New Kubota M6060 or New JD 5065E?

[daugen]

You were fortunate to be at the right place at the right time. Good deals are all about luck and timing.

DL, my Massey had been traded in for an a/c cab Kubota like mine and was sitting right by the front door of the local Kubota dealer. They wanted it gone.
Sold it to me for a thousand over their trade three days before and I got a nice 2011 diesel 49hp
170 hour bare bones utility tractor for less than I paid for my new JD diesel garden tractor.
Besides, it was calling out to me...the prior owner had that Massey hood shined up like Ferrari red.
He was clearly a waxer and meticulous; I had to search for any dirt on the thing up underneath a cowling.
Was it my perfect second tractor? No. But I sure wasn't finding a spotless Kubota with hydro for anywhere near what I paid for this.

With the increasing complexity of agricultural equipment where you need one of your sons to get an IT degree for the farm,
the appeal of less complicated machinery is clear. Hard for me to consider buying something I have to add DEF to.
I might, just was hoping some new tech would show up making DEF fluid just an interim patch device. Well, still waiting...
And now there seems to be a whole new industry sprouting up cleaning DPF filters for big trucks and machinery.
If either of these two tractors the OP is considering had a better/easier emissions arrangement, that sure might sway some buyers.

sorry for going a bit off topic here

 

[Turbys_1700]

Drew, no apology needed for going off topic at all. I certainly understand.

In part my decision to get a Workmaster was due to the catalytic convertor with no DPF or regen. So far so good. How long that catalytic converter lasts who knows? I mainly was after more FEL capacity, SSQA capabilities, and local dealer parts support. Plus at 57 years of age I told my wife one new tractor before I kick the bucket. So she relented.

The Massey you stole is a work horse. Those simple tractors have less to go wrong. I've got an 83 4610 SU in the shed also. My son will get it when I die.

 

[Plantation Paul]

You were fortunate to be at the right place at the right time. Good deals are all about luck and timing. You make your money on the buy, not the sell. If I could get a smoking deal on a Deere I would have. Around here that is impossible. Along with Kubota, New Holland, etc. pretty much anything used is high. Deere has great specs on that series. If I had a dealer close by I would have looked real hard at them.

And it was crazy how it happened. I wasn't even looking for one when I found it on an ag buy and sell facebook page. Where there is anything from horses, chickens, to tractors and equipment. I then messaged the seller. The next day the ad was gone... I was like WTH? So he finally contacted me and said he was getting all kinds of BS from people states away saying they could get it cheaper or wanting to trade stuff for it. As far as I know, I was the only one that looked at it. He even delivered it to my house!