In the Kubota line, what is yuppie and what is real?

[Kep]

Free advice is usually worth what you paid for it. :thumbsup:

 

[ayelvington]

A yuppy tractor is owned by someone that isn't going broke at what they do all day. A crusty tractor is owned by someone trying to figure out how to pay for feed and the like. I own a BX tractor because I needed something that would fit between the rows of my orchard, and turn at the ends without hitting the fence. I DO NOT mow the lawn with it. Would I like a tractor that didn't sink like a stone to the bottom of mud holes? You bet, but it wasn't in the budget, and it wouldn't fit in the orchard.

 

[DAY]

A yuppy tractor is owned by someone that isn't going broke at what they do all day.

A fellow PA farmer won the lottery recently, and was asked what he was now going to do.

"Oh, I guess I'll just keep farming, until the money runs out. . ."

 

[IslandTractor]

Coming in 2012: remote operation- like the UAV's in Afghanistan, being "piloted" from bases in the United States.

I'm gonna get me one, do all my Iowa farming from the beach at Waikiki:laughing:

Let me see: Farm works starts about 7am. Time zone difference between CST and Waikiki is five hours. Yeah, you won't have any trouble finding a spot on the beach but you'll need night vision goggles to see any cute ladies and they are likely not gonna be in their bikinis at 2am. Still, you would have most of the day free after the sun finally rises.... However, my bet is that some guy in Bangalore will be monitoring (virtual seat time?) that fancy a££ "real farmer" tractor.

 

[bigbull338]

well there nothing better than fooling with cows or farming your whole life.i really consider myself semi retired.beef cattle are alot easier than dairy cattle.

 

[dodge man]

I was working on a job recently, and they had a Cat Challenger sitting out by the barn. I'm talking one of the large ones that run on rubber tracks. I'm talking REALLY LARGE. The pto on this thing was over 300 hp according to the owner. I counted the front weights and did a little math in my head. If I put on the mower, end loader, picked up a bucket full of gravel, put on the rear blade, filled up the fuel tank, gained a 100 pounds and sat on my BX, it weighed less than the front weights on that Challenger.

Parked next to that thing, my BX looks like a toy, a yuppie tractor if you will.

Parked next to a wheel barrow and a shovel, my BX starts to look like a usefull tool.

Both my BX and the Cat Challenger are usefull tools. I have no use for a huge ag tractor, he has no use for a BX, except maybe to mow his yard. If you look at all the features that Challenger has, the truth is he is more likely a yuppie farmer than I am a yuppie home owner.

 

[RayCo]

Wow, I just realized that I'm a yuppie, although that term has strayed far from its original definition. I have a BX24, which I never thought of as any sort of yuppie thing, but now as I reflect one why I got it and what I use it for, it really is to enable more "yuppiness." Examples:

*Originally purchased to use to put in a long, fancy, EP Henry walkway.

*I use the tractor to take the trash down my long, yuppie driveway.

*I used it to level an area for a "mega mansion" cedar swingset & playhouse that we got four our daughter, where as an old playground style metal set would have worked fine.

*I used it to create a pond with a waterfall that looks all pretty as you enter the part of our driveway where you can see the house.

*I used it to level an area for the yuppie gazebo that we than had delivered.


I think I could probably list 20-25 things that I've used this tractor for, and they would all indeed revolve around a yuppie theme. :confused2: I think a new term needs to be created for those who have the desire for yuppie things, but do all the work themselves, because most of the fun is in DOING the stuff, not having it. I'm not sure what that term would be, but that'd be me.

And further, I go to work and sit behind a desk all day, in a very yuppie type of way. And I am pretty certain that I am the only person in my office of 150 people who owns a tractor. In fact, I don't even have to go that far. If you look out in the parking lot of 150 vehicles, there is only one other person who even has a truck.

I'd spend the rest of the day now coming to terms with this revelation of today, but I can't be bothered, as I need to go buy some new cardigans that match my Kubota.

 

[dodge man]

RayCO. Look at yourself in the mirror, slap yourself, and go out and buy an old ag tractor and park it in your driveway. Don't worry about the fact it tears up the lawn, won't mow the yard, and won't turn around because its to big. At least you will be able to sleep at night. And for crying out loud, sell the truck and buy a BMW if your going to go the yuppie route.

 

[beppington]

Is that a yuppie couch your BX is lifting in your avatar pic?

 

[RayCo]

Is that a yuppie couch your BX is lifting in your avatar pic?

Indeed. That was all imported silk on that couch, but it was last year's model, so it had to go!