Price Check Sell or Scrap

Cycledude · Jun 30, 2025

Looks like a lot of work but for someone that’s into that type of thing it looks like a project with some pretty reasonable money making potential.

careyo63 · Jun 30, 2025

If one has a good Eng. and the motor not locked up and turns over I would try to get it running. Pull the head of the parts tractor and see what shape the Cylinders are in Etc.. Diesel so shouldbn't be all that much to it. Cost wise! Tractor running and a parts tractor would make it more worth the while. JS..

Fields_mj · Jun 30, 2025

Farm Pro is a rebadged Jinma (Chinese) tractor. Rural King used to sell them. A friend of mine has one (25hp with a loader) that they bought new in 2000. I had borrowed it a few times. It always runs great for them. For me, not so much. When they moved in 2018, they tried to sell it along with a 5' tiller, post hole digger, and box blade for a combined price of $6k. They had people wanting to buy the implements alone, but nobody was interested in the tractor so they ended up keeping all of it. It needed a new clutch a few years ago and I only found 2 places in the US that I could get the parts from. I'd consider them as a disposable item. If it won't sell on FB marketplace, see if you can sell the tires/wheels and scrap the rest.

mx842 · Jun 30, 2025

Fields_mj said:
Farm Pro is a rebadged Jinma (Chinese) tractor. Rural King used to sell them. A friend of mine has one (25hp with a loader) that they bought new in 2000. I had borrowed it a few times. It always runs great for them. For me, not so much. When they moved in 2018, they tried to sell it along with a 5' tiller, post hole digger, and box blade for a combined price of $6k. They had people wanting to buy the implements alone, but nobody was interested in the tractor so they ended up keeping all of it. It needed a new clutch a few years ago and I only found 2 places in the US that I could get the parts from. I'd consider them as a disposable item. If it won't sell on FB marketplace, see if you can sell the tires/wheels and scrap the rest.

I've come across deals like this before decided to try and restore them and in the end, you end up spending more in time and parts money than the thing is worth. If it was something like a Wheel Horse, Case, Gravely or other well-known brand you can usually do alright. That is if you like to piddle around working on old stuff.
If it were me, I'd pull the radiators and batteries and anything aluminum, brass or copper. Also, pull the tires and wheels as you could possibly get as much for them as the whole dang tractor is worth. Any attachments could be sold also. After that haul the rest for scrap. Something like this you can most always get more by parting them out than the other way.

4570Man · Jun 30, 2025

Cycledude said:
Looks like a lot of work but for someone that’s into that type of thing it looks like a project with some pretty reasonable money making potential.

Those are cheap tractors to start with. I doubt you could sell them for over $2000 in working condition and they are missing too many parts to ever realistically be in running condition again. I’m not saying I would scrap them because they would only bring probably $100 each but I don’t think anyone is going to restore those either.