New seat for John Deere
I need a new seat for my John Deere. It’s really funny because my John Deere has a backhoe on the back with a separate seat. I have used the tractor more for digging holes than I have for anything else. No doubt I’ve moved mulch, loam, garbage, snow, but mostly I was digging graves, or digging holes for trees and shrubs. Naturally the seat started coming apart after the warranty was over – right after! Isn’t that always the way!?
So I started pricing out seats. I went to the John Deere place of course. After talking to the parts counter I felt I could buy a new tractor for the price of a new seat! So I went to alternative sites such as JC Whitney, Northern Machinery, companies like that that sell seats. I found one for about 1/2 the price. I have to alter the bracket to make the seat fit but that’s nothing for me! And the seat looks exactly the same! So I will be putting that on my tractor! I might even put a cover over the seat to make it last even longer. I got 8 years out of the first one; by not covering it, so maybe I’ll get a few more years beyond that with a cover.