WD45 With or Without Loader
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Topic: WD45 With or Without Loader
Posted By: dannyraddatz
Subject: WD45 With or Without Loader
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 7:32am
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I can't make my mind up if I should sell the WD9 loader on the WD45. Is there a advantage in the future if I had to sell the tractor to have the bucket? Does it make it something a person may want as part of the tractor. Let me know what you think. Any idea on a value if it were to be sold. Danny    ------------- Danny Raddatz |
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Posted By: m16ty
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 7:58am
| While it will make the tractor worth more with a loader, I've found that they usually bring more money if sold separately. |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 8:23am
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My way of thinking is that if you sell the loader by itself then you limit the number of people who would be interested in it as it would require a WD45 or maybe a couple of others that it would fit on. Selling it with the tractor could bring in anyone who is looking for either a loader or just a tractor. Also less work to sell them together. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: dustinmo
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 8:31am
| In all honesty around here a wd9 loader (not painted up like yours ) but not broken or welded on will 99% of the time bring close to 75.00 seriosly. I have seen one bring close to 200 one time, and I still cant figure out why. I have 5 or 6 setting around and just picked up another one the other day at a sale for 50.00. The only reason I bought it was that the scrap man was gonna whiddle it up with his quickie saw if I didnt. A trip bucket loader around here on a tractor only seems to increase the value a little and I mean a little and it seems only to the older generations like over 65, but everywhere prices and trends are diferent. Around here Allis stuff is fairly reasonable unless it is a rare piece. I bought about 3 weeks ago a good and I mean a good 45 that has an overhaul about 8 years ago but hasnt been used much at all with a wf and a SC blade with a wd9 for 500.00. But I do think I stole it |
Posted By: ChuckLuedtkeSEWI
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 8:42am
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Is there a reason why you want to get rid of it. It is always nice to have a tractor that has a loader. I know a trip bucket is not as nice as one with full hydraulics, but it is nice. I don't know how many times I use my tractor with a loader to load up scrap stuff, pick up or unload plows or other stuff, or haul firewood. My loader I can load up a bucket of firewood, drive up to my front porch and lift up over the railings and unload. It's just handy to have. And if they're not worth that much money, then for me it would be a no brainer to keep it and have it around. You can always take it off someday if you don't like it on the tractor, but once you sell it, it will be a couple weeks down the road and you will think of something you needed it for and you won't be able to use it for that. ------------- 1955 WD45 diesel 203322 was my dad's tractor, 1966 D15 23530, 1961 HD3 Crawler 1918, 1966 D17 IV 83495, 1937 WC 41255, 1962 D19 6221 |
Posted By: dustinmo
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 8:54am
| I agree 100% with chuck I would keep it. I grew up with one (a trip bucket) on a d-17 and that was all we had for years and years, and I think you would be sorry if you were to sell it someday soon |
Posted By: AaronSEIA
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 9:00am
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If I could sneak it past my wife, I'd buy the loader just for the snow bucket. AaronSEIA
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Posted By: Harvey/pa
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 9:01am
| Sold the loader off my 175 because I hadn't used it for several years & we have 2 skidloaders & a backhoe. You can't imagine how many times I could have used it since! When I bought my first WD it had a loader & I told the old gentleman I did not need that, " Now Sonny, that will be the handiest thing on the farm and I'm not separating them" He was right...Harvey |
Posted By: B26240
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 9:01am
| I also agree with Chuck may be worth more as a unit and if future buyer dosn't want it you can take it off for him. |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 11:25am
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You pay anywhere from $150 on up around here for one. And that isn't with the snow bucket! I'd keep it for sure, otherwise the tractor becomes just a seller for chasing cattle. You gotta have equipment with a tractor. ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 11:33am
| A loader will make the tractor more sellable when you go to get rid of it. if you aren't usigng it they are easy to remove and install if you leave the brackets on the tractor. with a parking stand it only takes a fer minutes to remove it. the loader by its self is only worth a couple hundered dollars. trip bucket loaders while not as impressive as full hydraulic are still very usefull. they are so simple that little can go wrong with it. |