I have an opportunity to buy a used Ryan Mataway overseeder dethatcher.
It's sitting in a friends barn unused and appears to have been used one time. He purchased it from a rental company at some ridiculously low price about 2 years ago. He never intended to use it himself "it was such a good deal I couldn't pass it up".
Anyway, I'm trying to find out what it's worth and is it a good piece of equipment to work with for overseeding etc. I know Ryan is a decent product. I'm more interested in this particular model from those of you who have worked with it.
I found new machine values from $4750-$5900. He thinks its about 5 years old. I wouldn't be surprised if it's not even that old.
I'm going to pull it out of the barn and go over it in more detail. It's buried amongst other crap he collected so I couldn't look as close as I wanted. I did notice the tubes looked like they had mildew inside. The seed box appeared to be clean and no corrosion. Aside from the engine is there anything else on the machines to look at?
I appreciate any ideas you might have.
Thanks, Finn
It's sitting in a friends barn unused and appears to have been used one time. He purchased it from a rental company at some ridiculously low price about 2 years ago. He never intended to use it himself "it was such a good deal I couldn't pass it up".
Anyway, I'm trying to find out what it's worth and is it a good piece of equipment to work with for overseeding etc. I know Ryan is a decent product. I'm more interested in this particular model from those of you who have worked with it.
I found new machine values from $4750-$5900. He thinks its about 5 years old. I wouldn't be surprised if it's not even that old.
I'm going to pull it out of the barn and go over it in more detail. It's buried amongst other crap he collected so I couldn't look as close as I wanted. I did notice the tubes looked like they had mildew inside. The seed box appeared to be clean and no corrosion. Aside from the engine is there anything else on the machines to look at?
I appreciate any ideas you might have.
Thanks, Finn