Big prices for little tractors

[California]

That is why dealers are selling so many new compact utility tractors . ... And can be trailed on an class III u-haul bumper hitch.

These little ones can go in a 4x8 . 100 miles in 105 degree weather, no problem, not overloaded.

Well, sometimes you hit the limit of what's safe and reasonable. This trip home with the other one I chose 100% back roads because the related freeway (US101) always has traffic.

 

[California]

Also the alternatives, new cheap chinese crate tractors have gone away with tier 4.

No more Jinma's etc? So now Kioti etc from Korea are the least expensive new tractors? That's a big step up in cost (and quality).

 

[deepNdirt]

It's called ( cost and demand ) I've been noticing over the past 15 years or so, for a under 20 Hp. compact tractor 15 years ago would have cost 2,500 the same tractor now is priced around 4,000...... I believe some folks seen the upcoming market 15 years ago for the compact tractors and jumped on the wagon,

 

[clemsonfor]

Also the alternatives, new cheap chinese crate tractors have gone away with tier 4.

Hate this

 

[Whiskey]

I just posted mine over the weekend for sale, there are a couple in the area that are listed for less

Compact Yanmar YM187 Tractor

 

[chriswheeler]

California, when we crossed paths over at Sacramento Tractor that day, I'd just bought the YM 3000 from them for $4000. Higher bill once the implements were added in, but all in all, best deal around I could find after a year of searching. After retiring and moving to Nevada, I find prices are much better on this side of the border if you know what you want, and take the time to shop around. I suspect, like almost anything else, prices are higher in California. I came across lots of scams when I was looking around before buying at Sac. Tractor. I made it a rule I'd only buy something I could drive up to, kick the tires, and drive away with in the trailer. That rule seamed to keep me out of trouble so far. I guess I was lucky to find Van and her brother at Sacramento Tractor for my first, to bad they are out of business. My current tractor was a Nevada tractor, a 970TLB 1400 hours and the #8A backhoe. Found the same tractor in several places in CA, same hours and condition, starting $4K more. Thinking better pricing can be found in areas out of state with less population and with a lesser demand.
Chris

 

[clemsonfor]

Taxes and cost of living make everything more in California. Its simple math if houses wadges and food cost more there so will everything else!!

Like guns...i was shopping for a small conceal carry pistol. I found what i wanted and ordered it. I paid over $100 less than someone did in california several years ago for the very same gun!!! And we all know what the recent years have done to gun prices, if you dont they have increased them. Theirs was bought prior to the increases as well!!!!

Tractors i cant see to be any different, there only X number of yanmars and way more buyers that have the cash to buy what they want.

 

[Trkrd]

You get what you pay for.Our old Yannies are pretty much bullet proof. I wouldn't trade mine for a brand new Chinese anything! I've pushed mine to the limit (and sometimes over) for years and it's never let me down.

 

[California]

Here's an example of what we see for inexpensive old tractors in California. Surplused-out from big agribusiness is far more common than a tractor from family farm use.

These were likely used a few weeks per year by a contract harvesting company to haul grape gondolas in the Central Valley. (inexpensive winegrape region). Now he's advertising his used equipment in the Napa Craigslist. ($$$$$$$ winegrapes). Clever!

I'll bet the first problem a buyer finds is that they didn't need decent brakes in the dead-flat vineyards they came from but they could get real exciting pulling a heavy trailer out of a Napa hillside vineyard.

Craigslist: Ford Ferguson Tractors Philift Gondolas Trailers

One of the seller's pictures:

 

[chriswheeler]

Ran across 2 tractor lots up in Yuba City that looked like your pic. Mostly old 8-9N's, and tired, no effort to repair or restore. Prices went from $1500 for non-op junk to $4500 for running both places. Think my $4000 spent on the VN referb YM3000 with a Koyker 160 loader was still the best deal by far. The Yanmar I bought needed work over the years, but still proved itself to be a bargain. There is a great market there in CA. for decent used tractors, just not many there, and the ones that are priced well above other places when I was looking 10 years ago. The confidence Yanmar gave with their YM3000 helped me buy it's replacement, a JD970 that came off the same Yanmar production line. Think selling their gray market tractors here is good for the Yanmar name. They have a place with the small farmer or property owner. I'm somewhat surprised that they fight this or can't seam to figure this market out. If someone was thinking over in Japan, they would have picked up on this idea and be doing a quality referb themselves in Japan and selling here because of the demand. The market for used would end up not conflicting with their new tractors, I think it's a different market. Few small land owners will go out and buy a new $25K tractor to mow, move a little snow a few times a year. Lots of people would spent in the $2K range for that, about the price of a good riding mower from a big box store.
Chris