Why is green paint so expensive?

[davemhughes]

Dargo.....thanks for seeing I was not bashing.......

 

[patrick_g]

Perhaps your advanced age has affected your short term memory

Sorry, I'm not always too clear and have had humor mistaken before. The only comment I made that even remotely related to you personally was the laxitive and boots comment. I am older than you and I do have boots that are nearly as old as you. They have had a new sole put on about 35 years or so ago and they are still in pretty good shape.

As for the other comments, THEY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU personally and were intended to be general in nature. I am sorry you mistook anything I said for a personal attack as I have no reason to be upset with you or to be mean to you.

If you don't think us old guys with our defective memory, poor communications skills, and poor attempts at injecting some humor (even sarcastic humor) should share the planet with you then we have a genuine difference of opinion but still no reason to be upset. I respect your opinion and especially your right to express it! During my brief moments of lucidity between memory lapses I recall what it was like to be young like you.

Again, for whatever failing of mine may have caused this perceived breach of netiquette, I am sorry.

"Trouble with communications have I, yes."
- Yoda


Pat

 

[tensaw12]

My Friends,
It's all perception.......If what you buy, you perceive to be what you want, and need and the price that you want to pay, and think you have a good deal that's all that matters.....it's perception..... not color
tensaw12

 

[Egon]

new sole put on about 35 years or so ago and they are still in pretty good shape

Is this an indication they are not used? or you have more comfortable Boots? or just plain inactive!

Or are they Scarpa's

 

[turbo36]

Sorry, I'm not always too clear and have had humor mistaken before. The only comment I made that even remotely related to you personally was the laxitive and boots comment. I am older than you and I do have boots that are nearly as old as you. They have had a new sole put on about 35 years or so ago and they are still in pretty good shape.

As for the other comments, THEY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU personally and were intended to be general in nature. I am sorry you mistook anything I said for a personal attack as I have no reason to be upset with you or to be mean to you.

If you don't think us old guys with our defective memory, poor communications skills, and poor attempts at injecting some humor (even sarcastic humor) should share the planet with you then we have a genuine difference of opinion but still no reason to be upset. I respect your opinion and especially your right to express it! During my brief moments of lucidity between memory lapses I recall what it was like to be young like you.

Again, for whatever failing of mine may have caused this perceived breach of netiquette, I am sorry.

"Trouble with communications have I, yes."
- Yoda


Pat

Thanks for the great post. I wasn't trying to make 51 seem old, rather I was just commenting on how as I get older and experience more life changes (d*** arthritis) the more aware I am about making an effort to enjoy the time I have left. I am part of a group of guys that ride mountain bikes on Tuesday nights, afterward we have dinner together which always includes wine and never fail someone will start trying to find the cheapest bottle on the menu so I started saying "in a few short years it will all be over and I doubt our tombstone will say his greatest achievement was saving $5 on that bottle of wine'.

 

[turbo36]

I couldn't agree with you more. It's only when others try to exert their opinions as if they were facts and claim that you paid too much (based on what?) for what you bought that an arguement ensues. I am not loyal to any single tractor manufacturer, I have checked out many brands. Honestly, some of the brands that "cost thousands less" should cost thousands less. In my opinion, some are simply outdated knock off junk. But, after forming that opinion I do not go to out and express my opinions here about those brands to simply try to flame those who bought those brands. There is no hiding that the original intent of this thread is to flame JD owners and imply that they overpaid for what they got. Again, says who?!

I can go to Harbor Freight and buy extremely inexpensive tools that I strongly consider of inferior quality; and have, or I can go with tools that have proven themselves over the test of time and torture to hold up and pay more for those brands. The fact of the matter is that it's my money and I am the one to chose how to spend it. I don't go out and create posts telling people that they have purchased cheap knock off junk and, if I happen to own a JD, Kubota, CNH etc. tractor, I wouldn't appreciate someone who has opted to buy the look alike but cheaper tractor to tell me that they paid $20k less for the same thing. After doing my own research and buying what I feel is best for me, their posts stating such just makes me feel that they are fools who are second guessing their decisions.

So, back to your point I quoted, yes, it is our own cash and we can do what we want with it. If I prefer a Honda or a Lexus over a Chery (if you don't know what a Chery is, you soon will ), so be it.

Well said Dargo! If you are ever in Michigan I'd like to buy you a drink.

