Greetings. Curious on others thoughts between a dealer offered 125 hour used Kubota BX23s for $22k cash out the door vs a NH WS25S - for $18.7k OTD. The NH it a 2023 model but new on the lot from same Kubota dealer (who is very close and very good).
I have a smaller piece of land that most here, only 1.5 acres. Not going to mow, all land is semi hillside rocky desert Arizona. I had a Bx23s a couple years ago for Phase I to move 30 dump trucks full of rock/soil for fill, leveling/grading, and moving and stacking 20-30 (300-400lb)boulders for retaining walls and landscaping. I thought I was done with the project and sold the Kubota. I loved it's reliability and maneuverability.
I've now decided I'm not done lol and there needs to be a phase 2, similar kind of work but I'll be cutting and filling some of the high spots on the other side of lot to level for a small horse motel/shed and fill the lows for small/roadway. There will be more boulders to move and retaining walls. I also would just like to have a tractor to help others in the neighborhood.
The new old stock NH / LS for $18.7k with all the full new warranty and seemingly great online reviews from a great close dealer seems like a no lose offer, but the Kubota for $3300 more is still tugging at me. I sat on both again and both seem fine to me.
Only thing I didn't like about the Kubota I had before was the loader lift left me wanting as it was slightly lacking for some of the boulders I needed to get 4 ft off the ground to stack. I can get the NH with pin on or QA, so thinking pin on for slightly more lift. My previous Kubota was QA but believe I can get the Kubota in question with pin on as well.
I probably need even a more powerful tractor than either of these for cutting into native desert rocky terrain but a bigger tractor simply won't work for driving in this particular lot. Also it's not solid rock that I'll be digging into...more of hard packed first foot of crust then powdery with lots of junky rocks. Need low center of gravity given the lot characteristics.
What do the experts think - which of these two? Something else?
I've ruled out others for now just because of availability, price, or the dealer, or I didn't like them the first time I was tractor shopping.
I have a smaller piece of land that most here, only 1.5 acres. Not going to mow, all land is semi hillside rocky desert Arizona. I had a Bx23s a couple years ago for Phase I to move 30 dump trucks full of rock/soil for fill, leveling/grading, and moving and stacking 20-30 (300-400lb)boulders for retaining walls and landscaping. I thought I was done with the project and sold the Kubota. I loved it's reliability and maneuverability.
I've now decided I'm not done lol and there needs to be a phase 2, similar kind of work but I'll be cutting and filling some of the high spots on the other side of lot to level for a small horse motel/shed and fill the lows for small/roadway. There will be more boulders to move and retaining walls. I also would just like to have a tractor to help others in the neighborhood.
The new old stock NH / LS for $18.7k with all the full new warranty and seemingly great online reviews from a great close dealer seems like a no lose offer, but the Kubota for $3300 more is still tugging at me. I sat on both again and both seem fine to me.
Only thing I didn't like about the Kubota I had before was the loader lift left me wanting as it was slightly lacking for some of the boulders I needed to get 4 ft off the ground to stack. I can get the NH with pin on or QA, so thinking pin on for slightly more lift. My previous Kubota was QA but believe I can get the Kubota in question with pin on as well.
I probably need even a more powerful tractor than either of these for cutting into native desert rocky terrain but a bigger tractor simply won't work for driving in this particular lot. Also it's not solid rock that I'll be digging into...more of hard packed first foot of crust then powdery with lots of junky rocks. Need low center of gravity given the lot characteristics.
What do the experts think - which of these two? Something else?
I've ruled out others for now just because of availability, price, or the dealer, or I didn't like them the first time I was tractor shopping.
