Well she has arrived...actually a little over a week ago but just got around to taking pictures. It was suppose to arrive this past week but last weekend (April 3rd) I got a call from the dealer (Messicks) around 10:30 or so that it was ready. Great news!!!...only we can't deliver it. And we close at noon. Huh...ok so I called a buddy of mine that I work with to see if his trailer was available. It was and off I go. I get up to the dealer around 11:30 or so, did some paperwork, nickel tour and away I was.
Got home, unloaded it, dam...no fuel. Should have checked before I left so I could have stopped on the way home. Go out, buy fuel, came home and cut the grass. I was done in a little under two hours. I was a little disappointed that I was done in just under two hours...kinda thought about mowing it again but I just moved here and didn't want the neighbors to think I was obsessed. Pulled out an old stump and that was it. Off to the Dominican Republic for a week. I know...worse places to go for work.
The next part is a little long and I mentioned it already in somebody else's thread but if anybody is thinking about a tractor, this is my story:
My wife and I just moved to up to our current place in Lancaster PA, from VA, that has a little over 3 acres. It came with a tired old MTD that was about done. When we first put a contract on the house I knew that little thing would not due so I started to look at the used box store tractors...the larger 54" cut Cubs and Deeres - ($1.5 - 2k). Then I figured I should get a new one as it's really not that much more and I'd rather just have new ($2.5 - 3k).
My brother also moved into a house with a larger lot and he bought a new x300 about 6 weeks or so ago. I guess he was telling the sales guy about my new place and situation and they tried to talk me into a new x500 ($5.5k). Not a bad idea...much nicer than the box shop jobs. But then I figured for just $2-3k more than the x500 I could get a nice used BX that would do a lot more ($7 - 9k). The search began. I called, replied to ads, looked a lot of places and I was not having very much luck finding anything used that suited.
Fine...I'll just get a new one...they seem to hold their value pretty well ($12 - 13k) I thought...quotes came back just shy of 14k (BX2360). Oh well...what's another $1 - 2k. March rolls around and I hear they have 0% financing for 60 months and no cash discount? Well...if I'm going to spend that much let me jump up to a B series because it will do more and we may end up moving to some place with a little bigger piece of property. So I ended up ordering (none on the lot) a B2320 for what a lot of people spend on cars. Considered calling back and going with the 2620 they had in stock but where does it stop? So far I'm happy with my B2320 and I think it will do everything I need it to.
Got home, unloaded it, dam...no fuel. Should have checked before I left so I could have stopped on the way home. Go out, buy fuel, came home and cut the grass. I was done in a little under two hours. I was a little disappointed that I was done in just under two hours...kinda thought about mowing it again but I just moved here and didn't want the neighbors to think I was obsessed. Pulled out an old stump and that was it. Off to the Dominican Republic for a week. I know...worse places to go for work.
The next part is a little long and I mentioned it already in somebody else's thread but if anybody is thinking about a tractor, this is my story:
My wife and I just moved to up to our current place in Lancaster PA, from VA, that has a little over 3 acres. It came with a tired old MTD that was about done. When we first put a contract on the house I knew that little thing would not due so I started to look at the used box store tractors...the larger 54" cut Cubs and Deeres - ($1.5 - 2k). Then I figured I should get a new one as it's really not that much more and I'd rather just have new ($2.5 - 3k).
My brother also moved into a house with a larger lot and he bought a new x300 about 6 weeks or so ago. I guess he was telling the sales guy about my new place and situation and they tried to talk me into a new x500 ($5.5k). Not a bad idea...much nicer than the box shop jobs. But then I figured for just $2-3k more than the x500 I could get a nice used BX that would do a lot more ($7 - 9k). The search began. I called, replied to ads, looked a lot of places and I was not having very much luck finding anything used that suited.
Fine...I'll just get a new one...they seem to hold their value pretty well ($12 - 13k) I thought...quotes came back just shy of 14k (BX2360). Oh well...what's another $1 - 2k. March rolls around and I hear they have 0% financing for 60 months and no cash discount? Well...if I'm going to spend that much let me jump up to a B series because it will do more and we may end up moving to some place with a little bigger piece of property. So I ended up ordering (none on the lot) a B2320 for what a lot of people spend on cars. Considered calling back and going with the 2620 they had in stock but where does it stop? So far I'm happy with my B2320 and I think it will do everything I need it to.
Don't have many wants, do we?
