ron_sc
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This is a follow-up from a thread I started last month -- thanks for all the helpful suggestions. We are buying a 140 acre farm that consists of 50 acres of pasture and 90 acres of woods. I don't plan to put up hay myself, but I would like to be able to bushhog parts of it at times. I also want to convert about 10 acres of the pasture into dove fields and food plots. The pastures are rolling hills, without any real steep slopes. The woods have some steeper areas, but still not too bad.
The guy I''m buying it from has a 1991 Case 495 2wd (no loader) that he is willing to sell for $9000. That seems a little high to me. He also has other older tractors and lots of equipment that will be sold at auction next month. I plan to go to the auction, mainly to try to pick up implements.
I've been looking at tractors at dealers since my last post. I have been very impressed by the local Kubota dealer (1.5 miles away) and by the John Deere dealer (35 miles away). I was looking at a 4wd Kubota M5040 with loader, at a price of around $26,000 (maybe a little less), but that about blows my budget. Yesterday, I went to the John Deere dealer. Out of about 40 tractors on the lot, probably 75% of them were 2wd 5x03 series models, and this dealer sold more than 250 of those over the past 2 years. The dealership owner suggested that a 5103 2wd with the 512 loader should suit my needs very well, and he quoted a price of $16,200. That seems pretty good to me, even though I had been leaning towards 4wd. For comparison, the equivalend 4wd (5105) with loader is $23,500.
Would I be making a mistake to get this cheaper (but new) 2wd tractor? I think I am leaning that way...
Thanks,
Ron
The guy I''m buying it from has a 1991 Case 495 2wd (no loader) that he is willing to sell for $9000. That seems a little high to me. He also has other older tractors and lots of equipment that will be sold at auction next month. I plan to go to the auction, mainly to try to pick up implements.
I've been looking at tractors at dealers since my last post. I have been very impressed by the local Kubota dealer (1.5 miles away) and by the John Deere dealer (35 miles away). I was looking at a 4wd Kubota M5040 with loader, at a price of around $26,000 (maybe a little less), but that about blows my budget. Yesterday, I went to the John Deere dealer. Out of about 40 tractors on the lot, probably 75% of them were 2wd 5x03 series models, and this dealer sold more than 250 of those over the past 2 years. The dealership owner suggested that a 5103 2wd with the 512 loader should suit my needs very well, and he quoted a price of $16,200. That seems pretty good to me, even though I had been leaning towards 4wd. For comparison, the equivalend 4wd (5105) with loader is $23,500.
Would I be making a mistake to get this cheaper (but new) 2wd tractor? I think I am leaning that way...
Thanks,
Ron