dahogman
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Well I finally decided it was time to bite the bullet and buy a new tractor. I've been working on cleaning up my Farm for 3 years. The farm is suffering from 40 years of no maintenance and never throwing anything away. I've been working with my truck and trailers and an old Farmall H and a Case DC. I'm an above knee right leg amputee and those tractors just weren't safe for me to operate. I started looking 2 years ago at skid steers and tractors to ease my work load. I decided to quit putting it off due to expense and just get it over with. I've tested lots and lots of different models and was just waiting for the right deal to pounce on. I went to my local dealer and was going to purchase a kubota L3560 HSTC with a 805 loader for $34,000 with 3rd function. I threw out a offer on a new 2014 MF 1759 Cab with DL130 loader that had been on their lot since Dec 2014 due to a failed internet purchase. I looked at the tractor back then but didn't pull the trigger due to price. I threw out an offer of $35,000 out the door. 2 days later they called and said that after much back and forth with AGCO they got the deal approved. It comes with new warranty 5 years and 51 hours. Dealership is going to go thru all the fluids due to my concerns over age. I'm getting a much larger tractor with rear remotes already on it so I won't have to go with 3rd function if I don't want to. They offered to put a diverter on it but after finding out that the grapple would only perform one function at a time I figured why bother, I'll just run the clamp function of the grapple off my remotes. Location of rear remote control is right beside me on the side console. The power shuttle works well for me since I don't have a right leg, I just use my left leg for brakes which I don't use very often anyway. I'll be doing a good deal of loader work and a HST would have been great but the location of controls was an issue. This tractor is a good fit for me. I'm going to run Hyd line to the front from the rear remotes to the center of the torque tube for a grapple. I'm in the process of figuring out what I need to do this so any help would be appreciated. I would like to explore any options that would allow me to operated the grapple completely independent of the rear remotes with all functions able to perform at the same time. I'm pretty good with a wrench and would likely do the work myself when I figure out everything I'll need. I don't have the tractor yet as it has to be hauled to me from the other dealership 250 miles away so I don't know what fittings I'm going to need to run my 2 hyd lines to the front of the loader. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I've gotten a lot of comments about paying that much for a tractor that is 3 years old, but the money I saved over a 2017 comparable tractor made it a fairly easy decision. Agco is treating it as a new tractor in all aspects. I'm going to have the tires loaded also.
