Garden Tractors and Implements - Page 2

Cole_Robbie · January 29, 2015

My grandpa has a $45,000 Kubota, but he won't let anyone else use it. He only uses it to haul big bales of hay to our cows.

He's had a lot of old tractors. My favorite is his David Brown, which he still has. It has fluid-filled tires and a giant weight box on the front. The design was to make it as heavy as possible to give it stability and traction. Modern tractors have 4 wheel drive, so even big ones like our Kubota weight a fraction of what the David Brown weighs. I remember raking hay with it when I was 16.

natural · January 29, 2015

Many years ago, I bought a BCS walk-behind Tiller. It figured something that costs that much must be a great investment and will NEVER break. Wrong. No one services these things, and the parts are not common. I had to wait 6 weeks for a bolt to be shipped. The shop that attempted to make some other repairs had no idea what they were doing and made things worse. Perhaps this would have been a better experience if I lived close to one of the few places that have qualified folks to do the repairs. For me, it was absolutely the WORST purchase that I have ever made.

Lesson learned, never buy something that I cannot fix myself.

Tapout · January 30, 2015

My god I know BCS tillers are God awful expensive like 3k - 5k or more.

One of the best tillers I know of is the Troybuilt Workhorse tiller with electric start. That thing is built like a tank. Its 2000 bucks but I dont know of another tiller with as good of reputation.

January 29, 2015	#16
Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	My grandpa has a $45,000 Kubota, but he won't let anyone else use it. He only uses it to haul big bales of hay to our cows. He's had a lot of old tractors. My favorite is his David Brown, which he still has. It has fluid-filled tires and a giant weight box on the front. The design was to make it as heavy as possible to give it stability and traction. Modern tractors have 4 wheel drive, so even big ones like our Kubota weight a fraction of what the David Brown weighs. I remember raking hay with it when I was 16.

January 29, 2015	#17
natural Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North GA Posts: 530	Many years ago, I bought a BCS walk-behind Tiller. It figured something that costs that much must be a great investment and will NEVER break. Wrong. No one services these things, and the parts are not common. I had to wait 6 weeks for a bolt to be shipped. The shop that attempted to make some other repairs had no idea what they were doing and made things worse. Perhaps this would have been a better experience if I lived close to one of the few places that have qualified folks to do the repairs. For me, it was absolutely the WORST purchase that I have ever made. Lesson learned, never buy something that I cannot fix myself.

January 30, 2015	#18
Tapout Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2012 Location: NW Indiana Posts: 355	My god I know BCS tillers are God awful expensive like 3k - 5k or more. One of the best tillers I know of is the Troybuilt Workhorse tiller with electric start. That thing is built like a tank. Its 2000 bucks but I dont know of another tiller with as good of reputation.