# Rare Garden Tractors Sold at Auction

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I remember 29 years ago when I set out compiling auction sale price data, decision to make...Should I track sale prices on Garden Tractors?

Glad I decided the answer was YES.

Here lately I've run across a couple very interesting older garden tractors sold at auction. On a collector auction in west-central Ohio last Saturday (October 20, 2018) by Schrader Real Estate and Auction Co. ([http://www.schraderauction.com](http://www.schraderauction.com)) an Oliver 75 sold for $3,900. Here's a picture of it:

 ![pic1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/machinerypete/original/2X/8/800ccc1091094b7b2b8e56c9f9ff213cbec1e360.jpeg)

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This same collector auction last Saturday in west-central Ohio also had an Oliver 125 garden tractor sell for $2,000. Here's a pic:

 ![pic2](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/machinerypete/original/2X/d/da072869079946db6b68c542b6f346562e2e857f.jpeg)

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And then yesterday (October 23, 2018) on the Kent Peach estate online estate auction in east-central North Dakota, a sale by the Steffes Group ([http://www.steffesgroup.com](http://www.steffesgroup.com)), came another unique find...a Cub Cadet 76. It sold for $600. Here's a pic:

 ![pic3](https://www.agweb.com/assets/1/6/CubCadet76-ND-%24600.JPG)

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Not sure if that 12-pack of Mountain Dew came with it?

Also sold on the east-central North Dakota online estate auction yesterday was a Cub 154 for $1,475. Here's a pic:

 ![pic4](https://www.agweb.com/assets/1/6/Cub154-ND-%241475.JPG)

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On the John Deere front, a couple very nice older models sold at auction the past year or so stick out. Below is a pic of the 1978 John Deere 400 with 831 hours and rear tiller that sold for $2,001 on a BigIron online auction ([http://www.bigiron.com](http://www.bigiron.com)) back on May 23, 2018. It was from east-central Nebraska.

![pic5](https://www.agweb.com/assets/1/6/JD400-BI-NE-%242001.JPG)

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We filmed an amazing 5-day collector auction last June in Yarmouth, IA for our Machinery Pete TV show ([http://www.MachineryPete.com/mptv](http://www.MachineryPete.com/mptv)), on this sale by Sullivan Auctioneers ([http://www.sullivanauctioneers.com](http://www.sullivanauctioneers.com)) a completely&nbsp;restored John Deere 110 garden tractor sold for $4,250. Here's what it looked like:

 ![pic6](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/machinerypete/original/2X/1/1d5f167f3db6e2ec69cda5f61d8583c922f1b6b0.jpeg)

Any of these vintage garden tractors would be a sweet ride and definitely would get the neighbors talking when they saw you tooling around on a time machine, right?

Of course, lawn and garden tractors have come a LONG way since I started compiling auction sale prices on them 29 years ago. One of the highest selling items in this category so far this sold just a few weeks ago, on a large consignment auction in northeast Tennessee by the good folks at Pro Team Auction Company ([http://www.proteamauction.com](http://www.proteamauction.com)) when they sold the 2015 Jacobsen R-311T wide area mower pictured below for $20,000. It had ROPS, canopy, was 4x4, 11 1/2 foot cut, had 65 HP Kubota turbo engine.

 ![pic7](https://www.agweb.com/assets/1/6/MainFCKEditorDimension/JacobsenR-311T-TN-%2420K.JPG)

I wonder what that baby will be worth in 40 years? Hope I'm around to find out!

If you by chance are in the market for a good used Garden Tractor, here's a link to over 8,700 of them for sale today:&nbsp;[https://www.machinerypete.com/other/lawn-and-garden](https://www.machinerypete.com/other/lawn-and-garden)

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