Hey guys yesterday my wife wanted to do some shopping in Gainesville and I know there is a JD dealer there so I offered to drive her
. After her shopping was done we went to the dealership . They were quite busy with " demo days " and had lots of new shiney ( $$$ ) equipment to play with . I was not interested I was looking for used . My first choice would have been a 332 diesel but they are fairly rare around here and they didn't have any . But then I spotted the 318 . For those of you that don't know about these it is a 18 hp twin cylinder air cooled Onan with hydrostatic drive , power steering , H2 hydraulics they are legendary for performance and longevity .
I'm looking the tractor over and a salesman comes over and I ask him if the hours on the hour meter are accurate , he said yes they are as they know the man that traded it in . I ask if the hour meter is working and he stated it is............ it has 192.5 hours on it !!!!! I don't know the year of the tractor as I forgot to write down the serial number
but it doesn't matter at this point as it is mine . It comes with a 46 " mowing deck . The price is 1500.00 which is very reasonable around here for a beat up 318 .
But I already have TWO JD tractors a 317 and a 330 . I don't need three or have the storage space for three so I ask the guy can I trade in my 317 ? He said sure so we wrote up an invoice and put it " in the computer " so no one could sell it . I am taking my 317 in tomorrow to work out a trade , hey if they give me 500.00 for it I'll be happy . It runs good and looks good but is a bear to steer with no power steering . Today I am removing the rear sleeve hitch and PTO from the 317 as they have value to sell . So I will end up with an 18 hp air cooled boxer twin and a 16 hp three cylinder water cooled diesel they will compliment each other nicely . I'll post pics tomorrow .