What is Messick's Smoking

[PaulL]

Great feedback, thanks for taking the time to post it. It’s due for a full flush so I might as well give her the best of the best, the cost difference is a small price to pay for my own peace of mind but generally I do agree about fluids…. Then I saw this…. FF to 5:30 mark (link below), and while I’m in the southwest and never use my M62 after it spent 5 days in the freezer, clearly (for me personally) there are enough differences to not risk fear of cavitation damage in a pump because the fluid I did use was missing an ingredient Kubota included. I’m HOURS away from a Kubota shop, any down time would pay for the difference in fluid price just in the trucking of the tractor to the shop alone. Especially given the Tractor Supply garbage (https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/p...0a-plus-utility-tractor-fluid-5-gal-vp2040114) that’s in her now, I had to use to finish a job (it was all the local ma n pa hardware store had so I bought three pails, I burst a hydraulic line so dumped lots).

Ah. Well that I can support. If you have junk fluid mostly filling it, then yeah, may as well replace. And I agree with OldHokie that SUDT is largely about cold weather performance. In my country Kubota don't appear to even sell it, we just get the old school UDT. Apparently NZers won't pay for anything better, and to be fair it doesn't get very cold here.

 

[JenniferKubotaM62]

Ah. Well that I can support. If you have junk fluid mostly filling it, then yeah, may as well replace. And I agree with OldHokie that SUDT is largely about cold weather performance. In my country Kubota don't appear to even sell it, we just get the old school UDT. Apparently NZers won't pay for anything better, and to be fair it doesn't get very cold here.

Considering what i paid for hair spray when I lived over on the Gold Coast, I can’t imagine having to buy Super UDT2 Bundy yes, that’s money well spent.

 

[shybuck]

I have always ordered from Messicks and enjoy Neil's videos. But a new to me dealer opened a half hour from me. Canns Bilco in Albertis PA. I enjoy the ride to pickup parts and their pricing is a bit under Messicks. I consider myself lucky. Kind people to work with and always seem to have what I need.

 

[JenniferKubotaM62]

I have always ordered from Messicks and enjoy Neil's videos. But a new to me dealer opened a half hour from me. Canns Bilco in Albertis PA. I enjoy the ride to pickup parts and their pricing is a bit under Messicks. I consider myself lucky. Kind people to work with and always seem to have what I need.

Thanks for the post Shy..

 

[dirtydeed]

I have always ordered from Messicks and enjoy Neil's videos. But a new to me dealer opened a half hour from me. Canns Bilco in Albertis PA. I enjoy the ride to pickup parts and their pricing is a bit under Messicks. I consider myself lucky. Kind people to work with and always seem to have what I need.

Two more for you to consider...

PowerCO - Christin Springs RD Bethlehem
Marshall Machinery - tannersville


don't mean to derail your thread Jennifer

 

[fried1765]

For me it was once and done...ordered a owners manual from them, reproduction that was very nicely done, reasonably priced but, charged $20.00 for shipping!!!shipping weight limits.
I'm in the same state.....no more orders from them..

If you specify USPS shipping, Messicks shipping costs is competitive,
Of course, USPS does have weight limits.

 

[WFM]

I've crapped on UPS in the past here and are happy to do it again. After the last Union contract their rates went thru the roof.
The drivers that deliver to me brag of making over $100.k a year after the last contract. And at $106,000. Your at the top of the tax bracket what the government takes out.
I won't say what I think of unions.
Fords big contract a week later, pickups went up $4000. The company never loses.
The consumer does.
Oh....postal stamps are .78 cents per letter now.

 

[Mr Haney]

I used to buy from Messick's, but I have placed 4 or 5 orders recently for my mower, and every time I compared, Coleman's was better.

As for why Messick's charges so much, an idea popped into my head: maybe they like money.

Neil seems like a nice guy in the videos, but that doesn't tell you anything about his pricing philosophy.

It reminds me of the Brownell's videos. I love watching them, but I would never order anything from Brownell's unless there was no other choice. Steve and Caleb recommend stuff, and you go check the price at Brownells: never mind!

 

[Rdrcr]

I recently placed an order from Coleman’s for gaskets and associated parts for our Kubota Turbo Kits and they were less expensive than both Messicks and my local dealers.

Mike

 

[Scm]

Oh....postal stamps are .78 cents per letter now.

Imagine if they weren't taxpayer subsidized

 

[D2Cat]

I get all my Kubota parts from Coleman's Bonner Springs store, but I go pick it up.

 

[Shawn T. W]

I just ordered from Messicks, as Coleman's wouldn't ship paint to me ... I'm not gonna drive 200+ round trip for a .5 oz bottle of paint, locals dealers didn't have it ... Once I put that tiny bottle of paint in the cart, USPS which was half the price of FedEx was no longer a option ... I needed a couple other things I also wasn't able to pick up, but forgot to include in my also recent order to Coleman's ...

 

[fried1765]

I get all my Kubota parts from Coleman's Bonner Springs store, but I go pick it up.

Bonner Springs is 1533.9 miles from me.
Just a bit too far for me to make the drive.

 

[Rdrcr]

It’s good to have options

Mike