Boy, do I know how you feel. I stumbled on a 4610 with 4 hours on it sitting in a dealers lot. Surrounded by 3010's and 3710's It had been there since last summer, go figure. My hangup was the implements I ordered were not available, mostly a Woods 9000 hoe. That held it up for a month. Finally the dealer brought me the tractor and said he would come pick it up when the hoe came in and bring it back. Well thats where I sit now, waiting for it. Promised for saturday afternoon. While he has it down there they are replacing a leaking hydraulic cylinder and a boiled over battery. At least I got to put on 15 hours while I had it. What a wonderful tractor! I am sure others will echo that. I traded off a 24 horse Case IH (mitsubishi) gear drive tractor that I'd bought new in 88. It certainly did not owe me anything and I was abit teary eyed to see it leave on the dealers trailor, but as he said, "turn around and look at what's sitting in your shop"
THERE AINT NO COMPARISON. My suggestion is too go out on a limb abit and buy the best implements you can WITH the tractor. Maybe you have lots of bucks, but I don't, and this is the only way I could afford to buy what I wanted. I made the mistake the first time around and told myself, "Ill just buy the tractor now and get the implements later" Didn't work out as well as I'd hoped, and the stuff I did buy was marginal at best. This time I financed a Woods 9000 hoe with Rankin thumb, A Landpride 2560 brush cutter, LP 3584 backblade, 7 foot Curtis frontmount snowplow, Rankin bucket forks and a 8 inch Crary 25HP towed
Chipper. Now we are talking more money than I care to think about, being of moderate means, but at least I can get the job done and not strain underrated equipment doing it. I also think this stuff will have a lot more resale value should the time come to trade or sell. Enjoy the hunt, Shopping for the critter is half the fun.
