New Member-Questions About CK20HST

[JSR LLS]

Hello Everyone,
I have been taking everything in on this website for awhile in preparation of a purchase. The info here is great. My uncle has found a used(1-1/2 yr. old) CK20HST at his Kioti dealer (about 2 hours away from me) with 52 hours on it. It is just the tractor with turf tires and the dealer will extend the warranty one year from when it expires in November. It was traded for a larger tractor. Asking price $9000. Should I jump on it or not? My primary uses will be pulling a 5' RFM and tiller of undetermined width and maybe occasionally pulling my neighbors 4' brush hog. There is one sticking point. I really want to get a front mounted snowblower for our paved 300'-350' driveway as my plow truck is about ready to rust to obliteration. However I'm finding only blowers for the 3PH, I'm not real crazy about spending that much time looking over my shoulder. Is this true? The Kioti dealer nearest me sells an Erskine(sp?) front mounted blower for $6100, but that is crazy. Anyones thoughts or comments would be much appreciated.

 

[wallace]

You can get a blower for the front of your Kioti.
A Kioti dealer in Canada manufactured one for the CK20.

 

[Dmace]

If you don't need a front end loader, that sounds like a pretty good deal. That is very low hours, I had 50 hours within a month of purchase.

If you want a front mount blower, Alcan has a front mount blower that attaches to the rear pto via a driveshaft. Although, I have no problem using a rear mount blower, I just turn and sit kind of sideways on the seat and it usually takes me about 2 hours to clean my driveway.

The CK20 is a great machine, you won't be disappointed.