New 2520 Purchase

[lincolnvt]

Hey guys - pulled the trigger today on my first tractor. Thanks for all of your help on the forum! I especially want to thank Chris2520 for his great ideas with lighting and HD bucket with toothbar on his 2520 - I took those pictures to my dealer Chris and told him that was what I wanted including the light switch.

What I ordered - A brand new JD 2520 with R4 loaded tires / tire chains, block heater, front/rear work lights and brush guards with high capacity alternator - 200CX loader with 61" HD bucket with toothbar and ballast box / iMatch, Frontier RC1048 Rotary Cutter with slip clutch and safety chains and a Frontier LR 1072 Landscape Rake. Now the wait begins - should be ready mid June - will get the photos up when it comes in. I can't wait! Cheers, Brad

 

[Mr Grizz]

& welcome to the

family

 

[lincolnvt]

Thanks Mr Grizz - I will get pics up as soon as my new beast arrives. Take care, Brad

 

[Chris2520]

Hay this is great. I am glad i could steer you in the right direction. I am pleased with all my choices. I think you will really be happy with the tractor.
I love mine. it has done all i have ask it to do , and then some. glad i was able to help.
Congrats on new tractor. Dont forget to post pics when it arrives.

Chris....

 

[lincolnvt]

Hey Chris:
Cool - I am glad you are so happy with yours -it makes me that much more excited to get mine! I have a lot of trees down at this time and a ton of landscaping projects to work on - have been borrowing a neighbors 855 which is a great tractor but hate to borrow other peoples stuff. Thanks again for taking the time to contribute your thoughts to the forum - this site is the best.

Brad

 

[gunmaker]

Way to go Brad! Your gonna be happy with the new girl. When you get around to thinking about pushin snow around, drop me a note, I fab'd a Meyers plow set-up for my 2520 that works great and costs far less than what JD provides...you gotta post pics!

 

[lincolnvt]

Craig - thanks man! I actually have checked out your set up for snow plowing on several occasions - pretty cool. Thanks for your offer to help me out - I will definitely touch base as we move toward winter. Will get pics out as soon as she arrives

Cheers,
Brad

 

[lincolnvt]

Delivery date is June 15th - pics to follow!

 

[Chris2520]

Wow 15th , thats a long time....
Guess you will haft to be like the rest of us was. watch
alot of John deere videos....
it eases the pain a bit....

 

[lincolnvt]

Yea - it will be tough. Part of the wait is because I am out of town for a week and then I want to have it delivered when I have my day off. I am just trying to keep busy and planning all I am going to do with my new tractor! What are you doing with your tractor? See ya, Brad

 

[Chris2520]

Yea - it will be tough. Part of the wait is because I am out of town for a week and then I want to have it delivered when I have my day off. I am just trying to keep busy and planning all I am going to do with my new tractor! What are you doing with your tractor? See ya, Brad

Well , lets see. first i moved all my shop equipment from my bacement to my garage. you saw my brute strenth picture of the pipe bender.. then last week i landscaped a friend of mines yard. I was pretending to be Duc...
and now that i got it cleaned back up . I am going to move those dag lights from the brush gaurd. and put them under the roll bar up high so thay dont blind me anymore... when i turn my head i cant see anything.
And that about it for the moment. there is many things that need doing..

And Gordnovo is useing his new 2520 to try to see if he can dig
his way to china. and he is doing a good job so far...

Chris...

 

[ducati996]

I notice the 2520 is very, very popular on this board and others - a good thing and I find its funny that I see continual comments from the orange team, that Kubota is the number one selling mfg of compacts. Ok then Somebody somewhere is gaining market share -

 

[lincolnvt]

I agree - I have been looking at tractors for a long time. NH and Kubota have nice tractors in the low to mid 20hp range which was a big gap for Deere. The 2210 was too small for me and the when the new 3000 series came out I tried a 3120 on my property but it was too big for my needs. I think they have done a nice job with the 2320 and 2520 as far as filling that gap. I would be interested to see how what the sale figures are for those models - and how that impacts the other brands.