Mahindra 3535?

[brettz]

Anyone out there own a Mahindra 3535? I'd love to hear from people with thoughts on these tractors. I've read good things about them but I'd prefer to hear from normal folks who actually put them to the test. Mahindra has a promotion right now for 0% for 84 months and these tractors run about $20,000 new. Plus there is a dealer about 25 miles from our place.

I only have five acres but am hoping to lease an additional five from one of my neighbors. Right now the tasks I know I have ahead of me: digging about 100 fence posts, mowing a 2 acre pasture, getting small stumps out probably with a stump grinder attachment (christmas trees), tons of dirt to be moved around to improve our garden, tilling the garden, driveway maintenance (half mile gravel drive in shabby condition) and hopefully using it to clear the land I want to lease, which is extremely overgrown with feral christmas trees, scotch broom and blackberries. Just writing that list out makes me feel crazy for not already owning a tractor. I'm getting a pretty sick of my clamshell digger and my wheelbarrow

[bryant]

While not personally owning one (yet), I have four neighbors that have Mahindra tractors, the things I've seen them do with them (clearing up a lot of the mess from this years tornado here in Vilonia, AR.) has me convinced. I have talked to my dealer (who is about 30 miles away) and even though he didn't have the exact model I was thinking about he had the next best thing and since I am not that picky about the transmission type. I am in the process of buying the m28 with loader, backhoe and rear adjusting blade. These attachments are mandatory for taking care of my 10 acre homestead. I too have a road only 600 feet but all up hill, to take care of since the rains this year have nearly washed the bottom 400 feet away.

[Darren]

Check out the forums at www.tractorbynet.com

[Michael W. Smith]

We went from a Cub Cadet piece of crap, to a Mahindra. Best decision we ever made!
It starts EVERY time we need it and hasn't broken down yet.
You will NOT be disappointed.

[gwithrow]

we bought our 4530 Mahindra almost two years ago, it is a sturdy tractor that seems up for almost anything we have asked it to do...we have a loader and I can not imagine anyone buying a tractor without one....

dealer support for us has been great....actually we have not needed much....we have used it for helping to clear old pastures of old stumps, and lots of brush...it has saved us many many hours of work....just be sure it is a big enough tractor for what you will be doing...

it is not a bulldozer, but it has helped us move a lot of dirt from previous owners piling up mounds to clear for fences...it is heavy, but very easy to use and it seems quite stable on the hills here, especially with the loader on....

[Chad]

I love my 5030, I went from an old POS to the 5030 and could not be happier. I also got the 84 mo @ 0% plus they included a loader attachment. Furthermore they were able to lump all the attachments I wanted into the one loan which meant I could get to work right away. The icing on the cake was that they gave me $2k for my old tractor that had been through a fire.

[stickinthemud]

BIL has a Mahindra, don't know the model. He loves it.

[brettz]

Thanks for all of the endorsements! Sounds like a mahindra will be my first tractor.