Tractor help

[MagKarl]

I value a good reputation, solid dealer network, and parts availability over new and warranty.  What happens when the warranty is long gone and possibly the dealers?  Buy a used machine for a fraction of the price and buy several impliments and still come out way ahead.  My Kubota is 30 years old and I can get any parts in a week if not in stock.  And those are genuine Japanese Kubota or Denso parts, not aftermarket generics.

[snocohunter]

Some nice old tractors in Snohomish.  A restored Deere 420 crawler, a poorly maintained and modified Windolph and a Taylor.

Windolph's were a small dozer built in Oregon in the fourties and fifties.  It was powered by a Briggs.  Struck Magnadozer's are similar and still being built in Wisconsin.

The Taylor was designed in America and built in China in the late 70's or early 80's.  Taylor was apparently  the direct precursor of the small Rino-Tytan-Montana-Nortac-Yuchai inexpensive sub-forty HP dozers still being imported into America.

I just stumbled upon this thread and was surprised to see my uncle's old john deere 420 dozer in your picture. I grew up riding around on that thing and watching it do things it was probably never designed to do. I will always remember the sound of that thing running. He has a lot more lawn then they used to, and that's why the deere is now at the body shop pulling gravel duty and other odd jobs. I think he still has his old ford tractor he restored too, probably an 8N don't really know my tractors. But also a kubota for the grass at home.

[Kioti]

Thought I would toss in a few pictures of the old work horse of Laurel Country Gardens up here.
Not bad for a 1993 model Kioti.

[fernsjd41]

I have a 98 JD 1050 fwd. I love it. It will do all the work I need it to. We have 7 ac. and use it all the time.

Do you mean '88?  A 1050 is a 950 with a turbo, larger tires and differnt gear ratios.

I think they stopped making this series well before 1998

1050 doesn't have a turbo