Barlow's pricing seems very competitive.

[DAY]

Seems the best deal today would be to buy used. There are lots of low hour things around and some are pretty hungry to get out from under.
Just my two cents.

I guess they are all in Ohio, because Eastern PA is NUTZ! ("No Used Tractors Zone")

-Of course it's Spring, and an old man's fancy turns to tractors. . .

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

I picked up a used tractors for sale magazine in Indiana a few days ago. It was a thick magazine and had hundreds of used tractors and equipment for sale. Tractors big enough to move houses and most of them were green. Very few SCUT or CUT tractors or even Kubota L size tractors and the few it had were priced close to what I can buy a new Kubota for and they were very high hours machines. Not seeing this big inventory of good low hour clean used SCUT, CUT or medium sized tractors for sale myself.

 

[sixdogs]

Part of the price of the product is the degree of effort one is will to expend in order to obtain that product. Seek and ye shall find. Seek really hard and ye shall really find.
The reason there is such a price discrepancy is the desire to purchase in one's own backyard so as to make the transaction "easier". Easy has a price for convenience. Otherwise, just flip more rocks looking for the right deal and "road trip" has a nice ring to it.

America has an interstate road system started by Eisenhower in the '50's to facilitate the movement of goods during the event of wartime necessity. As a result, it connects population centers and makes travel surprisingly easy.

For example, I bought a used cultivator tractor in southern Tennessee/ Ala border a few years back and made it home the same day. Left real early, got home real late and had a fine meal with honest Southern hospitality. I just love Southern women.
As well, bought a small high-crop in Wisconsin and again left early, got home late and learned why hauling through Chicago at rush hour is not wise. Great stories for kids or friends to tell later on. If a deal won't find me I'll find the deal.
All one needs is a 16' trailer and some true grit.
Just my two cents.

By the way, I see a few of those PA dealers out here buying equipment.

 

[DAY]

By the way, I see a few of those PA dealers out here buying equipment.

-probably Wegner's and Marshall. They have huge inventories of used equipment. Local dealers don't buy, they sell.

 

[fredhargis]

I guess they are all in Ohio, because Eastern PA is NUTZ! ("No Used Tractors Zone")

-Of course it's Spring, and an old man's fancy turns to tractors. . .

They didn't seem to be in my part of Ohio...I watched for a used one for about 6 months before I bought mine. Very few showed up, and most of the late models were priced as high as a new one. Right now there is a dealer in a nearby city that has the exact tractor/loader I bought (new). His is one year old used (64 hours) and he wants about $400 more for that tractor loader than I paid for mine.

 

[rogersmithiii]

Unless I knew the seller, or it came from a dealer with a decent reputation and warranty, I'd be very leery about buying a used tractor, especially if it required a pretty high purchase price. Tractors typically work hard, and do it in nasty conditions. I'd worry about getting something that was abused.

As far as the low hour tractors, I'd worry about buying a rental where the users didn't care how they were treating the unit, or a lemon that someone was unloading.

 

[ejkessler]

Unless I knew the seller, or it came from a dealer with a decent reputation and warranty, I'd be very leery about buying a used tractor, especially if it required a pretty high purchase price. Tractors typically work hard, and do it in nasty conditions. I'd worry about getting something that was abused.

As far as the low hour tractors, I'd worry about buying a rental where the users didn't care how they were treating the unit, or a lemon that someone was unloading.

I agree. Knowing the actual history of the tractor is important unless you start talking half of the price new with reasonable hours. Those are swept up pretty fast by local guys and dealers the vast majority of the time anyway. Other wise it is a real crap shoot and for thousands of dollars I am not willing to roll myself.

 

[lhberry]

I bought my Tractor from Barlows in April 2010 and just bought my Disc and a used kawasaki mule to be delivered this Saturday. I have 3 dealers within 1 hr and Barlows is 3 hrs .I'm a Loyal cust to Barlows the reason being is that when your straight up no BS and to the point ,You have me as a loyal cust..In fact I will do all my business with Barlows if they get it for me.They have saved money and are Honest. The dealers around me just wouldn't deal.It was worth it to me!

 

[ITHINKICAN]

Lots of people on here have bought from Barlow's with no complaints.

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[NCRetiree]

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