Originally Posted by falcon

There are thousands of smaller diesel tractors out there for sale at any given time. You can often pick up a nice low hour gray market tractor for less than $5,000. Yanmar built most of the smaller John Deere tractors for years. You can have a worn out John Deere at one end of a tractor lot and a pristine equivalent model Yanmar at the other end. The John Deere will bring a lot more money because of that green paint job.

http://www.hoyetractor.com/yanmar-tractors.htm

This Mitsubishi D1600 was bought by me in 2003 for $3,000. This little tractor does a great job on game plots.