robert major said: (quoted from post at 13:51:52 03/22/15) Hi
It's not always about what a new tractor
costs, it's the fact that this one will have
cockshutt still written on the hood that awful
cab, it's older than me and it's still worth
$5000 after he has 10 plus his time in it.
I came up with this problem with our 96
Belarus. it needed big bucks spending to keep
using it as a main tractor, is worth $7000 tops
on a good day fixed, and is not the tractor I
need for loader work now for my barn cleaning
and baling work due to it's weight build and
lack of air con and a few other nice things.
We spent $37000 on a 2000 valtra and the
difference is night and day. I know which one i
want to spend 14 or more hours a day in during
the summer. You couldn't pay me enough to run
that pile for 14 hours plus a day, it's now our
spare tractor.
Regards Robert
Just curious what are we talking in terms of "big bucks" as those things are pretty cheap on parts unless you're factoring in paying some dealer 120/hr to fix it. Then yeah its probably not worth it especially if you're wanting an upgrade anyway. As for a Valtra vs an old Belarus well yeah 2 different worlds valtra is a premium tractor Belarus is a budget tractor!! I have one of each :D too and both have their place. Belaurs gets the crappy jobs like staring up when its -40 out. I wonder though if AGCO is going to keep up with parts for the Valtra's as now my local AGCO dealer won't get me parts their telling me. I have to go to a farther away dealer. I'd buy another Valtra if I could find a nice 100hp 2000-2001 (no electronics on the engine) one used but they are hard to come by and typically have lots of hrs. on them. Belarus parts on the other hand are no problem, pretty basic machines.
This post was edited by Chase_99 at 21:39:25 03/23/15 6 times.
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