I've pretty much decided on a JD 4310 tractor with e-hydro and a 430 fel. One of my local dealers is willing to sell it for $18,385. Is this a fair price? Do I need the 430 or will a 420 which is $635 cheaper do the trick for light dirt work and pushing brush?
Price Check 4310 pricing
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dltimmons
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I looked at new 4310s' for quite a while, just couldn't quite squeeze up enough justification to buy new. My list was the same as yours, 430 loader, E hydro, but with the R-4 tires and a 48 backhoe.
Best price I found was right at 26K.
Then I came across a used one, 3 months old with 24 hours, but, it had the 420 loader, Power Reverser, 47 backhoe, and the large 6 ply R-1 tires. Even came with a 16' steel bed trailer, chains, locks, saved about 6K buying this one.
The 420 loader works very well. it will accept the same attachments as the 430. It has done everything I have asked of it so far. That being said, I still stopped by the dealer last week and asked him to call me if he got a used rig in with a 430 on it. I would like to upgrade. The 430 has higher reach, picks up more weight, and is built a fair amount stronger overall.
If you are just doing lighter type work, the 420 will probably do all you need. But for $635.00 more, I would get the bigger loader. You'll get it back when/if you sell, and as a percentage of the total price, it really isn't that much.
Don't know where you live, but if your with in 500 miles of me, and want the 420 loader, go ahead and get the 430, I'll bring you my 420 (still in great shape) and $800.00 to trade.
Good luck with the new tractor,
DT
Best price I found was right at 26K.
Then I came across a used one, 3 months old with 24 hours, but, it had the 420 loader, Power Reverser, 47 backhoe, and the large 6 ply R-1 tires. Even came with a 16' steel bed trailer, chains, locks, saved about 6K buying this one.
The 420 loader works very well. it will accept the same attachments as the 430. It has done everything I have asked of it so far. That being said, I still stopped by the dealer last week and asked him to call me if he got a used rig in with a 430 on it. I would like to upgrade. The 430 has higher reach, picks up more weight, and is built a fair amount stronger overall.
If you are just doing lighter type work, the 420 will probably do all you need. But for $635.00 more, I would get the bigger loader. You'll get it back when/if you sell, and as a percentage of the total price, it really isn't that much.
Don't know where you live, but if your with in 500 miles of me, and want the 420 loader, go ahead and get the 430, I'll bring you my 420 (still in great shape) and $800.00 to trade.
Good luck with the new tractor,
DT
rockyridgefarm
Elite Member
Price is good. Get the 430!
cedarman
Bronze Member
I just bought the same setup, you can see my "Color Me Green" post last week for the specs. Paid $20,800 but have the 60"mmm which is probably another $2100+ so your price looks good. I'm in SW MO so if you give a location others will chime in close to you.
rockyridgefarm
Elite Member
Cedarman that seems like a good price for the mmm...
Personally I’d spend the extra $$ - but one other thing to think about is the bucket. I opted for the heavy duty 61” bucket – I actually got my dealer to upgrade it with a replaceable cutting edge as part of the price. Right now I have both buckets, and when I’m working heavy gnarly land clearing kind of stuff I see a big difference between the strength and rigidity of the two buckets. If you’re not going to be doing anything like that then I would think the regular bucket is fine.
cedarman
Bronze Member
Yea, Mike, the hard quote was $2,115 for the 60" 7iron mmm. They said to add $500 for a bump up to 72"mmm.
Thanks for the reinforcement everyone. This sure seems to be the friendliest forum on the web. I am just now recovering from a costly mistake in that I bought a grey market Yanmar (You know the ones that are totally "refurbished").
It lasted about a month before a pushrod broke and went through the cam and injector pump. So now I'm trying to get some of my money back from the dealer. He does seem to be working with me and was genuinely upset about the whole thing. But I would never recommend that route to anyone.
It lasted about a month before a pushrod broke and went through the cam and injector pump. So now I'm trying to get some of my money back from the dealer. He does seem to be working with me and was genuinely upset about the whole thing. But I would never recommend that route to anyone.
