Hey I thought 4th and 5th were the HST gears on my
L35! Slow to a crawl and little throttle pressure to go fast...
I don't know if this applies to the bigger units but I notice on the HST
BX2200 I have you still have to keep fooling with the throttle lever if you want any power out of the thing. I hate hearing a constant rpm run engine. Great on generators, but I don't want to hear it. On the BX if I try to run it a lower rpm for relaxing sanity it is gutless, or I can goof with the rpm lever and put up with it at higher rpms for the tough work. Mowing, it's great, but in my world I'm still happy with the GST.
I also looked at green and blue. I have a 17 year old Blue that has been a faithful beast to say the least!
At it's time it out loadered out hydraulic flowed and out 3pt lifted green and orange so it was the best for me.
This time...where's the
L35 competitor and BX 2200 competitor in the Green and Blue? Would surely have liked a choice. 4600 Deere a great unit but dimensionally too big. The New NH's (some) have a pivoting front axle (Is that "Supersteer") might make them as nimble as the
L35. Just couldn't get all the specs closer in another unit. I often wonder about this brand thing. Not to be critical to anyone, but ANY of these companies Green, Blue, Orange, Ford Chevy, Chrysler (oops Mercedes) Toyota, Hyundai etc can build good machines or bad ones and deny a warranty claim just as fast as anyone else. The fact that someone had a bad experience 10 years ago doesn't mean there not going to have another bad experience with someone else. I think you just "pays your monies and takes your chances"
My only fear with NH is that the smaller tractors are not their livelihood in the USA. More small tractors support Green's bottom line and Kubota could never let the small tractors go unsupported.
I also remember NH's squabbling with Ford. One year it's OK to have the Ford logo, next year only the word Ford in Block letters, next year no Ford name at all. What a bunch of chicken%%@#%. Now they're owned by Case, Now they're owned by Fiat, Now they're owned by Scooboobia Tractor Company in Jumgoomba, Africa, I would have really hesitated to put $$$ out to them. But again, my Ford (NH) 1710 rather my Shibaura 1710 was fantastic. Why doesn't Shibaura just sell the tractors here in a multi-store selling Mitsubishi, Yanmar, Honda, Shibaura. I'll take an 50hp 48" wheelbase garden tractor please...
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