Good news for tractor pricing, if you're selling.

[Cinco]

Well I decided to sell my Jinma. Purchased in 2006 for $10,000. 354, front end loader. Got it with less than 10 hours. I have 230 hours on it now. Looked at some prices of what they were going for, if I could find any, and decided I would put it up for $10,500. Overall in decent shape, a few dings and bangs here and there, needs the headlights rewired in and fixed as they melted the plastic mounts. Put it on craigs and the phone rang like crazy. Had several people come out and look it over and I decided with the interest I was getting I would not play the bargaining game and stick with my asking price. Got the call this evening a fellow is coming tomorrow with cash and a trailer! My lil Virjinia will be missed. She worked well and got my chores done, but a few things will not be missed. Very hard to start when cold, even with a water heater added. No cab, and not really good way to put one on. Every once in awhile another crappy rubber part gives up and I go searching for replacements. The hydraulics stick all the time and I am tired of tinkering with it trying to get them to work better. Looking at replacements it seems that all tractors are holding their value really well.
I could have made my jinma work as I want, but adding everything to it that I want, I might as well upgrade to a better tractor. Even then it might not work as I want it to.
I am looking at replacements. I will upgrade to something with a cab, hoping for hydrostatic transmission but will take a manual if I have to. I want power connections out the back, with flow in 2 directions not just up and gravity down. Want quick detach bucket for the front, there are so many attachments now that take them. Want connections for a grapple bucket, hydro to run a snow blower out the front.
I plan on spending about $16,000-18000 on my upgraded tractor. Let the hunt begin.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

Interesting. A 35 HP from Northern Tool with FEL is $15,999. I bought my 354 about the same time you did. Back then there were dozens of guys selling them on the web, on Ebay and on Craigslist. Maybe some of the dealers can comment but it seems like the market for new has almost completely dried up except for Northern Tool. I realize it varies by region, but around here there's never anything good on Craigslist, used is almost as much as new unless it has thousands of hours and little life left. So I can see 10K for a running tractor being appealing.

I imagine the buyer will be showing up here shortly looking to fix everything that's wrong with it!

 

[Cinco]

I am wondering if I even under priced it... Hopefully I can replace it as planned without going broke.
Yep, haven't seen a dealer listing them hardly anywhere.

 

[Affordable]

Currently No Jinma tractors have the required EPA Certificate for import into the USA,Northern is bringing in Foton tractors with the 2013 EPA certificate, the engine factories will have to get the new certificates very soon to keep importing them

The Chinese always seem to wait until the last min. I think they will get the new certificates,until then the selection will be small on Chinese tractors, which should help keep the pricing up.

Tommy
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