You are so right I have zero experience going into this, and I did ask questions and I questioned the answers. But you know what else that give me over someone that has bought hundreds of tractors before, had people in their past that farmed with a Mastodon. I have no bias. I can look at things from the outside in and make a judgement not based on color, or past, or fear of being laughed at. I can buy a claw hammer of a tool that will do just what I need it to do.
Now where my question came in was why did everyone save a very few people say machines of this type are too small, are toys, are over grown lawn mowers, will really not be able to do anything, good at nothing, badly made, poor quality......on and on. And after doing a little leg work on my own it seems these machines are just looked down upon.....I wanted to know if it was justified or if people put them down and talked up bigger machines, machines the size that they own(ed) are the "the smallest they would go".
What I mean by using that phrase is that (I) think that too much machine is suggested by people, not just here but everywhere. Is it an "up-sell". Did this all start with this little tractor thing that just about every manufacturer was sure no one wanted....Heck that is just a big lawn mower....if someone wants a tractor they will just buy a "real" tractor.....Is it that there is so little margin in the small machines that the dealers really don't want to sell them....They don't stock many, but it seemed at the farm show quite a few people were looking at the 1 series, max, BX, GC tractors. And by the most part the sales reps had little info on them, and would rather play on their tablets then talk to someone about a sub compact machine. Is this something that we (the buyers) of the little machines are just too stupid to know what is for our own good, and all of those videos on youtube of guys digging out mountains, and huge trees are all just doctored by the users to make themselves feel good about the machine.
If anyone does not care for the thread, not care for what I say in it, I ask a real question, I question the results and people get their nose bent out of shape....I have a tip if you don't like what I ask or say don't waste the bandwidth....just don't click.
