Bought Another Tractor

[Dennis Mohn]

I got so fed up with my 6 year old LS to replace a what should be a simple battery, along with being fed up with the LS dealer, I decided to put my LS XJ 2025H on the market and buy a gently used Branson 2515H with a bigger bucket, better forks, 6' box blade, and 6' rear mower. The tractor has 68 hours and 4 years old. It looks showroom new and sounds great. The LS has a custom foot hold, receiver hitch welded to the bucket, extra hydraulics in the back with a detent valve & turf tires. The 2515H joins my 4215HC - very similar straight forward engineering. It is being delivered from nearly 90 miles away. Will be a full load.

Yooper Dave

Great choice, hope you got it for a good price also

 

[Sid Post]

I got so fed up with my 6 year old LS to replace a what should be a simple battery, along with being fed up with the LS dealer, I decided to put my LS XJ 2025H on the market and buy a gently used Branson 2515H with a bigger bucket, better forks, 6' box blade, and 6' rear mower. The tractor has 68 hours and 4 years old. It looks showroom new and sounds great. The LS has a custom foot hold, receiver hitch welded to the bucket, extra hydraulics in the back with a detent valve & turf tires. The 2515H joins my 4215HC - very similar straight forward engineering. It is being delivered from nearly 90 miles away. Will be a full load.

Yooper Dave

Congratulations on the new to you tractor.

 

[yooperdave]

Branson is a name you don't hear anymore

Now it is known as TYM. The dealer said the 4 digit models are just a rebadge from Branson.

 

[wooftank]

Christmas time!

 

[paulsharvey]

I got so fed up with my 6 year old LS to replace a what should be a simple battery, along with being fed up with the LS dealer, I decided to put my LS XJ 2025H on the market and buy a gently used Branson 2515H with a bigger bucket, better forks, 6' box blade, and 6' rear mower. The tractor has 68 hours and 4 years old. It looks showroom new and sounds great. The LS has a custom foot hold, receiver hitch welded to the bucket, extra hydraulics in the back with a detent valve & turf tires. The 2515H joins my 4215HC - very similar straight forward engineering. It is being delivered from nearly 90 miles away. Will be a full load.

Yooper Dave

So, maybe i missed it, but if you have a 4215, what is the niche for the 2515? Physical same size, just lower HP, and i can't think of any time I would want lower power in the same frame?

 

[yooperdave]

So, maybe i missed it, but if you have a 4215, what is the niche for the 2515? Physical same size, just lower HP, and i can't think of any time I would want lower power in the same frame?

2 tractors for 2 different locations. The bigger tractor is at camp out in the middle of no where. The little tractor is for home and replaces a smaller framed LS XJ2025H.

 

[paulsharvey]

2 tractors for 2 different locations. The bigger tractor is at camp out in the middle of no where. The little tractor is for home and replaces a smaller framed LS XJ2025H.

Ok, that makes more sense.

When I bought my Kioti Ck2610, I did also look side by side at the 2515, as the dealer sells both. The 2515 was a close choice, but I liked the loader joystick, and seat better on Kioti, as well as the Kioti was $1500 less. Being that you already have the 42hp version, it should feel like home on the 2515

 

[garry1p]

I got so fed up with my 6 year old LS to replace a what should be a simple battery

Why in the world they decided to put the battery in a hole and the post towards the back!

I turned my battery around, easier to get to the post but still a nightmare to lift the battery in or out.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

Sometimes change just for the "happiness" factor is enough "justification" for the purchase!

It's only money, you can't take it with you!

 

[check 6]

I also just bought another tractor little bit over two years ago I traded in my Kubota grand L which was a great tractor but with my age and task I was doing I felt it was a little large. I downgraded to a BX 2680 which is really a great little tractor and I found it has only one shortfall and that’s its limiting lifting capacity so I just opted for an LX 2620 open cab open cockpit and while it’s still a 25 hp tractor it’s hydraulic system pushes over 3 gallons a minute more hydraulic fluid and therefore significantly more lifting power and still not an overly large tractor to move around my property. Bottom line decide what you want to do with the tractor and then add a little bit more capability than what you think you need and you won’t keep making the same mistake I’ve done