Pricing a PTO Tiller for Sale

[TerryR]

I haven't used my PTO tiller for several years, since we reduced the size of the garden and installed deer fencing. I'm thinking spring is a good time to list it for sale but haven't a clue how to price it.

It's a 21-year old Bush Hog RTS62 tiller, stored under cover with no significant rust but clearly weathered paint. It was used only a few hours a year for our garden and a couple of neighbors so the teeth are not badly worn. Slip clutch worked well last time it was adjusted.

I find zero listings for anything remotely comparable, so I'm looking for suggestions.

 

[Tractorable]

Good functioning implements from quality manufacturers typically go for about half the cost of new. As long as it's not rusted out and you can demonstrate that it works well it should sell for roughly half the cost of new.

 

[TerryR]

Thanks, Tractorable,

That's helpful. I paid $1,450 for it 21 years ago. I see a new one online offered for $2,450. I didn't realize they had gone up that much.

Here's a photo of it:


I need to dig it out and clean it up a bit.

 

[fried1765]

Thanks, Tractorable,

That's helpful. I paid $1,450 for it 21 years ago. I see a new one online offered for $2,450. I didn't realize they had gone up that much.

Here's a photo of it:
View attachment 540166

I need to dig it out and clean it up a bit.

Pressure wash,.... and $1250 price tag??

 

[newbury]

I haven't used my PTO tiller for several years, since we reduced the size of the garden and installed deer fencing. I'm thinking spring is a good time to list it for sale but haven't a clue how to price it.

It's a 21-year old Bush Hog RTS62 tiller, stored under cover with no significant rust but clearly weathered paint. It was used only a few hours a year for our garden and a couple of neighbors so the teeth are not badly worn. Slip clutch worked well last time it was adjusted.

I find zero listings for anything remotely comparable, so I'm looking for suggestions.

Thanks, Tractorable,

That's helpful. I paid $1,450 for it 21 years ago. I see a new one online offered for $2,450. I didn't realize they had gone up that much.

Here's a photo of it:
View attachment 540166

I need to dig it out and clean it up a bit.

I bought my 5' KK tiller about 5 years ago, similar condition, 50% discount off new. At that time and now MOST CL ads and other sale places would ask about 75% of new price for a tiller in the spring.

Look at prices on Tractorhouse, ebay etc.

And - how soon do you want to get it sold? do you want to deal with CL problems and scammers?

Set a firm 50% off new TODAY price and it might be gone tomorrow set a firm 50% off what you paid new and if you are willing to hold it for a few months I'd swing by and pick it up on my next trip from Mississippi

 

[ovrszd]

I'm with fried, detail clean it and ask $1250 firmly. It'll sell.

Edit: Forgot to mention, what you paid for it is irrelevant. What a new one sells for today is relevant.

 

[TerryR]

Thanks, everyone. That's very helpful.

I'm just waiting for a reasonably nice day to dig it out and pull out the pressure washer.

 

[BigBlue1]

I don't know how wide it is, but given that you can get a new good-quality 60" tiller for around $1450-$1550 (King Kutter, other brands) I really think $1250 is high. If this brand/model is well known for extra capability or extreme quality maybe I'm wrong, but as a consumer I'd never even consider a well-used 21-year-old implement for only 20% discount over comparable new. At that age and apparent visible condition I'd think 50% of the cheapest available new model would be max. But everyone thinks differently so maybe you'll luck out. Don't let me deter you from trying, I'm just offering a single datapoint of feedback.

Rob

 

[ovrszd]

You can always go down. Really hard to go up.

 

[fried1765]

I don't know how wide it is, but given that you can get a new good-quality 60" tiller for around $1450-$1550 (King Kutter, other brands) I really think $1250 is high. If this brand/model is well known for extra capability or extreme quality maybe I'm wrong, but as a consumer I'd never even consider a well-used 21-year-old implement for only 20% discount over comparable new. At that age and apparent visible condition I'd think 50% of the cheapest available new model would be max. But everyone thinks differently so maybe you'll luck out. Don't let me deter you from trying, I'm just offering a single datapoint of feedback.

