That should've read: "I ended up...."
Earlier in August I posted a thread about being a newbie who was considering the purchase of a tractor for use on 6 acres. I'm the guy whose wife didn't want him to purchase a new tractor.
So on August 8th I ended up buying a used MF 1533 at auction on the Agco Finance website. It has a MF1525 loader, Kodiak 5ft. cutter, 5ft. AB box blade. It has the basic 8x8 Synchro Shuttle trans. I bought it site unseen (other than the pics posted with the auction). It took a couple of weeks for Agco to get their act together to get the paperwork in order. Then it took 2 more weeks to get it shipped out here to TX from SC (ended using a shipper who bid on it through uShip). Labor Day weekend also contributed to the shipment delay. The tractor finally arrived this past Sunday.
I'm taking it today to my local Massey dealer to let them check everything out & do a bit of maintenance on it. Not sure how it was treated by the prior owner. It only has 72.5 hours on it but you can tell it has seen some work & has sat outside for its entire life (paint is faded on top of the hood/top of fenders). Nothing a good quality clay bar/waxing can't fix. Also a bit of rust on the bucket but nothing unexpected.
I tested everything out & 99% seems to be in great working order. I've found 2 problems so far. First the differential lock pedal doesn't seem to be engaging (hopefully something is just out of adjustment). When I went to detach the cutter I found that the lower links didn't want to come off. I ended up having to take the bolts loose from cutter & then I was able to slide the lower links off with the bolts still attached to them (seems like they're rusted on too). Probably a bit of WD-40 or PB Blaster would fix this but since I'm taking it in I'll let them deal with it.
Here is one of the auction pics of it:
Earlier in August I posted a thread about being a newbie who was considering the purchase of a tractor for use on 6 acres. I'm the guy whose wife didn't want him to purchase a new tractor.
So on August 8th I ended up buying a used MF 1533 at auction on the Agco Finance website. It has a MF1525 loader, Kodiak 5ft. cutter, 5ft. AB box blade. It has the basic 8x8 Synchro Shuttle trans. I bought it site unseen (other than the pics posted with the auction). It took a couple of weeks for Agco to get their act together to get the paperwork in order. Then it took 2 more weeks to get it shipped out here to TX from SC (ended using a shipper who bid on it through uShip). Labor Day weekend also contributed to the shipment delay. The tractor finally arrived this past Sunday.
I'm taking it today to my local Massey dealer to let them check everything out & do a bit of maintenance on it. Not sure how it was treated by the prior owner. It only has 72.5 hours on it but you can tell it has seen some work & has sat outside for its entire life (paint is faded on top of the hood/top of fenders). Nothing a good quality clay bar/waxing can't fix. Also a bit of rust on the bucket but nothing unexpected.
I tested everything out & 99% seems to be in great working order. I've found 2 problems so far. First the differential lock pedal doesn't seem to be engaging (hopefully something is just out of adjustment). When I went to detach the cutter I found that the lower links didn't want to come off. I ended up having to take the bolts loose from cutter & then I was able to slide the lower links off with the bolts still attached to them (seems like they're rusted on too). Probably a bit of WD-40 or PB Blaster would fix this but since I'm taking it in I'll let them deal with it.
Here is one of the auction pics of it: