too big?

[mikespeed6]

The guy I am talking with gave me a history on it and told me about some cosmetic damage so I too am getting a good feeling about it.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

The local dealer doesn't have a 1540 on the lot but I found a low hour used one on an auction site im waiting on some additional info/pics of for a decent price. Perfer to see it in person but its 1200 miles from my house.....pretty sure you cant do too much damage to a sub100 hour tractor that wasn't a rental unit. Which do you own? Any issues?

I don't own any Massey, came very very close to purchasing a new 1540 Power Shuttle though. I have 2 Mahindra tractors along with a few others. All of the newer tractors that we have, have turbos, love those turbos.

 

[mikespeed6]

Well folks I went down to the local MF dealer today to drive a 1736 wound up buying a1635 that was returned off of a 1 year lease that has 60hrs on it with all the bells and whistles including rear wheel weights. Couldn't get passed the goofy pedal assembly on the Kubota and the JD seemed so cheap and cheesy with all that plastic. Not to mention the fact that the MF has almost double the lifting power and is a thousand pounds heavier than the JD. Pretty sure I made the right choice......

 

[Roadbuilder6]

For your uses I wouldn't want anything smaller then a 1736. And NH are a very good tractor its just the LS conversions that aren't

 

[RKJeepXJ]

For your uses I wouldn't want anything smaller then a 1736. And NH are a very good tractor its just the LS conversions that aren't

What makes you say the LS built New Hollands are bad?

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

What makes you say the LS built New Hollands are bad?

It's complete nonsense. There are a lot of LS owners and LS-built NH owners on this site, and they generally seem to be satisfied with their tractors.

There has certainly been NO evidence of a pattern of problems with LS-built tractors.

Sure, there is anecdotal evidence of a problem here or there, but you cannot name a tractor brand for which that isn't true. Go read the Kubota and Deere forums here and see if their tractors are problem free.

 

[jaydee325]

It's complete nonsense. There are a lot of LS owners and LS-built NH owners on this site, and they generally seem to be satisfied with their tractors. There has certainly been NO evidence of a pattern of problems with LS-built tractors. Sure, there is anecdotal evidence of a problem here or there, but you cannot name a tractor brand for which that isn't true. Go read the Kubota and Deere forums here and see if their tractors are problem free.

We'll stated Pappy. When I see posts calling out a particular brand, I have fond memories of my departed father in law who ran a service station for over 30 years. Customers would ask him for a recommendation on a car purchase. His pat answer was " they are all junk, buy the one you like". (LOL)

 

[k0ua]

I don't know why you can't dig a pond with a tractor.. I believe you can. Provided you have dirt to dig in, and have plenty of time and diesel fuel.

Making a pond - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGwAfabeaC4

john deere 2305 pond building - YouTube

 

[Roadbuilder6]

What makes you say the LS built New Hollands are bad?

Thats not what I said. I think LS makes an excellent tractor and looked very seriously at them. But on the New holland boomers made by Ls aren't very good. The loader is cheaper and the parts on it are cheaper then even the real Ls. I would know, I used to work at a NH dealer

 

[mfreund]

We'll stated Pappy. When I see posts calling out a particular brand, I have fond memories of my departed father in law who ran a service station for over 30 years. Customers would ask him for a recommendation on a car purchase. His pat answer was " they are all junk, buy the one you like". (LOL)

He was right then and still is now! Buy one you can get parts for locally. They would like to sell you a tractor, but still have no problem selling parts to a tractor they did not sell.