Buying Advice Used JD 110 vs everything else

[dusty3030]

Good point, and I agree, he really doesn't need a backhoe in the long run. But if he buys a used machine, uses it for 2-3 years, is he going to get a decent price for it at that point, so as to be able to buy a good utility tractor. It won't have to be as big, but 30K is a lot of money. Most likely you guys are right, but I would still consider going new. Then again, it's his money!

If he'd give me a blank check I'd hook him up with a mini ex, compact track loader, d6 dozer and a dump truck.

 

[TJP89]

If he'd give me a blank check I'd hook him up with a mini ex, compact track loader, d6 dozer and a dump truck.

Don't forget all the attachments to do everything perfectly!!!!!

 

[moparrob]

You guys are awesome! I guess the other detail is that I don't have a Commercial Driver license, and don't plan to get one either. It's gotta be the one machine, so it looks like you helped me convince myself I need a 110.

Am I the only one who's concerned about all the emissions crap on the new tractors? Maybe I'll wind up keeping the 110 if I can find one.....

 

[CurlyDave]

You guys are awesome! I guess the other detail is that I don't have a Commercial Driver license, and don't plan to get one either. It's gotta be the one machine, so it looks like you helped me convince myself I need a 110.

Am I the only one who's concerned about all the emissions crap on the new tractors? Maybe I'll wind up keeping the 110 if I can find one.....

Well, you may be able to buy mine from my estate -- unless I convince my grandson it is too useful to part with.

 

[TJP89]

You guys are awesome! I guess the other detail is that I don't have a Commercial Driver license, and don't plan to get one either. It's gotta be the one machine, so it looks like you helped me convince myself I need a 110.

Am I the only one who's concerned about all the emissions crap on the new tractors? Maybe I'll wind up keeping the 110 if I can find one.....

I don't have any experience with Tier 4, but when I bought my Tier 3 CK, every dealer, regardless of brand, told me to buy before Tier 4 took over. From what I know I wouldn't want one. I will say that I have a 1950s Farmall H, that still works great, and I would bet that its 30HP would outpull many modern higher horsepower tractors, so I believe that sometimes the older iron can just keep on working.

 

[TSO]

Those of you with experience with the 110, how capable is the backhoe in regards to small excavation work like digging out stumps and general lot clearing / site prep?

I'm not talking about clearing 10 acres, but I do work for some developers clearing residential lots, up to an acre usually.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Rock knocker]

Those of you with experience with the 110, how capable is the backhoe in regards to small excavation work like digging out stumps and general lot clearing / site prep?

I'm not talking about clearing 10 acres, but I do work for some developers clearing residential lots, up to an acre usually.

Thanks in advance.

That's it's intended market

 

[DavesTractor]

You guys are awesome! I guess the other detail is that I don't have a Commercial Driver license, and don't plan to get one either. It's gotta be the one machine, so it looks like you helped me convince myself I need a 110.

Am I the only one who's concerned about all the emissions crap on the new tractors? Maybe I'll wind up keeping the 110 if I can find one.....

Without ballast in the tires, I show a JD110 TLB at 7280 lbs. That would work with the correct trailer and keep you just under the CDL requirement in CA. You just can't pull a trailer rated at over 10k lbs. With ballast and the 4-n-1 you would be too heavy for a 10k lb trailer.

As far as using the backhoe and then some day it becoming a yard ornament....that's never happened to me. We have 10 acres, most of it all finished up and I still use my mini-ex regularly. I suppose if you had a 100% landscaped property you might run out of a use for it.

 

[Rock knocker]

Without ballast in the tires, I show a JD110 TLB at 7280 lbs. That would work with the correct trailer and keep you just under the CDL requirement in CA. You just can't pull a trailer rated at over 10k lbs. With ballast and the 4-n-1 you would be too heavy for a 10k lb trailer.

You're all wrong about trailer weight and CDL's.

 

[moparrob]

My experience with the 110 was putting in a leech field in tough clay and it was a breeze with a 24" bucket. The creep-to-reposition made moving along the trench super easy, and when the septic was signed off, I rebuilt the motocross track with the 4 in one loader. The backhoe worked great for shaping the berms on the corners with the sideswing of the bucket. I also used it to dig around some large redwood stumps, but it wwasnt strong enough to break them loose on its own. In all fairness to the 110, the stumps were about 24" across at the trunk, and the root ball was about 6 feet in diameter. I wound up getting it out with a big-rig tow truck and its 50k lb winch.

I probably sound like a JD salesman, but i came here to find a cheaper alternative. So far, it seems like it has no real equal.