Most likely the same place that everything else does... which should make things like bearings easier to find. I have a seal on my shelf for my County Line tiller, but there's no origin on it. Most likely they buy them by the crate and just stick one in the box when somebody places an order.
Is country line stuff any good compared to land pride?
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Sawyer Rob
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I'm assuming you mean everything of that same price class?
MY experience has been, the better brands cost more for a reason, they hold up better, at least that's how it's been for my purchases.
SR
Yep. But as has been mentioned several times already, they are for homeowner use. Not everybody hires out the way that you do. I'd wager many people will put less hours on a tiller or mower in 20 years than you have this year.
Fallon
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The OEM for County Line is usually Tarter Gate or King Kutter. It's varied over the years & what side of the country you are on. Both are decent home gamer gear. Thought they were US made. At any rate they are a notch above the cheap Chinese junk & parts are avalible for them.
Tines on my King Kutter are half the size they started as. 8 years of light occasional commercial use out of it tilling & maintaining horse arenas. I can't really complain. I'm expecting to break a tine soon, but other than greasing & clutch maintnance that will be the first major repair since I bought it.
Tines on my King Kutter are half the size they started as. 8 years of light occasional commercial use out of it tilling & maintaining horse arenas. I can't really complain. I'm expecting to break a tine soon, but other than greasing & clutch maintnance that will be the first major repair since I bought it.
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I bet TSC requires competitive bidding on that stuff to obtain the lowest price for maximum profit. They are in business to make money last time I checked.
SgtSluggo
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Does Land Pride make any claims as to the source of their parts? I can only find claims of final assembly in the USA.
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Not a clue, I presume domestically because the gearboxes on both my 7 foot flat shredder and my bat wing, the gearbox castings both have the 'Landpride; logo cast in and made in USA as well. I'm sure a percentage of assembly parts are offshore, how it is today. Called World Class Manufacturing....
If you want to see offshore made parts, just look under the hood of your ride...
Sawyer Rob
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I have no idea; I haven't looked at a Land Pride for some time now. I've had such good luck with Woods, I've been sticking with them. I think they have the best blade attachment too, much easier to deal with than the big "through bolt" I use to have to deal with!
Where my friend works, they bought a deere MX6, a few weeks ago it sheared off the shaft that holds the blades! Things like that, are why I stick with Woods.
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I bought a Taylor Pittsburg about
I bought a pull behind Taylor Pittsburg 72" with stump jumper about 7 years ago from a Kubota dealer in Somerset, KY for $600.00. I've got some vibration cracks on both back edges which i plan on welding back this winter. I broke the yoke twice after a pin came out on one side. After the second time I went to Lowes and bought 2 heavy duty locks. To me the yoke was attached too high and gave me very little ability to lift it in the front very far. I moved it down a couple inches.
Torvy
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Or, companies charge higher price to give the illusion of higher quality.
Consumers rely on price to determine quality of products
A study shows that marketers of relatively high-priced products should consider keeping prices high, as many consumers associate high price with high quality.
www.sciencedaily.com
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I have a farm star? Similar chinesium to county line I believe. 5ft I put on a 48hp tractor and beat to death. It wont die. it's pretty heavy gauge metal. I think the gear box is the weakest link if I had to guess
Sawyer Rob
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I'm sure that does happen, but I consider myself a savvy buyer, I do my homework, and I'm telling you the brands of "tools" I buy, I buy because they are better built and hold up longer. I base MY purchases on my experiences, and I'm willing to pay more to get a tool that will last longer for me.
I have no idea what is going on with those that get duped, buy cheapo tools and in many cases, buy low quality to save a few $ just to have to work on them later.
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dieselbob69
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Check your local craigslist or Marketplace. They tend to pop up there occasionally. Runnings has King Kutter implements also. Don't forget, if a dealer doesn't have any stock, any new shipments probably will have a price increase. Seems like every new shipment of things has a price increase nowadays....
Torvy
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Cool. A very different thing to do homework and buy quality than to make the false equivalency that higher price equals higher quality.
Fallon
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It's also a case of you don't know what you don't know. Somebody who just got their first tractor can look at a 500lbs box blade & think it's heavy duty because it's 3-4x what they could lift. Where somebody that's used one would realize it's pretty light for a 5' box blade.
It's hard to know what to even research if you don't have any base of information to start from. TBN is a good place for jumpstarting that. But often it's hard to pick up what experienced people are trying to tell you if you don't have a starting point.
Torvy
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That's a part of the reason I tend to overanalyze. Before I buy anything tangible that is more than about $100, I dig pretty deep and make comparisons of what is comparable. For instance, deck thickness on a rotary cutter. Of course, there are a lot of unknowns...welds, quality of the steel, etc. In economics we use the Latin term Ceteris Paribus, which basically means 'all else being equal'. Eventually, you get to the point where you have to make assumptions. Sometimes I wish I had the money to start an organization similar to Consumers Union (Publishers of Consumer Reports) for AG.
The difficulty for me is not knowing who really knows. Often times, you will get conflicting advice from seemingly experienced people. That creates, for me, another form of analysis paralysis. I would typically use the advise of people I know personally that use equipment in a similar way. Most of my family that is in AG do not have remotely similar situations. They are huge operations that make a living from farming and ranching. Some of them have individual pieces of equipment that are more costly than our land and buildings combined. Ultimately, anecdotal evidence often leads to worse information than 'no information'.
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I don't know anything about Country Line. I do have a Land pride rfm (FDR 1672) and it has been flawless over the last five years. I have a short mowing season here so it doesn't get a lot of use (7 acres about 3-4 times a year). I use it to cut field grass on mostly hillside. My only complaint is that I'm starting to lose chunks off the edges of the solid wheels because of how rocky my land is.
chim
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Yup. Some place on the internet a guy posted that LandPride was in it purely as a public service.
I've had 3 LandPride RFM's and 3 Caroni RFM's. The longest running Caroni was bought new (sun faded and reduced price at Central Tractor in 1991). Over the years that deck sat outside a lot and since adding a second tractor with the first LandPride, was very much abused. Finally did a refurb on it about a year ago so there would still be a 5 foot deck for the old Ford.
I've gone through a couple spindles (Agri Supply calls them "quills") that were damaged by trying to grind up unseen objects while using it as a bush hog. The complete quill is around $65 and the spindle is only around $17. I have bent a few stems on the gauge wheels, but have managed to get them straight again. I'm cooking up a plan to improve that flaw.
Weak parts on the LandPrides were the gauge wheels. Even with lube, the bearings didn't last all that long.
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Not sure I buy that but if you say so.... Landpride is actually Great Plains is owned by Kubota now.
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