Recent content by fwc

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    How not to treat your tires.

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    Strange shopping experience

    HI there tractor folks. Its been well over a year but we finally finished building our new house and I am again looking at tractors. I had a strange experience at a local dealer that got me to wondering if I needed to rethink plans or ignore the visit completely. A local dealer sells Kioti...
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    Merry Christmas

    I sure would like to find a new tractor under the tree tomorrow morning... thing is, I don't think Santa or Me know which one I want..... Merry Christmas everyone.. or Happy Holidays as appropriate. fwc
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    Tractor expectations

    Me and my wife have some land (8.8 acres) that we plan on building on as soon as we can decide on a plan that fits us. I know long term a tractor will come in handy doing landscaping and maintenance. The property has a large number of small saplings 1-2 inches sizes that I can usually hack...
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    Tire Ballast

    It the reason people use calcium cloride for tire ballast beause its heavier or cheaper than the same amount of water/antifreeze? From what I have read, it tends to corrode rims somewhat so what is the advantage. Thanks Floyd/fwc
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    Large Dealer Vs. Small dealer

    Some of you more experienced tractor folk may have had the pleasure to buy/trade with more that one dealer. Do you have any preference (assuming you liked each equally) about dealing with a larger dealer or a smaller one. THings like: the larger on may have more resources and any needed...
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    Kubota parts and obsolesence

    I had a non Kubota dealer tell me that Kubota discontinued parts availablility 5 years after the date of last manufacture and they were constantly updating their models by design to force parts for older tractors to not be available. While this seems plausible, I don't know if I should believe...
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