Price Check Looking to buy a 790 - Price ok??

2kpsd · Mar 27, 2006

Hi - I am new to this forum. I am looking at a new JD 790 MFWD with the following:

300 Loader w/ 61" Bucket and Parking Stands
Hood Guard
3pt Ballast Box
R4 Tires front and rear
I think that is it.....that is what he quoted me anyways.
It all translates to $13,980 before sales tax. He also said they would deliver it to my door free of charge as well. I really like the tractor - I test drove it last Tuesday. We had some snow so I got to move some around the lot and use the loader. I have been researching this tractor on this website and have learned quite a lot already. I also want to say thanks for any and all input in advance. This website has been very informative. I will be using the tractor for my 5 acres and 10 horses. Cleaning stalls, pulling the spreader, Eventually I plan on getting a rear finish mower and a disc/tiller of some sort for the round pen.

gordon21 · Mar 27, 2006

That is a good price. Make sure to get the tires filled. See many other threads about filling tires. Here are some things you might want to consider adding to the package price, especially if you are financing it.

Tooth bar for the bucket
Box Blade
Rear rotary mower or finish mower
I-match quick hitch (highly recommended)

Adding these 4 items would make the payments go up $25-35 per month, but it would save you from possibly paying full price at time of purchase in 6 months. Better pricing when buying a package.

I love my 790. It looks like a "real" tractor, not a riding lawn mower on steroids. My employees call me Eddie Albert now from the old TV show Green acres.

rockyridgefarm · Mar 27, 2006

Do Not go back and test drive a Hydrostatic.

There is Absolutely No Advantage in a Hydrostat for the chores you describe. It is so much more fun shifting gears and trying to find a good speed inside a barn than just pushing the pedals to the exact speed that you need. Not to mention SpeedMatch and LoadMatch. Definitely would be a waste of money.

Is that what you want to hear?

2kpsd · Mar 27, 2006

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Do Not go back and test drive a Hydrostatic.

There is Absolutely No Advantage in a Hydrostat for the chores you describe. It is so much more fun shifting gears and trying to find a good speed inside a barn than just pushing the pedals to the exact speed that you need. Not to mention SpeedMatch and LoadMatch. Definitely would be a waste of money.

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Sure - actually I'm just trying to keep the costs down and manual tranny is perfectly fine for me. It was a blast to drive. I've had hydrostatic garden tractors before - but its hard to compare to a CUT.

Joe1 · Mar 27, 2006

It's always helpful to fill in your profile. Prices many times vary with location.

A great tractor.

Good luck with it.

AKfish · Mar 27, 2006

Horses... actually horses and a wife that has wanted horses for the past 25 years!! That'll get you in the tractor owning business for sure --- ended up with a SD and a Nebraska horse --- and a tractor!

I've got a gear tractor and love it. It came as a package that included nearly all of the attachments that I'd been looking for. But then the neighbor bought a new 4320 hydro and let me use it for an hour....

Cleaning my corral area and creeping in the barn to back blade --- well, like the previous post mentioned; don't go out and test drive a hydro. Especially that new 3203 model (should be close in $$$ to the 790).

Anyways, welcome to the forum and the hobby-horse, small farmer, not enough money left over to pay attention crowd! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

2kpsd · Mar 28, 2006

I just got off of the phone with the JD dealer that lives 5 miles from my house. Instead of the 05 790 from another dealer 20 miles away, he is going to match everything in my original post, only order me in a brand new '06 intead of an '05 for only $100 more. So total before tax is going to be $14,080. The '05 from the other dealer has been sitting on the lot and has been used as a demo so it has a few hours on it already. No big deal but for $100 getting a year newer with no hours on it at all /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif I told him to order it. Will be here within 10 days! Can't wait - will probably just drive it the 5 miles home grinning ear to ear the whole way - /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

pruntyc · Mar 28, 2006

I sure didn't know you could have a 05 or 06, it seems to me, they are just tractors, not years of tractors. The year, is just the year they put a title to it, not the year they are. And sure you would love the gear, I did to, till I used a hytro, you don't know till you try it. I didn't think I would have one, because like you, I have a hydro yard tractor, and hate it. Love the tractor with it though, completely different.

rockyridgefarm · Mar 28, 2006

Hi, Dick! I see your Yanmar turned green, grew 4wd AND a hydro!! How long has that been? I used to have a red one too...

pruntyc · Mar 28, 2006

I got it the 23rd of last month. I really like it. Well, I liked my Yanmar to, but you can't even compare them. The same thing I tryed to do with the red one, I can do easy with this one. Like drag gravel up a steep hill, with my 72 inch blade. I can pull a full load with the 4 wheel drive, and with the red one, only had 2 wheel drive, and had trouble with a 1/4 load.