Engine battery recommendations

Bruce Brown wrote:

Gjac wrote:

Bruce Brown wrote:
We've always used Sams Club, just recently I've found Tractor Supply to be the place to buy batteries. In fact, I'm installing (2) new Exide starting batteries in our DP tomorrow.

Exide HD Battery

I need new batteries for my recently acquired tractor. It takes the same batteries as the MH so that got me thinking. The batteries in our MH are 9 years old. They're still good, but they're 9 years old. A dead battery on the tractor is an inconvenience, a dead battery on the MH is a major pain in the trip. So tomorrow the MH is getting new batteries, the tractor will be getting the hand-me-downs.

. It looks like a good battery for a good price, I wonder why it is only warranted for 6 mos?

I believe it's because it's a Farm Duty battery, and typical Farm Duty isn't as easy on equipment as over-the-road duty - buy a long shot.

So I switched out the batteries last week and finally got a decent look at the original batteries; they had a 1 year warranty on them and made it 9 years - and counting, now in tractor duty.

The Exides have an 18 month warranty, maybe they'll last 50% longer too. Nahh...