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MF 168 Price

  • 11-10-2009 6:31pm
    #1
    locha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭


    Just wondering if anyone knows the REAL buying price of a MF 168. I saw one yesterday it was in pretty good nick and has wet brakes. I know over the last few years that 135/165s were making stupid money but has this time passed? I was thinking 3,500 would be a fair price the guy selling is looking for close to 6k. Cheers


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  • #2
    irish_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,271 ✭✭✭irish_bob


    locha wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone knows the REAL buying price of a MF 168. I saw one yesterday it was in pretty good nick and has wet brakes. I know over the last few years that 135/165s were making stupid money but has this time passed? I was thinking 3,500 would be a fair price the guy selling is looking for close to 6k. Cheers

    hes out of his mind , id offer him three


  • #3
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    locha wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone knows the REAL buying price of a MF 168. I saw one yesterday it was in pretty good nick and has wet brakes. I know over the last few years that 135/165s were making stupid money but has this time passed? I was thinking 3,500 would be a fair price the guy selling is looking for close to 6k. Cheers

    With a square axel and wet brakes they are a very saught after tractor. They come in a 4 speed also. Not many buyers for the 3 speed with Multi-power.
    A 4 speed in good nick with low hours or documented hostory of engine rebuilding and resprayed was making a min of €8k in the good times. What's it making now?? More than €3k anyway.


  • #4
    Bitten & Hisses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭Bitten & Hisses


    reilig wrote: »
    With a square axel and wet brakes they are a very saught after tractor. They come in a 4 speed also. Not many buyers for the 3 speed with Multi-power.
    A 4 speed in good nick with low hours or documented hostory of engine rebuilding and resprayed was making a min of €8k in the good times. What's it making now?? More than €3k anyway.

    Agreed. If it's a genuine tidy machine with no major rust issues or big costs coming down the tracks, 6K is bang on the money. (for one with the spec described above)


  • #5
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Bitten & Hisses wrote: »
    Agreed. If it's a genuine tidy machine with no major rust issues or big costs coming down the tracks, 6K is bang on the money. (for one with the spec described above)

    You might push him down to €5k if he's stuck for the money, but €6 is the general run. You can buy loads of 1 series MF tractors for €2k to €4k, but you pay for what you get too.


  • #6
    Bitten & Hisses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭Bitten & Hisses


    A neighbour has a 4-speed square axle 168 with wide wheels on it for as long as I can remember. It must've been very new when I bought it. It has drawn silage, pushed up silage and fed silage in the winter, but it sees little use nowadays. That tractor has never given any trouble and I still find myself looking enviously across the ditch at it.


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  • #7
    robototitico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭robototitico


    Here's one for 5 grand
    http://www.farmads.ie/machinery/tractors/356_massey_ferguson_168


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