I really need to stay off Craigslist ....

[McMXi]

I saw these three pintle hitch components for sale on Craigslist recently and turns out the guy who's selling them is the same guy that I bought a welding table and Schafer disc harrow from a few yeas ago. He's a Kubota nut and always seems to be selling something Kubota or Land Pride related.

$125 for all three is very reasonable and lot less than I paid when I converted the Schafer to a pintle hitch setup. I made up custom drawbars for the MX and M to work with a pintle hitch, but now I won't need to move the hitch between drawbars since I'll have a hitch for both.

Implements that pull on the drawbar and the world of good enough.

I bought a very well used Schafer disc harrow a couple of years ago for $1,200 and used it last summer on part of a new driveway project. It worked well but it was very sloppy on the drawbar. The coupler is worn out and I don't like the lack of a good jack (don't care for the current set up...

www.orangetractortalks.com

 

[ajschnitzelbank]

Did ya buy anything else while you were there? If not I’d say $125 isn’t enough reason to stay off Craigslist!

 

[McMXi]

Did ya buy anything else while you were there? If not I’d say $125 isn’t enough reason to stay off Craigslist!

I think the bigger problem is that sometimes things aren't as good a deal as they appear to be. $125 is fair and probably 75% to 80% of the cost of new, but it's not a great price. I used to buy stuff from a local auction house and would find myself buying things not because I needed them, but because they seemed like a great deal. That's a dangerous road to go down if getting "deals" becomes an obsession. There's some of that on Craigslist.

 

[jaxs]

Must be a disease, I do the same thing. There's a local online auction that sells mostly household and furnishings but occasionally a pile of scrap iron, farm equipment or large shop equipment shows up and doesn't get many bids. You guessed it, even though I wasn't looking for one I just can't pass it up.

 

[Bearcatrp]

Craigslist is an attachment junkie haven. Am always looks for my next attachment that I think I can use. Think I need attachments anonymous