Podunkadunk said: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.
Not true I ran my HD for 32 minutes at 1400 rpms without oil and then sold if for more than I paid for it. I had to rule out the Honda because it wouldnt last as long.
Could you post your source on the drill bit story, sounds like an interesting read?
You're right about posts, learned alot about you. Can't wait for your next thousand.
