Cold Feet?

[Poppa]

Hey Modre,

Don't know where you are from but if you ever find yourself in Colorado I would appreciate if you could repeat that same mantra to my wife. It might help my cause. Although, I am pretty sure I know why she is slow to accept a tractor purchase. See, the tractor I am looking at would cost half what we paid for my truck but twice what we paid for her car. Yeah, I know it sounds a little unfair but then again, the car style and the truck style were both picked by her. I was just an innocent bystander.

That's my story and I am sticking to it.

Mike

 

[BigAl]

Mike ,
You are exactly right from what I was told by another Kubota dealer about 100 miles away . Once he found out where I lived he told me he could not help me . Seems this dealer has gone after other Kubota Dealers before and he wanted no part of them .
Big Al

 

[modre]

ooooo...I dunno PoppaMike...women can be tricky.
sometimes all the facts and figures backed by depreciation charts and logic don't make a dent...sometimes a scent in the air can mesmorize them into compliance...sometimes you can just spring it on her and wait for the storm to blow over...it's hard to say...they can change faster than you can blink your eye...this sometimes takes the robe and pointy hat with the insense burning in a human skull and reading goat entrails by candlelight to get it right.

you might try nightly 8 hour runs for cigarettes with lipstick on the collar for a couple weeks and evasive answers til she believes the peanut is under one shell...then fake her out...sometimes you can get an opening just big enough to drive a tractor thru...

 

[rdam]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Hi y'all...new guy here.
I went to look at a BX23 the other day...and yes it's a lot of money.
Here's how I look at it:
Life is a once around too short not to proposition...money is only a social medium we try to measure our worth by...it's a false standard...our real worth is measured by what we can accomplish with our time and talent, and how we choose to direct that...sitting on a pile of money jealously guarding, fear of the unknown, lustfully hording, ect...can't be measured against being in motion producing something that will keep us from lying on our death beds regretting "this was short...I should have..." while the kids are in the next room divying up the what's left...they'll likely piss it away on beer anyway. You can't take it with you.

Get up off your wallet and live. Get out in the fresh air and make some mud while you can...in the long run, it doesn't ethicly matter a twit what you do, but rather it's the wake you leave that's your true measure.

On this and other forums, guys are enjoying owning and share that positive expression by participating...and it's rare to see "This machine sucks...I made the biggest mistake of my life"...more likely to see "the quality of my life has elevated, and I get joy from yada yada yada..."

You can sit on your money and get arthritis, or you can get productive and smiley...and get the same arthritis.

me? I'm trying to find a way to have that BX23 on my property so I can play in the mud and give the old lady her dream nest.
What else is life for?
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Well said. I spent $20,000 on my tractor; more than I've ever spent on anything except my house and land. My land/tractor/barn are my (our) escape. My wife and I are never happier than when we are "playing" on our property. The tractor is a huge part of it. I look at it as $20,000 worth of therapy and marrige counseling...with re-sale value. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[JRobyn]

Hey JCA,

I had a similar dilema. I happily drive an 87 Bronco II with 300k+ worth maybe $1000, and over $20k for the new 4330 with implements was a big bite! I live in GA, and my land/Bota is in TN, so I did work 4 different Kubota dealers against each other. They were all very close in price, which led me to conclude that there is either very little markup, or that the dealers all use a pretty similar formula. I wound up asking the dealer closest to my property if he could match the lowest quote from the dealer in GA. He said that he could not; that he would lose $, but he did meet me more than halfway. He got the deal, and I think we both did OK, but it was still AN AWFUL LOT OF $$$! BTW, I do not regret it one bit!