loads... which is exactly $10 more than I paid out in premiums for the policy... LOL:) Well at least me and the Mrs. had a McDonalds on that back then!
SO then a couple years later we're picking cotton and we're about 3/4 done, and we've got this BEAUTIFUL field of cotton ready to pick we're moving into tomorrow. Overnight we get some string of thunderstorms that drops about 7 inches of rain on us in about 8 hours... next morning this field has about a foot of standing water in it... it goes down, but the cotton seed sprouts IN THE BOLL ... little green seedlings and cotyledons sticking out of the white fuzzy lint. Grandma was like 85 at the time and she was born, raised, and later died on that farm, and she says, "in all my years I've NEVER seen that happen!" SO I call the insurance guy. He's probably swamped with claims so he's a bit short with me... "how much have you harvested already?" He asks... "I guess we were about 70-75% done" I said... "Well, I'm sure you're over your minimum" he said, and hung up... SO because we had about 3/4 of the crop out, if the last 1/4 was a total loss, we don't care... that's the gist of what he meant. Okay... we did get in the field a week or so later and picked it, and got *something* to show for it, but the quality was crap and the grades were terrible, and of course the seed was a total loss, as it went out with the gin trash from the cleaning machines instead of to the seed house to be sold for crushing for cottonseed oil and then sold for cattle cake... which of course meant no seed to sell and thus a higher ginning bill to boot. Whenever we DID have a problem, a legitimate problem, we either just broke even or didn't get a penny. I was talking to the bus mechanic at the school was a neighbor of ours who farmed with his old man up the road from us, and he said they'd had the same sort of things happen... why they ditched crop insurance altogether. I did too the next year-- just went back to gubmint CAT insurance so I could be in the program and get my gubmint program payments and put cotton in loan if the market price was too cheap and let them keep it at the higher guaranteed price by letting the loan option expire. Good enough. Funny thing was, I went up a couple hours north near College Station to a place to buy some planter parts or something; nice secondhand dealer and parts yard up there, and on the way into town through the beautiful red Brazos Valley farm country with its red clay loam soils, all these beautiful fields of cotton just starting to bloom (this was the next year) and I passed this one field of cotton that was about 6 inches tall, about fourth true leaf stage, probably planted a month to six weeks later than everything around it. Now, in cotton you can't do that-- the bugs get started in the older cotton as soon as it gets big enough and starts putting on squares (from which the blooms emerge) and they have something to feed on and the bugs start building up. If all the cotton is planted together at close to the same time as possible, by the time the bug build to really damaging levels, the crop has matured enough to move on to the next stage and its too tough for the bugs to eat and bother it... BUT if there's any YOUNG cotton nearby, the bugs will simply migrate to the younger cotton and EAT IT OUT OF HOUSE AND HOME and it usually won't make anything because the bugs simply eat all the fruit. I get to the dealer and get my parts and we're standing around BS'ing and I mention that field of young cotton surrounded by all this older cotton... "what were they thinking?? Yall have rains and couldn't get it in on time with the rest of it or what?" The guy looks at me like I'm daft... "INSURANCE cotton" he said... "bugs eat it up, it's a total loss, and the insurance pays them for the entire crop on those acres... then they just plow it under and call it a day". I was floored. The neighbor had told me one year they had a crummy field and then a Gulf storm blew most of what was left on the ground, and the insurance guy came out and told them "pick it anyway", because whatever cotton they salvaged from the field, would be deducted from what they ended up having to pay out from the insurance company as an indemnity... SO the neighbor went and released all the spring tension on the compressor sheets that force the cotton plants against the picking spindles in the picking machine, so they pop wide open and the spindles just tickled the stalks and might pick a few bolls on the branch ends... then they ran through the field wide open just to leave tire tracks, picking as little as possible. Minimize the amount hauled to the gin and the ginning charges paid out, and called the insurance guy to come look. he sees the tire tracks across the field, gets the gin tickets, and subtracts off the few bales they hauled to town to the gin from what they're owed, and writes them a check... THAT sort of thing makes me mad... I had a LEGITIMATE problem and can't get the time of day, but these bigshots borrowing tons of money from the bank in town or Farm Credit to put in a crop, they can DELIBERATELY plant acres a day or two before the deadline KNOWING that it's going to be destroyed by bugs so they can 'farm the system" and collect a big insurance payment on those acres as a total loss... Insurance is there to protect the bigshot farmers and the BANKS lending them the production money to make a crop-- they're NOT going to do a thing to help the small farmer, PARTICULARLY the small farmer farming out of his OWN POCKET and NOT borrowing a ton of money from the bank... the little guys can screw off in their way of thinking. SO be it; no sense in wasting money on crop insurance, so we didn't anymore after that....
