My Uncle bought a John Deere Tractor in 1946, his son and my cousin still runs it on his little Farm/Cattle Ranch! He did his haying with it again this year, and I got to help out like I did when my Uncle was alive and I was all of 12!

Sound advice that pertains not only to farming. Nothing wrong with quality used equipment.

Its very similar cab as mine... just newer style controls. Thats what we did... payed 50,000 for ours and we mow around 650 acres and 1400 grain acres

We aren't interested in purchasing one in the short run. It's wise for a farmer to analyze all of his options, especially when there's a long life ahead of him. We've never had one, we wanted to see what all the fuss was about, and would consider purchasing if we continue expanding and raise more cattle and do more custom work.

Im mowing 2500 acres plus a year and I still went with a used mower. But I also had to buy a trailer to transport it which was 12k itself. As a young guy doing custom hay and then my own hay your right, start with used. I would love a new mower but my payment is half what a new one is, so that aloud me to buy another tractor and baler along with the mower and still make the payments of a used machine. You just have to plan on having more repair bills starting out. I know i had to put 7k in repairs on my swather this year and another 13k for a transmission in my tractor but that will atleast get me going so I can make more money quicker and build my custom hay business up.

I like when ya go to the dealerships and give tours of new/used machines ! Keep doing this and hope your season keeps going good !

One of these would be more economical for the smaller farmer than the W235 and W260.

That's great advice for anyone who wants to get started farming. Buy something you know you can make the payment on.

I really really love the videos looking at machinery on the lot

Great vids!! Very respectable and honest day's work. Wish more people had this kind of work ethics these days.

hey Wes!what's your opinion on MacDon windrowers and the fact that John Deere windrowers are lately made by MacDon..?since 2013 the two of them are identical..JD paint,MacDon machine...

Nice looking machine!

good video as expected :)

Hey Wes I did a video a week or so ago of us doin custom work and we used there johndeere 6420 for a day till it started missing like crazy. So we had to use our Ford 7740 to finish. Believe its electrical problems you got any ideas ?

21st equipment logo on the door that's one of our closest Deere dealers where I live .

good advice in any business where you need equipment. you can run up a million in equipment and 10000 dollar a month payments in no time at all!

What to say, there is alot of good used equipment if you can find it, however, I think for as much hay Wes has, a new machine was the only route to take. Ryan might be funds given to him.

Ryan: Listen to Wes he makes good points

very nice farm

OLF I think you made this video special for Ryan In a good way don't BUY the new machine it could cost you dearly in the long run. I just popped in to DEER country as I was passing buy yea right I new you had a heart. All jokes aside good video and advice

How do you find those machines on big hills? Only ever run pull type.

You know what you have !

i would love to have that

Have you ever done wheelies with your machines?

cool

so was this before they buddied up with macdon?

i do like a firm pair of 38s,,,,,36s are ok but a bit small for my liking oh tires i meant

have you looked at mac don mowers

dido on the payments. if the older paid off machine can do it keep it. save some cash for the upgrade. especially for younger guys like myself and ryan

do you farm anything other than hay grain or soybeans or sunflowers

the only thing that I saw with the one he was demonstrating was the tires where backwards but that may be a Midwest thing

Why two seats? Do you carry passengers often?

Wes did George Saunders get back in touch with you?

Ryan from @howfarmswork said in his video that they were not actually looking to buy a machine right now. Rather, I think they were just curious, and it's a way for Sloan Implement to get some exposure and advertising. They also demo'd that gator, but it didn't seem like they were about to buy that either. It is a little strange to be demoing equipment you don't really have an intention to buy, but I suppose if the dealer wanted to give me something to play with, I wouldn't be turning them down!

how is the clear drain working?? ..

so you have 2 other rotary swathers and you are looking at another swather

unless your ARE doing custom work NEVER justify buying equipment with I CAN do custom work. I bought a silo bagger just for myself had someone sent to me by a friend 9 bags a year paid by end of month great. had someone ask I didn't know told him didn't have time got sob story can't find no one else so I said OK. 6 years later still not paid, guys no longer in business so I'm SOL don't mind not being paid for my time I'm more pissed about being screwed out of the 314$ for the silo bag. bottom line buy it if you can make payments by yourself don't have to rely on others to make it work

Surprised they put it on the lot that dirty.

we should get a butterfly

r u going to trade urs in for this

Isn't Ryan mowing like 40 acres of hay? lol I don't think that's enough to justify anything more then a pull type disc mower let alone a self propelled of any age or size haha

Bet those conditioner rollers love stones and branches???

you have a 994, w/flail, ryan over there was demo a 995 16ft, I know numbers get mumbo jumbo in a hurry

You have two mowers a second bailer would be nice

wat is it, shit on Ryan n Wes day? lol OLF n ryan, keep up the vids. always gunna be d-bags out there who just have to hear there own dumb ask think n speed.

speak*

I think they demoed the wd260 to get views. It would make no sense to buy that pig for as little as they do.

Way more mover than what How Farms Work needs but hey maybe they will change their channel to How Farms Go Broke lol.

comment

1st

hey one lonely farmer,can you do a birthday shout out for me? my birthday is August 29

Deer is not a valid reason for not crop farming

Judas priest you people have no sympathy towards anyone anymore, you see it's called demo for a reason. Demo is where you get a piece of equipment to try out for future ideas of purchasing machinery, rent is where you pay for a piece of machinery to use in the meantime for extra help or your machine is getting a serious fix, leasing is where you make payments over a couple three years and then return the machine to the dealer where you will more than likely get the updated piece of machinery (which is what most custom harvesters and operators do due to putting on some many hours in a year and getting the most modern and advanced equipment), and then you have flat out buying the machine. +HowFarmsWorks is demoing the W260 to try it out and see how something like that performs and operates, a glimpse into what having a machine like that on your farm would be like. Plus it puts out a good name for the dealer that offers someone the option to demo a piece of machinery as well as advertisement of Ryan's channel. +onelonleyfarmer purchases his equipment because he plans to use it for a lot of production and to keep it around for a while and it gives him to option to do what he wants to it and with it, otherwise I'm sure if he wanted to have the newest machinery and keep updating all the time he would just lease his machinery.

R 450 ain't nothing but junk,junk I tell you. Massey kicks deere ass in cutters