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That looks like a beautiful tractor, I still ride the John Deere model M that my grandfather bought new, you will learn to love the new stuff, and that transmission, Deere is so far ahead of the red stuff, you just have to pay to play, you made a great buy!
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Jimy, I've only driven it around for a few minutes so far and it is nice.
My dad has used it to load chopped feed into a mixer and has also picked about 4 bales off a little haystack. 1600-1700lb bales.
He got in the pickup this morning and said that is NOT a loader tractor.... He was laughing and I said we didn't buy it to be a loader tractor.
I guess we could sell the loader but might as well keep it.
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Sam, how does that IVT work? Are there different gears like a power quad or just sliding control like a hydrostat? I assume it has a reverser. Looked at a 6430 last year here while on my tractor search but it was a power quad. It had been used pretty hard looked like.
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Anson, the IVT has a lever like a hydrostat but it also has a little wheel on the lever where you can fine tune the speed. I haven't operated it enough to really give a better description but it appears to be pretty handy.
Yes, it has a left hand reversor as well.
We have 16 speed power quads(with reversors) in a couple other loader tractors and I really like that setup.
The left hand reversors will spoil a guy......
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Looks like that will come in handy.
What's it weigh??
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Ben, according to tractordata it should weigh around 10,500lbs.
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Sam, upcoming farm estate auction here-
6430 MFWD Premium F-range 4K hrs., rubber original, not the best (year not listed).
673 self-leveling loader 8' bucket, bale stabber, pallet forks.
Local cowman, duties were haying & feeding for cow-calf herd. Used, but not abused.
Ballpark idea what this rig should bring?
Always drink upstream from the herd...cowdoc...
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Cowdoc, I'm not Sam, but in looking at Tractorhouse with same tractor/similar hours and loader, it looks they are selling for $48,000 and up.. I've been to many auctions where they bring way more than you can buy them from at a dealer though...
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Cowdoc, I've looked at quite a few on Tractorhouse and like tburkepa stated, they start around $50k on up.
There were a couple really nice ones in the midwest(we're in northeast MT...) that were a better deal than the one my dad bought but by the time you truck it over here and buy sight unseen you might as well buy local.
Ours was listed at $61,500 which is about average price.
But we also did trade in an old IH 1066(rough around the edges but a good runner) and they gave us a decent deal on that. I forget what we paid with the trade but it was fair. The $61,500 is before trade list price, we ended up around 50k after trade.
Just paying 'cash', no trade, I bet you could have got it for maybe $58-60k. But then again it was a brand new listing and those little tractors are hard to find around here. They might not have come down at all.
On the flip side I see one on C&B Equipment, 2011 with 3k some odd hours, 673SL, looks to be in great shape and they want $87k!
Auctions are a wildcard, just depends on who wants it more!
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Thanks for the replies-I'll see what it brings if the cows let me
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The tractor & loader (no bucket or forks) brought $55K. Everybody i talked to thought it would bring more. If grain prices were higher, it would have.
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Everybody i talked to thought it would bring more. If grain prices were higher, it would have. Yep..... $55k is right in there.
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There's a JD7800 with a For Sale sign on it beside the road on the way to town.
I'd like to drive it, but it's been there a couple of weeks. Something's wrong with it, or it's way too much money.
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Or it's got 15k hours on it....
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Rich ranchers. I as selling off guns to fund my Mustang rebuild...
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