New tractor.

[CatamountRob]

After using my father’s JD 650 for the past 35ish years to do stuff around his place and mine, I finally bit the bullet and bought one of my own. Hopefully it holds up half as well as his 650 has.
I bought a 1025R with a loader, front snowblower, brush hog, mid mount mower and rototiller. Supposed to be delivered late next week after they get everything set up on it. I also ordered a quick hitch and ballast box from Titan Attachments.
This isn’t actually my tractor, but it’s the showroom one.

 

[fishhawk2700]

I have an older version of this tractor, model 2210 with a loader and back hoe. It's a 2004 and i bought it in 2007 with 57 hrs on it. The initial plan was to do the land scaping around our new house, plant some trees and then sell it. Well, 17 years later, I don't know what I would do without it. They're tough little units. Outside of routine maintenance, ZERO issues at 356 hrs.

 

[Wilyote1]

Nice new toy. Can't beat a tractor for work

 

[MuleDad]

If I bought a JD my wife would divorce me, after she shot, hanged, keel-hauled and clubbed me lol

 

[snapbang]

Ours held up for 20 years. We never found an implement it could not pull. But it drinks fuel at an alarming rate.

 

[CatamountRob]

If I bought a JD my wife would divorce me, after she shot, hanged, keel-hauled and clubbed me lol

I asked my wife if she wanted to go with me and she said no. She should have known better than to let me go in alone!

 

[snapbang]

I asked my wife if she wanted to go with me and she said no. She should have known better than to let me go in alone!

The master of turning it into her fault. Well done

 

[Hausser1]

After using my father’s JD 650 for the past 35ish years to do stuff around his place and mine, I finally bit the bullet and bought one of my own. Hopefully it holds up half as well as his 650 has.
I bought a 1025R with a loader, front snowblower, brush hog, mid mount mower and rototiller. Supposed to be delivered late next week after they get everything set up on it. I also ordered a quick hitch and ballast box from Titan Attachments.
This isn’t actually my tractor, but it’s the showroom one.
View attachment 43662

She's a beaut, Clark.

 

[CatamountRob]

View attachment 43734

Ours held up for 20 years. We never found an implement it could not pull. But it drinks fuel at an alarming rate.

I’m pretty sure it can’t handle a mid mount mower.

 

[anonymouscowherd]

If I had a use case for a tractor I dont think I would get a JD - too much BS with proprietary software, hardware pairing etc

 

[CatamountRob]

If I had a use case for a tractor I dont think I would get a JD - too much BS with proprietary software, hardware pairing etc

Spoken like an Android user.

 

[anonymouscowherd]

Spoken like an Android user.

iphone actually (best at being just a phone)

But yeah, software dev and Linux admin and Free Software advocate (libre not gratis - think free speech not free beer)

 

[retrieverman]

Congrats on your purchase!
A friend just bought the Kubota equivalent to the OP’s tractor, and those little tractors are pretty cool. I’ve made a living off my tractors for 25 years and have owned 3 JD tractors, 5 Kubotas tractors, and a Kubota skid steer.

 

[bronko220002]

Very nice tractor but looking at the pic I doubt if you'll be able to use it. Good grief you can't even reach the steering wheel let alone the pedals and controls!

 

[Tony gilbert]

After using my father’s JD 650 for the past 35ish years to do stuff around his place and mine, I finally bit the bullet and bought one of my own. Hopefully it holds up half as well as his 650 has.
I bought a 1025R with a loader, front snowblower, brush hog, mid mount mower and rototiller. Supposed to be delivered late next week after they get everything set up on it. I also ordered a quick hitch and ballast box from Titan Attachments.
This isn’t actually my tractor, but it’s the showroom one.
View attachment 43662

Nice I still use my grandpas fordson

 

[CatamountRob]

They delivered my tractor Thursday with the belly mower and rototiller on it and they’re supposed to bring the snowblower and brush hog some time this week.
Saturday I put on the quick hitch and added bushings on the tiller and later that afternoon bought a used rear blade and added bushings to that as well. I’m going to keep an eye out for used pallet forks on FB because it seems like they’d be handy.
As long as I only buy green implements my wife won’t notice!

 

[RobRed]

Nice tractor! I've been lusting for a small tractor and all of the implements for years.

 

[rporter]

the pallet forks get used far more than i ever dreamed

ssqa is a blessing switching from forks to spear to bucket

 

[snapbang]

I’m pretty sure it can’t handle a mid mount mower.

The turning radius sucks too. LOL

 

[anonymouscowherd]

You got/use GPS in it?

The solar storm that brought the aurora borealis to large parts of the United States this weekend also broke critical GPS and precision farming functionality in tractors and agricultural equipment during a critical point of the planting season, 404 Media has learned. These outages caused many farmers to fully stop their planting operations for the moment. One chain of John Deere dealerships warned farmers that the accuracy of some of the systems used by tractors are "extremely compromised," and that farmers who planted crops during periods of inaccuracy are going to face problems when they go to harvest, according to text messages obtained by 404 Media and an update posted by the dealership.

The outages highlight how vulnerable modern tractors are to satellite disruptions, which experts have been warning about for years. "All the tractors are sitting at the ends of the field right now shut down because of the solar storm," Kevin Kenney, a farmer in Nebraska, told me. "No GPS. We're right in the middle of corn planting. I'll bet the commodity markets spike Monday." Specifically, some GPS systems were temporarily knocked offline. This caused intermittent connections and accuracy problems with "Real-Time Kinematic" (RTK) systems, which connect to John Deere "StarFire" receivers that are in modern tractors and agricultural equipment. RTK systems use GPS plus a stream of constantly-updating "correction" data from a fixed point on the ground to achieve centimeter-level positional accuracy for planting crops, tilling fields, spraying fertilizer and herbicide, etc.