A Good Day at a Bad Auction – Old Tractors, Cheap Prices

30 thoughts on “A Good Day at a Bad Auction – Old Tractors, Cheap Prices”

1. I'm adjusting my previous comment: most of the tractors in this sale have moved from being tractors someone will buy because they need a small tractor to the collector tractor market. The trouble is, the largest population of people that grew up using these tractors, and have memories of them they want to preserve are now passing on. That is shrinking the market for these tractors and only the best that have been kept up bring decent prices. We see the same thing happening for the cars from the late 30's to the mid 1950's. Some really well kept examples bring great prices, especially the ones with a hot rod history. But the rest are now just bringing old car prices, which isn't near what they were worth 15-20 years ago. Many baby boomer collectors that are now reaching their 80's are seeing their prized possessions loose much of the value they once had because the market is collapsing for all but the very unique and well preserved examples. And before someone points to a Barrett -Jackson sales, keep in mind how many of the cars that pass over the auction block that ultimately go back home after paying that 10% commission trying to get an unreasonable price.

2. Agreed

3. Farm auctions make sad. Scoring some of those pretty old girls at discount prices would help cheer me up however.

4. Hello Pete Watching From Philippines, Send Regards

5. Oh, I like that Ford 5000.

6. Search for Mini Kubota tractors with loader or others

7. My wife bought a 1948 Farmall Cub for our 7th anniversary two weeks ago. Cannot wait to start restoring it.

8. im looking at a JI case 1030. see whar happens.

9. you still have live auctions in 2025? since covid no one here went back to live auction, they all stayed with online. 😢

10. Haha! I grew up driving most all of that stuff.

11. This maschines was running before us and will after us

12. History .

13. I'll bet most all those tractors are family heirlooms handed down two, three even four generations.

14. Thanks for the video I noticed I haven't seen many plow fields like we used to see back in the 1970s now the more or less just shoot the seeds in between the corn stubble

15. 2008-2020 was a period of zero interest at national banks. Every old piece of metal was a potential investment. That's behind us, now inflation kills any expendable income. Lots of markers are collapsing.

16. Im glad Im not the only one who thought this whole auction was odd. Sitting inside, no ringmen, no nothing. No excitement no nothing. Jumbled up flyer with no logical way to navigate it. They def left alot of money on the table selling all this stuff.

17. This scenario is not realistic! With Buyer Premiums added and Minimums not met, there are no longer any "cheap" pricing.
    People need to wise up! An Auction is designed to sell unwanted or previously unsold items.

18. That first plough is an Oliver or Cockshutt. Suppose to be HI speed model.

19. That Ford 5000.Sweet!

20. If you don’t like the way they are selling . Don’t stay . Not every thing is done one way

21. you know a lot about tractors friend.

22. It looks like y'all had a lovely day together. There's a ton of value in those old machines. I crave more of that value and less of everything disposable.

23. All it takes is time and money and covered space to store them.

24. With those prices you didn't haul a few home?

25. Most likely many of these tractors sold for their original MSRP price…so did they really sell cheap? Hard to quantify.

26. Auctioneer needs improvement

27. Je boycotte toutes les vidéos doublées en Français c’est nul!

28. Young guy's today can't put that cell phone down , old tractors and old cars time is gone , SO start collecting cell phones ?

29. Really neat seeing this thanks for sharing

30. Lovely people.
    Thank you.

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