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Read articles →This is a Q&A-style response to a viewer asking whether the John Deere 1025R justifies its roughly $3,800 price premium over the Massey 1723E and Mahindra eMax 20S. The host shares opinions from a farm show sit-on (no operating), cites a $30K sticker shock on a loaded 1025R, discusses mower deck convenience, service realities from viewer surveys, and touches on zero-turn vs. mower-deck tradeoffs. No specs are compared side by side. Best for shoppers wanting a candid price-value gut check rather than a head-to-head performance breakdown.
Good Works Tractors is a dealer and attachment retailer that ships nationally, so expect a sales-aware perspective, though the host openly questions the 1025R's current pricing despite personally owning two.
The host says that amount of money pays for attachments, so he'd have a tough time justifying it, though he still loves and owns two 1025Rs.
The host says it felt very chintzy, the only tractor at the farm show he had a negative feeling about, though not meant as bashing owners.
Because mower decks are not easy to take off, so owners leave them on while loading, which can bend the front frame or break gauge wheels.
The host has drifted toward separating them, using mower deck money toward a zero turn for faster mowing and no deck swapping downtime, though it costs more and needs more storage.
