LBrown59 said:
I would like to have had a JD 445 or 455 but I couldn't find one.
Why did you get rid of yours?
What do you have now?
Well the 425 we bought new, with the 54" Deck, and 40 Loader. Had it a year or so, and ran into some sudden financial troubles. Paid cash for the tractor, so we owned it completely. Sold it, only to have the financial situation resolved a week later.
After the huge hit we took on the new 425, we found a pristine 445 used.
IT had like 800 hours on it, and had a couple scratches..but was a solid 9/10 tractor. Bought another 40 loader for it, got the 3 point, 54" deck, and a few other goodies..
Had it for about a year, then my mom got VERY sick. She was so sick she couldnt keep food in her. We were in the middle of switching insurance companies, and the old one stopped on say..June 10, and the new one picked up on July 1st. So a few weeks before she got sick she went for a physical, and it went fine, except her hearing aide conflicted with the Heart machine..1st test said heart disease, 2nd test w/o hearing aide came back 100% perfect. The put BOTH tests on her records..so the insurance company denied us AFTER they had approved us.
So the hospital bills came in, and out went the 445, with another nice HIT on it.
So I cut grass with the old WH 702 while we rebounded from all that mess..Then I found a neglected old 1988 JD 316. I restored it.
Then I found a 1989 WH 310-8. I rebuilt the entire engine, and I got it now.
Then I got a 1993 WH 416-H, Plow, Disc, 42" deck
Got a 1967 JD 110H to restore now.
And recently, I was given a Mitsubishi MT372 Deisel.
We kind of got the hint we werent meant to have a 400 series JD, as nice as they were.