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<font color="blue">Here is the offer: A Kubota L2900 - 4 wheel drive with a FEL, a finish mower and Deere brush hog, vintage 1995 with 323 hours on the meter. AG tires. The condition appears cherry. The price is $11,500. </font>
The Intertec used tractor price guide does not show a 1995 L2900 4wd (or at least my copy does not). There is a 4wd L2900 listed for 1997 & 98. If that is the year(s), pricing shows in the $11,500 - $12,500 range for "premium" condition. If you add in the value of the FEL & the two mowers your $11,500 price is a real bargain.
Re: the many suggestions of HST vs geared. As others have suggested, spend a couple hours on BOTH types. If you like to control the machinery you run you'll probably like the geared, especially if it has a shuttle shift. If not, you'll probably like the HST. Please note that if you are looking at the GST transmission, you are looking at a hybrid offering the worst of both worlds (or the best, depending on how you look at it). But spend a couple hours on both types before you decide. Remember, there are some safety issues with an HST despite what HST fans may believe. Also, you have the issue of future repair costs. It really boils down to what you enjoy using. And that's something you won't know without spending a few hours on each.
For myself, if the price of geared and HST had been identical and the tractor had been the same, I would have bought the geared (and I did spend some time on an HST of the same make/model I ended up buying in the gear version). In fact, I probably would have paid $500-$1000 more to get a geared tractor. But that's just me. Since you say this is your first tractor, just remember one thing: geared or HST, a CUT IS THE ULTIMATE POWER TOOL! If you've never owned a tractor you're going to find many, many useful things you can do with it that you aren't even thinking about right now. Good luck to you.
JEH
PS Don't know your time frame on this, but what I did was to buy a 50 year old Farmall (a Super C - about 3000 lbs and 2 liter engine size) for a "practice" tractor to do stuff with and find out what I really wanted (and didn't want) in a more modern (and much more expensive) tractor. Because the cost was so little it was like buying a practical education on tractors - and it still did useful work while I was learning. Just a thought.
<font color="blue">Here is the offer: A Kubota L2900 - 4 wheel drive with a FEL, a finish mower and Deere brush hog, vintage 1995 with 323 hours on the meter. AG tires. The condition appears cherry. The price is $11,500. </font>
The Intertec used tractor price guide does not show a 1995 L2900 4wd (or at least my copy does not). There is a 4wd L2900 listed for 1997 & 98. If that is the year(s), pricing shows in the $11,500 - $12,500 range for "premium" condition. If you add in the value of the FEL & the two mowers your $11,500 price is a real bargain.
Re: the many suggestions of HST vs geared. As others have suggested, spend a couple hours on BOTH types. If you like to control the machinery you run you'll probably like the geared, especially if it has a shuttle shift. If not, you'll probably like the HST. Please note that if you are looking at the GST transmission, you are looking at a hybrid offering the worst of both worlds (or the best, depending on how you look at it). But spend a couple hours on both types before you decide. Remember, there are some safety issues with an HST despite what HST fans may believe. Also, you have the issue of future repair costs. It really boils down to what you enjoy using. And that's something you won't know without spending a few hours on each.
For myself, if the price of geared and HST had been identical and the tractor had been the same, I would have bought the geared (and I did spend some time on an HST of the same make/model I ended up buying in the gear version). In fact, I probably would have paid $500-$1000 more to get a geared tractor. But that's just me. Since you say this is your first tractor, just remember one thing: geared or HST, a CUT IS THE ULTIMATE POWER TOOL! If you've never owned a tractor you're going to find many, many useful things you can do with it that you aren't even thinking about right now. Good luck to you.
JEH
PS Don't know your time frame on this, but what I did was to buy a 50 year old Farmall (a Super C - about 3000 lbs and 2 liter engine size) for a "practice" tractor to do stuff with and find out what I really wanted (and didn't want) in a more modern (and much more expensive) tractor. Because the cost was so little it was like buying a practical education on tractors - and it still did useful work while I was learning. Just a thought.
