Posted by saunderl on March 28, 2013 at 19:39:19 from (173.190.172.0):
In Reply to: Gas vs Diesel tractor posted by saunderl on March 28, 2013 at 11:47:24:
Thanks everyone.
My usage is definitely small time. In the winter I run about 1 hour a week, but when I need it - I really need it.
Two years ago I had to have Deere out and work on the tractor on Christmas eve at the start of a blizzard because I HAD to feed the sheep (I had left the 3pt up - holding up a weight - in an ice storm and when I went to lower it, it eat its linkage. No 3pt, no moving a bale). And round bales to not move by hand.
So that is when the wife and I said we needed a second tractor ... plus I need a loader (and a manure spreader) to clean up the feedlot.
Summer I'm using the tractor to spray the pasture, hay, run the post hole digger. Still, no more than 25 - 30 hours a week max.
Power is not all that available so if I get a diesel, I'll have to park it next to the house to be able to plug it in in the winter.
Well, there is 2 wide front 3010 diesels at auction Saturday (one with a loader) - I'll just have to see what they go for. Plus I just saw that a gas 3020 wide front (no loader) will be up for auction in two weeks. I guess I'll just have to see and not be impatient - I'm not trying to win a race. The right tractor will come along.
Thanks.
This post was edited by saunderl at 19:48:54 03/28/13 2 times.
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