Used BX - Question on Maintenance records

[teamorange7]

John I never had a problem with it. If i could use it i would buy my BX24 back (great tractor) my last name is thomas also.

 

[Happy Gilmore]

[B]This is true but I never put (us) Viet Nam Vets down. I also never put Kubotas down after having bought 17 and 16 of them were different. One I previously owned (F2680e) and bought it back to count 17 purchases.

John, unrelated to the OP, but I have to ask what was timeframe from purchase #1 thru #17? Reason for so many changes in machine? Not knocking you, in fact if I could I'd love to have owned/tried that many Kubotas.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

John, unrelated to the OP, but I have to ask what was timeframe from purchase #1 thru #17? 11 YEARS
Reason for so many changes in machine? YOU'LL HAVE TO DO SEARCH ON MY NAME TO KNOW THE REASON FOR EACH SPECIFIC CHANGE OR ADDITION. I CURRENTLY OWN 5, TODAY, BUT GETTING RID OF THE B7100 WHICH I'VE NEVER DRIVEN/USED TO BARLOWS. IN SUMMARY I BOUGHT MY FIRST ONE KNOWING LITTLE TO NOTHING ABOUT TRACTORS AND WHAT THEY WOULD DO AND WHAT I NEEDED DONE. THEN I REPLACED MY FIRST BX2200 FEL MMM AFTER ONE YEAR WITH A BX1500 MMM AND A B7800 FEL AND ADDED A BUNCH OF IMPLEMENTS/ATTACHMENTS AND 3 YEARS LATER, AFTER PAID OFF, I TRADED THOSE 2 TO BIGGER (L3240 AND BX2350) AND THE L WAS TO BIG AND THE BX2350 HAD ISSUES SOOO TO A B3200 FEL AND A BX2660MMM AND THEN I DISCOVERED THE JOYS AND BEST MOWING MACHINES MADE KUBOTA F MODELS, BOUGHT 3/4 OF THOSE OVER 5 YEARS AND CURRENTLY HAVE 2 ON HAND FOR DIFFERENT LOCARTIONS AND DISCOVERED THE VALUE OFR A BACK HOE TO/FOR ME AND TRADED THE BX2660 TO A BX25 WHICH I TURNED OVER AND TRADED IT TO A B2620 FEL BH AND A COUPLE OR 3 OTHERS IN BETWEEN Not knocking you, in fact if I could I'd love to have owned/tried that many Kubotas.

Not accepting as a "knock" just a reasonable and fair question. I've bought over 160 cars/trucks in my lifetime because I like them, not love them. Same with tractors. Some people buy till they fall apart and in my early years I've bought some of those vehicles when they were on their last legs but not many since 1980 when I bought my first new car, a Toyota Celica, which I paid for with my travel pay from my job. This converted me to accepting vehicles cost so many dollars per month to operate and how much per month is a certain level of comfort/sport worth to me. Travel pay stopped 13 years ago when I retired but checks kept coming and still do so I still buy based on value per month to me for a certain car/truck/tractor. Plus, when I die I place no value today in wanting to leave green dollars in the bank for my replacement, leaving him my Kubotas is bad enough but at least I will have gotten some value/benefit out of my years of working plus I have taken care of my wife after my demise and hope she will take care of the Grands. Problem with buying some "stuff" is it is valuable and if one continues to buy non expendable "stuff" they/you/me still leave an estate of monetary value. Homes, land, vehicle, tractors, investment income producing property, etc. Almost no way to keep that non working Bango player from benefitting from my labor.

 

[Happy Gilmore]

Not accepting as a "knock" just a reasonable and fair question. I've bought over 160 cars/trucks in my lifetime because I like them, not love them. Same with tractors. Some people buy till they fall apart and in my early years I've bought some of those vehicles when they were on their last legs but not many since 1980 when I bought my first new car, a Toyota Celica, which I paid for with my travel pay from my job. This converted me to accepting vehicles cost so many dollars per month to operate and how much per month is a certain level of comfort/sport worth to me. Travel pay stopped 13 years ago when I retired but checks kept coming and still do so I still buy based on value per month to me for a certain car/truck/tractor. Plus, when I die I place no value today in wanting to leave green dollars in the bank for my replacement, leaving him my Kubotas is bad enough but at least I will have gotten some value/benefit out of my years of working plus I have taken care of my wife after my demise and hope she will take care of the Grands. Problem with buying some "stuff" is it is valuable and if one continues to buy non expendable "stuff" they/you/me still leave an estate of monetary value. Homes, land, vehicle, tractors, investment income producing property, etc. Almost no way to keep that non working Bango player from benefitting from my labor.

Fair enough John, and I agree. 160 vehicles, yikes :shocked: