What do you wish you'd bought?

[Builder]

UGH, so many "what if-s" in my equipment purchases over the years

Pickup: should have got DRW 1-ton instead of 1-ton SRW
Backhoe: good to go, no serious regrets.
Dumptruck: should have got Allison auto instead of stick.
Utility tractor: I had a shot at an Kubota M4900 shuttle shift for $19,000 with FEL & 4x4, cab. Instead I bought my Agco/Challenger hydro 4x4 FEL cab fro $14,500. I like the Agco/Challenger, but I decided I dislike Hydrostatic transmissions. I like the shuttle shift better and the Kubota was heavier duty. The problem came down to money. The $4,500 savings paid for other implements.

 

[Lyrch75]

I think most of wish we'd bought the next size bigger tractor.... if we had then we'd probably wish for one bigger than that. lol
I choose my L2800 because I have tons of Oak trees with low limbs that I needed to get under.... in that circumstance, most of the time it's still too big.. <sigh>

Heh, I have hit the "let's go bigger" wall. Started out with a NH TC24 went to a 30 then a 55; now have a M7040. Which is a bit large for 80% of my usage, but the looks I get from neighbor when I mow my mother's 3 acre yard with it are worth the bit of hassle

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Heh, I have hit the "let's go bigger" wall. Started out with a NH TC24 went to a 30 then a 55; now have a M7040. Which is a bit large for 80% of my usage, but the looks I get from neighbor when I mow my mother's 3 acre yard with it are worth the bit of hassle

How long does it take to get her yard mowed, and how often? Time is of the essence.

 

[Opti-Mist]

Whilst I'm well satisfied with the NH 1920 I've got left (having disposed of the 9N, 1710, 3415, and JD 350-B), I's still like to have a JD 1010 with PTO & 3-Pt. That would enable me to mow some places along the shore that are too questionable for a tractor, and it would be a pretty neat rig.

 

[Lyrch75]

How long does it take to get her yard mowed, and how often? Time is of the essence.

If I use the RM990 and the 7040 I have the bulk done in about hour twenty. Getting out the little JD lawn tractor for finish trimming adds about another half hour/ forty five minutes.

 

[BlackRaptor]

For me like most i wish i would have went a little larger.
3520 vs 2520 with a cab. winter's are too dang cold up here.
trouble for me is it's also my lawn mower and a cab tractor makes a bad lawn mower too many branches to hit.
This one is pretty much paid for than i start begging the wife for another one to add to the line up with a cab. tractor buying is almost i sickness i think.

 

[Ductape]

tractor buying is almost i sickness i think.

You ain't just whistling dixie !!

 

[scsims]

I should have gotten the rear remote. I really don't need it, but you never know and it would have been the easiest to do it at time of purchase.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

You ain't just whistling dixie !!

When you have tractoritis you are sick, but it is possible to recover, although the recovery rate is less than 10% . But when you are a tractorholic, your done, there is no hope, it is best to accept it and to work with it the best that you can. That usually includes buying a lot of implements and maybe a tractor or two, or three, or? Even when there is no reason, you still buy, and buy, and, well you get the picture.

So for those of us that have this dastardly sickness, may we be blessed with each and every purchase.

Good luck to each and every one of us, we need it.

 

[WilliamBos]

a 10 acre parcel of land, well at the price they were 15 years ago, I should have bought two. Today, would have cashed out 7 figures. But I was young and cheap.

Oh, this was about tractors...