grandpa's tractor (long)

The B hasn"t ran for many years. If my memory serves me right, everything is still there, tires were holding air, the metal was all rusted, but straight, no holes, dents, etc. How much might this tractor be worth, what would be a fair price to start at? My cousin and his brother tend to break things. Fortunetly, they aren"t into tractors, so the B has been spared, for now....

How many of you have a Farmall B, and what do you use it for? If I can get this tractor, I will use it for raking hay, maybe get a cultivator for it. How much does the B weigh? How about fuel usage? Any more thoughts/ opinions would be helpful.

Get a hold of that B! Fix it up nice. Pamper it, put it in parades. I'll buy it from you in a moment if you tire of it.

PS My tractor made the front cover of Red Power magazine May/June, 2005. A real thrill.

$1,000 would be high in my mind, but if that's what it takes to get it, and you can afford it, so what?

Unfortunately you sometimes come across a relative who will try to profit from your sentimentality. I only have my grandpa's M because an uncle insisted on having a sale at grandpa's death. The uncle who still lived at home could only afford his dad's pickup and the M. He then sold it to me 25 years later just before his death. The uncle who insisted on the sale didn't need the money but liked to make other people squirm. He wasn't in the family, just married to my aunt.

As far as fuel, I think it’s a real miser. It will move 10,000 bushels of corn with the auger on less than a tank (10 gallons) of gas. You can rake hay all day with mine on less than a tank. My uncle used to pull a 10 foot drill or a 12 foot windrower all day on less than a tank full.

I think it runs on very little fuel…

BTW, mine is a 1940 that my dad bought new. I won’t part with it until I’m departed…

Ronald