In the mood for a new trim tractor

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Originally Posted by Ob1kubota

Hello all you Green fans! and Orange buddies... Somebody please defend the price of a new X749 with a 62" deck with a 13,800 plus price tag compared to a ZD331 with a 72" cut for a couple hundred dollars plus or minus. All I want to do is mow with either tractor. Why is the John Deere so high outside of the fact this comparison is oranges to green apples? ( just a small joke) I'm open and honest in asking this strange question. Wife says, I can have either unit but must live with the decision over a five year straight line deappreciation. It will mow a mostly flat 5.5 acre estate. Convince me to go green ( I own six orange things from a T1670 up to a M9540) This may cause a fight in the barn with the current herd. Help me make the right decision both financially and logically ( as Spock would say). Oops wrong show. Both my local Dealers are shaking their heads. Come on guys help me out. Ob1...

I could not justify the cost for open flat ground. Just about any mower with large tires could be suitable for that. My slopes and trees justified the X749.

So, since a cost for the application may not be justified, perhaps just a picture can make up for it...

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/a...33-medium-.jpg

[Ob1kubota]

See guys that's what I like about the Deere look at the turning radius and it can pack a 62" deck too like a bigger ZD. I know the ZDs are not good on a slope and can be disastrous for the Hydrostrat transmission if you mow continuously in one direction on a slope greater than 6%. I do own several hundred feet of road footage at an average 6% slope the X749 could handle straight up and down where a ZD would flip. I don't like to string trim or use a rope on a push mower anymore because its too hard on the arms at my age. I just think if I got the Deere it would last me where the Kubota hydrostat would give out in 4 to 5 seasons here in Alabama where you can heard the grass growing and we are getting rain out he gazoo right now. It will grow 1" per day I kid you not in this rich fertile ground down here. May just have to put cows back out there if the price of diesel keeps climbing. Where's that going to end?

[Ob1kubota]

Well took the plunge guys. Bottom line Kubota financing hooked me on a brand new GR2110-54 S/N 11263 and traded in my T1760 & my G2160-R48S on a ZD326P-60 S/N 16487 with only dropping 10,000 for both tractors after trade. I really like my JD Dealer but the deal just couldn't compete with ole Orange. If its any consolation the 2305 would have been the way to go. May be before I retire my better half will let my have a Deere. I really wanted the X749 ultimate but came to my senses when the interest rates hit home. And yes the stable is quite tonight. My JD neightbor just shook his head and said cats sleeping with dogs....