Front End Loader... Do you realy need it?

Anonymous Poster · Jan 12, 2002

If you can afford it get a 4-n-1 bucket on that front end. You will be glad you did. My front end with the 4-n-1 was $4500.

Good luck

rbargeron · Jan 13, 2002

Once you have one, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it. Every time you use it, you'll get an idea of something else it'll do.

Get the 4300 now. Wait maybe 2 years and get the loader - it'll seem more feasible then. In the meantime do some looking around - you could stumble across a deal.

gerard · Jan 13, 2002

Guess I could have made 9 trips and hand carried these 400 feet through the snow but this sure was a lot easier. Course it would have been a LOT easier if Harv had let me use his forks!!! Whadda ya say Harv, I have to move these back in the spring, seems like a perfect job for your bucket forks /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

gerard · Jan 13, 2002

Same here - didn't NEED it, but it sure beat a wheelbarrow! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

s1120 · Jan 13, 2002

Looks like you got a big load there. You forgot to say the FEL works well for picking up old rusty farm equiptment./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

PS those bars came off the truck a LOT harder then they went on. Wish I had a FEL that time.

Thomas · Jan 13, 2002

Hope you didn't have to tight corners to make, /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif for there a bucket full. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

Harv · Jan 13, 2002

<font color=blue>Whadda ya say Harv, ... seems like a perfect job for your bucket forks</font color=blue>

No problem, Gerard, just swing on by and borrow them any time. Shouldn't add more than a few days to your task.

gerard · Jan 13, 2002

lets see, 3000 miles, 13 mph, 8 hours sleep and eating per day, thats about 208 miles per day........ See you in around Feb 1. Can you have them ready to put on so I don't waste a lot of time?? Oh and maybe you can point me to the dealer nearest you so I can get a new set of tires for the trip back /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif. On second thought maybe using a couple of tie down straps ISN'T such a bad idea.............

frank_f15 · Jan 13, 2002

just to add my two cents, i would not ever think of a tractor without fel, but that is me and my needs. if at al possible go for it. post pics. when u get it!!!!

duanet · Jan 13, 2002

I just scanned this thread and didn't see the use for the FEL that was an absolute necessity for me at least four times in the two months I've had my JD4100 - "walking" myself with the FEL out of a buried in mud situation. Of course I probably wouldn't have been stuck a couple of those times if I wasn't digging in the mud with the FEL /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif!

When I got my 4100, I sold my Ford 9N and several heavier attachments I didn't use. I gently lifted a 2-bottom plow, cultivators and a couple of other things into the buyer's pick-up using a chain as a sling. You are only limited by your imagination as to what you can do with the FEL. I sure wouldn't have a tractor without one now.

Duane