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"6 gallons for 99¢ tax included" PFFT!
Some places there is 99¢/gall tax now!
And 1997 was a year in history...not a new car price!
Might buy you a "get you to work for a couple months hoopty"...that would be about it...

 

Have not bought a new car in decades. Always buy off lease and let the first owner take the depreciation hit. New vehicles are way overpriced. Won't even get into gasoline. Far as diesel is concerned, don't care what it costs. I roll that into the cost of farming as an overhead. Least my heat is cheap...lol

 

Good plan...only "vehicle" type purchase that I have ever bought new was a Z turn mower...1st and last time too!

 

Of course the 'big thing' now is they (gummit) wants everyone to ditch the internal combustion engine and buy an overpriced electric car (toaster). Not ever gonna happen here. I don't care how much the cost of fuel gets artificially inflated.

John Deere just came out with an electric tractor. It's only 225 grand and it don't even have a cab plus the 'duty cycle' is 6 hours with a 10 hour recharge time. I'll be jumping all over that....

 

I rate that

6 hours...I suppose that's pulling an empty hay wagon around at 1 MPH...I'd like to see it pulling a plow for 6 hours!

 

It might handle a 1 bottom plow

 

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Here we are scoffing at this new technology...I'm sure this is just how it went when my dad brought that 8N home to show grandpa...the horses probably laughed too
And now they use 400hp tractors that can work the ground up on the whole farm in the time it took to hitch the horses and make a couple laps...and honestly that tractor probably "eats" less ($ wise) than the horses would have doing the same acreage (horse a lil cheaper to buy than that 400hp tractor though!)

 

wish gas was that price over here.

 

I read the specs somewhere, if I remember correctly it's Cat 1-2 with 80 pto power, open station, 6 hour duty cycle won't cut the cheese for me anyway. Farm time for me is sun up to dark. I guess if you run out of juice in the field, you need a really long extension cord. They aren't the only ones with electric tractors. Kubota built an electric autonomous prototype that looks like a June Bug and someone out in California has a small electric garden tractor for sale. I don't have an issue with GPS or auto steer when farming big acreage but you still need someone in the seat in case the electronics screw up. Buddy down the road (where I get my corn) put his big JD track machine in the creek when it didn't autosteer at the headlands. By the time he got it out of automatic steer, he was taking a very expensive bath. I suspect a couple brown bottles were involved as well.

 

Another advantage to horse drawn farming is, they fertilize as they go along....

Last time I checked, the Amish were doing just fine with horse drawn implements, plus they 'heat on the cheap' like we do.

 

Yeah, but its really "spotty"!

 

I'm not a Chevy guy, but I'd take that deal in a heartbeat. Simple easy to work on cars that were built very well.

I'll settle for gas under 25¢ though.

 

Cheapest I recall (just because I didn't pay any attention before I had to pay for it myself) was when it went down to $0.69 for a week or two in the mid 90's (IIRC on the date) don't remember why it went that low anymore...didn't last long though...right back up to $1-$1.10 after that

 

That was in the late 90's or so, right? I recall prices in Wisconsin about 1.25/ gal then a road trip to Tennessee/ Kentucky had gas right around a dollar a gallon.


Then there's like 10 yrs ago when it went up to 4.25/ gal for regular. I was commuting 70 miles round trip 5x a week in my Audi that got 16 mpg freeway. That sucked. Employer was cheap and wouldn't give raises. Remote work wasn't an option then, even though it could've been technology wise. I left for closer work and a better employer shortly later.

 

One easy payment of $1997?

That's Just like a new diesel truck payment...per month...for 5 years...