I've been building my own tractors for a while now. Mainly because no one really offers the feature set I want in a tractor. Here's the one currently in progress:
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But this year the winter is coming and everything besides my lawn mower/tractor is still in pieces. The wife is also getting tired of the projects taking up so much time (money) and always in some state of build/rebuild.
so, bad news for the "mut" tractor.
We were out and about today and ran across a 2018 JD x750. 31 total operating hours on it. 31 hrs hasn't even been through the break in cycle yet!
No deck, but it has a heated had cab (heater/wipers.lights, etc, made by Curtis) and a 47" JD snowblower. Front and rear pto shafts. Yanmar 3cyl diesel. Still 1 year left on the JD warranty.
The thing literally looks like it's never been used except a bit of very light scratching around the internal impeller case where it likely has passed some sand or gravel.
Story is some guy bought it for his business, had a heart attack and had to close his business down (I'm guessing a property maint business, hence no deck). So he turned around and traded it on a vehicle to better suit his new limitations.
Unfortunately, it's at a used car dealer, so sales tax has to also be paid.
All said and done, it's going to be just a tick over 17 grand (15 G sale price, 15% tax rate). Not sure what everyone else pays across NA for something like this, but here it's a pretty decent deal. Not a screaming deal, but decent.
Here's the dealers short video on it from approx a year ago:
Now the question is what do I do with the "mutt loader"? No sense spending more money on it, so not a lot of sense continuing to work on it.
Most likely it will end up stripped down for it's parts and the steel.
Probably look to take the loader build and change it up to fit the X750.
Dunno, time will tell I guess.
But one thing is for sure; this build is at an end.....even as another begins.....
But this year the winter is coming and everything besides my lawn mower/tractor is still in pieces. The wife is also getting tired of the projects taking up so much time (money) and always in some state of build/rebuild.
so, bad news for the "mut" tractor.
We were out and about today and ran across a 2018 JD x750. 31 total operating hours on it. 31 hrs hasn't even been through the break in cycle yet!
No deck, but it has a heated had cab (heater/wipers.lights, etc, made by Curtis) and a 47" JD snowblower. Front and rear pto shafts. Yanmar 3cyl diesel. Still 1 year left on the JD warranty.
The thing literally looks like it's never been used except a bit of very light scratching around the internal impeller case where it likely has passed some sand or gravel.
Story is some guy bought it for his business, had a heart attack and had to close his business down (I'm guessing a property maint business, hence no deck). So he turned around and traded it on a vehicle to better suit his new limitations.
Unfortunately, it's at a used car dealer, so sales tax has to also be paid.
All said and done, it's going to be just a tick over 17 grand (15 G sale price, 15% tax rate). Not sure what everyone else pays across NA for something like this, but here it's a pretty decent deal. Not a screaming deal, but decent.
Here's the dealers short video on it from approx a year ago:
Now the question is what do I do with the "mutt loader"? No sense spending more money on it, so not a lot of sense continuing to work on it.
Most likely it will end up stripped down for it's parts and the steel.
Probably look to take the loader build and change it up to fit the X750.
Dunno, time will tell I guess.
But one thing is for sure; this build is at an end.....even as another begins.....
