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Subject: Re: metal WORKING today
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 09:42:04 -0700
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On 5/20/2025 7:13 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
> I'd love to find a justifiably affordable tractor/loader/backhoe, even 
> one too small to be commercially practical, since I can hoist a boulder 
> or log beyond the capacity of any loader I could maneuver through my woods.

As you may be aware the big green, red, and blue, ag (and construction) 
equipment manufacturers are fighting tooth and nail against "right to 
repair."  Particularly green, but they all are.  As a result in some 
regions some ag equipment users have bought up older stuff they can work 
on.  Some are buying stuff they would otherwise deem to costly to 
repair, because it equals out when they have to pay a servicing dealer 
for all their repairs no matter how minor on new stuff.

If you really want something like that I think you will have to actively 
look for it.  I'm not dismissing serendipity, but the odds are longer 
than they used to be.

That being said, I've got a clapped out 1950 John Deere Model M sitting 
out at my folks property that I have no idea what I am going to do with. 
  My Grandfather purchased it brand new and paid for it one nasty winter 
in North Central Ohio plowing roads and driveways.  My dad wanted it, 
and he hauled it from Ohio to Arizona some years back. Interested?  LOL. 
  I haven't gotten into it at all.  I expect it will likely need a major 
overhaul from hitch to grill.  I actually used that tractor back in 1980 
hauling grape lugs out of the vineyard behind my Grand parents house. 
That vineyard is now a Christmas tree farm, but all the trees have grown 
to lumber size.  My Grampa would tie a toboggan on behind and tow us 
down the road after a snow.

One thing that might extend your odds is looking in areas with crazy 
strict emissions on equipment demanding basically new equipment every 
year or two in order to keep up.  I wouldn't count on a steal. 
Companies in that kind of business are aware other states want their 
"used" equipment.

-- 
Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff

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