Southern Pa. | roadrunner2176 - 12/11/2016 10:26
Not worth it to me. 61000 can currently buy a lot of combine. Add another 500 hours to that machine and its in the 30K price plus 20 -30k for its first rebuild at current pricing.
Its a nice looking machine, but any machine can take a rock, run dirt, mice issues, or need work not seen, heard, or felt until its run. I wouldn't have gone over 36k for the package. Age starts to factor more then hours at a certain point. Best way to maintain a piece of equipment is to use it.
No 4x4, no CM, no yield monitor, some fresh paint, if those weren't desired, a 15 to 20K machine with 3k hours would have been just fine.
I purchased much more,(machine, 2 heads, carrier, 1500 hrs) much newer for much less just last month.
To each their own, if seller and buyer are pleased, what does it matter.
At 500 seperator hrs. there is no way it should need 15 to 20k spent on it in another 500 hrs. With proper care, those machines will run to 2000 seperator hours without much more than routine maintenance. At least mine did.
A cherry late model 9500 with 1500 to 2000k seperator hours will bring $35 to $45k around here, depending on options. It's hard to beat a good walker in small grain crops, especially the straw quality. Lots of straw in our area, people love walker straw for their horse bedding.
A $15 to $20k 9500 is almost a salvage machine in our neighborhood. You won't buy anything but junk at that price, here.It would be a rotted,faded, wore out Arkansas rice machine that ain't worth looking at.
If you can find me nice late model 9500 combines with 1000 seperator hours for $30k, I'll buy a whole boatload of them. A real nice late model 9500 with 1000k seperator hours is a $50000 machine here, easy. |
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