Concentrate on the livestock if you are a dairy farm. That is where the money is.
Tractors are just a tool, they are many good deals out there. If you want to do your own work look at green stingers, older Versitles that were common parts, off the shelf stuff, easy to fix, simpler. Its only just dragging stuff across the dirt, if you are hooked on high cost green and need to take it to the high dollar dealership for everything you will go broke. Find a mechanic in your neighborhood, and let him do your repairs for 2/3 the cost. Deere and Case are getting into some unworkable fees and labor costs these days, you can't run a smaller farm with older stuff on -their- current business plan.
Concentrate on the planter and the harvest equipment. -That- is where you make your money farming dirt. Doesn't matter what tractor is pulling it, or how old. Improvement comes with a spot on planter, and a well adjusted combine (in your case forage equipment too). Put your money there.
My neighbor runs 750 acres, 120 cows. Him and his wife. They sometimes hired one guy in harvest time. He spent a bundle on a combine and a forage chopper and a moco and a souped up planter. That stuff is pulled with 1488 and the like tractors - he knows what parts make money, and which ones just do grunt work. You 2 can do half that, you need to cut costs tho not run new stuff or pay dealer charges on service.
Disk - no one disks around here. They pack clay. We have clay. Rolling baskets were popular for 3 years. Then they found rolling baskets pack clay just like disks. Everyone had a field cultivator, and a rusty old disk in the trees for that 'special' use every few years. Do you have any clay, are you sure a disk is a good machine or is it what was always used? It depends on your soils, it could be the perfect tool for you in your area, but..... Keep on top of what works, but not the latest most expensive fad.
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Today's Featured Article - The 8N and the Fox - by Zane Sherman. Dec. 13 1998, Renfroe, Alabama. Last niht I dreamed about the day that I plowed the field of about 10 acres over on what Jimmy and Dandy called the Ledbetter field. I was driving the 1948 8N Ford tractor that Jimmy bought in 48 new This was prebably in about 1951 and maybe even befor the house was built. This would have made me to be about16 years old and I drove the tractor for nothing and would have paid to drive it if I had had any money which I didn't, but neit
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