Re: what new international do you recommend?

Posted by WTA on August 13, 2007 at 07:07:51 from (66.209.246.232):

In Reply to: Re: what new international do you recommend? posted by RustyFarmall on August 13, 2007 at 06:52:03:

Kubotas are good tractors. I worked at one of their dealers for a time after I retired from the Army. I loved working on them. That was out in PA though and smallish tractors had a lot bigger market out there. We sold at least one nearly every day. Out here all the tractor dealers are way higher than the ones out east so even if I have to drive 2000 miles I will probably be buying from out of state.

I had looked at their M9000 real hard for a while. It's one tough tractor. Honestly the only problem I ever had with them was removing the cab to split them. Those things use more bolts than they could ever need! I doubt if I bought a new one though that I would ever have to split it. Oh and they run the AC hoses through the A pillar around two sharp corners. I had to replace a lot of those hoses and it was not an easy job. I know they fixed that problem a long time ago though.
Plus, I am so meticulous with my maintenance here that I doubt it would ever wear out. That JX 95 I was finding in the south and midsouth with a loader, cab, AC and 20 speed for around 33K on a new one. SOme were as high as 40. Here it's 41,000 without the loader. That adds another 8000 to 9000 to it.

Call me picky but If I can save a buck I will. That's actually a substantial difference though. I had the same problem in PA though. I've lived all over the world with 20 years in the Navy and Army and have a good feel for what things cost in different places. I actually used to rate cost of living in a country on the price of a budweiser.
7 dollars a can in Japan back in 85 to 25 cents a can in East Africa in 1990. You get the picture.
This area is probably a 5 dollar a can place. In Pa my big gripe was the taxes. When the county we lived in was making plans to put a water meter on my well and charge me for my own water then passed a law requiring plates on my tractor and 4 wheeler we said enough is enough and moved out. Now down here I spend a small fortune irrigating so I don't know if I really won that one. Oh well.
I do wish I could afford buying a new tractor here local but I doubt I can. Not if I can get it for 10,000 less somewhere else.

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