Pulled the trigger... L5460HSTC

['Bota Fan]

Congratulations, sir, on the new purchase. Hope you enjoy it immensely. I'm Janet's friend from Georgia. Always good to connect with nice people, and y'all definitely fill the bill. Your tractor experience trumps mine by three or four country miles, so I'll be watching for your threads, posts, replies, etc. so I can sit at your feet and learn. Be sure to take Tootsie for a ride in the new ride!

 

[Retired Iron Peddler]

Congratulations, sir, on the new purchase. Hope you enjoy it immensely. I'm Janet's friend from Georgia. Always good to connect with nice people, and y'all definitely fill the bill. Your tractor experience trumps mine by three or four country miles, so I'll be watching for your threads, posts, replies, etc. so I can sit at your feet and learn. Be sure to take Tootsie for a ride in the new ride!

Thanks for the compliments. I'm an old guy who has been around and driving tractors almost all my life, but not too old to learn from others owners experiences too. From the few minutes of driving the tractor yesterday, I'm very pleased with the quietness inside the cab and the cooling performance of the A/C in yesterday's 97 degree summer heat. The information and operating data that is available on the IntelliPanel is amazing.

My wife and I take Tootsie riding daily on our Kubota RTV 900, but I don't take her on the tractor. I'm afraid that she might want to go with me and run towards the tractor and it's possible I may not see her and accidently run over her. If that happened, I'm afraid there'd be two funerals... one for Tootsie and one for my wife.

Bill

 

[FatTire]

Where are the photos?

 

[Retired Iron Peddler]

Where are the photos?

Here's one that my wife took while I was showing her how the grapple worked.



Bill

 

[TexasBoy]

Im late to this thread, but congrats to you Iron Peddler, thats a sweet ride you have there. I cant imagine having AC and the quiet. Them long hours on the pasture will be a breeze now. Enjoy the new wheels!

Is that a full Tier-4 machine?

 

[Retired Iron Peddler]

Im late to this thread, but congrats to you Iron Peddler, thats a sweet ride you have there. I cant imagine having AC and the quiet. Them long hours on the pasture will be a breeze now. Enjoy the new wheels!

Is that a full Tier-4 machine?

Thanks. I've already put about 8 hours on it mowing pasture and I haven't missed the dust and chaff at all. The A/C works great. One afternoon while mowing, the outside temperature was 99 degrees and the next day was 100 degrees. I had the A/C inside fan set on number 2, which is the first step above the lowest setting and was nice and cool.

Yep, it's full Tier 4, EGR and DPF. No lingering diesel exhaust smell or soot when I start it inside my shop.

Bill

 

[wmonroe]

Good looking tractor and I especially like the grapple.

 

[Retired Iron Peddler]

Good looking tractor and I especially like the grapple.

Thanks. I spent the day yesterday trimming low branches on our trees to clear the tractor cab and used the grapple for the first time. I successfully picked almost every little limb and twig on the first attempt requiring virtually no hand work. My Land Pride Model 1072 grapple will do exactly what I want. I'm glad I spent the extra money for it when I traded tractors.

With the grapple, I spend more time trimming branches than I do picking up the limbs and stacking them on a burn pile. Before the grapple, I spent much more time clearing and stacking the debris using my tractor loader bucket or the pallet forks attachment than I did trimming. The grapple will be a great time saver... one of those attachments that makes me comment, "How did I get along for so long without it".

Bill

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Nice tractor!