L Series owners

[FatTire]

Not a great picture, but I just replaced my BX-2370 with a new L3901. I'm not overly excited about having a final tier 4 machine, but odds are it'll be fine.
For a basic little tractor, I think it's pretty nice. I'm hooking my chipper up to it this weekend and we will see how it does.

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I bet when you firing it up inside you will like the Tier 4. We had to idle a diesel pickup with DEF and all that stuff inside my shop for a few minutes, it is almost unbelievable how clean they are.

 

[TripleR]

Found a L5740 built in 2011 with only 107 hours in Wisconsin (Value Implements -- I can now verify they are honest, tractor was exactly as they represented). I had them add the 3rd function valve and backhoe subframe, it already had rear lights, rear wiper & defrost, feels like a pretty good set up for winter. Just arrived today.
Unfortunately I broke my ankle (fibula) on Sunday so I can't do much, I don't see how I can even mount tire chains right now. I got the snowblower with it. With my current set up I sometimes get over to a neighbor's place and discover they have a stretch or two of deep drift, I have to decide whether or not to come home and get the mog or just spend the time to plow it. Usually I just plow it. I want to see if the 3pt blower can handle some of that, where I might plow 80% of a driveway and blow the rest. Anyhow, looking forward to plowing snow early in the morning, I've been waiting for sun whenever I could afford to.

The one thing I don't like too much is the seat. I think even the MX5100's seat is more comfortable than this one.
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I feel your pain, I had to spring for a Grammar air ride for mine; expensive, but worth it to me.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Not a great picture, but I just replaced my BX-2370 with a new L3901. I'm not overly excited about having a final tier 4 machine, but odds are it'll be fine.
For a basic little tractor, I think it's pretty nice. I'm hooking my chipper up to it this weekend and we will see how it does.

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Quite a leap up in size. It will be like a whole new world to you. Been the BX route with several of them. Great for what they are. I just traded a B2650 to an L3901 and quite a difference going thru the woods running over 2" to 4" 20' tall saplings between the two machines. The B would have stuttered and eventually stopped where the L just goes thru them like they are not there and knocking them down. Weight matters!
My nephew is in the market for a chipper and wants any info he can get from hands on experienced users about brand, price, size, reliability and what to look for in purchasing. Appreciate any feedback you'll provide.

 

[The Deerslayer]

Not a great picture, but I just replaced my BX-2370 with a new L3901. I'm not overly excited about having a final tier 4 machine, but odds are it'll be fine.
For a basic little tractor, I think it's pretty nice. I'm hooking my chipper up to it this weekend and we will see how it does.

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Congrats!!:thumbsup: I have the same model and suspect you will be impressed. My chipper worked great on my older tractor, but with the increased PTO HP on the L3901, it is a significant bump in performance.

 

[TheMadOne]

Not a great picture, but I just replaced my BX-2370 with a new L3901. I'm not overly excited about having a final tier 4 machine, but odds are it'll be fine.
For a basic little tractor, I think it's pretty nice. I'm hooking my chipper up to it this weekend and we will see how it does.

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I think the final tier IV is pretty well sorted at this point. I've not seen many horror stories, and the few that crop up seem to be occurring at about the same rate as the ones about having to split a newish tractor. Nothing's perfect, and there's bound to be a few lemons in any production, but I'd think with all the Tier IV machines represented on this forum that if there was an actual fault in the engineering we'd have seen it by now.

 

[Boeing]

Thought I'd join this discussion. I bought my used 2000 L3010 in 2009. 385 hours on it then, only 570 now. I do PREventative maint,
oil, hyd, air, fuel filters etc. Only had one problem and it was my fault. Trying to cut a path thru woods pushing over saplings and dragging the old bush hog behind me. One of the saplings bent the steel hyd tube under the tractor causing a slow drip. I keep the tractor in my garage on a concrete floor and saw the leakage. That tube is a BI--H to replace...it is a low pressure supply and only has an O ring but is formed in a 90 degree "L". The tube slips into a hole forward and into a hole in the side of the hyd unit to the rear. It took a rubber mallet and a ratchet strap to make it go in. That's what I get from making a tractor do a bulldozers job...:laughing: It has been a wonderful tractor though doing hundreds of things that it was never designed to do. Uses very little fuel... I have more fun on it than I had in 40 years of flying.

If I were going to write a critique I would mention that it is light in the butt. This is corrected by carrying something on the 3pt hitch. The next comment would be concerning the weight that the FEL can lift. It is maxed at 1,000#. The bucket weighs approx 250 which leaves only 750# usable. I have found this to be very close to correct as I use 275gal. water tanks for my water. The front end loader WILL NOT lift a tank over 1/3 full. That would be roughly 90 gallons...8lb per gallon=720lbs. Even then I have to have a box scraper on the rear of the tractor it will lift the rear FAST... giving a "very unusual view".

 

[bdhsfz6]

Thought I'd join this discussion. I bought my used 2000 L3010 in 2009. 385 hours on it then, only 570 now. I do PREventative maint,
oil, hyd, air, fuel filters etc. Only had one problem and it was my fault. Trying to cut a path thru woods pushing over saplings and dragging the old bush hog behind me. One of the saplings bent the steel hyd tube under the tractor causing a slow drip. I keep the tractor in my garage on a concrete floor and saw the leakage. That tube is a BI--H to replace...it is a low pressure supply and only has an O ring but is formed in a 90 degree "L". The tube slips into a hole forward and into a hole in the side of the hyd unit to the rear. It took a rubber mallet and a ratchet strap to make it go in. That's what I get from making a tractor do a bulldozers job...:laughing: It has been a wonderful tractor though doing hundreds of things that it was never designed to do. Uses very little fuel... I have more fun on it than I had in 40 years of flying.

If I were going to write a critique I would mention that it is light in the butt. This is corrected by carrying something on the 3pt hitch. The next comment would be concerning the weight that the FEL can lift. It is maxed at 1,000#. The bucket weighs approx 250 which leaves only 750# usable. I have found this to be very close to correct as I use 275gal. water tanks for my water. The front end loader WILL NOT lift a tank over 1/3 full. That would be roughly 90 gallons...8lb per gallon=720lbs. Even then I have to have a box scraper on the rear of the tractor it will lift the rear FAST... giving a "very unusual view".

I agree with your observations on the L3010. The relatively light lift ability of the LA481 FEL was a bit of a disappointment to me as well. It was the main reason I traded it for a L3430 after only a year. The LA723 FEL on the L3430 boosted the lift capacity by 50%. I'm not sure why there is that much difference since the two tractors are similar in size and HP. It could be because the 3430 weighs 500# more though.

 

[Soldier415]

Brought home a newer L3430HSTC last week. Now selling my 2001 L3010

 

[Johnnyg1200]

I was looking at the tractors at the dealer. I didn't like all the new emissions garbage on the new ones. I work as a fleet diesel mechanic and 80% our failures are EGR, DPF or urea related. Cummins needs to set up a annex in our shop for all the warranty work they are here doing. I did't really want to deal with that stuff all day at work and then come home to it on my tractor. Most of the work I do with the tractor is not compatible with the regen cycle. I do quick work with the exception of brush hogging. I only do that about three times a year. The dealer found me a 2010 L3700 with 350 hours on it. So far I could not be happier with it. In fact I don't think you could give me a newer one.

 

[aeblank]

I bought a used one for just that reason, too.