tractor shoppin today

[BKThorn]

Well I made a swing by the place in Sulphur Springs and they had a L4600 package sitting there so I just asked about it... Turns out the MX5100 package price that I posted earlier in the thread was cheaper by a few hundred bucks than the L4600 package they had put together so I didn't even ask about the MX5100 they had. For me to make an 8hr round trip they'd really have to come down and I don't think they'd come down that low.

I also stopped in Palastine on the way back an looked at a MF1643... Nice platform lay out. Kind of reminded me of the Kioti DK40SE I looked at and I'd love to own it but I just don't see many MF dealers in my area (Palastine being the closest at 1.5hrs away). So it looks like it's going to be a toss up of the Kubota's

Thanks all!!

 

[econometrics]

Well I made a swing by the place in Sulphur Springs and they had a L4600 package sitting there so I just asked about it... Turns out the MX5100 package price that I posted earlier in the thread was cheaper by a few hundred bucks than the L4600 package they had put together so I didn't even ask about the MX5100 they had. For me to make an 8hr round trip they'd really have to come down and I don't think they'd come down that low. I also stopped in Palastine on the way back an looked at a MF1643... Nice platform lay out. Kind of reminded me of the Kioti DK40SE I looked at and I'd love to own it but I just don't see many MF dealers in my area (Palastine being the closest at 1.5hrs away). So it looks like it's going to be a toss up of the Kubota's Thanks all!!

Sounds like you are getting a good deal on the MX5100 with your first quote. And I doubt you would be let down with that machine! I do not know much about modern MF tractors, but I know a lot of MX5100 owners that are very happy. Sometimes to the point of being annoyingly proud, HA!

 

[bigbull338]

Well I made a swing by the place in Sulphur Springs and they had a L4600 package sitting there so I just asked about it... Turns out the MX5100 package price that I posted earlier in the thread was cheaper by a few hundred bucks than the L4600 package they had put together so I didn't even ask about the MX5100 they had. For me to make an 8hr round trip they'd really have to come down and I don't think they'd come down that low.

I also stopped in Palastine on the way back an looked at a MF1643... Nice platform lay out. Kind of reminded me of the Kioti DK40SE I looked at and I'd love to own it but I just don't see many MF dealers in my area (Palastine being the closest at 1.5hrs away). So it looks like it's going to be a toss up of the Kubota's

Thanks all!!

you shouldve twisted their tail on the mx5100 package.what salesmen did you talk to there.i know the salesmen at the dealership in sulphur springs.im betting they wouldve met your price on the mx5100 package.

 

[BKThorn]

you shouldve twisted their tail on the mx5100 package.what salesmen did you talk to there.i know the salesmen at the dealership in sulphur springs.im betting they wouldve met your price on the mx5100 package.

They might would have but even if they matched it or beat it by a few hundred I don't feel like that would warrant an 8hr drive (round trip) to pick it up.

I got the prices of several different brands in the HP range I was considering so now I have something to "chew" on. I figure make friends with the locals and somewhere down the road a favor is hopefully just 30 min away.

Then again I may just scrap the whole idea... With the stuff I want done and for the price of the tractor, I could pay someone $1000/year for the next 30 years to work my place a little at a time...

 

[Sysop]

Then again I may just scrap the whole idea... With the stuff I want done and for the price of the tractor, I could pay someone $1000/year for the next 30 years to work my place a little at a time...

I had the same consideration before my purchase too. Unless that someone you have plans on hiring can lift a couple thousand pounds at a time; or someone who can somehow miraculously turn hours of manual labor into a task that walking to the barn would be the hardest and most time consuming part of; tractors are a tool required for many things. They're the type of tool that once we own, we realize many more things we can do. My whole family has tractors. I've been around, had 24x7 access to, and used of a number of tractors over the years. Heck, I had a FREE tractor setting in my barn for my uses all last summer, I used it only for the planned uses it was borrowed for and never gave consideration to how useful it COULD be beyond that. Now that I own my own, I can't stop thinking of new things to do and ways to use the tractor to make typical tasks easier or faster... Another consideration, over those thirty years of not having a tractor; how many new jobs could come up you would need one for?

 

[TripleR]

+ 2 on that. When I was growing up in rural Minnesota, a JD 4240 was a "smaller tractor". I remember trying to explain to my uncles at Christmas what a JD 5103 was. One of them has been a mechanic at the local JD dealer up there for almost 30 years and even he was foggy on that tractor, haha!

I live right in the heart of farming country with some farms being pretty big, so the JD lots have mostly big tractors. There have been a couple of times there have been no 5000 or 4000 Series on the lot, once they only had one of each.

 

[Buppies]

Tractors are a great tool having many uses but would not buy one then try to justify purchase by thinking of things for tractor to do. A tractor is a major purchase not to be taken lightly but that being said really do enjoy my time working it. Whatever you decide it will be the right decision for you. Good luck

 

[Sysop]

Agreed you need good reasons to own one. For most I think it is strictly a dollar decision; what they have to do, they can better afford to do with their own machine versus rentals or hiring out jobs. What I was trying to get at is no matter what it is you think you want to do with one, there's always a dozen other good tasks and chores you haven't yet thought of, or things you do manually without giving a second thought to, that will be done in minutes rather than hours once it's just another tool on your belt.