Value?

[markseven 93]

Im wondering if wheelhorse  tractors are 

Going to be valued some day  .

 

Point being is I've seen a Oliver garden tractors selling for 5k.

 

[953 nut 68,009]

That kind of depends on what Wheel Horse you are talking about. This one has four and a half days to go on eBay and is at nearly $ 3,000.00 now, you be the judge.

 

[ineedanother 2,712]

52 minutes ago, markseven said:

Im wondering if wheelhorse  tractors are 

Going to be valued some day  .

I value mine  

[sqrlgtr 3,568]

me toooo

[Achto 32,218]

2 hours ago, markseven said:

Im wondering if wheelhorse  tractors are 

Going to be valued some day  .

 

Point being is I've seen a Oliver garden tractors selling for 5k.

 

You kind of need to look at production numbers a little bit. Oliver production numbers were low. Most  numbers were not that low. Now if you are talking about a  that there was only 200 made of - like the 420LSE the price tag goes up a fair amount. Supply & demand ya know.

 

Some people get upset when a  gets mutilated or scrapped out. Which I have to agree, I get a little saddened when it happens. The other way to look at it is - Every horse that dies, makes the survivors more valuable.

 

I collect because I enjoy the hobby and even more so, the people associated with it. If I was in it to make any money at all, I would not have restored any of my tractors.

Edited yesterday at 01:20 AM by Achto

[Retired Wrencher 6,881]

8 hours ago, Achto said:

 

You kind of need to look at production numbers a little bit. Oliver production numbers were low. Most  numbers were not that low. Now if you are talking about a  that there was only 200 made of - like the 420LSE the price tag goes up a fair amount. Supply & demand ya know.

 

Some people get upset when a  gets mutilated or scrapped out. Which I have to agree, I get a little saddened when it happens. The other way to look at it is - Every horse that dies, makes the survivors more valuable.

 

I collect because I enjoy the hobby and even more so, the people associated with it. If I was in it to make any money at all, I would not have restored any of my tractors.

Well said Achto! I can relate to that.     

[oldlineman 1,767]

[stevasaurus 23,778]

There is no doubt that Oliver has a following...especially in Minnesota.  I was at a tractor show in LaSueur in 2010 that featured Olivers.  I will share some pictures from that show.  Some of the exhibits were outstanding.  A lot of trinkets like Wheel Horse does through the years.  Value...when I go out to mow my lawn and move snow they almost start when I look at them...and they are from the mid-60's.  That is hard to beat and still looking good cutting grass.  Enjoy the pictures.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just to show Wheel Horse was there in force!!  

[953 nut 68,009]

Did somebody say Oliver? Check this one out, most unusual OLIVER I have ever seen.       

[c-series don 12,262]

Considering that’s my last name I’m not sure why I don’t have a collection of them instead of Wheel Horses! Years ago I was at an auction in Pennsylvania and there was an Oliver garden tractor for sale. It was in decent shape and I thought I’d buy it. I remember I had $2000 in my pocket and figured that would be more than enough. Boy was I wrong! It went for more than double that !

[Brockport Bill 2,441]

we were all taught at early age the value of something is determined by what someone is willing to pay -- 

 

the WH line of tractors should be looked at over multiple eras they were manufactured ------------  and the corresponding human generations that overlapped those years

 

- the wh tractors of the 1950s, 60s and 70s -- then another era perhaps the 1980s and 90s, then or course the toro era that followed.

 

perhaps the overlay is to consider the tractor eras in the context of the ages of the human generations that overlapped them in the persons prime age -- eg: a homeowner or small farm owner ages 30s - 40s - 50s --  with children with a suburban yard -

 

for our family we were young parents with young children when we bought our '89, 312-8 for a suburban yard - now my children and grandchildren have WH tractors -- but many families have not had the wh loyalty follow them?????????

 

however it appears as the "supply" inventory of WH dwindle from attrition so does the demand -- the affection driving current demand is higher among the older generation -- likely in our age 60s 70s and 80s  -- 

 

if the affection of the generation of age 20-30-40 do not by quantity have the same demand affection for them as the prior age groups then the demand will dimminish -- and thus one could argue the monetary value could diminish?? 

 

of course many decades from now there will likely still be some hard core WH demand just like collectors of Mustangs - Camaros - or Watches - or perhaps stamps or coins -- but clearly the owners of WH tractors from the years of the 1960s 70s and 80s are headed to the heavens - as will just as a function of math leave fewer of the original loyal owners 

[Retired Wrencher 6,881]

11 hours ago, stevasaurus said:

There is no doubt that Oliver has a following...especially in Minnesota.  I was at a tractor show in LaSueur in 2010 that featured Olivers.  I will share some pictures from that show.  Some of the exhibits were outstanding.  A lot of trinkets like Wheel Horse does through the years.  Value...when I go out to mow my lawn and move snow they almost start when I look at them...and they are from the mid-60's.  That is hard to beat and still looking good cutting grass.  Enjoy the pictures.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just to show Wheel Horse was there in force!!  

Boy  Steve that’s a lot of green. But I can take that green over the one with the yellow. I just can’t stand the yellow. That’s just my two cents.

Edited 3 hours ago by Retired Wrencher

[c-series don 12,262]

@Brockport Bill I believe you are 100% correct. Notice that the Model A and T Fords are not commanding what they once were. I believe that this is because the people that drove them when they were young have now passed on. The connection is simply not there with people that didn’t grow up with that generation. I suppose this holds true with our tractors. Not that I don’t appreciate the older WH’s from the fifties and sixties, but I grew up with the ones from the seventies and eighties so I seem to be a little more attracted to them. I sincerely hope that there will always be people interested and involved with these kinds of things, old cars, trucks tractors etc but it seems as time goes on there’s less and less young people that seem to care about this type of stuff?