what do you tow your 110 with? ...Do you have your Class A CDL?
I don't tow it--we just got it at the end of December 2005, and need to build up the piggy bank a bit to get a truck & trailer, if I ever do. I don't have a Class A CDL. Right now, the plan is that I am going to use it on our property, and maybe a few favors for neighbors.
40 acres of undeveloped land is going to keep me busy for a while.
In a perfect world, I should have waited a year or so to buy it, but there was a major tax advantage to getting it in 2005. If Uncle is willing to finance part of it for me, who am I to say no?
The dealer delivered it on a trailer with a goose neck and a pickup truck with a 5th wheel in the bed. They told me their policy was that if I paid for them to pick it up for service/repair, they would get it back to me for free. About $100 for the round trip to their shop.
It is going to take a l-o-n-g time for me to justify a truck & trailer at those rates.
I am not the best person to take advice from since this is the first & only tractor I have ever owned, but it is really nice. I looked at the Kubota L39, but the dealer there was willing to sell me whatever he could get fast. The Deere dealer, came out to our property, walked it with me (most of a mile, in the rain) and then recommended what I needed. It was $2-3k more than the corresponding L39, but I had a lot better feeling about the dealer.
Without him, I would never have known that I wanted a 4-n-1 bucket, but he pretty much insisted that I should get it and he was right.
The only things he was wrong on were that he didn't even know about the skid plate. But, reading TBN had warned me about the underside being really exposed, and when he got down & actually looked at it, he ordered the skid plate & I bet he is recommending it to others now.
The other thing he got wrong worked out to my advantage. He told me a 3 pt hitch came standard with it, and it didn't, so he threw one in for free.
Can't beat that.
Before it came in, I realized that the Deere Top-N-Tilt was $1400, but that I could get one for about half of that by upgrading before he got the regular 3 pt hitch in. So I got that for $700. I hope it will be useful, but people who have them say they are great.
Cheers,
Dave