Rob

If a new Bush Hog brand is $2450 (+tax?), then a used one, in what appears to be excellent condition, should be worth $1250.
A 60" KK tiller at Blain's Farm & Fleet (usually the cheapest seller) is $1589 + shipping ($134?)
I have a 60" KK, and I do like it.
That said: Bush Hog products are known to be of highest quality, and the $1250 price would also be tax free.
The used Bush Hog (at $1250) would thus likely have a cost advantage of more than $580, over the new KK.

 

[Ivan49]

I have the same tiller and mine was just a 3 or 4 years old when I bought it. It was used a lot but was never in the dirt and the paint was like new with just a few scratches. I paid 650.00 for it . Mine is probably about the same age as yours

 

[ovrszd]

If a new Bush Hog brand is $2450 (+tax?), then a used one, in what appears to be excellent condition, should be worth $1250.
A 60" KK tiller at Blain's Farm & Fleet (usually the cheapest seller) is $1589 + shipping ($134?)
I have a 60" KK, and I do like it.
That said: Bush Hog products are known to be of highest quality, and the $1250 price would also be tax free.
The used Bush Hog (at $1250) would thus likely have a cost advantage of more than $580, over the new KK.

I've got a 72" KK and I think it's a great tool. Very well built. I agree the Bush Hog is a quality product.

 

[ovrszd]

I have the same tiller and mine was just a 3 or 4 years old when I bought it. It was used a lot but was never in the dirt and the paint was like new with just a few scratches. I paid 650.00 for it . Mine is probably about the same age as yours

How was it used without getting in the dirt??

You got a very good deal. I did as well giving $500 for my 10 yr old lightly used 72" KK. And if I was to sell mine I'd ask $1200 minimum.

 

[BigBlue1]

If a new Bush Hog brand is $2450 (+tax?), then a used one, in what appears to be excellent condition, should be worth $1250.
A 60" KK tiller at Blain's Farm & Fleet (usually the cheapest seller) is $1589 + shipping ($134?)
I have a 60" KK, and I do like it.
That said: Bush Hog products are known to be of highest quality, and the $1250 price would also be tax free.
The used Bush Hog (at $1250) would thus likely have a cost advantage of more than $580, over the new KK.

A 60" KK or similar is $1550 at Rural King and Fleet Farm (Mill's Fleet Farm, in the MN/WI area) right now. There are usually one of these type places (Tractor Supply, etc.) in your area so you won't have to pay shipping. Tax, sure. They go on sale for $1450-1500 regularly in the spring. Regardless of how good a Bush Hog is, a 21 year old one isn't still worth a giant premium over a brand new quality unit. Just like the Frontier JD units, they are a lot more expensive initially but have little proven added value. A tiller is a pretty darn simple implement and as long as the structure holds and the gearbox is stout they are all the same thing.

Whatever though. The OP asked for input and I gave it, along with reasons. You don't agree so that's your right. OP can ask whatever he thinks and the market will decide. I could be proven wrong (often am). So could you. OP will let us know in a while, I'm sure.

Rob

 

[ovrszd]

So,,,, if "we" collectively have something we want to sell. Do we ask the minimum we think we would take???

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm with fried, detail clean it and ask $1250 firmly. It'll sell.

Edit: Forgot to mention, what you paid for it is irrelevant. What a new one sells for today is relevant.

You made one minor error in your post.

Edit: Forgot to mention, what you paid for it is irrelevant. Implement condition plus what a new one sells for today is relevant.

There, I fixed it for you. (And if the OP had posted this in April, I would be planning a road trip to NC.)

 

[Sonny580]

List it a bit high, knowing that you will have to take a lot less!--Nother thing is, just how bad do you really want to sell it!!!---Thanks; sonny580

 

[newbury]

<snip>
There, I fixed it for you. (And if the OP had posted this in April, I would be planning a road trip to NC.)

Remember the OP is in NC, not ME, spring has sprung.

 

[Jstpssng]

Remember the OP is in NC, not ME, spring has sprung.

I know. In April I will have the time and a desire to get away from winter. Right now I am still in winter mode, plus too much to accomplish, and too little daylight to do it.

 

[Ivan49]

How was it used without getting in the dirt??

You got a very good deal. I did as well giving $500 for my 10 yr old lightly used 72" KK. And if I was to sell mine I'd ask $1200 minimum.

Used to loosen up the sawdust in the turkey barns. Was pressure washed after each use and storing on the tractor inside. I knew the history of it before I bought it because I knew the guy that ran it