2305 pricing/recommendations

[hink10]

One tractor dealer told me that if I had to justify a small tractor in pure dollars I would never own one. Well since I could pay cash for one I bought a slightly used Kubota version of what you are looking for, and doubt that I would ever be without something like that for very long now. Just one of my Chemothreapy treatments is $15,000.00, and I've had a couple in the past two weeks. When you sit down at the end of the day give thanks your money isn't going for something like that, and buy those things that make your life more fun, and productive in the meantime. Once you have shelter, warmth, and food, money is only good if it is enhancing your life or the life of someone you care about. I lost my wife some 12 years ago now, and couldn't even look at the little stash we had for a long time afterwards. That money only represented to me things we had not done together, or things we had not bought, enjoyed, and used to make our place more "ours" or just more enjoyable. We get so caught up in survival, and what will happen down the road that we miss a lot of life someitimes. We have to do some of it, but tomorrow isn't a promise to any of us. I know if my wife were alive now, and wanted $20K to make a sewing room more fun, and enjoyable for her I would find a way to make it happen, and enjoy the journey on the way.

I'm very sorry about your wife and your health problems, I wish you well. You are correct, we do forget what's important in life. What's important is different for each of us, but we all need to pay attention! I've lost both of my brother's in accidents that shouldn't have happened. I should have been there to help in one case. I try to have no regrets and move on, what's done is done, just learn from it. It's sad sometimes what we worry about when things could be so much worse.

As I briefly explained to my wife, I am getting this to be my digger and lifter. I'm only 44, but my back feels much older partially due to a retaining wall project many years ago. All manual digging and lifting, a "two week project" took five months! It was a beautiful wall in the end, but I couldn't do it that way again!

Thanks for sharing your story, I think that may put life in perspective for many of us. Take care.

Steve

 

[smalltown]

ChuckinNH very moving statement. Sorry for your loss. I just ordered a 2520 last week I thought it was too much tractor for my circumstances (I hate to spend money on myself), but the wife said go for it. I'm no spring chcken, but when it finally arrives I will feel like a 12 year old.

 

[TripleR]

One tractor dealer told me that if I had to justify a small tractor in pure dollars I would never own one. Well since I could pay cash for one I bought a slightly used Kubota version of what you are looking for, and doubt that I would ever be without something like that for very long now. Just one of my Chemothreapy treatments is $15,000.00, and I've had a couple in the past two weeks. When you sit down at the end of the day give thanks your money isn't going for something like that, and buy those things that make your life more fun, and productive in the meantime. Once you have shelter, warmth, and food, money is only good if it is enhancing your life or the life of someone you care about. I lost my wife some 12 years ago now, and couldn't even look at the little stash we had for a long time afterwards. That money only represented to me things we had not done together, or things we had not bought, enjoyed, and used to make our place more "ours" or just more enjoyable. We get so caught up in survival, and what will happen down the road that we miss a lot of life sometimes. We have to do some of it, but tomorrow isn't a promise to any of us. I know if my wife were alive now, and wanted $20K to make a sewing room more fun, and enjoyable for her I would find a way to make it happen, and enjoy the journey on the way.

Chuck, very well said and could not agree more. Larry