The lust for john deere??

If you wear green underwear then they can sucker you into anything! LOL.

I bought a new Woods brand finish mower 6' this past summer.Very happy with it so far.Paid about 600 to 700 more than the cheapies,but it is well worth it.Does a very good job and parts can be found easy

I bought my MX8 used....saved about $2000. I'm not looking forward to when it wears out (which it shouldn't)...... I've put a lot of hours on LandPride 6 foot mowers. They held up well and I got most of my money back when I sold them with around 400 hours on them.

Edited by Eldon (WA) - 31 Dec 2010 at 10:20pm

Anthony wrote: John Deere sucks!

we've had (though the years) case, international,john deere, & allis, i started the farm with allis chalmers when i took the farm over. reason? could get more tractor for the money and a better warranty than other brands! i still have some of my fathers IH tractors, got rid of the john deeres as they were to hard on fuel consumtion compared to allis, the case was traded off a few years before i took over. i still like case and IH, but i love the allis's. when i bought the first allis...brand new, the local john deere dealer's salesman drove out to my farm and called me an SOB for buying the allis over the john deere! that...ruined his chances of ever selling me anything from that dealer! well...that dealer is no longer in business! imagine that! must have done the same thing to other farmers in the area! i had tried to buy another piece of equipment and stopped at a john deere dealer in another town, they asked me what i had for equipment then...and i told them allis. they didn't even want to talk to me. soooo...i didn't buy that piece from john deere either! i remember dad trying to work with john deere dealers when he was farming, and unless he bought new every year, they treated him like chit too! i'll stay orange and red, i won't even drive into a john deere lot anymore!

http://www.deere.com/specsapp/CustomerCompetitorDetailsServlet?sbu=Ag&userAction=GETCOMPMODELS&pciModel=0MX6XP&displayModelName=MX6%20Rotary%20Cutter&tM=FR&pNbr=0MX6XP See for yourself. I've used deere, landpride and rhino mowers, and i think the deere mowers are probly the toughest, although rhino's aren't bad either. Landpride seems like more of a light duty pasture mower type to me, just not quite as heavy but would be fine for triming weeds and stuff. Deere also sells the frontier line which is basically landpride painted an off color green.

I have had a WD for about 5 years now.  My first tractor and I love it.  I also bought a 5' brush mower at the Fleet in Bemidji.  I cost about $800.  I only mow about 4 - 5 acres and it works great for that.  I use it twice a year.  It is pasture and the horses don't eat the thistles and some other weeds so I polish things up with it.

I don't really know if it is lust. I think it is more about stability. Even the most avid JD haters have to admit that JD is a stable company. Now JD is cashing in on that stability by putting a premium price on their equipment. People that like stability cough up that extra premium cuz they think it is worth it.

well i have a buddy that has all of the 2 cylenders except a hwh (high crop h). he has an 830 rice special with a pony motor,a high crop g. 2 unstyled g's, styled g and almost everything else. thats alot of money. he wants a water loo boy, but he wont get one any time soon. he also has 2 steam engines: he has a keck gonnerman and a 1880's huber.

bigal121892 wrote: Coke-in-Mn, this 4020 started out as Dad's main tractor, then spent the last 15 years on the feed wagon, feeding cattle 6 hours a day seven days a week.

norm[ind wrote: ]  allis chalmers quit making 2 cylinders in the 30's  took deere 30 yrs to figure that out  who designed the 6 cyl. for deere ???  was not deere  you fellas are not old enough on some of the older stories we know  backed more than one deere lover up when i mention it   i got a $100.00 to bet where is yours???  end of conversation    had a deere farmer  in this week that just a  caseih  for near &100,000 an larger than what deere jus priced him  deere thought he had him fooled too   wait till i drive it home  this was in mich

  you got me stated now  went to a plowday thi spring with my grandson's first time was plwing away told him to look aroumd HE SAID WHAT  LOOK AROUND ONLY ALLISCHALMERS & INT . IN OUR FEILD AS KEPT CATCHING THEM   THE DEERE ALL WENT TO ANOTHER FEILD  SO THEY WER BY THEMSELVES  ASKED WHY AT NOON

norm[ind wrote: ]  you got me stated now  went to a plowday thi spring with my grandson's first time was plwing away told him to look aroumd HE SAID WHAT  LOOK AROUND ONLY ALLISCHALMERS & INT . IN OUR FEILD AS KEPT CATCHING THEM   THE DEERE ALL WENT TO ANOTHER FEILD  SO THEY WER BY THEMSELVES  ASKED WHY AT NOON   NO ANSWER FROM  THEM    GOING BACK NEXT YR. TO  AGITATE AGAIN

Lon, if you read my original post, I said the the 4020 had the original bearings in the engine. Yes the top end had been overhauled. Since this tractor was used so much, we changed oil in the engine every 75 hours, and the rest of the oils every year. You have to remember, for most of this tractors life, it was never worked hard. We also had a 7010 that had 17,000 hours on it. This tractor had one overhaul, and that was due to electrolysis in the lower part of the block. Also on the 7010, every year we would pull the top off the differential, and replace the shaft that went through the spider gears. Over the years, we have found that this was the weak spot of the rear end of these tractors, especially if used during the winter as yard tractors.

Depends on what you like probably,my Uncle has a 4020,and it's a dang good machine,I won't pay the kind of money he did though,so I buy the value.
Seems like green tractors with the jumping critter on them and yellow feline machines cost quite a bit more,so I don't have any of those yet,but if one presents itself at a fair price I'll snag it too.

(those two brands also seem like the type you can put anyone on and they'll hold up,some other brands need to be run a certain way,by actual "operators")