Has anyone seen the 2450's yet at a dealer? Just noticed some listed @ online tractor sales sites. Just wondering what everybody thinks about them.
My 2010 SC2450 was delivered to my house last Friday. Having owned a 1994 Cub Cadet 2084 Super Garden tractor previously, this little guy is a God send.
My only hands-on experience was with a SC2400 tractor at a county fair here in North East Wisconsin. The salesman told me what came on the SC2450 and told me what the prices would be for the options that I wanted.
Last Saturday I played with the front loader and back hoe. It's going to be a challenge for me to get the controls down, but it will come.
The "only" three items I do not care for on this unit is the area for filling the tank and the angle at which the nozzle sits. Fuel filling is in the cab to the left of the center "console". It's difficult to fill the tank because the angle of the fill spout. I will have to get a flexible funnel to ease the filling. The other item is really a very "bad" design...this being the rear window. When sitting in the seat and turning around to look out the back, all you will see is vinyl. The "glassine" is not high enough. It's almost like the removable window was installed upside down. I told my salesman that I wanted to talk to the re regarding this rear window design. I'm thinking about taking it to an upholstery shop and having them extend the "glassine" further up.
Short of these three items, I think the SC2450 is a great unit. Small, yet versatile. I'm sure there are more experienced small tractor owners on this site, but this is my first experience and I'm quite happy.
Price wise...well compared to my 2084 with the only options being a 2-stage snow blower, rear wheel weights, suitcase weights with rack, semi steel cab, windshield wiper...it came in at $8400. The options I got with the SC2450 were steel cab (and it IS an awesome cab compared with the last cab I had), in cab heater, cab top work lights, front hitch, 45" 2-stage snowblower, hydraulic chute control...brought the cost of this unit to about $25,000. A lot of money, but in my opinion...a lot of tractor.
Hope this helps somewhat.
Jerry