Tanker Yanker, congratulations on your Vegas wedding! When you click on my name on the left you can view my profile. I urge you and and all other newbies to put in as much information as you feel comfortable with. The information will give the rest of us TBN'ers an idea of the size and kind of your land and general location, as well as your equipment. As you can see from my profile no specific information is given but enough to get a good idea of my tractor/implements and land description and size. This gives us with similar land or tractors to ask and give specific information to help each other. This web site is really neat, you can post pictures and send PMs (private messages).
To answer your question, I am 50 miles east of Austin, Texas in the rolling hills of the Post oak Savannah region of Texas.
I think you paid a good price for your tractor and don't have to worry about being upside-down (unless you got a really high interest rate on your loan with a really long payoff and you let your tractor deteriorate).
Did your 5030 get it's 800 hour service. The three big service intervals are 50, 400 and 800 hours.
Don't forget to fill in you profile! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif