Your biggest problem is your budget. I"ve never bought or sold a tractor outside of Central Texas, but you"re not going to find anything with a live hydraulics and a PTO that is a good, reliable tractor for two grand.In fact, the only tractors you"re going to turn up with any kind of three-point hitch in that price range are conversions. You used to be able to find some late-model two cylinder Deers with three-point hydraulics in the three grand range, but collectors have driven the prices up in the last five years or so. Really, in your price range, if you want three-point hydraulics, a 9N/2N/8N is your only choice. Good, relatively recent tractors with all the safety features start at about four grand here, and anything less than fifteen years old is going to be more. Maybe prices are lower in other parts of the country where the push to urbanization isn"t really underway yet. But not here.
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