Recent content by MattinVa

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    It was delivered last Friday...

    Gentlemen, I should have covered this picture earlier. It is my MX6000 with Top & Tilt mounting a Cat 2 Speeco(GradeMaster requirement). I dunno how I will learn to like the tilt, however, the hydraulic top link was a winner when I first saw one on a new IH Case Magnum more than a decade...
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    It was delivered last Friday...

    hedgerow(love the name!), My particular 4840 was turned into a "planter tractor" and the new 4850 turned into the main tillage tractor. "My" 4840 had less than 1600 hours on it when I gave it up for the 4850. Those tractors routinely go for 10,000 hours plus with maintenance as you know...
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    It was delivered last Friday...

    Gentlemen, Thank you for the courteous welcome. It is much appreciated. Thank you... mcmxi, I should have qualified that statement. My family was in Big Ag up until the very early nineties and my first tractor was a John Deere 4840 with duals. They started me off when I was twelve. The...
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    It was delivered last Friday...

    Gentlemen, I took possession of my MX6000 last week. It was ordered on 12/30/21 to avoid the 6% increase on the tractor and 7% increase on the FEL that came into effect on January first. I worried that I had bought far too little of a tractor, however, some time behind the wheel has put that...