Which would you buy? (Help me spend my money)

[lilranch2001]

You aren't speaking German or Japanese are you?

And what does that have to do with answering a person whose apparent vast experience seems to be tractors is Bigbox lawn tractor and is bad mouthing a very large segment of CUT tractors?

 

[cathy liebchen]

I'd rather buy a tractor made in Japan, than India, South Korea, or China, that's for sure!.. .

this is certainly true for automobiles

 

[DK35vince]

this is certainly true for automobiles

My brother had 300,000 miles on his Hyundai when he got rid of it with very few issues.

 

[RonSwanson]

I guess my thought is, why step up to the L4060 and pay and extra $10k, instead of just getting an LS or TYM.

It seems most of the comments here are heavily skewed towards Kubota, probably with good reason. However, it takes a reasonably high degree of mental gymanstics for me to justify moving up to a larger tractor, and paying upwards of $40k, when a $30k LS or $26k TYM accomplishes the same thing.

Is a Kubota really worth paying 50%+ more?!?!?

The MSRP difference between an L3560 with the lighter loader and L4060 with the better loader is 4K. So you get better power for the weight and a much better loader. And higher resale.

Same goes for the LS or whatever 斗esser known brand. Look at total cost with resale.

 

[AllByteNoBark]

I'm looking at an L3560 and the L4060 is $6,000 more when configured the same on the Kubota site. That is for both with the cab and both configured with the same 805 loader. Just don't think the 5 hp is worth that for my purposes. Granted the 4060 is a bit bigger also. But that is a negative for me. Waiting for a 3560 to get in at my dealer. I am at sea level so no altitude penalty and no snow or hills either.

 

[lilranch2001]

My brother had 300,000 miles on his Hyundai when he got rid of it with very few issues.

There are snobs in every market place

 

[RSR]

The MSRP difference between an L3560 with the lighter loader and L4060 with the better loader is 4K. So you get better power for the weight and a much better loader. And higher resale.

Same goes for the LS or whatever 斗esser known brand. Look at total cost with resale.

Remember, the quote I got is on the L3560 limited edition, which is about $2.5k less than the straight L3560. That makes stepping up to an L4060 about $42k'ish, as compared to the $31.5k for the comparable LS.

Resale is not much of a consideration for me. I have no plans to ever sell the tractor I purchase.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

If the LS does what you need, buy it and spend the rest on implements.

 

[AllByteNoBark]

For clarification, the L3560 I am looking at and mentioned above was also the LE. Explains the 6k vs 4k difference.

 

[Grumpycat]

Don't lump SK in with those others. The Koreans make the best cell phones and TV's in the world, and have for a while now. They are superb engineers.

... especially after Apple showed them how.