Finally my own CUT - a short story

MechE1 · Apr 27, 2015

Cheers! What am I going to do with it? What am I NOT going to do with it! LOL. I (we) have lot's of projects coming up. House addition, large privacy fence and rerouting the drive to the house, all this spring/summer. Tons of landscaping/grading. In the next year or two, build outbuilding for storage and wood shop. I'm tired of carrying wood down to the basement. Those 3/4" sheets are about all I can handle by myself and they get heavy! I have a huge water issue with my house and pump an extreme amount of water out of the sump every day. I would like to use that for irrigating the lawn, but I need a reservoir. So, sometime in the next couple years I'll add a pond around 20-30k gallons or so. About that time, the wife and I will be looking for retirement property so I'll upsize the ground so I have use for it. I live near a couple nice subdivisions, so I'll seriously consider moving some snow in the winter months. I do know I will not spread chemicals/salt with it! Then, pick up odd jobs around to make a few extra bucks. If I could break even in the next 5-7 years I would be thrilled. If not, no biggie. I do intend keeping this machine for a very long time.

jenkinsph · May 1, 2015

Congratulations on the new tractor and have fun with it. That is a good size for homeowner projects, big enough to make a lot of jobs much easier to do.

MechE1 · May 1, 2015

Update. Yesterday dealer said that all Deere equipment was on site and was waiting on shipping dates from Frontier. WOW! That was fast! I know they have a lot of work to do yet, but still....impressive. I ordered on Saturday and tractor was there on Wednesday.

BlackRaptor · May 2, 2015

Congrats on the new tractor I do agree with what others have said the 3000 series is the perfect home owner size cut.

MechE1 · May 20, 2015

Update: Time has officially come to a stop.

We've passed week 3 and still "no update". Tractor on site. Equipment there. Not able to give me a firm date yet. They will "call when it's finished". ION, I was able to inspect the tractor. Overall very good. 1.1 hrs on the clock. Built in October '14. There was a scallop on a rear tire that looked to be from shipping and was on the sidewall. I asked for them to replace, as I will put low hours on this relative to a business/municipal owner. As I explained to him 5 years from now if it were to fail there, you wouldn't replace it. He understood. I think they will swap out with another units.

aginn · May 20, 2015

The waiting must be getting hard for you right now. I had to wait just 2 weeks for my tractor and that felt like eternity.

MechE1 · May 29, 2015

Update: Week 5 ends tomorrow. Machine is "in pieces in shop" and they would "hate to give me a date". It's been in the shop now for at least 1 week. I think someone has been on vacation. On the tire, they are having it replaced with a new one and are waiting on the tire from the local tire guys. I realize that what I ordered takes some pretty significant modifications. That being said, it's all bolt on stuff and 5+ weeks seems like a lot, and to not be able to guestimate a date seems somewhat rude. If I had not been calling I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have gotten any updates at all. Moving past anxious to somewhat angry. This is supposed to be a great experience. *sigh*

Creamer · May 29, 2015

I think I would be visiting daily and talking to the sales manager. This is past anything normal.

dusty3030 · May 29, 2015

All the hydraulics you ordered are probably what's holding you up some. Those kits have a lot of parts and there is several days shop time all together getting your loader, hydraulics and everything else assembled.
Add to that is planting season / wheat harvest is about to happen if you are using a ag oriented dealer and all their techs are as busy right now as they can get as in 7 days a week before daylight to after dark.
Not making excuses but go visit the dealer and have a sit down and get an honest answer from them.