Why so few BIG Kubotas on used market?

[ace10]

First time poster, long time lurker....


I'm shopping for a utility sized MFWD cabbed tractor. Newer. We have only two tractor dealers in my close-by area. I'm not getting the warm and fuzzies about the JD dealer's future, so that leave the Kubie/Case dealer. I like the road service guy for Kubota, so I'm leaning in that direction.

With all that said, why are there so precious few big Kubies out there? I know that JD outsells that many to one on the new market, but I seem to see 20 or 30 to 1 in the 70-95 HP range second hand. I'm looking on all the websites and I'm not ruling out anything within 1200-1500 miles away.

I'm pretty sweet on an lightly-used M95S that I found, but the comparable sales aren't plentiful enough for me to be comfortable in working up a price. And it seems that the MXXXX's are priced right on top of the few M95's that are out there.

What gives? Did/does Kubota just not sell may of these larger tractors?

 

[bigbull338]

i picked my kubotas dealers machanic brain about the samething.an he told me that kubotas are so good an prob free that once their sold very few are traded in.ive found very few used 9540 kubs for sale.

 

[timswi]

i picked my kubotas dealers machanic brain about the samething.an he told me that kubotas are so good an prob free that once their sold very few are traded in.ive found very few used 9540 kubs for sale.

I found that to be true across the board..Very few Kubota's come up for sale. Just mentioning that you want to sell a good one will get the word of mouth thing going.

 

[Egon]

The larger sized Kubota's have not been in production for that long have they?

 

[Couple of Achers]

I have been looking for a larger used Kubota for over 2 years now and they are as rare as hens teeth. Larger tractors are "typically" bought for ag purposes and once bought, they are used for many many years. Since larger Kubota's have not been manufactured for very long, compared to the other color tractors, the used market for larger Kubota's has very few in the pipe line. It will take many years yet before there are any significant number of used ones available. And they may never reach the numbers available of the other brands. But it doesn't keep me from searching. If you haven't done so yet, let your local dealer know that you are looking for one. They are aware of potention trade-ins long before they are actually traded in.

 

[timswi]

In this part of the counrty, the only Kubota's I've seen for sale are either overpriced or destroyed. Size doesn't even matter. Someone always hears about the good ones and they never make it to advertising.

The suggestion to check with a dealer about up coming trades is a good one. These purchases are almost never impulse and can take weeks or months to develop.

Put the word out as well..If someone is thinking about selling, you'd be surprised how quickly the word can make to them...

 

[TripleR]

Our Kubota M8540 will never be for sale as has been mentioned people tend to keep them as long as they are reliable and that is a loooong time. I have never seen any M Series for sale in my area and like to look on the lots even though I am not in the market.

I will probably sell or trade my L5030 in at some point to get a little more head room and the HST Plus Transmission, but maybe not. If I do, it will be pretty well worn by then and probably won't stay on the lot long even then and it is not large tractor like the M Series.

 

[crazyal]

It's very simple. For every one big Kubota that's too big for what the user wants there's 20 to 30 smaller Kubota's bought that were too small or the buyer realized how much fun, I mean work the small tractor could do and figured that so much more work could be done with a bigger tractor. :laughing:

My guess is that Kubota sells a lot more smaller tractors. For every farmer out there who buys a large Kubota there's probably 10 people who buy a BX, another 5 to 10 who buy a B, and another 5 to 10 who buy a L. It's probably true with most brands.

 

[newbury]

Did you check Barlow's and Messicks?

 

[Grandad4]

I'm just going to speculate a little here, since I've wondered about the same thing.

Just as Honda and Toyota came into the US with high quality smaller cars instead of luxury cars and pickup trucks, Kubota came in with high quality small tractors instead of big iron for the ag market. They have branched out somewhat with some really great ag utility tractors, but probably figure it would be very tough to build a large market share in the production ag machinery market against the established manufacturers like Deere and others.