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Oscar

Oscar

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Was that the one in "classic tractor" last month ?
Can t believe our luck or maybe our loss but we had a 1884 here for a day on sort of demo / photo shoot for County Commercial Cars . We had a couple other Countys and Ken Coles who grows alot of Swedes( and still does) also had a fleet so our local dealer at the time, Hawkes Holdings from Taunton got one down on a weekend and it came covered and on a plain lorry but they used our ground and a DP7 D plough to try it and remember Ken and his main couple blokes coming to drive it and my brother and dad also. I was only around 10 at the time but was tractor mad. Apparently, they did not want it spotted and as Ken C lives near Taunton and the new M5 they asked us if we could host it. Neither K C or us bought one although we both bought smaller machines after.
 
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Speedstar

Speedstar

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Scottish Borders
Dave W said:
I don't think folk get carried away at those prices. It's clearly wealthy folk going with the intention of buying it. Money no object.
better than investing
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That is a very good question
if back in 1984 you had invested say 30k which would be about the new price for that tractor in not to higher risk stocks & shares and keeped moving them about over there 35 years years it could well have done as well as that tractor has.
 
76masseyman

76masseyman

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Lincolncestershire
Speedstar said:
That is a very good question
if back in 1984 you had invested say 30k which would be about the new price for that tractor in not to higher risk stocks & shares and keeped moving them about over there 35 years years it could well have done as well as that tractor has.
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Easy could have.
My thoughts may differ to others, but........
You play in stocks and shares, things go ok, and in the future you have capital to play with. Capital you can use because you can buy things like property, new car etc with your earnings.

The tractor made a lot of money on the day. Good for the seller, as he now has a healthy bank account, and the buyer has his tractor.
The value of the tractor is only worth what it has made ( at this present time ) to one other person, the underbidder, and I’m pretty sure the underbidder will soon be offered an 1884 buy an owner looking to cash in while the irons hot.

So now these two buyers are sorted, and unless there are several out there that would love an 1884 ( me being one of them but got more chance at platting fog than financing one ) with similar money, then this ship has sailed, remember the Case IH 1455 XL making more than a Doe recently !

The owner of the 1884 now can’t use it to buy a boat / house etc, like they could with cash, but good on them, and I’m happy for them getting a stunning tractor.
But how long before another type of model becomes the in vogue one to have ?
 
Speedstar

Speedstar

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Scottish Borders
76masseyman said:
Easy could have.
My thoughts may differ to others, but........
You play in stocks and shares, things go ok, and in the future you have capital to play with. Capital you can use because you can buy things like property, new car etc with your earnings.

The tractor made a lot of money on the day. Good for the seller, as he now has a healthy bank account, and the buyer has his tractor.
The value of the tractor is only worth what it has made ( at this present time ) to one other person, the underbidder, and I’m pretty sure the underbidder will soon be offered an 1884 buy an owner looking to cash in while the irons hot.

So now these two buyers are sorted, and unless there are several out there that would love an 1884 ( me being one of them but got more chance at platting fog than financing one ) with similar money, then this ship has sailed, remember the Case IH 1455 XL making more than a Doe recently !

The owner of the 1884 now can’t use it to buy a boat / house etc, like they could with cash, but good on them, and I’m happy for them getting a stunning tractor.
But how long before another type of model becomes the in vogue one to have ?
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not all ways the case a few years a go a mate told a guy to buy him a ford 7000 at a sale , so he did it cost him £13,750 and the was not happy that he had to pay so much for it the man only did as he was told , them 3 or 4 months down the line the man had a sale & sold the Ford 7000 this time it made £16,250 , mate was well happy , them the same Ford 7000 was sold on again this time it made £21,000. you never know what tractors like this will make
 
76masseyman

76masseyman

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Lincolncestershire
Speedstar said:
not all ways the case a few years a go a mate told a guy to buy him a ford 7000 at a sale , so he did it cost him £13,750 and the was not happy that he had to pay so much for it the man only did as he was told , them 3 or 4 months down the line the man had a sale & sold the Ford 7000 this time it made £16,250 , mate was well happy , them the same Ford 7000 was sold on again this time it made £21,000. you never know what tractors like this will make
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Very true. But I think there will be more out there with a Ford 7000 budget to spend than a County 1884 budget.
Dearer they are, the smaller the market.
 
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