mogulrider
New member
New here and just wanted to say thanks to the Tractor community for giving their opinions and wisdom on tractor topics.
Your opinions ands experience were invaluable.
I have 70 acres that we just built on with a 1000 foot gravel driveway, bridge, and 2 kilometers of woods roads.
We are forestry family with many 1000's of acres so we well versed in rural living and we have lots of heavy woods gear but nothing small to handle the snowblowing, firewood, and other house chores.
Plowing with a skidder, porter or processor is both laughable and like swatting a fly with truck.....
Thus after a year of lurking here and taking the solid guidance from many of you, I finally found a used tractor that was both small enough for fine work but large enough to get rough when necessary.
After riding many new tractors like the Kioti CS and CK series, John Deere 1 @ 2 series (nice high quality tractors), Mahindra Emax and Max (liked these alot), Kubota BX's and the 2650 series it came down to this.
In Nova Scotia where I live these tractors were priced in USD and converted to Canadian.
The prices for a Tractor, Heated Cab, Front blower all came in around 26-28K Canadian for the SCUTS and 37-40K Canadian for CUTS.
I nearly died....
I am blowing driveways, grabbing logs for firewood, throwing gravel and soil, etc. Those prices were frankly foolish. The cost benefit analysis didn't work.
It caused me to move to the used market. Here in NS the dealers scoop up all the good quality used inventory and price it stupid to make their new product look reasonable. This is how they move new inventory. One has to be fast or lucky to beat them to the seller.
Well as it turned out a Kioti dealer in New Brunswick we do business with took a 2010 T293 on trade with 138 hours..
Nothing for hours. Cripes my skidder and processors do that in a week. 138 in 7 years. Jeez Louise...
Turns out this dealer who we are customers of for many years took pity on me and called me up as the seller bought a new Kioti DK as a retirement gift to himself. He had used this TYM Rt293 to plow his 200 foot asphalt flat driveway for seven year and even used the back remotes to drive the plow with long Hydraulic lines from the back.
The thing had more dust than use....
Anyway my sales guy we've known for 30 years called and said it mine to view for a few days before they advertised it.
I had my Skidder driver with me and we checked it out. They wanted $22K Canadian.
It took us 20 minutes to close the deal. This thing was immaculate. The dealer hadn't even washed it yet.
It'll need a couple coolant hoses changed from age. But that is it...
It is rare around here to find a low hour non-rusted out diesel tractor that has any bolts left on it. Normally the used stuff is just beat to crap cause they are leased and abused.
Anyway, this 29 horse CUT will do what we need. They are gonna put a Berco front blower on for us then ship it down after August 20th....
I just wanted to say thanks to those old dogs and new dogs who contribute to these forums.
You may not get a lot of thanks sometimes but we honor your opinions and wisdom.
Thanks
Kenny the Mogulrider....
Your opinions ands experience were invaluable.
I have 70 acres that we just built on with a 1000 foot gravel driveway, bridge, and 2 kilometers of woods roads.
We are forestry family with many 1000's of acres so we well versed in rural living and we have lots of heavy woods gear but nothing small to handle the snowblowing, firewood, and other house chores.
Plowing with a skidder, porter or processor is both laughable and like swatting a fly with truck.....
Thus after a year of lurking here and taking the solid guidance from many of you, I finally found a used tractor that was both small enough for fine work but large enough to get rough when necessary.
After riding many new tractors like the Kioti CS and CK series, John Deere 1 @ 2 series (nice high quality tractors), Mahindra Emax and Max (liked these alot), Kubota BX's and the 2650 series it came down to this.
In Nova Scotia where I live these tractors were priced in USD and converted to Canadian.
The prices for a Tractor, Heated Cab, Front blower all came in around 26-28K Canadian for the SCUTS and 37-40K Canadian for CUTS.
I nearly died....
I am blowing driveways, grabbing logs for firewood, throwing gravel and soil, etc. Those prices were frankly foolish. The cost benefit analysis didn't work.
It caused me to move to the used market. Here in NS the dealers scoop up all the good quality used inventory and price it stupid to make their new product look reasonable. This is how they move new inventory. One has to be fast or lucky to beat them to the seller.
Well as it turned out a Kioti dealer in New Brunswick we do business with took a 2010 T293 on trade with 138 hours..
Nothing for hours. Cripes my skidder and processors do that in a week. 138 in 7 years. Jeez Louise...
Turns out this dealer who we are customers of for many years took pity on me and called me up as the seller bought a new Kioti DK as a retirement gift to himself. He had used this TYM Rt293 to plow his 200 foot asphalt flat driveway for seven year and even used the back remotes to drive the plow with long Hydraulic lines from the back.
The thing had more dust than use....
Anyway my sales guy we've known for 30 years called and said it mine to view for a few days before they advertised it.
I had my Skidder driver with me and we checked it out. They wanted $22K Canadian.
It took us 20 minutes to close the deal. This thing was immaculate. The dealer hadn't even washed it yet.
It'll need a couple coolant hoses changed from age. But that is it...
It is rare around here to find a low hour non-rusted out diesel tractor that has any bolts left on it. Normally the used stuff is just beat to crap cause they are leased and abused.
Anyway, this 29 horse CUT will do what we need. They are gonna put a Berco front blower on for us then ship it down after August 20th....
I just wanted to say thanks to those old dogs and new dogs who contribute to these forums.
You may not get a lot of thanks sometimes but we honor your opinions and wisdom.
Thanks
Kenny the Mogulrider....
