michael.white
Silver Member
It depends on how comfortable you are working on your tractor. As has been said, at 300 hours it should be good for quite a while. If you do all the work on it yourself that extra $6000 will go a long way towards any repair needed. I bought my '01 with about 350 hours, and mine sounds a bit more heavily used than the one you're talking about. Other than maintenance items, I've only had to spend about $25 to buy a battery box and some Ford blue paint to fix battery corrosion.