 

[gemini5362]

From what I have read of this thread most of the people that dont buy JD have gone out of their way not to knock the tractor itself. I know that I have not knocked it. I believe on numerous occasions I have made the comment that if my living depended on my tractor that I would have bought a Jd. What I have seen is people saying that it is generally one of the higher priced tractors. I myself in my market have seen that. It might be that it is higher because it is a better made tractor. I dont know I do not own one. However an example that comes to mind is Mercedes, I do not believe that they are made better than a lot of brands of cars. The have the reputation that they are made better but I noticed on the new gull wing that they brought out again they have had to recall them because of a danger of them catching on fire. Those cars are in the 450,000 dollar bracket. Just because they cost more does not mean they are better. Just because other tractors cost less does not mean they are junk. I personally like my montana I would put the service I have gotten from the Montana people on my tractor equal to or better than any other manfacturer I have heard of.

 

[Volfandt]

What color tractor do you use to chase the wife with?

Kubota orange, WheelHorse red, JD green & yeller, Ferguson grey and Craftsman grey. I've run her down with all of 'em
Course now she don't run so fast so I can catch her without have'n to fire up the machinery

 

[patrick_g]

Egon, The boots used to be used more. When I got out of the service and started dirt biking in the desert I had the very mild tread ground off and big heavy VIBRAM MONTAGNA soles and heels added over the original and still near new soles. This makes for relatively heavy boots but very stable boots that you can hit rocks with and not feel it through the point of impact.

The first time I drove to the Chocolate Mountains I expected to Jeep around looking for the Lost Dutchman's mine. It was a NO VEHICLE area (people and animals only, horses mules and such.) I hiked all day in those HD boots and thought my legs would fall off my body!!!

I still wear them every once in a while depending on what I am going to do. They are not so convenient in a pasture, paddock, or corral due to the deep lug pattern which is not self cleaning like the Viet Nam jungle boots.

Anyway, the issue was years, not miles!

Pat

 

[Podunkadunk]

What a better way to "get to know everyone" than to read over 200 entries on a very controversial subject like what color tractor to buy or which color tractor is better etc. Interesting topic! I'm a newbie as you can tell and if this forum/website is like all the rest out there, my opinion won't mean peanuts until I get a couple thousand posts under my name and a gold star on my forehead. Regardless, I'll leave my mark.

As far as what tractor is better...I don't know. I bought my brand of tractor because a buddy of mine who farms told me to. He's owned them all, and as a matter of fact, he doesn't even own the brand I do. He drives the big AG tractors...said he'd get my brand if he were buying a compact. Experience tells me not to argue with him, he definitely knows more about them than I do. My grandfather was a farmer, I have the utmost respect for those guys. He also taught me never to talk about a farmer with my mouth full.

I did shop around though. I looked at big red, mean green$$, big blue and big orange. ****, I liked them all!

I plan on hanging around this site a long time for the advice and good topics that go well with a cup of morning java. I refuse to be one of those guys who just because I happened to buy a certain color tractor...now I piss and bleed a certain color. Blah.

I'm into motorcycles. I own sportbikes and cruisers. I am a member of other forums. It's the same there...Honda's best, Hardley Ableson's the best, Yammy this, Zuki's that, Remington this, Winchester that, you get the picture. Blah. I will relate this story to you. I was in Daytona Beach a couple years ago for BikeWeek. They had a Honda CBR1000RR (crotchrocket for those that don't know) and they drained all the oil out of it and hoisted it about a hundred feet above the crowd with a crane. Oh yeah, they started it first and tie wrapped the throttle fully open to about 13000rpms. You see, the "point" was, since it's BikeWeek most of the guys ride Hardley Ableson's. Well it backfired on them. That darn Honda ran for about 30 minutes before it seized up. Remember, it had not a drop of oil. That's a testament to the Japs. I don't know of an American Motorcycle around that could have endured that. After they brought the bike down, all I could hear everyone say was "dang that was one tough engine".

I will say this: America made the world's smallest drill bit and FEDEXed it to Japan. They drilled a hole through the center of it and mailed it back. They build some tight stuff. But hey, the TC30 New Holland's engine is made in Japan...I found that interesting.

Look, am I biased in tractors? No! Just motorcycles. I fell in love with the John Deere I looked at, man it was sweet...but so the extra 3k wasn't. New Holland (Ford)...**** fine tractors, my Grandfather wouldn't drive anything else back in the "day"...Massey Ferguson-grew up helping a neighbor farm and I learned to drive on a MF 245, love em! Kubota...**** I couldn't have picked one out of a lineup a year ago. Just took the advice of a farmer who has forgotten more about tractors than I'll ever know.

I'm so proud of my tractor (whatever kind it could have been) I keep it in my garage. A little mowing, disking, box-blading my gravel driveway...dang, I need more land

Good talking to you guys. Remember, I have 2 posts, so my opinion doesn't mean shiznit.