Picture of our new MF1533

[scott_vt]

Hey John,
You younger guys have all the luck! Your havin trouble with that joystick, well my old MF 1040 has the seperate controls for lift and bucket rotation. But heck, it still beats a shovel and wheelbarrow /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

scotty

 

[daTeacha]

Turn around the other way??

 

[JCS_in_KY]

I think bumping the joystick with my leg issue is just something that will take some getting used to, maybe positioning my foot on the throttle in a slightly different way or something like that. I've got some back and neck problems now that make it a little hard for me to turn the other direction far enough to work easily (probably from spending the last month moving gravel around with a shovel and wheelbarrow but the days of doing that are now over /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif ). I really like the tractor and I'm happy with my decision to get it over the other tractors I looked at. Now I've just got to get a post hole digger, PTO mixer, bushhog, and you know how it is the list goes on and on! One thing I need in the near future though is to make up a set of work lights so I can see to operate the FEL at night and to see behind me.
John

 

[Dalhan]

Nice looking tractor JCS. I'm in the market for one about that size myself and thought that the MF looked like what I wanted. Would it be rude to ask what you had to give for that 1533 with a loader? And who you purchased it from in KY? I'm in TN right on the KY boarder.

 

[JCS_in_KY]

Dalhan,
I bought the tractor from Ben & Elmers Tractor Company in Glasgow KY. They wanted $19,200.00 but we got them down to $18,600.00. They had a 1533 they would have sold for $17,600.00 but it had a 8x8 trans and a Bush hog FEL. I believe that going to the 12x12 trans with the power shuttle added about $900 to my price. The quick attach (skid steer) setup added another $300.00. The balance was the difference in price between the Bushhog FEL and the MF1525 FEL. They didn't have the tractor I wanted in stock but transferred it from another dealer and added the loader, only took about 5 days.
John

 

[JCS_in_KY]

Dalhan,
I also should mention that the lower price quoted on the 8x8 with Bush hog FEL didn't include filling the tires and I believe that it included AG tires, not the Industrials that we got.
John

 

[Donnyj]

That is a very nice looking tractor. The tractor looks big for a 33 hp. I like it. The new 1500 series looks awesome to me. The price you paid sounds very good. Nice large affordable tractor. Whats not to like! Congrats!!

 

[28RedHorses]

How did you get your wife on the tractor? Mine won't have anything to do with the tractor or the land!

28Red /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[JCS_in_KY]

28Red,
I guess I'm lucky, my wife likes to do work on the property and structures here. She hasn't driven the tractor much yet but wants to get more comfortable operating it so she can use it some next year to spread seed, fertilizer and some stuff like that. The day the tractor was delivered was the first time she'd ever driven a tractor, and the first time she'd driven any kind of vehicle with a manual transmission. John