New England Tractoring
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Hello everyone. This is my first post and probably going to be the most important one I make on here. I have a 1996 Yanmar B50 mini excavator with a thumb and blade. It's in good shape with 4700 hrs on it. I am currently using it to do misc yard jobs at my dad's estate. My time of cleaning up is winding down and believe I would now have more use for a tractor with a front end loader type set up.
I put my Yanmar on Craigslist for trade for a compact tractor. Someone is offering me their 1997 John Deere 770 with 650 hours on it for my B50. This is what the person said in their email to me, "Comes with a model 70 loader and Jd 5' grader, 4' bush hog, weight box, tire chains etc, only 650 hrs on it, everything works well, no backhoe though"
The person is asking $10,000 for the machine and is offering to give me "some" cash in addition to it. Let's say their 770 and $2500 for my B50, would that be ok? I'm not quite familiar with JD tractors. Is this a good trade? I've only ever been around excavators and a friend of mine has a Kabota compact.
Also, I would really like to have a backhoe attachment, is this a decent enough size of a machine to be able to attach one to it? What is the average price of a good used attachment? And finally, would it be a difficult mounting process if it has never had a backhoe attachment before?
Thank you all very much!
I put my Yanmar on Craigslist for trade for a compact tractor. Someone is offering me their 1997 John Deere 770 with 650 hours on it for my B50. This is what the person said in their email to me, "Comes with a model 70 loader and Jd 5' grader, 4' bush hog, weight box, tire chains etc, only 650 hrs on it, everything works well, no backhoe though"
The person is asking $10,000 for the machine and is offering to give me "some" cash in addition to it. Let's say their 770 and $2500 for my B50, would that be ok? I'm not quite familiar with JD tractors. Is this a good trade? I've only ever been around excavators and a friend of mine has a Kabota compact.
Also, I would really like to have a backhoe attachment, is this a decent enough size of a machine to be able to attach one to it? What is the average price of a good used attachment? And finally, would it be a difficult mounting process if it has never had a backhoe attachment before?
Thank you all very much!