chinese maybe!!!

[Builder]

I'd put your chinese parts availability and price up against ford any day of the week. keep in mind I can hit a feed store and get a shopping cart full of parts for a machine 71 years old.

not to mention the hundreds of salvage parts leads available thru clubs or word of mouth.. literally tons of resources. ( many brands are like this.. not just ford.. )

In 71 years you gonna be able to hit a farm store and pick up a 'anything' for that jinma?

soundguy

Gotta agree with Soundguy there. Ain't no way you're getting parts faster than I can get Deere, Kubota or New Holland. Heck, even my AGCO parts guy had them to me by days' end or next morning.

 

[Builder]

I am really glad for you folks that can drive 10 minutes and find anything you need for that fine old piece of machinery that never really needs a part but everybody stocks them anyway:confused3:
I do not have that access to parts for any tractor,new or old and so when I say I can get parts for the Jinma faster and cheaper than a Massey or Ford I am merely reflecting the reality of location.
Kubota parts I can get right away -- I just have to show up with a large #of dollars:shocked:

Again, it's because you get what you pay for. There's no "free lunch". I'll bet the Kubota parts are manufactured & machined to better tolerances, built with higher quality metalurgy and have better finishesfor longer durability than the cheaper chinese parts.

You guys with chinese machines really believe they are 40% cheaper, better, will last longer and hold resale value better than name brands???

Gimmie a break.....:laughing:

 

[studor]

Give me a break! -- the "heritage" parts I was buying for my Massey were made -- guess where -- and the most notable thing about them was the price and the amount of time it took to get them -- the quality in several cases was poor. You are right -- there is no free lunch but paying extra is not the criteria for quality either. Sometimes the perception of quality lingers long after it is gone - if we always got what we paid for you and I would own a lot of banks, car companies and capital assets that stupid people really could not afford

 

[Pops15]

I am really glad for you folks that can drive 10 minutes and find anything you need for that fine old piece of machinery that never really needs a part but everybody stocks them anyway:confused3:
I do not have that access to parts for any tractor,new or old and so when I say I can get parts for the Jinma faster and cheaper than a Massey or Ford I am merely reflecting the reality of location.
Kubota parts I can get right away -- I just have to show up with a large #of dollars:shocked:

I guess that was aimed at me for my comment about my friend's Jubilee. Until recently he had a 2N and the Jubilee as well as a Farmall. He had them since the 1980's. They were all well used but good solid tractors when he got them. Other than normal maintenance items the only things he needed to do was rebuild the carb on the 2N and replace a wheel bearing on the Jubilee. No one was more surprised than he was when he went to the NH dealer to ask if they could recommend a place for him to find a wheel bearing and they said they stocked parts back to the 9N (1939!!!!!). I can't say why they stock such old parts. Could be they are old stock they never had reason to sell. Could be those parts interchange with parts on newer tractors. Or could be since half of the N series Fords are reportedly still in use there is demand for them. I'm impressed that half of the Fords built between '39 and '52 are still in service.

 

[whodat526]

not all deere's kubota's and newhollands have good resale value

 

[sweettractors]

not all deere's kubota's and newhollands have good resale value

I know I wont buy any of those mentioned where the owner has blown the engine, stripped the transmission or been in the log woods. Ken Sweet

 

[Pops15]

Give me a break! -- the "heritage" parts I was buying for my Massey were made -- guess where -- and the most notable thing about them was the price and the amount of time it took to get them -- the quality in several cases was poor. You are right -- there is no free lunch but paying extra is not the criteria for quality either. Sometimes the perception of quality lingers long after it is gone - if we always got what we paid for you and I would own a lot of banks, car companies and capital assets that stupid people really could not afford

I don't think anyone would dispute that. While I realize the Chinese tractors fill a need in the market, I'm with Builder. You can't expect to get the same quality when you pay so much less.

 

[Pops15]

not all deere's kubota's and newhollands have good resale value

But the ones I've been looking at sure do!

 

[studor]

I guess that was aimed at me for my comment about my friend's Jubilee

No it obviously was not aimed -- I know and agree that in a number of places in the U.S you can go to the corner store and buy parts for that old Ford -- but have you had to put spark plugs in one of their truck engines lately? The days of simple repairs are gone and parts that used to be interchangeable for 10 years are non existant. If you want to believe that buying a new whatever will mean that you have parts availability, reliability and longevity like those oldies just because the name is the same and the price tag is high go ahead - forgive me if I am a little sceptical about that strategy

 

[studor]

But the ones I've been looking at sure do!

Amazing isn't it -- the price some people want for a used tractor boggles the mind. And of course they all run well and have been regularly serviced at the dealer and are being sold with great regret because the wife has insisted that there is not enough room for that and the new one:laughing: