The Top 10 used farm machinery claims to watch out for:

10. It’s parked out in the hedge row and, by the way, you might want to bring along a chain saw.

9. It’s got better than 50 percent tread left on those steel wheels.

8. Tell you what, buy it and I’ll throw in three more just like it for parts.

7. I remember Grandpa saying that it ran like a top when he parked it in the barn.

6. The great thing about these steel seats is that you don’t have to worry about ripping the upholstery.

5. I bet it’ll weight out for what I’m asking.

4. Why, that hour meter just broke here the other day.

3. They tell me you can probably get a manual for it on Ebay.

2. Heck, nobody needs all those gears anyway.

1. Well, it has been over only 250 acres, but I guess we probably did go over some of them more than once.

Mark Parker writes for Farm Talk in Parsons, Kan.