Gambled on a G5200 Today

[joleat]

Without doing much research on the G5200, I took a gamble on one today for $1300. It has 1235 hours and looks better in person than it does in the picture (seller's picture). I need to clean it up a bit and snap a few pictures of my own before I dive into maintenance.

My old Cub Cadet LTX 1042 is on its last leg, so I've been keeping an eye on marketplace for a couple weeks. I didn't have a particular model in mind, but I knew I wanted to move into something more robust. I was watching for a Gravely or an old Ford, but had hopes of maybe landing on a diesel Kubota or Deere. Time will tell if the gamble was worth it.

I look forward to learning about it. If anyone has experience with this model and wants to share anything I should know, please feel free to do so.

 

[lmichael]

Good lookin machine there. Looks like it's all there. Many times on old machines all the missing things are the hardest thing to go through. And you're right that is a FAR more robust machine than the little Cub you're replacing. These Kubotas are like tanks. Thick steel, heavy drive shafts grease fittings everywhere you look, and they weigh way more than you might expect. Mine (G2160) replaced a nice little Honda 4514 (really nice little machine like a tank in it's own right) but just the mower deck from my G2160 weighs almost as much as the entire Honda machine did.
Of course I am really feeling that weight and size at my age.
In any case you will grow to love the music of that little diesel humming away as well. Congrats on the "new" machine.

 

[Like Tractors]

Without doing much research on the G5200, I took a gamble on one today for $1300. It has 1235 hours and looks better in person than it does in the picture (seller's picture). I need to clean it up a bit and snap a few pictures of my own before I dive into maintenance.

My old Cub Cadet LTX 1042 is on its last leg, so I've been keeping an eye on marketplace for a couple weeks. I didn't have a particular model in mind, but I knew I wanted to move into something more robust. I was watching for a Gravely or an old Ford, but had hopes of maybe landing on a diesel Kubota or Deere. Time will tell if the gamble was worth it.

I look forward to learning about it. If anyone has experience with this model and wants to share anything I should know, please feel free to do so.

I bought one new in 1993, I now use it occasionally, just because I like running it. A BX2380 and a B2650 with a rear finish mower do the job most of the time.

 

[lmichael]

I bought one new in 1993, I now use it occasionally, just because I like running it. A BX2380 and a B2650 with a rear finish mower do the job most of the time.

That looks great!