On 1/5/2012 5:16 PM, Ecnerwal wrote:
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On 1/5/2012 4:43 PM, wrote:
Steve - you might look at Craigslist& Ebay for used tractors to get a
sense of market value for used machines. When I looked, about 2 years ago,
there were lots of 30, 40, 50& 60 hp tractors going for $2000-$6000 -
with addons too.
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I'll bet darn few of them had anything even remotely close to 300 hrs on
them at that price...
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...but they probably have a lot more useful hours left in them than a
tractor misleadingly named Montana with a (defunct) head office in
Arkansas and extremely good odds of the factory having been in China or
perhaps Korea. And much better parts support to keep them running.
Some may, but compared to off eBay at $5k & take your chances I'd take
the green one I could see hands down, 'cuz most aren't that likely or
wouldn't be on eBay, they'd still be at work.
The Mitsubishi diesel is in quite a few of those as well and it compares
quite well against the Yanmar which is in a sizable number of other
utility tractors including JD. There are no 40 hp utilities in the US
that aren't mostly import parts; perhaps partly assembled in NA.
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