Re: Rboulware, about your tractor decision.

Posted by rboulware on March 24, 2006 at 20:03:24 from (68.209.136.14):

In Reply to: Rboulware, about your tractor decision. posted by Jonfarmer on March 24, 2006 at 07:03:39:

From the Expriance that I had with my JD 5020 there are three things that concern me the most. Number one is SAFTY. I think this could be solved with ROPS and common sense. I hope that I am not over estimating what these ROPS's can do. I am thinking if I had an ROPS then I do not have to worry about the tractor rolling over on me. Is that so?

The second is reliability. It would be absolutly TERRIBLE if I bought one of these thangs and the motor spins a bearing or throws a rod, or all of a sudden the tranny has catostrophic failure. This would be DEVESTATING!! What in the WORLD would I do with a big ol machine broke down in the woods or the feild. I would not know what to do. Yes I have worked on cars and rebuilt motors and all, and have mechanical abilities. But these tractors are HEAVY to say the VERY least!! And they are expensive to fix. This is REALLY my only REAL worry when it comes to size. It is simply easier to fix a small "yanmar" type tractor than it is a big 7520 or 4020 for that matter. The are not complicated, I have the shop book on the 4020"s and 5020"s. They are just bulcky and heavy to move those parts around. If not having to worry about repair was no longer an issue....heck the answer is easy....GET A 6030!!! But, haveing to deal with break downs is my major concerned second to being safe.
All the other particulars at this point....no big deal. I have about 50 acres of rough open land that I just want to do something with besides let sit there. I could either pull a big disk through the stuff and bust those rotten stumps up or I could manuver in around with a heavy duty bush hog. At this point I really don't have to be specific... Now one thing that DID happen with my 5020 was that I got stuck. Kind of a bothersome really when you think that a tractor is king of off road and it getting stuck. This is my only reason for EVER wanting 4x4. It is so I have much less chance of getting stuck. I had diff locking on my 5020 but I had no idea what it was until the wrecker came an pulled me out. I bet if I would have known what that was I would have kept my 100 bucks. Any way I loved that 5020, to this day is was the biggest mistake I made selling it. It is too late now.....Oh well....had alot of fun on that thing

Replies:

• Re: Rboulware, about your tractor decision. Jonfarmer 09:49:38 03/25/06 (1)
  • Re: Rboulware, about your tractor decision. rboulware 13:36:35 03/25/06 (0)

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