Posted by Hugh MacKay on February 08, 2008 at 02:39:11 from (216.208.58.111):
In Reply to: Re: buy posted by CArlton on February 07, 2008 at 20:27:40:
Carlton: If my main business was livestock, any kind, and subsequent moving of feed and manure. My first choice would be a skid steer loader. I had a 300 with loader, later a Cockshutt 540 and then Farmall 560 with 2000 loader. I also had close to 200 head of holsteins.
In 1972 I bought a new skid loader. In 1976 I bought a second skid loader. I bought that second skid loader for two reasons, we were finding the 560 too cumbersome at the second farm and we did need a loader at each farm. My second reason is my home barn was built around skidsteer use, and I'd become so dependant on skid steers I couldn't be without one more than 4 hours. There were not rentals out there in those days, thus I had to have my own backup.
What becomes more interesting about this, 6 months after I got the second skid loader the 2000 loader came off the 560 forever. Those little 40 hp skid steers would run circles around the 560. I never did have another loader on a tractor. Today I wouldn't buy a used tractor if it had loader history.
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