Things you wish you'd never sold........

Nekarsulm

Regrets, I've had a few .......

I'm sure we have all sold something, sure in the knowledge that we'd never use it again.
Only to look back and say "I wish I'd kept that xxxx"

My ones would be a Mk1 Escort (rotten, to be honest), a Nuffield 10/60 that I traded in against a Fiat 90/90 and probably got exactly nothing for, and an old 1980's BMW r65 motorbike.

Mac Taylor

Zetor 5511 sold for scrap, I learned to drive on it. In the end all that was left working was the engine.......looking back with the rose tinted glasses I wish I kept it:D

50HX

a 3 point linkage pto power washer........well the aul fella sold it:D

kollegeknight

An anvil and forge set- when I first started work- the principal told me to sell it, I didn’t have the cash to buy it so a neighbour did. The brother then Took a shine to forge work and no anvil to be got for the price the whole lot was sold for.

Aravo

Things you wish you'd never bought would also be interesting.

I'm afraid we are hoarders at home so no use on this thread.

White Clover

Aravo wrote: »

Things you wish you'd never bought would also be interesting.

I'm afraid we are hoarders at home so no use on this thread.

Would you give a few examples?ðŸ˜

Who2

A batch of 15 heifers that i cashed in to build a shed, sold because icbf had that they would be lacking milk. I kept the following years heifers and all had plenty, a high percentage of bulls since.

Say my name

A Marshall 804 4wd.
It was our first introduction to 4wd tractors. I passed out many a tractor on it.
There was a lovely sound from it. You'd be deaf but nice sound. Especially the whistle from the turbo.
The parts were as soft as butter though and anything that could go wrong did go wrong with it. But it was a good introduction to the benefits of what a 4wd could do and allowed us to do work we never could do before.

If I kept it though. It would only be for tractor runs and passing out other classic tractors.

Aravo

Bought a kverneland spring tine harrow years ago. It had it's work done but they were hard to come by, so bought it. About a week later saw a well minded one came up for sale. Spend about a week doing up the one I bought. Everytime I hook it up, I think of the other one. I should have bought the other one aswell.

Also, bought a cattle trimmer for doing the backs. Works alright, but you cannot get anyone to sharpen the things right. Have had new blades ruined by different people.

lucast2007us

My Kidney

valtra2

My semen

Say my name

My foot.

Butcher Boy

Volvo l 30

Icelandicseige

Sold Cows with calves at foot in the Mart few years ago. Were great cows and had U and e grade calfs at foot. Didnt get near enough for them. Still sickens me every time I think of it.

Willfarman

Hoarding is a terrible disorder lads.. Remember that rusty crap you wistfully look back at would be slowly rotting ion the farmyard with a thick layer of green scum that grows unless you've an idle shed for it all!

charolais0153

valtra2 wrote: »

My semen

Hmmmm

memorystick

Say my name wrote: »

A Marshall 804 4wd.
It was our first introduction to 4wd tractors. I passed out many a tractor on it.
There was a lovely sound from it. You'd be deaf but nice sound. Especially the whistle from the turbo.
The parts were as soft as butter though and anything that could go wrong did go wrong with it. But it was a good introduction to the benefits of what a 4wd could do and allowed us to do work we never could do before.

If I kept it though. It would only be for tractor runs and passing out other classic tractors.

I was reared on Leylands and sat in my fathers balls on a 10/60 for years. Terrible tractors. Soft clutch, bad steering and the hydraulics! I remember keeping the oil changed in the back end to keep it cool so it would tip a trailer when drawing in silage.

Not a tractor

Wildsurfer

My Dads first tractor, a super dexta. It was in great condition as always kept in shed but engine not running. Gave it away to a handy man who wanted to restore it but he sold it on, and has passed away since so no way of ever tracking it down. Would love to have it now to keep the link with the history of this farm.

Never wrestle with pigs

35x
Fiesta mk1
Mk1 corolla
Ae86 twin cam
Impreza sti ra
Ep82 starlet
Evo 7
Rare factory 1.5d starlet van

carrollsno1

Have an old car/van left at home main job is security at me grandfathers house parked out front. Couldnt bring myself to sell her before i left home olus id get SFA for a ten year old vauxhaull. Shes worth her weight in gold to me 1.3l diesel miser on fuel, only 2 seats so if ever there was a drive faraway that a few of us were headed to id be ruled out for driving, plenty of space in the back for tipping down to the creamery and if ever you were out night visiting. Shes a nippy girl enough id be hoping when i do come home in a few years ill get her back on the road, but ireland being ireland ill have my work cut out to get her back legal again.
Had to sell my old 00 rolla before i left home the last time had no nct but feck it i could a kept to do up for a vintage show someday

rushvalley

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

35x
Fiesta mk1
Mk1 corolla
Ae86 twin cam
Impreza sti ra
Ep82 starlet
Evo 7
Rare factory 1.5d starlet van

