Here is a Bargain

[DaBear3428]

I just thought I would share this

JD Tractor with Front End Loader - farm & garden - by owner - sale

I will sell the loader separately for $2,750...there is nothing wrong with this loader. I've replace numerous hoses on this tractor too which you know are not cheap, the loader works like a champ...

corpuschristi.craigslist.org

 

[tacticalturnip]

That story was painful, ugh.

 

[gstrom99]

This could've also been posted in the thread: "would you lend it out?". Ouch.

 

[scaredychicken]

THIS IS WHY I don't lend it out - uggh
agree, painful to read

 

[newbury]

Note - the CL lister wrote

I let a former friend

 

[dodge man]

I’d take $4000 from him to haul it off to the junkyard. $4000 for it? Not worth near that.

 

[DaBear3428]

That is where the used market is now, I would never pay what people are asking for used tractors right now, new is the same price + 15%

 

[MossRoad]

He'd be better off either repairing it and selling it in working condition or just scrapping it and walking away with a life lesson.

 

[Number15]

Well the ad says it has a new water pump and thermostat, and repaired radiator, but the former friend overheated it. Sounds like a faulty repair and the friend was put in a bad spot.

the radiator is used but is good...had to replace is cause it was damaged while using it, it has a new starter, just had the fuel injection pump rebuilt at CC pumps and alternator which cost me over $600, the engine has brand new injectors to which cost me over $280, water pump and thermostat replace not long before the engine was overheated.

 

[Jstpssng]

If scrapping a perfectly good loader for that size tractor isn't a cardinal sin then it should be. He may get a significant portion of his asking price if he piece meals it out as a parts machine. Then again he might find somebody willing to buy it... I know that when I sold my L275 it ran great and everything worked, but the box was broken out of the loader arms, tires were bad, and the 3pth parts were worn.