I was at my Kioti Dealer's today, and he has a 1947 poppin John B that he's selling for someone on his lot. It starts and runs (popping all the way!) just as it should and looks to be a good buy at $2500 or less. If anyone is intersted, you may contact Dave Williams at www.bigtractorsupply.com. The tractor is located in N.E. Florida, Lawtey on Hwy 301 N. about 30 miles SW of Jacksonville, Florida. John
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What? No collector out there looking for a good looking, good running Poppin' B? Just wanted to bring this back to the front page so more than 89 people could see it. I think a lot of posts are missed when that hit that second page! Thanks guys, John
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Just late last year I picked up a 50 B'.. got mine from a guy in tampa off 301.. what a coincidence.
Wow.. I'm in marion county.. and lawtey is just oh.. about 2hours away. I go to starke all the time for tractor shows.. and lawtey is just north of starke...
he got pics of it?
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Wow.. I'm in marion county.. and lawtey is just oh.. about 2hours away. I go to starke all the time for tractor shows.. and lawtey is just north of starke...
he got pics of it?
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( he got pics of it?)</font> Funny, you're the person I thought of when I saw that Poppin B! And that you bought one on 301, even though in Tampa, is a hoot. I'll take some pics of it for you, maybe before this weekend when I go out there to pick up some filters etc. I'll post them on this thread. John
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I'll be looking out for those pics... thanks for the effort.
Small world huh.
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Small world huh.
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KiotiJohn:
I hope Soundguy dosn't run out of money soon......I have a blast looking for tractors for him to buy /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Just remember.....if he's going to buy it , it has to be on US 301 or within a couple of miles of it /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
to weird!!!!!!!
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I hope Soundguy dosn't run out of money soon......I have a blast looking for tractors for him to buy /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Just remember.....if he's going to buy it , it has to be on US 301 or within a couple of miles of it /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
to weird!!!!!!!
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I must be really out of touch when it comes to old iron prices. I bought my '47 B about nine or ten years ago for 450 bucks. It ran fine, was missing the battery cover, but all the rest of the tin was in good shape. Still is. I've had to put a couple hundred bucks worth of parts on it since then, mostly exhaust stuff, and I spent another hundred going from a pow-r-lift to a pow-r-trol (or was it the other way around ? Don't remember.) so I could mount a loader. The loader (I forget the model#, but I have it written down somewhere) cost me another 400, but it came with two buckets, a narrow one for manure and another one with the snow boards mounted on it. Power up, gravity down, with a spring trip bucket, running it on a tractor with a hand clutch made me wish I had two more hands.
I bought a '48 B as a gift for my brother about a year after that (he put in a couple hundred hours worth of labor when I built my house and never asked for a dime) and that cost me a bit more, $1000, but it had all the tin. I actually drove it from the guy's place who sold it to me to my brother's place, about 5 miles. He is currently in the process of restoring it, so far it's looking great.
So $2500 for a running B surprised me a bit. But maybe prices on old iron in the Northeast run opposite to the prices on new compacts, maybe they're actually a bit better up here.
I bought a '48 B as a gift for my brother about a year after that (he put in a couple hundred hours worth of labor when I built my house and never asked for a dime) and that cost me a bit more, $1000, but it had all the tin. I actually drove it from the guy's place who sold it to me to my brother's place, about 5 miles. He is currently in the process of restoring it, so far it's looking great.
So $2500 for a running B surprised me a bit. But maybe prices on old iron in the Northeast run opposite to the prices on new compacts, maybe they're actually a bit better up here.
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Sounds like you found a couple of awesome deals. Prices on old iron here in Ohio land are more like the ones posted for Florida. 450 has got to be one of the best deals I've heard of for an old JD.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( hope Soundguy dosn't run out of money soon......I have a blast looking for tractors for him to buy Just remember.....if he's going to buy it , it has to be on US 301 or within a couple of miles of it
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I have agents everywhere....
At work.. people will walk in and tell me about tractors they have seen... its nice.. unfortunately.. tractor money IS drying up as economy is changing.. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
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I have agents everywhere....
At work.. people will walk in and tell me about tractors they have seen... its nice.. unfortunately.. tractor money IS drying up as economy is changing.. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( So $2500 for a running B surprised me a bit. But maybe prices on old iron in the Northeast run opposite to the prices on new compacts, maybe they're actually a bit better up here.)</font> I don't know Tbrown, as I don't really keep up with old iron prices a lot, but the least I've seen a "running" one in a while is $1500, and it sure didn't look as good as this one. And, of course, $2500 is the "asking" price. I don't know if there's room in there for price decline, but probably is. John