You'd have a nice pension fund if you had all them cars to sell now 🀠

Muckit

Perhaps I'm the exception but everything ive sold was delighted to sell and l moved on! I could do with gathering up a pile of stuff and getting rid! I'm more of a buyer than a seller!

patsy_mccabe

Whatever about selling on stuff. There's plenty of things I've given away for free. If only I could turn back time, as they say.

Dakota Dan

Maybe we should start a thread on stuff you should have given away but didn't.

























The wife:)

Hillman86

The old Ferguson 20 diesel.
Its what I learnt to drive on! Got rid of it when we got the MF565... engine was still tickin over lovely, started first press of the button. such a terrible decision!!!
trying to put together a few bob to buy one...just to look at it parked in the shed!

Base price

My 87 lwb Patrol.

jimmy G M

Bought a 1978 Ford Cortina 2.0 Ghia from Casey's Garage, Roscommon for £300 in 1993. Owned by a old bachelor from Glenamaddy, beautiful condition, around 80,000 miles, burgundy / wine colour, had a vinyl roof, velour seats, alloy wheels, loads of chrome and a radio!

Drove it to work all summer, twas a miller, go around a corner in third if the roads were wet, dab the throttle and the back would slide out. Atlantic 252 all the way. :cool:

Sold it to a fella from Connemara for £425 at the end of the summer as I was going back to college and needed the money.

Simpler times, happy days, should never have sold it.


Something like this one http://www.appreciating-classics.com/car/cortina/

I says

jimmy G M wrote: »

Bought a 1978 Ford Cortina 2.0 Ghia from Casey's Garage, Roscommon for £300 in 1993. Owned by a old bachelor from Glenamaddy, beautiful condition, around 80,000 miles, burgundy / wine colour, had a vinyl roof, velour seats, alloy wheels, loads of chrome and a radio!

Drove it to work all summer, twas a miller, go around a corner in third if the roads were wet, dab the throttle and the back would slide out. Atlantic 252 all the way. :cool:

Sold it to a fella from Connemara for £425 at the end of the summer as I was going back to college and needed the money.

Simpler times, happy days, should never have sold it.


Something like this one http://www.appreciating-classics.com/car/cortina/

Ah the saw doctors cortina

IH784man

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

35x
Fiesta mk1
Mk1 corolla
Ae86 twin cam
Impreza sti ra
Ep82 starlet
Evo 7
Rare factory 1.5d starlet van

How much did you give the twincam away for?

Who2

I regret selling my snow plough and Aran jumpers.

gozunda

I regret nothing

Bullocks

Who2 wrote: »

I regret selling my snow plough and Aran jumpers.

You could'nt regret selling a horrible aran jumper !

ganmo

Not sold but there was a great sheep dog that I’d love to still have

Never wrestle with pigs

IH784man wrote: »

How much did you give the twincam away for?

5k if I remember correctly.

J.O. Farmer

Bullocks wrote: »

You could'nt regret selling a horrible aran jumper !

Maybe you might this week. Sure you might get twice as much from someone who thinks the apocalypse is upon us.

I says

My ski s

Aska

Simple answer......


The cows. Worst mistake of my life todate

larthehar

Aska wrote: »

Simple answer......


The cows. Worst mistake of my life todate

Dairy or beef?

blue5000

Icelandicseige wrote: »

Sold Cows with calves at foot in the Mart few years ago. Were great cows and had U and e grade calfs at foot. Didnt get near enough for them. Still sickens me every time I think of it.

Ya I can relate to this one, sold a bunch of AAxFr heifers in calf to the Aubrac bull the first year I had him, like you I suppose, needed the money too.

kk.man

Thought I bought to many shhep troughs and hayracks a few years ago when I had alot of store lambs.
Dam lucky I never sold them...all in use this evening as every animal in the place is inside including rams. They are worth their weight in gold now.

patsy_mccabe

Convinced I will never sell my 41 year old David Brown tractor after today. Started this morning in a cold open shed in minus temperature.

DX85

This post has been deleted.

blue5000

I was looking at this a while ago.......around the time the bank ac was a bit more flush.

http://eu.ironplanet.com/for-sale/Agricultural-Tractors-2004-Valtra-95-4WD-Tractor-Denmark/944587