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I live in Alaska and was starting to look for another disk mower to replace my NH462. But I don't have many dealers to choose from and none know anything about farming nor do they stock parts for farm stuff. every thing up here is geared to industrial equipment. Any way I talked with the only JD dealer in Alaska and he quoted me some prices for Frontier equipment could order for me and he said JD stuff would cost $9,000 more. Have any of you had problems with Frontier equipment? If they are about the same why would anyone buy JD when Frontier works or lasts as long. What's a New 9 foot 3 point 55 HP disk mower cost where your at? Thanks
 

Suggest you look at a DRUM mower. A larger one will cut as fast as a smaller disk. I have ome that is a duplicate of the CCM 190. Has worked out well for me. Understand the lack of dealership support. You got a real problem there.
 
(quoted from post at 14:23:34 03/09/16) I live in Alaska and was starting to look for another disk mower to replace my NH462. But I don't have many dealers to choose from and none know anything about farming nor do they stock parts for farm stuff. every thing up here is geared to industrial equipment. Any way I talked with the only JD dealer in Alaska and he quoted me some prices for Frontier equipment could order for me and he said JD stuff would cost $9,000 more. Have any of you had problems with Frontier equipment? If they are about the same why would anyone buy JD when Frontier works or lasts as long. What's a New 9 foot 3 point 55 HP disk mower cost where your at? Thanks
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Can any dealer on the mainland ship to your location? And for fairly cheap? You won't get any service probably though.
 
The frontier line is John Deeres cheap line of equipment to compete price wise with the tsc-fiat-cnh lines and other brand X equipment . As far as quality I don't know it's a cheap piece of equipment and that's what it'll be to but if you can get it and have some dealer support it might be the ticket
 
I strongly suspect Frontier is like Kenmore. They don't have a factory to build them,they just shop around and get them wherever they can buy them the cheapest. I know Tarter builds some of the Frontier 3 point stuff. Who knows where the other stuff comes from. I'm sure there's no one manufacturer that builds it all.

Like the Kenmore dryer I had once. I called the local "all brands" appliance repair and they wouldn't touch it. Said I'd have to call Sears. They said they had no way of knowing who made it and didn't stand much chance of having the right part without a lot of guesswork.
 
(quoted from post at 20:23:34 03/09/16) I live in Alaska and was starting to look for another disk mower to replace my NH462. But I don't have many dealers to choose from and none know anything about farming nor do they stock parts for farm stuff. every thing up here is geared to industrial equipment. Any way I talked with the only JD dealer in Alaska and he quoted me some prices for Frontier equipment could order for me and he said JD stuff would cost $9,000 more. Have any of you had problems with Frontier equipment? If they are about the same why would anyone buy JD when Frontier works or lasts as long. What's a New 9 foot 3 point 55 HP disk mower cost where your at? Thanks
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I believe that Frontier disc mowers are made by Kuhn. Kuhn mowers have a good reputation around here.
 
I've had a couple Frontier implements, had good luck with them. The manure spreader was a little too light for the way I abuse one, but I made money on it, so not bad for the smaller guy.

I remember visiting the Palmer AK area, we watched a fellow running a combine up and down-looked like there was hardly anything to cut! Turns out he was harvesting grass seed, DUH! Fantastically beautiful area.
 
Frontier equipment is John Deere's line of small agriculture and landscaping equipment built to cater to suburban/residential customers and rural small property owners. It comes with a smaller price tag but in general is built for light duty work.
 
I bought a Frontier tedder, it's made by Tonutti in Italy. They do it to keep costs down and stay competitive with Chinese junk.
 
I did some checking on the web which I'm not good at. the frontier DM5070 a 9 ft disk mower has a weight of 1143lbs the JD 280 also a 9 ft disk mower has a weight of 1475 lbs. I assume they are the same. They look much the same. I have to believe the JD is a heaver frame material put the parts maybe the same. Does anyone know if the parts fit each other? The JD R280 list at $13,789 and the frontier DM5070 listed at $7,999 from the same dealer in the mid west. That's a big difference for 330 lbs of steel. That's a lot cheaper than I was quoted up here for the frontier and I don't see that JD was $9000. more than a frontier. Is there a standard amount you can expect them to dicker with you? like 10% off their asking price? I haven't checked yet but I should get it to Alaska for less than a $1000 then I'd have to put it together.



























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The Frontier disc mower is just a revised version of the Kuhn GMD you have (NH 462). Kuhn repainted those mowers for Deere and NewHolland and possibly others. I'm not sure if the frontier version today is based on the GMD 66/77 models or the newer GMD660/770 variants... but they are Kuhn.
As for what I would buy? Kuhn, all the way.

Rod
 
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