Farm auction prices on a runaway

[WiltonRanch]

Guys go orgasmic for tandems at sales. I don't really understand. One outfit here runs nothing but automatic tandems cause anyone can drive them but for most part anyone givin er farming is trailers and trains. Even for seeding guys are pretty well adapted to trailers. My jerkwater grain farming enterprise I have a 85' star and 73' crateliner cab over which I got for $5000 at a sale and is good for me. However, I don't see the logic spending $90000 on a 450 bu payload when you could buy a decent truck and trailer for way less. Heck even silage guys are going to semis and converted gravel endumps. You just gotta wonder when this tandem and 3 ton market will ever weaken.

[furrowtickler]

I can zip in 5000 or more a day with one tandem if planned . With a pup close to 8,000 by myself if we have to . The two tandems we can clean bin bottoms and still get lots in if needed.
But that's ole school stuff , not for the big guys .
It all works out , each to their own. We are lucky to be close to 4 terminals if needed.

[furrowtickler]

How about a 60 ft 685 JD cult for $40K .. today

[farmaholic]

We use an autoshift tandem at harvest and seeding. Grain to terminal with a tridem, sometimes help the tridem with tandem on winter weights....still hard to justify for distance.

Furrow...Tillage is the new management strategy....and vertical tillage tools are a retarded price. I don't know the last time we bought cultivator shovels....

[blackpowder]

First, I want to pray for anyone with a 429 Ford as they do not know the opposite which is a 427 GM.
I drove a few of each back in the day. Humorous memories and cheap gas. 20/1 GMs in the pits?
Last week auction $132,000 for a 2012 automatic, (not autoshift 18) (smaller IH) tandem. There are maybe operations with everything else paid for with lower acres for 1 combine and family labor. Will not criticize.
The apex I think are tridrive body jobs. Maybe with pup. Merely a last gasp of one trend long outdated.

[furrowtickler]

Agree 100% , if you are any more than 5-10 miles Tandems are a waste of time for most .
Also agree paying these big $ for tandems at auctions is kinda out there , but so is $400,000 for a 1/4 of dirt, $600,000 for an air drill, tractor, sprayer or combine ... or $120 rent but it is what it is logical in today's world?
Just sayin , it's all relative in their own world. Every single farm has a different mindset and end goal.
We don't have a grain cart or a set of B's - does that make me a less of a farmer ?
The next guy may have 4 B's and a grain cart but with crop out right now does that make him less or more of a farmer ? No , it's all relative . It is what it is.
With the cost of anything nowadays, it's kinda interesting to criticize the price that others pay for anything - nothing makes much sense lol.
What makes sense to one guy may make absolutely no sense to anyone else .

[biglentil]

Tandems are for guys not willing to go for their 1A. Many farmers do no realize since 2015 an air brake endorsement is now required for tandems with air brakes. Going for a 1a is no cake walk. 1st you need to pass a transport medical, write 5 mini exams for your learners plus another one for your air endorsement. Challenging it is not really an option, a one week course minimum is virtually mandatory. Your intructor will know the exact course your examiner takes you on. And do not expect that your sgi examiner will cut you any slack cause your a farmer.

[bucket]

Furrow

What do you haul on a tandem load?

[hobbyfrmr]

Hobby believes in doing less for more! He got out of commodity ag where we do more for less.

Apply the principle where you want. True in some aspects of the two methods and not others.

Half a crop, twice the price! End result is similar to others, Possibly less frustrating pushing the production through the system to get grain sold. It is not perfect, it's just different.
I load a btrain to market if I get enough of a crop.

[grefer]

Its not as simple as just comparing a tandem vs a semi unit. Everyone and I mean everyone that runs semi units here must have a grain cart as well which then also puts as many or more hours on a tractor in the fall as in the spring pulling it around.