Used Machinery
Chances are, you’ve had one of those days … where everything just goes wrong. To help ease your pain, check out the photos below. They are guaranteed to evoke chuckles and “ohhh nos.”
Here are four truths of this new normal.
Moral of the story: There are a lot of experts on the internet. Some of them actually know what they’re doing.
There are many repairs that are fast, cheap and easy the second time you do them. The overhead panel in a particular brand of combine is a good example.
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Welcome to Rob Meek’s timeless world, where the toymaking maestro painstakingly crafts farm toys from wood, built from scratch.
This auction features garden tractors, high hp tractors, sprayers, cotton pickers, livestock equipment and more.
The most trusted name in farm equipment, Machinery Pete, is sharing some timely insights during the 2021 Farm Journal Field Days.
There is more than $5 million in inventory up for sale during the first absolute auction, which closes August 17.
If you love tractors, auctions, and farm equipment…the new Machinery Pete TV Auction Edition monthly show airing on RFD-TV is for you!
One item of particular interest on the first-ever Machinery Pete Auction is a 2003 John Deere 6420 with loader and only 156 actual original hours from C & B Operations, LLC in Mitchell, SD.
Here are five big lessons of the current used machinery market.
Carl Lucas’ unlikely survival after falling into the steel grip of a PTO shaft is a chilling account of farm machinery danger: “Look at me and learn. Look at my missing arm and remember.”
Machinery Pete Auctions will host monthly online, timed, no reserve, no buyer’s fee auctions, offering a new alternative for selling used farm equipment.
Used equipment values continued rising right through April 2021 after the second-biggest quarterly jump (7.8 to 8.5) ever on Machinery Pete “Used Values Index” Overall Index Rating.
This latest rise in used equipment values is, frankly, breathtaking.
From possible sweeping policy changes to infrastructure, to more time to sign up for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans that can help cover some equipment payments, here’s the top machinery headlines.
In this current period, I am seeing very strong auction prices on a variety of equipment categories — from tractors in good condition to hay equipment.
If you have used equipment to sell, listen up. From “What’s it worth?” to “How do I maximize resale value?” check out the answers to your top machinery questions.
The current farm equipment market is all about availability.
Toy land is a real place. Max Williams, the Willy Wonka of John Deere toys, is a farm boy eight decades removed from the addiction of his first cast iron tractor, and wonderfully obsessed.
What does everyone want? Tractors in good condition, with low hours, often 10 to 20 years old. Why? The price of new equipment just keeps going up every year.
The rebuilt/retrofit factor in the used planter market has been huge the past 18 to 24 months.
The rising prices of corn and soybeans had farmers in the buying mood big time in the last few months of the year.
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Machinery wholesale values are nearly equal to retail values.
Search traffic for used livestock equipment on MachineryPete.com was very strong early in 2016.
In December 2015, user searches for balers on MachineryPete.com spiked 11%.
Much of life is timing—particularly when it comes to all things financial.