Snowblower Better Options for Attachments?

[Stormtruck2]

I visited a local dealer and priced several attachments. Are these good attachments or are there better brands out there? Are the prices fair? They include delivery but not taxes of 5%.

1) Maschio A180 73" Tiller =$2400

2)Farm King Y740 74" Snow blower=$3100

3A)Field General by Taylor Way Single Bottom Plow=$550
B) Double Bottom Plow=$850

4)Tuff-Line 72" Hydro Box Blade=$2500

5)Tuff-Line 72" Hydro Rear Blade=$1500

6)Worksaver R-130 Single Shank Ripper/Subsoiler=$690


Total w/single bottom plow=$10,740

To be used behind a JD 4600. Engine 43 hp, PTO 36 hp

Dealers who support TBN are welcome to contact me with better ideas. Company reps please feel free to chime in with advice and guidance. I'm looking for value which is heavy duty durable equipment at a fair price. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Opinions from everyone familar with these or other breeds of these implements are welcome. Trying to learn and gather information here.

 

[gwdixon]

I'm looking for value which is heavy duty durable equipment at a fair price. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Join the fray. The line forms at the end.

 

[Stormtruck2]

:laughing: Yeah I realize that.:laughing: I really don't know much about brands and prices so I am looking for advice on good equipment and prices. I may not be a wise man, but I do know what I don't know.:confused2:

 

[Farmerford]

For those within a reasonable distance of Sweet Tractors, I recommend you check with Ken Sweet. In December I bought from Ken a John Deere two bottom plow with coulters and depth/furrow wheel (rolling landside), Monroe harrow, Brillon cultipacker, and Herd Seeder (this was new). It is all good, solid American iron, at least 20 or more years old, and just like Ken described it. It is all well used, but everything works fine and it will outlast me and my grandchildren. Like most true farm machinery, it spent most of its life unsheltered, and often with dirt in the crevices, so expect some rusted bolts; but nothing a 3/4" drive socket will not fix.

Ken shipped the implements from Kentucky to Columbus, Georgia (nearly 300 miles) for so little that SAIA trucking company must be going broke. When he says his shipping rates are low, believe him.

I could probably have purchased foreign implements on line or from the local TSC for about the same amount of money, and they would have served me okay for my limited use. But I grew up on a south Georgia farm in the 1950's using this kind of equipment and I get a lot of pleasure from getting acquainted with it again. I hit a stump with the JD bottom plow at 5mph behind the 30 hp Kubota and it stopped the tractor cold without even tripping the beam.

I enjoy telling my daughter that the 30+ year old John Deere bottom plow will long outlive the Kubota I pull it with.

 

[Haywire]

I hit a stump with the JD bottom plow at 5mph behind the 30 hp Kubota and it stopped the tractor cold without even tripping the beam.

To me, that means that it will damage the tractor to save a shear bolt. I'd be looking into that before I had a big tractor repair bill.

 

[gwdixon]

To me, that means that it will damage the tractor to save a shear bolt. I'd be looking into that before I had a big tractor repair bill.

It sounds like he has a trip plow that won't trip. Not good. He may have to take the mechanism apart and clean it out. Also, some trip plows can be adjusted.

Knowing Sweet Tractors, they probably would have inspected it to see if it was in working order before selling it. Maybe not.

 

[daveinnh]

I have a Tufline 7' manual rear blade - it's built heavy: recall about $900 in 2004. I'd buy Tufline in that grade again.