(I also posted this in NH Buying/Pricing)
Question for all you guys who have bought TC48's (or 55's for that matter):
Am I going to be happy with 2WD or should I invest the extra cash for a 4WD?
Here's the deal: I just bought a house with 3 acres which is all grass and could be mowed with a lawn&garden tractor, albeit slowly. But the house has a concrete driveway that's about 200 feet long and a large concrete pad in front of the garage and the barn. And we often get a lot of snow here in northern Ohio. So I want some HP and size to push a blade around.
I can buy an '05 TC48DA 2WD with R1 tires for $13,600, which includes an $800 discount for paying cash that NH is offering ONLY on the 2WD TD48.
The dealer says I'll probably be happy with the 2WD so long as I don't put a loader on it. He'd prefer I'd buy a 4WD just to be safe and more flexible, and is offering to sell me the 4WD option at his cost (I think he said $3,500, but I didn't actually have him price it out).
What do you guys who have these tractors think of 2WD vs. 4WD?
If I go with the 4WD I lose the $800 cash discount and he may not be able to discount quite as aggressively because it's a much more popular tractor. The 2WD model is at another dealer who wants to give it up badly.
Right now I have a package deal for a 2WD TC48DA with R1 tires, a Land Pride FDR16 72" rear discharge mower and a Land Pride RB15 84" rear blade for $16,920.32 out the door. I'm happy with the price--especially when I was looking at used 30 HP Kubotas with only a mower for $12-13K. And my wife says buy it if you want it, which is always a good thing.
But she told me to make sure it was what I wanted because if in 6 months or a year I'm whining that I should have bought 4WD it's tough luck because I'm not trading up.
So help me out here guys. If I have no plans to buy a loader in the foreseeable future, will I be happy and will I get goood performance from a 2WD instead of a 4WD?
Question for all you guys who have bought TC48's (or 55's for that matter):
Am I going to be happy with 2WD or should I invest the extra cash for a 4WD?
Here's the deal: I just bought a house with 3 acres which is all grass and could be mowed with a lawn&garden tractor, albeit slowly. But the house has a concrete driveway that's about 200 feet long and a large concrete pad in front of the garage and the barn. And we often get a lot of snow here in northern Ohio. So I want some HP and size to push a blade around.
I can buy an '05 TC48DA 2WD with R1 tires for $13,600, which includes an $800 discount for paying cash that NH is offering ONLY on the 2WD TD48.
The dealer says I'll probably be happy with the 2WD so long as I don't put a loader on it. He'd prefer I'd buy a 4WD just to be safe and more flexible, and is offering to sell me the 4WD option at his cost (I think he said $3,500, but I didn't actually have him price it out).
What do you guys who have these tractors think of 2WD vs. 4WD?
If I go with the 4WD I lose the $800 cash discount and he may not be able to discount quite as aggressively because it's a much more popular tractor. The 2WD model is at another dealer who wants to give it up badly.
Right now I have a package deal for a 2WD TC48DA with R1 tires, a Land Pride FDR16 72" rear discharge mower and a Land Pride RB15 84" rear blade for $16,920.32 out the door. I'm happy with the price--especially when I was looking at used 30 HP Kubotas with only a mower for $12-13K. And my wife says buy it if you want it, which is always a good thing.
But she told me to make sure it was what I wanted because if in 6 months or a year I'm whining that I should have bought 4WD it's tough luck because I'm not trading up.
So help me out here guys. If I have no plans to buy a loader in the foreseeable future, will I be happy and will I get goood performance from a 2WD instead of a 4WD?
