Buying Advice Used JD 110 vs everything else
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I'm in Oakland CA and had pretty much given up finding a JD110.
Looked everyday and nothing... or they were hundreds or thousands of miles away...
Dave's tractor had a nice one that was spoken for when I heard about it.
One day, on a lark... after giving up, I saw one on craigslist... contacted the guy and nothing...
About 10 days later he contacted me... said a family emergency came up and had to go out of State.
Anyway, he said he still had it and it was now in Hayward CA... I went to look at it and liked what I saw except no rear aux hydraulics for a thumb... decided I would wait and then I checked with curlydave and after that, decided I should get it...
No regrets so far.
They do show up and correspondingly seem to go fast here in the West Coast... found the same true when I was looking for my Dozers... just figure tractor owners are under represented here in the 9 Bay Area Counties...
TSO
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Have any of you done anything PTO intensive with a 110? I am seriously considering trying to find one, I just need to make sure it has enough PTO strength to run my stump grinder. My Massey is rated at 36.5 PTO HP, and there are times I could use more HP when grinding.
Thanks for pointing out the frame differences ... It makes me feel better about it NOT being just a 4x20 series with a subframe.
Also, anyone with a good cab on one? I need heat & a.c.
Thanks for pointing out the frame differences ... It makes me feel better about it NOT being just a 4x20 series with a subframe.
Also, anyone with a good cab on one? I need heat & a.c.
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Steve (jenkinsph) has a crabbed, 110. He has probably used his 110 to work HD pto attachments as much, if not more than most of the 110 owner's here on TBN based upon his business.
I have worked my 110 with a couple of different roto-tillers (60" and 73") and baled hay with it, too. No problems with the JD660 tiller but the tractor didn't do so good with the 73" (60Hp min up to 90Hp) tiller.
No problem spinning my JD 336 hay baler, though. I used it for 2 hay seasons without a hiccup.
AKfish
TSO
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I was just looking at a couple pictures online of the 110 cabbed ... It looks like there might be issues with detaching the backhoe and using the 3pt.. Looks awful tight back there, and in a couple pics it looked like the cab was bolted to the backhoe frame
jenkinsph
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The rear glass section on a Laurin cab is mounted to the backhoe section. When you remove the backhoe this section stays on the hoe but you can move the rear glass back to the tractor to enclose the cab if you need to. There is an additional lower panel below the rear glass that goes on quickly too. You can choose to have either the backhoe or 3pt set up and have the cab enclosed, works pretty well imo. Takes an extra 5 minutes to remove/install the hoe with the cab in place but really isn't much difference that I can see.
Deciding whether to go with a cab unit or open station was a tough decision back in 2005. I ultimately decided to go for the cab because I was tired of the dust when working the tractors. After 10 years I can say it was a good choice for me. If I were to buy another compact tlb today I would get the cab again, for instance a Kubota M59 would need the after market cab just as the Deere 110 did. Open station or cab is a personal choice everyone can make for themselves but I don't see any complications with a cab being the issue.
The 110 is a 33hp pto tractor, implements need to fit this rating just like any other tractor it is what it is. Worked well enough with my MX6 brush mower, worked okay with the 673 tiller but was a load at times. Not having cruise was a bigger deal when tilling imo.
When I started getting busy I decided to get a second cabbed tractor that could share the implements I had. Bought the 4520 with 60 hp without the fel and rerouted all the hydraulics to the rear for 3 sets. Added topntilt to this tractor after seeing how well this worked on the 110 and steel weights. Also added the upgraded cruise which made tilling easier to do. I found that most jobs where I would be working for a week or so that having one tractor for the 3pt work and the other for the backhoe/loader work was simply more convenient for the small custom jobs.
All of that said, the point is a 110 will do a lot of work and is a good choice in its hp size just like a Kubota L45. If you need a larger tlb in a similar configuration a step up to the Kubota M59 is a good choice. I can tell you from my experience that the backhoe is big enough for my work but at times I could use a 120hp tractor to speed up the laser grading and field work. Very difficult if not impossible to do it all with one machine, but for most personal use I would choose a tlb for the best combination of uses if I only had one.
jenkinsph
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The mini excavator buckets cross over with the 110 buckets. Can't remember which model excavator but it is about a 4 ton size, maybe a 27?