Early Models are still great machines
Thanks !The '05 would do what I asked most of the time . If I had less hours on it, I would not have updated to the "11. As many hrs as I put on one though, I decided to sign on the line for 60 months. An average of 600 hrs a year pushed me on to that decision. Lighter hrs a year and I would have kept it and put the $200 a month in my pocket - Interest free or not, that is a lot of dough for me .Yes, the '11 is improved but the '05 will still out work most anything else out there. I had a mule before the '05 so the '05 was like a caddy to me after that one. Maybe that is why I still am attached to it.Once I got good tires, it got me all around the farm even if sometimes it had to be in "L".The cows are disappointed though because I can catch them quicker in the '11, the '05 just took a little longer but was still a force to be reckoned with.This is a picture of the '05s first rescue. A new born calf had got stuck in the mud around the pond. We brought it to the house to rinse it off with heated outside water before taking it to the barn and placing it with the mama. I still had on the WS tires and had to park a long way from the mud with those tires but still got the calf hauled. That's the tires I have on to sell it because the 589 fronts are worn out. Yep, driven by little old lady that went through 3 or 4 sets of tires! bordercollie
Thanks !The '05 would do what I asked most of the time . If I had less hours on it, I would not have updated to the "11. As many hrs as I put on one though, I decided to sign on the line for 60 months. An average of 600 hrs a year pushed me on to that decision. Lighter hrs a year and I would have kept it and put the $200 a month in my pocket - Interest free or not, that is a lot of dough for me .Yes, the '11 is improved but the '05 will still out work most anything else out there. I had a mule before the '05 so the '05 was like a caddy to me after that one. Maybe that is why I still am attached to it.Once I got good tires, it got me all around the farm even if sometimes it had to be in "L".The cows are disappointed though because I can catch them quicker in the '11, the '05 just took a little longer but was still a force to be reckoned with.This is a picture of the '05s first rescue. A new born calf had got stuck in the mud around the pond. We brought it to the house to rinse it off with heated outside water before taking it to the barn and placing it with the mama. I still had on the WS tires and had to park a long way from the mud with those tires but still got the calf hauled. That's the tires I have on to sell it because the 589 fronts are worn out. Yep, driven by little old lady that went through 3 or 4 sets of tires! bordercollie
There is something called a calf box that is like a heated doghouse for folks in such situations with cold winters.Also,