Purchased new tractor that is rented out?

[rockinbbar]

It worked out in my favor. It’s a 2023 tractor with a full warranty. I don’t need the tractor until November 1st when I come back to my Wisconsin farms from Louisiana. I’m getting new R1s, and a rental fee for every hour that exceeds 210hrs. This is in writing from the head sales manager of the company. It’s an isolated incident to one store location that has poor customer service. I’m hoping this event leads to that one stores policies being dealt with.

Glad you got that ironed out!

Those tires ought be pretty new with only 200 hours on them.

What kind of tractors do you use on your Wisconsin farms now? What crops you growing there?

I suppose the new tractor has a loader as well, as they are useful as heck. What else you going to be running or pulling with it?

I have it's blue cousin... a New Holland Powerstar 75, and love it. I use a 12' batwing cutter behind it as well as pulling an offset disc, and ridged harrow, and a gopher bait tunneler. Moves hay front and rear real well too. You'll like the 75c for lots of things.

 

[ego260]

Man go get your tractor, today!

If you were in Ohio I'd be offering it hook my trailer up and go get it with you.

Don't do something like this and tell about it here or you will get the full force of the peanut gallery.

I knew I’d get eaten alive by some. I haven’t posted much here, but I’ve been a long time member and poster on archerytalk. People here are a lot more polite than on AT

 

[ego260]

Glad you got that ironed out!

Those tires ought be pretty new with only 200 hours on them.

What kind of tractors do you use on your Wisconsin farms now? What crops you growing there?

I suppose the new tractor has a loader as well, as they are useful as heck. What else you going to be running or pulling with it?

I have it's blue cousin... a New Holland Powerstar 75, and love it. I use a 12' batwing cutter behind it as well as pulling an offset disc, and ridged harrow, and a gopher bait tunneler. Moves hay front and rear real well too. You'll like the 75c for lots of things.

They are, but the original tires are R4s. I prefer R1s since I’m in hill country and and also have some bottomland stuff that can get pretty wet. Mostly it’s hooked up to a Great Plains 3p605nt that I do some custom work with for CRP, food plots, and cover crops. On mine it’s used for mowing CRP, a ten foot disc occasionally, 6 row JD 7000 planter, box scraper, and a back blade. I want a 12’ or 15’ batwing, but I only have a 7ft right now for going between tree rows. We have a JD 590 baler and a couple discbines on the farm, but I doubt this tractor ever sees much hay since I’m never around to deal with it so my uncle takes care of all that. Prior to this I used an open station M7060. I wanted a cab for comfort and my allergies.

 

[kf4uda]

One thing would be certain for me. If I paid in full for the tractor, they would be paying me the rent for sure but my demand would be that they deliver the tractor to me ASAP.

 

[paulsharvey]

I knew I’d get eaten alive by some. I haven’t posted much here, but I’ve been a long time member and poster on archerytalk. People here are a lot more polite than on AT

People on here Used to be a lot more polite... It does seem to have gotten more aggressive over the past couple year, But I've had good imput on everything from tractors, reloading, 3d printers, ect, and only 25% aggressive BS...

 

[rockinbbar]

They are, but the original tires are R4s. I prefer R1s since I’m in hill country and and also have some bottomland stuff that can get pretty wet. Mostly it’s hooked up to a Great Plains 3p605nt that I do some custom work with for CRP, food plots, and cover crops. On mine it’s used for mowing CRP, a ten foot disc occasionally, 6 row JD 7000 planter, box scraper, and a back blade. I want a 12’ or 15’ batwing, but I only have a 7ft right now for going between tree rows. We have a JD 590 baler and a couple discbines on the farm, but I doubt this tractor ever sees much hay since I’m never around to deal with it so my uncle takes care of all that. Prior to this I used an open station M7060. I wanted a cab for comfort and my allergies.

My new 75 came with R1 W's. Love them!
I run that 12' batwing on the 75, and the 120 runs my 15'. I think a 12' with tall growth would cut much better without lugging the tractor as bad as a 15'. But you know your cutting up there better than I would.

 

[newbury]

Municipal workers are very hard on equipment

As a general statement I have to disagree with this.
As others have stated "municipal workers" are not often pushed real hard compared to "the gotta make a buck" private industry. In the more affluent communities equipment is often changed out based on age and has great maintenance.

 

[newbury]

Municipal workers (especially the unionized ones) don't give a darn about taking care of anything. Good luck with the used tractor.

Maybe in your neck of the woods, but down in Fulton, Ms they have a darn fine small private yard and maintenance facility, in Northern Virgina they have several local (city, county) units that maintain their equipment in top mechanical shape. Their only drawback is that a lot of it is stored outside.

 

[paulsharvey]

I'll go both sides of the government equipment argument:
When I worked for the county, I remember, I went like 1000 miles over on a 7500 mile PM service (let's face it, just a oil change), the fleet shop was mad because it screwd up the numbers, and said, forget it, we'll do it at the next 7500 mile service. Now, is 15,000 miles between coverntional oil changes on a gas pick up fatal? No, but I wouldn't do that it my personal truck. Back then (don't know down there nowadays) we didn't idle the trucks, maybe 5 minutes here and there, so you didn't sweat through the paper work, but over all didn't idle. Later, I got a 4x4 F150 brand new, 5.0, one of the early aluminum trucks, at about the same time as they started deducting $3/day for the right to drive Their truck to a remote county facility closer to where I lived. Man, I got $3/day out of their butts. Cold morning, heck, lock it in 1st gear, and run her down the road at 6500 RPM to get the engine warmed up , leave the locking rear end on all the time, even driving around town, ever hit 45 mph redlining the tach in Reverse? ... good times. Don't underestimate what a passed off employee will do with government crap. I wouldn't do that to a for profit company, but government... victimless crime

With that said, you can pretty much say the vehicles did get oil changes, normally every 7500 miles, where a private owner... maybe they do 3000/5000/7500, or maybe they go 30k?

 

[paulsharvey]

I guess I also should throw some defense to public utility workers. Smaller towns/counties, they normally are ridiculously under staffed and under budgeted, and under machined. Can you find them at 2:30pm on a Friday, hiding down a dead end road, yep. BUT, at 2:30am, on a Sunday, you will also find them in 6 ft of raw sewage, in a road, fixing a forcemain, with a JD 310 rubber tired hoe, 2 guys, and a pick up of misc parts, also yes. The tires on equipment often have a lot of wear from road running equipment 25-30 miles between jobs, often that same back hoe is used as a hammer to break concrete, load trucks, clean ditches, push tree debris out od the road, ect. One thing to look out for; because local politicians are so dang cheap, local municipalities often buy a 2wd back hoe to save a few grand. Lot of times the luxuries, like AC, seat, ect don't get repaired, glass in a cab probably won't get replaced if broken, but generally, mechanically, they keep them running.