Posted by jdemaris on October 22, 2008 at 09:16:17 from (67.142.130.37):
In Reply to: Tractor shopping posted by IaGary on October 22, 2008 at 06:48:15:
That looks like a pretty nice tractor - at least the sheetmetal. If I were in that situation, I'd keep it AND buy another. But, I'm no businessman.
I used to hate gas tractors - but recently, find they come in handy now-and-then. Good cold weather machines - and with recent fuel price disparities - who knows? Last I read, all farm diesel will be ultra-low soon and thus carry a higher price tag with less BTUs of work-energy.
A woman a few miles from me is on her 10th year now of basically running a certified organic vegetable, beef, and dairy farm. She uses all 1960s- 1970s Farmals and IHs which is kind of unusual. Even has a farmhand there that is a prior IH tractor mechanic. And, she keeps on buying tractors and does not buy cheap.
As to low maintainence on a diesel versus gas? Never seemed that way to me. A gas engine has many parts out in the open that anybody can work on. Carb, distributor or mag, spark plugs, etc. Diesel puts all those systems in one or two containers and many will people can NOT work on them. Injection pump is your distributor/mag and carb/fuel pump all in one container with much of the repair info, more-or-less, kept secret. I don't call that simple, I call it expensive unless you can do it yourself.
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