Bad News!

[Mryan]

That is a cool site, Wen. I found my place, but the photo was taken before I built it/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif. for what it's worth....
http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=1718&Y=23112&Z=19&W=1

Follow the road to the east (right) from the pond in the lower left of the picture, pass the light colored parking lot on the right of the road and there is a little lane on the right that turns off the main road. My house is now right on the corner of the lane and the road set back from the road ~200'. My parents house is right across the street. My lot and my parents are each ~3 acers. You can see the outline of trees around my folks property. continuing to the east, we own another 25 acres of woods, that runs up to the next house on the right of the road. Imagine the detail they can get with good satelite photos. Scarry.

Mike.

 

[Wingnut]

JimBinMI ... warning, warning, warning

I owned a red (IH 450D), looked at blue, lots of green, russian, chinese, Honda, New Millenium, grey market, black market ... checked out the classified in the midwest, south, east and Canada ... sat on them, turned them over, drove a few around ... rented an orange L3410 ... and then - for the same reason I drive a Toyota - forgot the rest and bought the best. Orange.
But hey, there's even a market for Yugo's ... so don't feel bad that you're a tiny blue in an ocean of orage ... if we were all the same ... it'd be a boring world and a very boring internet.


too bad that common sense ain't

 

[Jeff_In_NC]

JimBinMI,
Add me to the list that looked at the blues, greens, and oranges before I bought ORANGE. In fact I looked at the blues with the intent of buying BLUE. Two years ago when I bought my orange toy the blue boomers were as scarce as hen teeth. I did look and drive several ford/nh machines--- new,lease returns, & even some old tired ones. ) I prefered the xx20 Ford/NH to the xx30 Boomers (now the TC xx). (Alot of the NH 1720s can be seen trucking tobacco or harvesting peanuts but I have yet to see a Boomer in the field. why might that be?????) After looking, comparing, driving the blue, green, and orange ones do you wanna guess what I bought.....I'll give you a hint and it a'int blue nor does it have yellow wheels with green fenders.
I have a neighbor 3 miles down the road that had an early boomer (hydro, mid mount mower, loader,...). It hung aroung till late summer and there is a orange machine in its place. I've never asked the details and they 've never volunteered them. Maybe it was a rental or something?
Then the was Farminlady on the farmshow board with her smokin' boomer they replaced with a TC xx. After hearing about that, I was even happier and still am that I bought an Orange one.....I just hope your NH stays on "the patch" and doesn't start to smoke like FarminLady's did.....
Jeff_in_NC

remin

 

[MChalkley]

I doubt there's a brand available east of the Mississippi that I haven't examined pretty closely. And even though I consider my L4310HST to be the best tractor made for me (at least until the L4610HST came out), I continue to look at everything. I have no brand loyalty whatsoever, though I doubt I'd buy one of the Russian or Indian tractors even if they surprised me to death and came out with something that looked like it had been designed in the last 50 years for a change. But, if NH or JD comes out with a tractor that I think is better designed, better built, has more power, is more efficient, whatever, my Kubota will eventually go up for sale. I'd probably be well into negotiations for an L4610HST by now except that there's no backhoe subframe available for my Bradco backhoe. BTW, one, and only one, dealer responded to my request a while back for info on trading my L4310 in on an L4610 - Art @ White's Farm Supply in NY (very nice fellow) and he's the one that found out the info from Bradco.

Anyway, my point is that I've checked all of them that I know of, and so far, nothing matches, much less exceeds, the Kubota for my needs. But when that changes, so will I.

Mark

 

[W5FL]

Wonder what them boomers are smoking? /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Glad everyone didn't gang up on JimBinMI at once! One by one the rest of the story comes out. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[W5FL]

Mark,

That is why I waited until the 2000 models came out to buy. I plan to keep a tractor a very long time and wanted to be sure it would do all the things that I wanted now and in the future. I expect all updates for the next 20 years will just be implements.

When you use one in landscaping and construction as you do, you can afford to change more often as the new features provide a dollar return to you, but for Ag purposes, a couple of HP or a new feature doesn't change the basic machine very much. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Without a hydro, it takes me nearly a whole second to go from forward to reverse and you can do it 3 times in that amount of time. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[JimBinMI]

Re: KUBOTA SMOKES?

Wen,

One Boomer, Farminlady, smokes and you guys make a federal case out of it! Even after NH replaces with a new tractor! And this was how long ago?

I want to know what MarkC meant when he said his KUBOTA SMOKES less on synthetic oil????
So Kubota's smoke????

JimBinMI

We boys and our toys!

 

[W5FL]

Re: KUBOTA SMOKES?

Guess you are going to have to tell us the story! Sounds like a blue one for sure. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[MChalkley]

Re: KUBOTA SMOKES?

What I said was that diesels in general (including my Kubota) smoke less when using Amsoil fuel modifier.

Mark

 

[JimBinMI]

Re: KUBOTA SMOKES?

MarkC,

I know, I know, I'm just trying to give Wen his daily dose! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

JimBinMI

We boys and our toys!