Price Check Yanmar 155D Pricing Advice

janieschen · Nov 18, 2020

My siblings and I will soon be selling our parents' Yanmar 155D here in Southern California and I'm hoping the members here can help us decide how to price it. It's not super pretty but it runs good, has about 200 hrs on a rebuilt motor. It has a loader and a blade/hooks on the back (sorry, I don't know the formal name for that implement). My brother tells me it has some minor issues with leaking hydraulic fluid but I think he can fix that. My dad and brother also built a trailer for it with ramps that will be included with the sale, it's the green one seen in the background of one of the photos. I think my dad bought it used in the mid 80's, he was likely the 2nd owner. Any insight/assistance you folks can give me would be much appreciated.

winston1 · Nov 18, 2020

That is a nice rollover box blade that would sell for no less than $500 here in East Texas. The tractor and loader would sell in the $6000 range here. No less, maybe more. I doubt that trailer would bring much here, most want a double axle and longer. Good luck with whatever you go with and welcome to the forum. Hate to see it leave the family. :welcome:

California · Nov 18, 2020

Who let the kids loose with the spray cans?

$6,000 sounds a little rich for here in Northern California. One that is flawless might bring that. Average 40 year old condition might be $4k plus, as Winston said, $500 for the nice rollover box blade. I would discount a little for the varied repaint attempts. They show that somebody wasn't happy with rust or dents or something.

Hydraulic dribble is no big deal if everything functions properly. Fixing that is just normal maintenance that all older tractors need sooner or later.

Hopefully this starts and runs like it should. That is the major selling point for these elderly Yanmars, they were built so well that they run fine regardless of how beat up (like mine) that they appear.

Good luck. And Welcome!

janieschen · Nov 19, 2020

Thanks for your replies. I was actually thinking about in the middle of what the two of you are suggesting and I appreciate your input. How would you suggest I sell it here in SoCal? Craigslist? or OfferUp? Is there some other place/site that buyers would go to find something like mine?

clemsonfor · Nov 19, 2020

I think winston's price would be too high even for here in SC. I'd put it in the $3000 to 4000 range only cause of the loader. It would probably sell for that I would think here . Only reason is looks. You need to find the person that will like it for the fact it's a simple solid tractor. This is assuming that it runs and drives like it should, little to no farmer fixes and no temperamental things like you have to out it in gear this way or hold the key that way to crank.

California · Nov 19, 2020

I think CL is where the tractor buyers are.

OfferUp, Facebook market, maybe others might work too.

Be stern with phony buyers. I got offered a load of aluminum siding and a 'treasured bicycle', then persistent lowball offers from an old fart who claimed to know everything, when I sold the first YM186D. Just hang up on people. I sent the old guy the cartoon of Homer Simpson shouting at a cloud as my final reply to him. Never heard back.

bmaverick · Nov 19, 2020

janieschen said:
My siblings and I will soon be selling our parents' Yanmar 155D here in Southern California and I'm hoping the members here can help us decide how to price it. It's not super pretty but it runs good, has about 200 hrs on a rebuilt motor. It has a loader and a blade/hooks on the back (sorry, I don't know the formal name for that implement). My brother tells me it has some minor issues with leaking hydraulic fluid but I think he can fix that. My dad and brother also built a trailer for it with ramps that will be included with the sale, it's the green one seen in the background of one of the photos. I think my dad bought it used in the mid 80's, he was likely the 2nd owner. Any insight/assistance you folks can give me would be much appreciated.
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In the mid-west, a working tractor with a loader easily goes for $5,000 on up. Knowing the machine is more of an SCUT, knocking $1,000 off to the range of $3,500 to $4,000 would be a very reasonable asking price for the tractor.

The implements/attachments you can browse the web for pricing on.

The trailer could add a few $, but it could be the bait for someone to buy it. It's your call.

California · Nov 19, 2020

bmaverick said:
...The trailer could add a few $, ... it could be the bait

Good call. I overlooked the trailer. If it's street-legal that broadens the potential customer base. Now the guy who wants to volunteer to go over and mow his church or his MIL's place will consider this tractor.

A CL ad might emphasize that advantage - 'towable by a small car using the included trailer!'. 'Bring cash, demo it, take it home!!!'. BTDT. (but my trailer). (photo)

bmaverick · Nov 20, 2020

California said:
A CL ad might emphasize that advantage - 'towable by a small car using the included trailer!'. 'Bring cash, demo it, take it home!!!'. BTDT. (but my trailer). (photo)

I though my tractor on my trailer took up all the room. Yours is the winner! There is more tractor there than trailer! Amazing.

California · Nov 20, 2020

bmaverick said:
I though my tractor on my trailer took up all the room. Yours is the winner! There is more tractor there than trailer! Amazing.

That photo was a slow cautious trip home, 20 miles on country back roads, avoiding the 10 mile freeway direct route I took to go down there. Everything was at the limit, but not over. Tire capacity, trailer weight, the Subaru's rated 2k towing capacity. It was uneventful but I seem to have made an impression on the seller - he phoned to see if I made it home.

Here's a photo bringing home the first YM186D. I bought it in Susanville, 100 miles of mountains beyond California's flat central valley. No way was I going to tow it around mountain curves! I paid the seller to deliver it to Dave's Tractors (Mahindra distributor now, a poster here long ago) in Red Bluff. (Photo, Dave loading the tractor). 100+ freeway miles the first day to my home, then another 100 miles the next day over to my orchard. Also uneventful mostly because I never got within 1,000 ft of anyone else.

janieschen sorry for these long detours from your topic! We hope you do well in selling the 155D.