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• Posted in thread: How did you pick your tractor? on 05/22/2012 at 9:56PM
  Keep in mind that this all happened many years before the internet. My first one was a Deere 316. Bought
  it new after spending most of the winter of '77-78 reading catalogs and visiting dealers. Now I...

• Posted in thread: GT 5000 - Towing Capacity on 05/20/2012 at 11:49AM
  The rough rule of thumb is to not tow any rolling load that weighs more than the tractor. As mentioned
  above, stopping a heavy load can be a safety issue as is being pushed downhill by a heavy load.

• Posted in thread: Whats my LX176 worth? on 05/15/2012 at 6:25PM
  It's 14 years old, so I'd say in my neck of the woods, it would fetch $600-800. If you had the bagger and
  it was in as good a condition as your tractor, I'd say $1000.

• Posted in thread: New Yard Tractor-opinons/suggestions on 05/15/2012 at 6:15PM
  Many of the Craftsman units are AYP (owned by Husqvarna) built machines, but not all of them. 917 is the
  prefix for an AYP built tractor IIRC (I have two of them at work that are AYP built and both ha...

• Posted in thread: Help a newbe!!! on 05/15/2012 at 6:07PM
  I realize that just buying a house, the budget is probably tight. If you have $4000 and want something
  new, the 2 tractors you mentioned would work for a while, maybe 4 to 6 years or so. Keep in mind ...

• Posted in thread: John Deere on 05/14/2012 at 10:34AM
  Ebay, Craigslist, your local newspaper, estate auctions, farm auctions, tractor shows, and also check ALL
  your local "any-brand" dealers for Deere trade ins.

• Posted in thread: What happened to Oliver? on 05/14/2012 at 10:32AM
  2 above sites should give you a pretty good overall history of the Oliver Farm Equipment Co. It mirrors
  the history of a lot of early industrial manufacturers in that several small companies that ma...

• Posted in thread: Hello from PA! on 05/14/2012 at 9:46AM
  Always happy to have another fellow Pennsylvanian around.

• Posted in thread: Synthetic 'pot'. on 05/02/2012 at 1:09PM
  My uncle had a couple of Simcas, and yeah, 4 or 5 guys could carry the car, they were small and really
  light. Had a little tiny engine in them that might have weighed 200 pounds. They wouldn't go very...

• Posted in thread: where o where... on 05/01/2012 at 4:01PM
  Depends on how old, and what model you are looking at as to where they are built. Back in the 1970's some
  of the larger Deere compact utility tractors were built by Deere in Germany. Yanmar in Japan w...