Annoying Tractor ADs online.

This really frustrates me.

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MightyRaze wrote:

This really frustrates me.

FB Tractor AD

I see crap ads all day. People are idiots. I will say ill pretty much give 50 for any mower that rolls and is complete.

I can tell that is a murray widebody lt, but missing at least a hood and deck. Makes me think they are hiding something.

Down here in this county u can't find nothang for that price it 100 or more for something like that.

It's an anomaly here too. 150-200 seems to be the norm starting point anymore and that is typically for junk without an engine.

Yea it is ridiculous how they want to charger for something that don't have engine nor a transaxles or no hood is all I can find four them price around here and if u git lucky enough u mit find one for a arm an leg.

I think flipping mowers became a “side hustle” and everybody started doing it a couple years ago, which is fine and all, but then people started asking too much for junk lawn tractors.

Yea it is so hard to want you need down here cause the junk one are 150 on up to 600 here iv never seen a 50 dollar mower here.

In the Atlanta area you can not sell a fine cutting and riding lawn mower for more then $300.

Except for stupid questions, mine went unnoticed and unsold for $350 after a few weeks, so, I have been using it myself for the past two+ years because I was not selling it for less then $350.  Mind you, I bought  it not running at an auction for <$50.  But, it needed a battery, carb.,  and some TLC, and a couple of tubes for the tires.  I probably own it for less then $125 after the oil change and expensive full syn 5w-50 I used to top off the tranny,  Which I might remove and drain during the off season.



I just paid $30 for a complete Murray wide body. I thought it had a F-N-R, as I was disassembling it, I saw Peerless 205 on a finned housing.  I guess it is a hydro 205?  Never heard of it.  I think I might keep it complete if I can get it to run.

What I find annoying is a local John Deere dealer that spams Craigslist with $123 ads for new JD while making it look like he is selling older used ones.  Besides the DRM issues, I would rather buy a made in India or Korea tractor then anything from this JD dealer.

I just search for "riding" and "tractors" for $300 <= and use the hide duplicates.  Then look for ones with good running motors and transmission problems.  I do not bother with facebook, ebay, and the like.  Most of my great scores are at farm and equipment auctions.

My everyday Murray widebody that I use sometimes everyday I bought for less then $50 at auction. It was one of my better purchases.

@JB_4x4 I'm not 100% sure if Peerless actually makes hydros, most I've seen have been TuffTourque, I'd guess you have a Peerless MST205 (Manual Shift Transaxle) which would be a 5 speed and a decent trans to boot!

Not to stray too far off topic, BUT, it is a Peerless VST-205 vs. MST-205.  It looks like a 205 on the gear side which takes I assume grease or oil, then the other side separated by a bead of silicon contains the hydro which takes the syn 20-50?

The reason I know this is I watched some videos. By searching for it, I came across some new units being sold by roms, a guy selling locker gears. Strange, very strange :-D

No kidding that's craziness!