3x20 & 4x20 owners - What do you have the dealer do??

[JohnDeere4300]

Do you mean my tractor??

-Jer.

Yes your tractor.

 

[jgrreed]

* I was wanting to ask you something about your tractor last week
but didn't know if i could(PM) you, so i will go ahead and ask.

Do you like it? Does it have a cab with H/A and does it have a backhoe, if it has a BH how long is the reach?

There is a dealer close to me and last week they hauled away 3 tractors on one truck and allot of attachments on another.
i am pretty sure he has several ones like yours, i going to check it out
maybe this week, ( if i can get there, we are under a winter storm warning and maybe 1 to 2 in. of ice) SORRY SO LONG.

Bill

Oh ya, I love it. There's SO MANY things around the acreage that I wouldn't have a hope of accomplishing without it. It's been very reliable. It has great power and is really good on fuel. It's a bit loud, but the earplugs help with that.

No cab, no visor, wide open. Great in summer, not so great in winter!! I will be getting a cab on the next one, but that's many years away.

I don't have a backhoe. I was looking really hard at them a few months ago and I've found that the price is just too much (~11k) to have sitting around most of the time. There's a CAT rental store in town, and for $200 a day I can rent a great minihoe. The Deere 485 is the hoe for the 4x20 series. I looked at the Woods BX-90 too, but it was priced even more ridiculously (~17k including a hydraulic thumb!!) I think they can get ~9 or 10 feet down.

Feel free to ask me any other Q's.

-Jer.

 

[Spudland_Dave]

That sounds like it's from experience...???

-Jer.

Yes....Yes it is from experience. search around for my posts and you'll find it... I dont want to talk about it again...LOL!...

 

[froggy]

I don't have a backhoe. I was looking really hard at them a few months ago and I've found that the price is just too much (~11k) to have sitting around most of the time. There's a CAT rental store in town, and for $200 a day I can rent a great minihoe. The Deere 485 is the hoe for the 4x20 series. I looked at the Woods BX-90 too, but it was priced even more ridiculously (~17k including a hydraulic thumb!!)

-Jer.

That's exactly my problem. Would love a backhoe, but 11K would buy a lot of other implements.

 

[JohnDeere4300]

Oh ya, I love it. There's SO MANY things around the acreage that I wouldn't have a hope of accomplishing without it. It's been very reliable. It has great power and is really good on fuel. It's a bit loud, but the earplugs help with that.

No cab, no visor, wide open. Great in summer, not so great in winter!! I will be getting a cab on the next one, but that's many years away.

I don't have a backhoe. I was looking really hard at them a few months ago and I've found that the price is just too much (~11k) to have sitting around most of the time. There's a CAT rental store in town, and for $200 a day I can rent a great minihoe. The Deere 485 is the hoe for the 4x20 series. I looked at the Woods BX-90 too, but it was priced even more ridiculously (~17k including a hydraulic thumb!!) I think they can get ~9 or 10 feet down.

Feel free to ask me any other Q's.

-Jer.

Thanks for the info.

Bill

 

[jgrreed]

That's exactly my problem. Would love a backhoe, but 11K would buy a lot of other implements.

And about 55 days of renting CAT's nice, shiny, $60k minihoe with the sealed cab and electronic controls!!

I have some holes to dig, but not that many!!

-Jer.

 

[AKfish]

I don't have a backhoe. I was looking really hard at them a few months ago and I've found that the price is just too much (~11k) to have sitting around most of the time. There's a CAT rental store in town, and for $200 a day I can rent a great minihoe. The Deere 485 is the hoe for the 4x20 series. I looked at the Woods BX-90 too, but it was priced even more ridiculously (~17k including a hydraulic thumb!!) I think they can get ~9 or 10 feet down.

Feel free to ask me any other Q's.

-Jer.

Is the 485 hoe necessary for a non-cab 4000 series machine? I thought (both the 448 and the 485 are listed on the JD site) that the 448 is the unit for a non-cab machine...

$11K seems WAY high.. Isn't the MSRP around $8.5K?

This past March-April, when I took delivery of my 110, the hoe option (MSRP) was around $11.8K.

I think I'd be talking to a different dealer or two...

AKfish

 

[froggy]

I believe you are right about the price (8.5-9K) for the JD backhoe. The 10-11K price would be for a Woods BH90X.

 

[jgrreed]

Those were canadian scheckles, so you're right.

448 will work on a non-cab. It was suggested to me that if I do get a hoe to go with a 485. That way if I ever get a cab machine, or if I want to sell just the hoe, it's more re-saleable. Is that a word??

-Jer.

 

[AKfish]

Those were canadian scheckles, so you're right.

448 will work on a non-cab. It was suggested to me that if I do get a hoe to go with a 485. That way if I ever get a cab machine, or if I want to sell just the hoe, it's more re-saleable. Is that a word??

-Jer.

Think so... not sure about "scheckles", though..

Yup, good advice.

AKfish