Scrap or Sell for restoration?

[ac3Jaxon]

 

[Hoofer B]

sell for a bit more than scrap. Two people will be happy. Bill

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

An online auction might get you a few more bucks than scrap, too.

Mike

 

[Bob NY]

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That is a somewhat rare tractor. Sell it to someone who wants to save it.

 

[Buckhammer]

SELL IT!!!

 

[RedMF40]

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Sell the Farmhand for scrap. The tractor will be a lot more attractive to a potential buyer.

 

[moresmoke]

The tractor weighs about 9000 lbs. and should bring around $1500 as a parts tractor.

The loader is scrap no matter how you want to figure it.

 

[504]

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I was under the impression that the 97 was almost as expensive as gold(paint it as a MM.)

 

[DPittman]

MM G705 with MF tin work. Quite a few still out there but still something you don’t see every day. Sell it

 

[ss55]

The tractor weighs about 9000 lbs. and should bring around $1500 as a parts tractor.

The loader is scrap no matter how you want to figure it.

I agree on the $1,500 parts tractor price. Those are not common, only 4,000 were built over sixty years ago. It will still be a money pit to restore.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

Where in Canada are you from? Near a city or out in the middle of nowhere?

If you're out in the middle of nowhere, trucking becomes an issue. You can spend more trucking the tractor than its worth. That's why so much old equipment sits around out in remote areas. Probably why that tractor is sitting there now.

There are a lot of people here that are going to tell you to save it. However, it's your land and your tractor. They're not there in your driveway with cash and a trailer.

So many times people put things up for sale at reasonable prices for months or years, and don't get anything but a few big talkers and tire kickers. Clearly nobody wants it, but the moment you send it for scrap you're the lowest kind of human being...