I'm not sure what you consider high? I purchased a fender, hood, floor pan, and woods belly mower for 500 bucks. It's original equipment. This isn't American pickers
The same reason the price of gas is so high. I mean it once was $0.15 a gallon! When there's demand for something prices will raise whether you think it's reasonable or not I can assure you somebody's buying it at that price theres demand for it and when you're in business you sell what you can sell and try to get as much as you can out of it. Somethings are more commonly broken as well and harder to find which make them more valuable and those parts will normally be located on the working end of the tractor....
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