Whats up everyone,
just looking for some advice on purchasing a tractor. My father inlaw and mother in law are true green j.d. fans. they are driving me nuts trying to get me to spend $1000 bucks more on a j.d. x540.
I think i have a sweet deal going on a cub cadet 3200 w/54" deck and a poly 10 cu. dump cart for $7000 w/tax. With my mechanical background i have looked at both tractors. While they are both nice machines I find the cub is built stronger than the j.d. x540. A few pluses i found in the gt3200 is fully shaft driven, where the j.d. is belt driven. Cub has cast iron spin on filter hydro rearend and j.d. has an aluminum no filter rearend. I think and can see the cub being a better machine but the inlaws keep tellin me otherwise. The inlaws say its an mtd with cub cadet stickers, mtd is a poor quality machine, it wont keep its resale value, the mower decks suck at throwing the grass out the shoot, and im gonna be disappointed with it.
Just wanna make the right decision on this big purchase, and not have to listen to the "I told you so" speach. Im scheduled to get it early next week and have a down payment on the gt3200. Anyone with any advice or experience with a cub cadet 3000 series or simalar model please help! thank you