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I have a L3130 with HST. Broke a bucket cylinder, but that was it. I guess I had it close to 20 years and maybe 900 hours.
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What size does one have to get to get beyond a hydrostatic transmission? I have a standard shift on my 2501. Not HST? No.Changed wording. I also have ag tires,not the wide industrial ones
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If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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I bought a BX2680 last fall. This replaced a small JD320 with a 4' mow deck & 44" blade. I'm on only 3 acres so could not justify anything bigger. The new tractor is just great. We got a quite a bit of snow this winter. Last big storm was 2'. This was no problem with 4x4 and using the FEL to either push or pick up & move the snow. No risk of getting stuck--4x4 and even locking the rear diff if needed on my 200' of drive. I've got a pine straw rake (lots of pines) and a (used) 6' Rhino rear blade (wish it was 5', but got a good deal--it's heavy!). I went with the 5' under deck mower as my land is relatively flat. Every time I use that tractor, I am happy. Yep, coulda' used more FEL lifting power, but this will do 95% of what I need done. Someone mentioned pulling fence posts--I can not lift/pull T-stakes out of the ground with the FEL, but I have other tools that will do that. The backhoe would have been nice, but for my uses, not $6K nice. Only 53hrs on it so far, but all good.
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Say what you want and all of you have but I will never buy anything but a Blue Ford New Holland.
So there! Nothing at all wrong with the blue. Mine just happen to be green.  Mine are all blue, 2 NH's and one Ford. Do have a sub compact that we use some on the farm. While I like blue, green tractors are about as good of an investment as you can make. FWIW Shibaura ( a Japanese company) made a lot of the tractors for Ford, New Holland and Case just like Yanmar made a lot of the John Deere's A good many of " American " tractors were Japanese
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Any one from around Paron AR?. River Valley Tractor or Timberline International? Thinking a L2501 with HST. Dealer will make the difference. Other brands, but Dealers are somewhat suspect.
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