Sellers remorse

[oakleaf]

Do many people suffer from this?
You know , when you trade in a tractor and a month or two later begin to think you should have held on to it.
You cant keep them all though , or can you? Do you?
I find it difficult to trade in. You generally get less than you expect and find a need for the tractor soon after you get rid of it.

 

[A1an]

Yep, not a tractor though but a RIB.

Took me a year to restore it then went and sold it to fund the next bigger project.

As it was being towed out my drive by its new owner I knew I had made the wrong decision. I still regret it.

 

[tr250]

No im always glad that if it breaks we don't have to pay for it anymore

 

[DrWazzock]

I suffer from this. A bigger shed cured it for a while, but sadly it's full again and I am back to having to sell stuff.

Broke my heart to sell the old shelbourne Reynolds swather last year but it took up a huge amount of room for a day's work per year. Did a beautiful job though in partnership with the draper pickup, though the old Belarus engine did get quite a sweat on and breathed quite heavily.

It is often the case that new machinery disappoints because it hasn't had years of honing and "design improvements". I remember when we swapped the Sanderson triple mast fork lift for the manitou we could never loaden a lorry as fast with the manitou. The Sanderson was short and fat but could turn on a sixpence and no delays due to booming out over the wagon. After thirty years driving the Sanderson loading lorries, it felt like an extension of my being whereas the manitou felt like a wooden leg.

 

[Renaultman]

I suffer from keepers remorse. The one where you think one more repair will keep her going for another year or two. I am hoping and praying that I am not in the process of doing it again.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

I know a friend of mine, farm been in the family for 3 generation, only have sold 2 tractors off the farm in that time, currently have 18 tractors, and they wish they never sold the 2,
machinery is the same way, and currently have enough tackle to do everything in house

 

[Cluny]

Sold my 956 two years ago, only had 5672hrs on it with hardly any rust and a bone dry cab loved the sound of that tractor didn’t need a radio just opened the side window, will have to stop now just about greeting[emoji22]

 

[Grassman]

Yep, not a tractor though but a RIB.

Took me a year to restore it then went and sold it to fund the next bigger project.

As it was being towed out my drive by its new owner I knew I had made the wrong decision. I still regret it.

Have you sold your kidneys as well?

 

[Roy_H]

It was often the opposite with us! I used to hate chucking good money after bad by trying to repair equipment that ( To me at any rate) was totally knackered then when we finally bought a new replacement having my elders saying to me "We should have done this five years ago" ( Accompanied by me muttering under my breath "I told you so")

 

[Flat 10]

Its tricky. I am always sad to see them go but if I keep them unnecessarily I tend to resent the space, time and money they take up , especially when you think oh I'll just use the old tractor save me taking something off/fetching the new one etc and it won't start!
Having said that I have bought more tractors than I have sold..........
I know a man with 3 decent mainline tractors and about a dozen or more 'classics' ranging from the late 60's to the late 80's. Some of them are worth quite a bit of money but its too many really IMO. I think I would sell most of them and spend a bit of the money doing up a couple of my favourites and enjoy using them a bit.

 

[Roy_H]

Have you sold your kidneys as well?

I am still trying to work out what a RIB is

 

[ColinV6]

Don’t suffer from this with farm machinery, if it’s old and a liability get rid, the new replacement will most likely be quicker, smoother, quieter and just work (usually)

Must be a generation thing I think. We have a 1973 Terex loading shovel that dad is emotionally attached to, me personally I’d have it out of here and get a handler.
It’s a good work horse but I’m sure the cost of keeping it going on hydr oil and brake fluid must equal a monthly payment on a handler

 

[B R C]

No, it’s a business not a museum, if you’re into old tractors fair enough, they take up space that can be better utilised, time and money. We’ve sold some crackers though, nice 4000, 2850, 7810.

 

[YELROM]

I am still trying to work out what a RIB is

Me to, i've googled it and all it brings up is rib knitting machines

 

[Nearly]

I am still trying to work out what a RIB is

Rigid Inflatable Boat.

 

[Nearly]

I don't suffer from sellers remorse.
I'm a buyer by nature.

 

[Happy]

Kind of the opposite here.
Often feel I am going to miss the tractor, forklift, pick up or whatever that I know like the back of my hand and has served me well for 5 or 6 years but after a week or two in the replacement never give them a second thought.

 

[oakleaf]

Don’t suffer from this with farm machinery, if it’s old and a liability get rid, the new replacement will most likely be quicker, smoother, quieter and just work (usually)

Must be a generation thing I think. We have a 1973 Terex loading shovel that dad is emotionally attached to, me personally I’d have it out of here and get a handler.
It’s a good work horse but I’m sure the cost of keeping it going on hydr oil and brake fluid must equal a monthly payment on a handler

Now you have touched on something else there. The emotional attachment to tractors.
I have a MF 575 here . It is the only tractor left here that my late Dad bought. Only gets used for 70 or 80 hrs/year and is too small for nearly all my machinery. But I would find it incredibly difficult to sell it.
Also have a 29 year old Fendt whose first owner had to sell due to ill health. I can still hear him saying as he handed over the key
"You take good care of her now you hear".
He died a few months later

Strangely for me implements are completely different and I hold no emotions on them.

 

[Lincsman]

No, its usually sold because of impending doom, and hear later combine engine had to come out due to low oil pressure, along with tractor split due to some issue in the gearbox (it groaned a little when on tilt)... thats why I buy new and not used.

Used to be a farmer up the road that traded NOTHING in, cars tractors everything, it all rusted away to dust in the end

 

[oakleaf]

Used to be a farmer up the road that traded NOTHING in, cars tractors everything, it all rusted away to dust in the end

Yea theres plenty like that around here too. Yards full of junk.
One place I go to has a manitou RTFL sat out in the rain for at least 20 years. Apparently someone tried to buy it some years ago but was told no we are going to restore it one day.
That day hasnt arrived yet.