timebak
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- Joined
- Feb 4, 2011
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- Tractor
- RK37SC & John Deere 2030
They are the same tractors with different hoods.
I submit that you are absolutely wrong, misinformed, and/or disingenuous to make a statement like that without actually having seen, examined, AND test driven an actual LS branded tractor.
You are a dealer trying to sell something. Obviously you would want to sell something that is more expensive, has a higher markup, and that you have on your lot. We are users and many of us are looking for the most bang for the buck (although there are some that don't care about the bucks, but only the color). At any rate, by your own admission, you do NOT have an actual LS branded tractor on your lot, nor have you actually examined one. To say that the CNH tractor is the same as the LS branded tractor is like saying the Yanmar tractors are the same as John Deere's. Come on, you can do better than that.
Now, for some on this forum, this really is their first rodeo (their first time owning a tractor) and they've come here looking for good, solid advice. Not a bunch of mumbo-jumbo from some salesman who's never even looked at one of the actual tractors under discussion. As for me, I dang sure didn't fall off the tater truck last night and this ain't my first rodeo. I've been running tractors for fifty years. My family has farms in Alabama and Missouri and I deal with multiple tractors every day in my job as one of the maintenance managers at a University with an in-house Grounds dept. and a University-owned Agricultural Research farm.
And you state:"whats comming from LS is not up to par with ISM, Kubota, Deere, etc." I HAVE examined and tested the actual LS branded tractors vs. Kubota, Deere, Case IH, and Mahindra. What you say MIGHT be somewhat true for a contract built tractor, built to a specific price point for a third party, but that's not what we're talking about here.
Right now in our machine sheds at work, I've got JD 4520, 5105, 6415, and three more I can't remember the models numbers, Case IH 695 & 4210, Case 580 Super L 4wd TBL, and Kubota L4630 (three each) and two brand new L4740's. That's a lot of hands-on, in your face experience, and I see how these tractors handle and hold up doing lots of different tasks, and enduring lots of different operators. My best friend bought a Kubota MX5100, and I've checked that model out thoroughly. And I've been studying and looking at the Mahindras for a couple of years, and have test driven several.
That being said, the LS i3040 and R4020 are better equipped, from the factory, than ANY of those tractors I've named above. And, as best as I can tell, without actually owning one and using it long term, but giving them the same examinations and test runs we've given these other tractors before we bought them, they are of comparable quality to any of them, and personally, for my uses, I rate the LS branded tractors better than some of them.