Buying Advice Minnie Mo Big Mo 500 TLB

[BenL]

Looking at a Big Mo 500 in a few days, guy bought in new back in the 60s, hasn’t ran in a while but says it ran when he retired (it’s a contractor liquidation sale). I know parts are a pain so I likely wouldn’t buy it unless he lets me tinker and get it running to test out transmission first. It’s sat under a shed, the case 580 and dozer he’s selling look nice so it doesn’t look like he beat stuff around.

$2,000 fair if I got it running and moving? If I got 2 months worth of work out of it, would be worth it.

 

[4570Man]

Buy the 580 and scrap this.

 

[BenL]

Buy the 580 and scrap this.

Asking 15k for the 580, which is too much, but still out of my current price range at fair market value

 

[4570Man]

If you can’t afford 15k you better run away as fast as you can go from a 60 year old backhoe.