Tractor Shortages

[rScotty]

Are you having issues getting parts from Wickham? For me no issues this year or last. Might have just been lucky.

No, I haven't had any problem with Wickham. I don't have anything against them & in fact I think they are an example of a good dealer. I just don't buy parts from them.

What happened is old history. Eight or ten years or so ago their parts dept. (under a different owner & dealer name) refused to make good on some counterfeit oil they sold me - even after I showed them Kubota's own documentation.

So next time I needed parts I obviously didn't want to patronize that dealer, so figured I might as well try ordering from Messicks online. I figured I had nothing to lose...

That was my introduction to buying my parts online, and buying online has worked out so well that I've never had to buy parts from locally again.

So my parts search had nothing to do with Wickham. It was the old owners whose actions forced me to find an alternative parts source. To my surprise, the alternative turned out to be better in all ways, and I've simply never gone backwards. I do stop in to say, "Hello" now and again. In fact I saw them assembling your M62 a few years ago.

Funny how things work out,
rScotty

 

[rScotty]

And interesting that we claim that we have to have at least %3 "economic" growth. How fast can rats run?

Everyone seems to have their own way of figuring growth. I don't pay any special attention to growth numbers from media talking heads. They are just one more (biased) piece of data.
For our own investing we use a relative standard - and make decisions similarly to your comment on AFFORDABILITY.

On your second question, Google says about 8 mph.
rScotty

 

[ultrarunner]

Using Einstein's Rule of 71 (one of his few contributions to science).... [any given interest rate divided into 71 will tell you how many years it takes your principle to double..... 10% = about 7 years. 7% = about 10 years to double]

Assuming a compound interest rate of 7% (which is low) an investment in a Mutual Fund at that rate would turn that $2400 into -- Untold Millions. And millions. And millions.

Hard to compete with that.

But I agree, Real Estate really is where it's at. They ain't making anymore of it.

Plus a place to call home with a roof over your head...

 

[IndyJay]

If fuel was just over $4/gal back in 2008 (looking at the graph that was given above) then one need only use the adjusted value of a dollar per inflation statistics to understand what that fuel-to-dollar ratio would be in today's dollar. This valuation holds for ANYTHING priced in dollars.

Go to the link and plug in $1 for any year you like to see what the affects of inflation has been. If you're interested in "recent" then just pick your favorite year(s). If you want a graph you could likely find one: Fed publishes all sorts of fancy graphs.

Didn't see a link before, thanks!

 

[Paystar]

Back to the original post....tractor shortages. Not at my dealer. I'm really amazed at the stock they keep and how much they sell in such a small population area I live in. I couldn't even get all the tractors and implements in all their lots in pictures.

About the only thing they don't have yet is an M8.

 

[IndyJay]

"One of these is not like the other..."

 

[ultrarunner]

Several small Deere have gone Kubota... some carried both for a time.

 

[Hay Dude]

Used tractor prices are so high, I just might sell one for the money (plenty of uses for it!) and try to scrape by with 3 for a while.

 

[IndyJay]

Used tractor prices are so high, I just might sell one for the money (plenty of uses for it!) and try to scrape by with 3 for a while.

What, are you going to sell the "little" one?
The 126 HP KUBOTA M-126X MFWD?

 

[finn1]

Several small Deere have gone Kubota... some carried both for a time.

Those are Kioti tractors, not Kubotas.