Now Martian did it!

[AKfish]

Don't quote me on this, but I believe all you need is kit that snaps on to the old and makes it the QA, and I believe you can get another one of these 'converters' to work backwards with the std bucket to the QA.

Gotta buy the linkage from Deere. Replace the pin-on linkage. "Course the bucket is a no-go... and you'll have to buy another hoe bucket in a QA configuration!

IIRC - it was kinda spendy - another $1,400 or so, including a new bucket.

AKfish

 

[Martian]

Gotta buy the linkage from Deere. Replace the pin-on linkage. "Course the bucket is a no-go... and you'll have to buy another hoe bucket in a QA configuration!

IIRC - it was kinda spendy - another $1,400 or so, including a new bucket.

AKfish

I said not to quote me!

That for sure is another reason to ask for a lower price than $22k. Between that and a thumb your looking at another easy couple thousand dollars.

 

[jenkinsph]

A year or so back I bought the quick adaptor for my backhoe, one piece that pins in place using the existing ones. Just north of $300 IIRC. Buckets aren't cheap and are the main items to jack up the cost.

 

[AKfish]

A year or so back I bought the quick adaptor for my backhoe, one piece that pins in place using the existing ones. Just north of $300 IIRC. Buckets aren't cheap and are the main items to jack up the cost.

I was trying to remember what the QA cost and the bucket... I upgraded to the HD 20". So, couldn't remember how that split out, cost-wise.

AKfish

 

[AKfish]

I said not to quote me!

That for sure is another reason to ask for a lower price than $22k. Between that and a thumb your looking at another easy couple thousand dollars.

Probably inch up real close to $3k.. I wasn't trying to hold your feet to it! Just really thinkin' out loud - trying to recall what that upgrade cost!

AKfish

 

[GreatWhitehunter]

The guy selling it isn't the original owner. He and his FIL buy them and resell. They don't do anything to them. I really doubt the guys going to move much on the price. I'm gonna keep looking but the next closet one is a decent drive. I guess the thumb isn't a deal breaker. I'd always be able to add it. If it wasn't for all the scv's I would cross this one off the list.

Matt

 

[Martian]

Probably inch up real close to $3k.. I wasn't trying to hold your feet to it! Just really thinkin' out loud - trying to recall what that upgrade cost!

AKfish

I was just kidding. You know better than me on what this stuff is new. I just remembered where I saw that bucket converter stuff. It's in that same brochure that was way off on the bucket weights. I attached two pages (the entire thing is .1kb too much to upload) where it shows the converts. They don't have one for the bucket, but they do have one for both the pin on to quick and quick to pin on. Maybe even with these bucket converters you can't use a thumb and have to swap the entire connection unit I don't know.

The guy selling it isn't the original owner. He and his FIL buy them and resell. They don't do anything to them. I really doubt the guys going to move much on the price. I'm gonna keep looking but the next closet one is a decent drive. I guess the thumb isn't a deal breaker. I'd always be able to add it. If it wasn't for all the scv's I would cross this one off the list.
Matt

I would keep it on the list and keep looking. If it were in better shape and/or willing to bargain more. I don't know what your plans are, but I'm going to be taking up and moving a lot of trees. I've taken one up at my place and two that at my neighbors and it would have been substantially more difficult without the thumb. A couple were just little shrubs and I was simply able to pluck them without even touching the ground. At $25k now, to make it $28k with a thumb, there's better deals. Now if you could get him down to $20k-$22k and make it $25k with the thumb, your getting a much better deal IMO.

 

[GreatWhitehunter]

My biggest issue is being tractorless for a while. I should have thought about selling mine over the winter since I don't use it much then. But of course the market is softer then also. With spring fast approaching I really can't afford to be without a machine. I've gotten by without a thumb so I know I can live without it and just add it later. I'm going to price a replacement hood,fender and timing bar and go from there.

I've found another one at a Deere industrail dealer close by and it's cherry but I feel over priced. Instead of the deere qa bucket (on the hoe) it's all Wain-roy. So not sure how that'd work with the thumb.

The 110 seems kind of large to be in the woods with, I've got some hunting/vaca land that I'm planning on improving so the 110 would shine there but it I still feel the 3320 is alot better fit around my house. Since I can't keep both I guess I just gotta go with it.

I'm struggling to price out my 3320 and attachments at this point also.
The machine is garaged and in very good condition, has 448 hoe, 4in1 bucket,root grapple,rock bucket,snow plow, box blade, 60 brush bull, pallet forks and I could be talked into selling my harley rake. I'm thinking 26K seems like a fair place to start. Only 365 hrs, I've looked a the local dealers and feel like I'm a fair bit lower than they are.

Thoughts?

Matt

 

[Martian]

My biggest issue is being tractorless for a while. I should have thought about selling mine over the winter since I don't use it much then. But of course the market is softer then also. With spring fast approaching I really can't afford to be without a machine. I've gotten by without a thumb so I know I can live without it and just add it later. I'm going to price a replacement hood,fender and timing bar and go from there.

I've found another one at a Deere industrail dealer close by and it's cherry but I feel over priced. Instead of the deere qa bucket (on the hoe) it's all Wain-roy. So not sure how that'd work with the thumb.

The 110 seems kind of large to be in the woods with, I've got some hunting/vaca land that I'm planning on improving so the 110 would shine there but it I still feel the 3320 is alot better fit around my house. Since I can't keep both I guess I just gotta go with it.

I'm struggling to price out my 3320 and attachments at this point also.
The machine is garaged and in very good condition, has 448 hoe, 4in1 bucket,root grapple,rock bucket,snow plow, box blade, 60 brush bull, pallet forks and I could be talked into selling my harley rake. I'm thinking 26K seems like a fair place to start. Only 365 hrs, I've looked a the local dealers and feel like I'm a fair bit lower than they are.

Thoughts?

Matt

All of your 'goodies' are definitely worth quite a bit of money. The problem I see is, if your buyer doesn't want the extras, it's priced higher than the rest. Not often you see a dealer selling a machine with all the extra's like that, unless it's made specifically for that machine and that machine only. They get more profit out of selling everything separate. To the right buyer, though, that machine is worth thousands more than a comparable 3320. I'm working on selling my 3120 to my neighbor, then if I ever need it again, I can have it for a while. Looking at Used Tractors For Sale at TractorHouse.com: John Deere Tractors, used farm tractors and farm equipment, tractors for sale, Case IH, New Holland, Agco, Kubota I think that you could sell it for that amount, but you may want to consider selling the tractor with loader and backhoe at a lower price with option to buy the attachments separate and if they don't sell, take them to a dealer and trade in for larger attachments. My $.02.

 

[GreatWhitehunter]

All of your 'goodies' are definitely worth quite a bit of money. The problem I see is, if your buyer doesn't want the extras, it's priced higher than the rest. Not often you see a dealer selling a machine with all the extra's like that, unless it's made specifically for that machine and that machine only. They get more profit out of selling everything separate. To the right buyer, though, that machine is worth thousands more than a comparable 3320. I'm working on selling my 3120 to my neighbor, then if I ever need it again, I can have it for a while. Looking at Used Tractors For Sale at TractorHouse.com: John Deere Tractors, used farm tractors and farm equipment, tractors for sale, Case IH, New Holland, Agco, Kubota I think that you could sell it for that amount, but you may want to consider selling the tractor with loader and backhoe at a lower price with option to buy the attachments separate and if they don't sell, take them to a dealer and trade in for larger attachments. My $.02.

I would definatly benefit from selling it separately. My only issue is with hadling of the attachments. If the tractor goes first I'll have no way to move the other items.

Matt