New old tractors

[Harry]

Every time one of the old Case tractors has a problem the says you should just get rid of those old tractors. She also says your always working on them. I tell her I usually enjoy working and it’s a hobby for me. I also have told her I’ll sell them all and take 30K and go out and buy one new one. I’m just kidding because I like them to much. Harry

[propane1]

If I sold all my 11 garden tractors I wouldn’t get enough money to even pay the tax on a new one.
So I gotta keep what I have.

Noel

[Timj]

I think we're all with you Harry, we like our old tractors. As much as I don't always like wrenching on stuff, I find it mostly enjoying to work on my tractors. When I look at what's out there and it's quality I don't think I'm buying one. My old neighbor would say stuff about working on my tractor, all I was usually doing was maintenance, but forgot the dealership coming to get his all the time. Also he had two in the time he lived next door. Then he would say how nice it cut and how much power Ingy had. I told him Ingy is a tractor, your's is a lawn mower.

Say you bought a new compact tractor to replace your fleet with all the attachments to match what you have, I think $30k might be a little short. And you would be less happy with just one tractor, ya, it could do it all but I think changing attachments could get old. What fun would that be.

Wednesday rambling.

[Jancoe]

My wife complains that I spend too much on my tractors. Tells me to sell them all and just go buy new. I tell her that my once or twice a year parts/maintenance purchases don't even come close to monthly payments for X amount of years. She says new won't have problems. Lol I'm keeping my case ingersolls.

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[DavidBarkey]

Guys look up the 100 hours service on any subcompact tractor and the cost to do it . Then show that to the . She will change her tune quick.

[JSinMO]

If I sold all my 11 garden tractors I wouldn’t get enough money to even pay the tax on a new one.
So I gotta keep what I have.

Noel

I’ve thought about this more than once! I’ve tried to come up with a realistic number on what I would have if I sold all my tractors. There is no way I could come close to the amount of money needed to get one tractor with attachments to do everything around here. I also really don’t like the idea of a machine that has to go to the dealer for service. The new ones are pretty and they do have some nice options, but I’ll pass and just keep my old one going!

[Timj]

Guys look up the 100 hours service on any subcompact tractor and the cost to do it . Then show that to the . She will change her tune quick.

My found that out with her NH compact when the annual service was required for the warranty. It started at around $600 and was up to $900 at the end of the period. That was about 8yrs ago.

[MattA]

I'm in the same boat as you guys. The complains about the time I spend in the garage but I've been on vacation for almost 2 weeks and no garage time Her family just doesn't work on things or have the skills to work on things. They just pay people to do the work and watch there favorite TV show/sporting event. Its been suggested more than once that I pay someone to do the lawn and take care of the snow. Its probably like $150 to have somebody mow the lawn. The has never complained about the time it takes to change my tractor over to the snowblower setup. She's also never had to help with the snow in the 6 years that we have lived here (insert snowblower emoji).

[DavidBarkey]

I'm in the same boat as you guys. The complains about the time I spend in the garage but I've been on vacation for almost 2 weeks and no garage time Her family just doesn't work on things or have the skills to work on things. They just pay people to do the work and watch there favorite TV show/sporting event. Its been suggested more than once that I pay someone to do the lawn and take care of the snow. Its probably like $150 to have somebody mow the lawn. The has never complained about the time it takes to change my tractor over to the snowblower setup. She's also never had to help with the snow in the 6 years that we have lived here (insert snowblower emoji).

My is the most happy when I make dinner, clean up after dinner and go back to the shop so she can watch her shows on tv after work .

[Eugen]

My problem is that I got too many projects. However, I try to work on what's necessary first, and as much as possible outside family time. Sometimes that means after the children are asleep, AND wife too. The lack of sleep eventually catches up with me and take a break. On days off work I also do stuff when the toddler takes the afternoon nap. But it's not always tractors. I'm fortunate that my wife understands that without the tractors I'd break my back. She didn't like how I was doing things before the tractor, and was in quite some pain. New tractor is out of the question, we could not afford it. The guy I dug a trench this summer showed up two days ago and cleaned up our driveway with a 2020 JD compact tractor with loader. 24hp diesel, in like new condition. Apparently a buddy of his sold it to him for 8k. But that's not the type of deal easy to find, and I'm happy with my 644.

There is one more aspect to this. For a long time now I felt that repairs needed to be done as quickly as possible to get back to the job at hand asap. That inevitably led to the repair being done again later. I'm starting to get tired of this and am beginning to switch to do it right, do it once. I've lost already a number of bolts here and there that I decided to use blue thread locker on almost everything.