Well, you asked...
I purchased it for $11,000 including delivery from Texas. That price included the Land Pride tiller that you see in the picture plus a Land Pride box scraper, plus a 54" mower deck. It had 36 hours on it when I bought it. All implements including the front loader had never touched dirt. Only the mower deck was slightly used. I figured that I saved 25% off list price. My local dealer didn't come down off list far enough. I may have saved 10% off a Great Price from another dealer.
I do realize that it was Very Expensive. I can justify the cost because 1.) I hate to spend my own money watching someone else work on something that I could easily do, even if they are better and faster than I. 2.) I gave up motorcycle riding Forever after clobbering a dog last year in my car. I had no warning and could not have avoided the black lab at night - it would have caused a major life-threatening wreck if I had been riding the motorcycle. The tractor replaces the motorcycle as a recreational vehicle. 3.) My house by itself is not worth a nickel. The yard and location will be what sells the place if it ever comes to that. I have lots of irrigation water, too. Anything I can do to convert it from a horse yard to formal landscape will increase the value of the house far above the cost of the tractor. 4.) I have lots of kids (5). The older one made $1000 last summer on our little 13.5hp Briggs riding mower. He'll do much better this summer with the front loader, tiller, bigger mowing deck, etc. The next one in line is ready to start making money, too. Then I have the others.... 5.) I've blown up 2 cheap riders and one JD F525 in 3 years. I'm done with fixing dumb stuff. 6.) I'm a friendly guy and gladly loan out all my tools and equipment. This is just another thing my friends and neighbors can borrow. 7.) I borrowed my neighbors old Massey for most of a summer and spent most of my time working on it to keep it running well. Besides that, it weighed about 20,000lbs and was too big for what I was doing with it.
