orange guy:
tco is somethign I too am concerned about, one reason I bought what I did, JINMAs have been produced for almost 40 years. parts are very availalbe and are cheap compaired to other tractor parts, just for giggles I PRICED rebuild of injector pump, something like $450, my NEW one is only $120.00 plus shipping if it is not local enough to go get, dealers will add cost on but anyone can buy dirrectly from china now and ship UPS or FED EX. no need to buy from the local kub dealer. as far as re-sale, JINMAS are selling as much used as a wise on the subject guy can buy NEW for so not sure where that keep popping up at resale is not an issue to me anyhow as I intend to KEEP mine untill I get a 2nd one and then I'll work both untill I feel no longer NEED both. then I'll sell it for a good deal more than I paid considering how much use I've already gotten out of it more than I paid for it I could scrap it and make out.
asa for hydrostat: true I don't have that, but then I didn't want that, if I had I would have looked at the big 3 more, but even the gear drive prices I had I couldn't afford from them. I did look at the centures and AGROs. very nice still more than I wanted to pay but for a bit more tractor thatn I need or needed. Maintenance wise, I can fix repair torubleshoot and resulve just about any issue for any kind of machine, from computers (build my own) to cars, with Multiport electronic ignigtion... and yes even my lowly diesle tractor which I admit broke a few times, (oil press gauge died, hose blew after a major crash into an immovable object and my clutch needed adjusting) granted these are minor and could have been done by anyone, but constantly seening posts where you are in the china forum stating they are all junk or to buy orange or big three or that they made a mistake is not productive and while you can have you're oppinion posting these things to the china forum when someone had/has a problem does not help them and is only attempting to give you're self an ego boost for making the RIGHT decision on buying the Kub.
what is TCO for you is not the same for everyone here, and if someone is in the china forum they are seeking advice from people who actually HAVE one adn can tell them the truth not what is percieved to be a problem with what they are asking.
please don't get me wrong, I'm not gripping yelling or anthing, it just gets tiering hearing all the same things from different people who admitedly by their own words don't ownn one of the tractors, but they talk as if they DO know and know they are right and that the china tractors are all POS and should be turned into scrap metal and only if that scrap metal was going to be used to build break walls as well all know that the steel isn't woth diddly...
also I'm not angry or mad, just pointing out that this is the CHINA forum not the KUB forum. and yes we could go into those forums and post similar things but why?
Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
