Used values and what to trade to?

[GreatWhitehunter]

I could definatly sell it for more $$ privatly. I will most likely go that route. A 300cx can only lift around 200LBS more and the dealer wants to give me 1k for the 300x. They want almost 4k for the cx. I can sell my tractor and loader outright and buy a new 3520 or 3720 for around 26k and 29k. I really can't make up my mind. I'm leaning towards doing nothing and adding ports to the 300x for a grapple. Or I may sell my machine with the hoe and other attachments and buy a used 110tlb I've had my eye on. My dealer really wants to sell me the 110. It's a nice machine for sure but the 3320 has done everything asked of it very well. I think the hp junkie addiction is getting out of hand. I even now as I'm typing can't belive my wife is actully right.(though I'll never admit it to her) Good thing she doesn't read TBN.

Matt T.

 

[BloomingtonMike]

I added the hard lines/3rd svc ports to my 300X. It can be done. I have no issues at all with my 300X and have used it with a 72" front snow plow with the hydraulic angling as well as a set of JD pallet forks that I will soon own. I got a huge deal on my 3320 with 36 hours or whatever it had when it arrived. I wanted the 300CX but teh 300X is what was included in the deal. i will not trad for the 300CX however as the 300X has done absolutely everything I could as it to do. I have moved tons of fill and dirt, lifted 1000lb woodworking equipment to install mobile bases, hauled tractor size mounds of limbs and trailers full of firewood. I love my 3320 setup.

Only thing I would trade for is 4320 or 4520 but the hydraulic lift on the MMM is too convienent and I can use it without rockshaft lift.

I am happy. Someday dreaming of a 448!!

First though, pallet forks when my buddy moves to WA and leaves the tractor behind.

 

[canoetrpr]

Greatwhitehunter... you are not the only one that gets bitten by the bug.

A few weeks ago I was thinking that if I had to do it over again, what would I do? I have a Kubota L3400 - just 53 hours - great shape. I realised that if I were doing it over, I probably would spring for a Grand L3540 or a JD 3520 class machine for some of the extras.

The reality is that I don't really need anything more than my current machine. When I enquired on what I would get for a trade, I would get $5500 less than I paid for it for 50 hrs and a year's worth of use! All said and done I'd be paying $10-12K more for a new tractor.

Some of this was driven by fears regarding the L3400's long term reliability. Once I thought about it rationally though none of it made any sense. These are great machines and will likely outlive us. There was no rational reason for me to think that I would not get the reliability I expect out of my machine just because someone else had run into a problem, and so on..

$10-12k was too much to pay for a fancy. I even considered selling my L3400 privately and coming down to the US to pick a new L3540 or JD3520 up. I'd lose a LOT less that way and would gain some by purchasing the new machine at a 20% discount in the US to what they sell here. Decided that again, even the extra $7000 I would need to spend to upgrade with this route was not worth it for me at this point. Plus the 40 series is brand new in Kubota and if I were going to come down to the US to purchase I would not have a warranty here in Canada, so I'd be better off waiting for a few years anyway.... plus its not like my machine is going to depreciate much more with 50 hours of use per year.

The reality is that my neighbours would kill to have a tractor as new and in as great shape as mine... why am I thinking I need more unless I have a very specific use for more???

 

[jimgerken]

Greatwhite: you probably can sell your tractor outright for about 1.5 times what the dealer will give on trade-in. That was my experience. I traded up for more horsepower and more hyd flow, and the 2007 tractor cost less than the 2001 equivalvent cost. In late 2001, I settled for a JD 4100, even though I liked the looks of the extra power and flow of the 4115, which was brand new and then cost four thousand more than the 4100. Now this year, I bought the jd 2520 for several thousand less than the 4115 would have cost me in 2001. The 2520 is approx the same tractor as the 4115 was. Then throw in JD's interest-free financing (on thru end of July), and you gotta go for it.