With all due respect, you guys arent even seeing my point. I didnt say that chinese tractors dont have a place in the market. I didnt say that nobody should buy a chinese tractor. I didnt say other tractors dont break. I didnt say that the tractor he was looking at was a piece of junk. I didnt say it wasnt a good value. You guys got all googly eyed :drool: over pictures of another chinese tractor and forgot about the facts that were presented to help the OP evaluate his decision.
I read tractor by net everyday. I realize that there are other tractor sites all over the internet. Shame on me for thinking that the biggest tractor site on the entire internet might be the most accurate representative of the tractor market. I read the chinese forum like I read all the others. Personally, I cant believe the stuff that even comes up with such frequency on machines with so little use that is far beyond routine maintenance on chinese tractors. You see crazy things like New hollands broken in two pieces and rockshafts broken off on John Deeres. But given the amount of tractors sold, that stuff is pretty rare relatively. You guys dont really seem to fight the fact that chinese tractors are most often then not the problem childs of the tractor world. Certainly its not 100 percent universal to every tractor out there.
Here is a made up example. Say someone posts on the Kubota forum that hes looking at a
BX24, it has 200 hours on it backhoe, good shape, whatever. The poster goes on to say that he wants to dig some small stumps, snowblow his driveway and run a round baler for 100 acres of hay. The equivalent response that was given in this tread would be, the BX is a great tractor, you should buy it, ive had no problems with mine. That may be great advice except the person giving advice skipped right over a key piece of information - he wanted to run a round baler.
Bob and Diamond did the same thing. They skipped right over the fact the OP said he wasnt a mechanic. They know **** well that you need to be a mechanic to own one, since there is almost no local dealer support, and there is a relatively long list of common problems with these tractors. Well it turns out that the OP may be perfectly capable of fixing this machine when it would be needed, but thats not what he led us to believe in the beginning.
I actually think there is some value in owning a chinese tractor for some people who are pretty handy, want to save some money and can afford some downtime once and a while, but not people who describe themselves as "not a mechanic." So Bob, please calm down. Greg, I never said Im an expert, im just relaying what you already know about these machines. Rich, you make my point exactly. You saved some money, but you have done some major repairs.
And thanks Bob, I get out plenty. You would have noticed that if you read my (and OP) posts more carefully instead of reading into it and seeing what you wanted to see instead of the actual content. Your last post actually makes my point perfectly. Slow down and read the content instead of spending so much time trying to find a reason to be offened and your advice will be much more well recieved. You obviously have a lot of knowledge to share.
Oh, turns out the tractor had some problems. What a surprise!:confused2::confused2::confused2::confused2::confused2::confused2::confused2: