$4000 to spend on lawn/light duty garden tractor

[oakford4]

Only one issue with that 3000 series Cub....it is at a dealer 100 miles from home. There is a much closer dealer that can't offer that kind of deal to me. So, does anyone know how warranties work? If I am getting a full warranty from "Cub Dealer A", but "Cub Dealer B" is MUCH closer, can I take advantage of the warranty at any dealer, or specifically where it was bought?

 

[Hard]

Could we at least get the model number correct with the 3000 series ? its a model 3100 with a 50 " deck. No such thing as a 3150. And yes its by far the best choice in your list of garden tractors....

Sorry Hard I disagree with your blanket statement regarding Cub. Their garden tractors are second to none, and in the listed examples above, are the superior choice....case closed

Maybe if Cub gets Yanmar to build their garden tractors like they are doing for their CUTS you could use your "case closed" remark and be taken seriously. As long as MTD is building Cub lawn and garden tractors corners will be cut at every opportunity to further cheapen the Cub brand. Current Cubs are not near as good as when IH was building them years ago. Case closed...your funny duc

 

[LBrown59]

The price quote you have on the carryover 3000 series cub is great. This is the way you should go.

As I see it, you have two choices.

1. buy the 3000 cub for a great price.
2. buy one of the other tractors and 12 months later wish you had bought the cub.

Good luck.

Well said.

I just Just took a look at the 3100 on cubs web site.
List price on it there is $4899 so $4100 for a 3100 is a steal.
800 bucks is a darn good rake off

 

[LBrown59]

*Current Cubs are not near as good as when IH was building them years ago.
Case closed...your funny duc

*This may or may not be correct.

However to debate this sorta clouds the issue of which tractor on the mans list is the best value per dollar spent.
Really what CC built in the past don't even enter into the equation any more than what the other brands produced back then.
Yesterday is yesterday let it go for what we must deal with now is today.
I can see your bitter about your CC experience - can't say as I blame you however not all Cubs are bad just as not all JDs are good.
I have 2 tractors Both built by MTD one is a PowerCraft and the other a CC GT2554.
Even a dummy like me can tell there is a word of difference between them and all MTDs are not alike.

 

[Mike5252]

A couple points.

1. You should have no trouble with warranty work. I had a cub I purchased from a dealer in NY, but my local dealer in OH was more than happy to perform warranty work on it the one occasion I needed it. Once the warranty gets registered w/ CC the dealer s/b indifferent. There will be those that will say dealers will only want to service their own equipment, but from my experience that simply isn't the case.

2. The 3000 series tractor has been around since the late 1990's. It is as tried and true as it gets. Any experiences others may have had w/ other CC models (think 5000 series or the newer 1000 series) isn't that analagous.

3. Hard loves to trash cubs just about as much as Duc and I love to disagree w/ him (which is a little funny in that we all currently have JD 2320/2520's). At the end of the day you should get the GT that makes the most sense for you.

Hard, what's up w/ your avatar? Do you actually have one of those things? Where in the world do you park it when you go somewhere?

 

[thingy]

I would get number 4 or number 9,[cause they are the cheapest],and they have as good a motor as any. Maybe after 4-5 years,the rest of the money will have drawed enough interest to buy another one,and you'll have a spare,,,thingy

 

[LBrown59]

I would get number 4 or number 9,[cause they are the cheapest],and they have as good a motor as any. Maybe after 4-5 years,the rest of the money will have drawed enough interest to buy another one,and you'll have a spare,,,thingy

Ifin he does that he'll need the replacement in 4 or 5 years.
He won't have a spare.
He'll have a parts tractor.

 

[Hard]

A couple points.

1. You should have no trouble with warranty work. I had a cub I purchased from a dealer in NY, but my local dealer in OH was more than happy to perform warranty work on it the one occasion I needed it. Once the warranty gets registered w/ CC the dealer s/b indifferent. There will be those that will say dealers will only want to service their own equipment, but from my experience that simply isn't the case.

2. The 3000 series tractor has been around since the late 1990's. It is as tried and true as it gets. Any experiences others may have had w/ other CC models (think 5000 series or the newer 1000 series) isn't that analagous.

3. Hard loves to trash cubs just about as much as Duc and I love to disagree w/ him (which is a little funny in that we all currently have JD 2320/2520's). At the end of the day you should get the GT that makes the most sense for you.

Hard, what's up w/ your avatar? Do you actually have one of those things? Where in the world do you park it when you go somewhere?

Mike5252...At the end of the day, we(you , me and duc) know what the deal is...we all have green.

Regarding the Cub's, the 60" mower deck on my 5234D was fantastic, beautiful cut everytime. I hope Yanmar builds Cub a real nice SUB-CUT and some high quality CUTs without cutting corners that I'm sure MTD will at least suggest that they do. I would then consider another Cub. I had a great Cub dealer, he did everything he possibly could for me. And he had to do a lot.

 

[bontai_Joe]

I have 5 tractors in the herd right now and 3 of them are Deere... for the money you want to spend, and if you can get the Cub Cadet 3000 series for $4100, that's the deal I'd go for based on your requirements (no tilling, no snow removal). As to warantee work, does the local dealer know you by face? If not, tell him after you buy it from the other guy that you just moved into the area and ask will he service the tractor for you for warantee work. Most likey, there won't be any warantee work needed anyway on a new machine. All the manufacturers get the majority of what they build "right" before it leaves the factory, if they didn't they would quickly get a reputation for building mass amounts of junk and go out of business (think Yugo cars).

 

[LBrown59]

I have 5 tractors in the herd right now and 3 of them are Deere... for the money you want to spend, and if you can get the Cub Cadet 3000 series for $4100, that's the deal I'd go for based on your requirements (no tilling, no snow removal). As to warantee work, does the local dealer know you by face? If not, tell him after you buy it from the other guy that you just moved into the area and ask will he service the tractor for you for warantee work. Most likey, there won't be any warantee work needed anyway on a new machine. All the manufacturers get the majority of what they build "right" before it leaves the factory, if they didn't they would quickly get a reputation for building mass amounts of junk and go out of business (think Yugo cars).

I just got back from my cub cadet dealer and was telling him about the 4100 dollar 3150 deal.
He said that's a steal and the guy better latch onto it before somebody else beats him to it.