kubota longevity

[Kodiak]

Most rental yards lease there machinery unless they go ahead and purchase that item at the end of the lease. Seldom will you find a rental unit with over 500 hours on it.

Same with a lot of nursery and orchard owners. Most of the manufacturers offer special lease programs. I know that here in Washington. The local John Deere dealer has low hour program return tractors for sale. They told me that the stipulations of the lease included, hours could not go over 350, and they can't use the PTO for anything. Basicly they are pulling carts or loader work. Local dealer then gives them a complete service, fixes anything that needs it including cosmetics and installs a new loader if it wasn't equipped with one, before putting it on the sale line.
I beleive Kubota offers a simular program. This provides a good incentives as the operators of these businesses don't have worry about such a large cash outlay and they can constantly replace their equipment. Unfortunately some of those rental units that weir abused make it out into yhe public and you don't always know which ones they are.

 

[BrianA]

If well maintained 900 hours is just getting started!

 

[Buster57]

The Pagoda program is the John Deere program you are discussing. If you want a tractor that meets the specification that the large vineyards, typically in California, use then you are in like Flint. Sometimes they have weird specifications-like manual trans only with no FEL. However, if it is the tractor you want, it is a great program. You should be in touch with you local dealer to reserve one ahead of time if possible-they sell like hotcakes! I am unaware of Kubota having a similar program and if they do it is not on such a large scale. Also-shop the heck out of Pagoda program tractors. I Oregon the Fi_ _ _ _ Company charged almost full price on the Pagoda returns while a dealer in Roseburg gave a huge(~20%) discount.
I looked into this program very hard but could not handle the stigma attached to the 4300. If it were a 4310 I would have bought it. They all come with warranties and are basically demos. All in really great shape.

Relating to rental returns, renters have no clue what they are renting in CUTs. We are talking serious abuse. They(rental yards) can then turn them in at 4 years or 800 hours, used tractor dealer gives it a paint job and sells them to an unsuspecting public that is going to get a bad surprise. It happened to me on my JD 318. A new Onan engine and $2000 later and I tell everyone stay as far away from rental returns as possible. You may have better luck, take your own chances…