jkadylak
Don't let yourself be talked out of the diesel by rubadub. They do last a lot longer and their retail value remains higher. Just sayin'
No doubt he likes his non-diesel and has good reasons for stickin up for his choice. Don't we all.
Well been there I guess a little bit about who I am and why I'm praising the x728 is in order, so here you go.
If we take a look back at what I just posted it was a ton of information with pictures and a video and a spec sheet, quite a bit of information that I didn't see from the diesels guys other then buy a diesel.
I was born in Michigans Northern lower pennisula and worked at lower paying jobs up until around 40 something years old. My wife was a stay at home mom with our four children, so I learned how to fix things and through out my 70 years of fixing things got an appreciation for things that were well built and worked good and didn't need a lot of repair.
I was a real Tool and Die Maker and also worked with a welder for a couple of years welding and fabricating.
I also self taught myself to fix cars, trucks and motorcycles and put my self up a nice shop.
I took every cent I could save and bought tools one at a time and also learned how to do body work and paint plus all the carpenter work to build my garages and remodel my house and what ever else needed to be built.
I worked full time jobs my whole life plus extra jobs, where ever I could turn a buck I would be after it.
Sooooo in that time span I learned to appreciate two stroke engines that could turn 12000 rpm, muscle cars with big displacement stroker motors and anything that had 2 or four wheels it peaked my interest.
In my later years 55 plus I did a bit of fabricating and painting and thats when I started looking a little closer at the John Deere garden tractors.
My x728 in particular I would get under it and look it all over and admire the workmanship of how it all went together and the paint and metal work, they truly are a really well made tractor.
The first time we used it was in the winter blowing snow and with the cab heater and power steering I was a bit put back, I didn't have any idea it would do what it did with such little effort on the operator, like a limo on the freeway, no chains and the fourwheel drive, simply amazing, yes they are that good.
Now as for the diesel and gasoline engine, two different animals, the diesel has been been around for years, but not the electronic fuel injection on the Kawaski Twin, this is engineering at its best, they start fast and run clean.
We are really lucky to just be able to buy a machine that runs like they do, I'm 70 years old and feel very fortunate just to be able to get one, John Deere should be very proud of the X728 and how it runs and what it does.
One last thing, take the information I just put out and read it again, because it is very informative if you really think about it.
Rob
