Hi all, new member here.
I'm purchasing a new property and looking forward to some new tools to help me maintain it. It's 2.6 acres of wooded hill, with a 550' paved driveway. I'm in northeastern MA, so 2' of heavy, wet snow are a regular event.
There's also a small drainage/retention pond on the property, which my wife expects to become a neighborhood skating rink. A monster snowblower and serious traction seem to be in order.
I expect to use the bucket/grapple for mulch and debris, and I plan to build modular firewood racks to allow me to move firewood from the property edge to the back door. I'd like to move those with either an attachment for the bucket or pallet forks off of the three point hitch.
I've watched about 3/4 of the entire YouTube library featuring ventrac machines and was pretty well set on finding a nice used Ventrac 4500 or Steiner 450.
However, this morning I woke up to an add for used 2016 3400L
100 hours & looks like it was stored indoors
snowblower
bucket with grapple
"dozer blade"
stump grinder
They're asking $13.5K.
I have done zero research on the 3000 series, is this the screaming deal it appears to be? Perhaps even too good to be true?
Particularly with respect to traction and hydraulic power/flow, would I be giving up much with this machine as opposed to a 4500/450. I definitely expect to be using the bucket to it's fullest capacity.
Really appreciate any insight and looking forward to joining the community at some point
I'm purchasing a new property and looking forward to some new tools to help me maintain it. It's 2.6 acres of wooded hill, with a 550' paved driveway. I'm in northeastern MA, so 2' of heavy, wet snow are a regular event.
There's also a small drainage/retention pond on the property, which my wife expects to become a neighborhood skating rink. A monster snowblower and serious traction seem to be in order.
I expect to use the bucket/grapple for mulch and debris, and I plan to build modular firewood racks to allow me to move firewood from the property edge to the back door. I'd like to move those with either an attachment for the bucket or pallet forks off of the three point hitch.
I've watched about 3/4 of the entire YouTube library featuring ventrac machines and was pretty well set on finding a nice used Ventrac 4500 or Steiner 450.
However, this morning I woke up to an add for used 2016 3400L
100 hours & looks like it was stored indoors
snowblower
bucket with grapple
"dozer blade"
stump grinder
They're asking $13.5K.
I have done zero research on the 3000 series, is this the screaming deal it appears to be? Perhaps even too good to be true?
Particularly with respect to traction and hydraulic power/flow, would I be giving up much with this machine as opposed to a 4500/450. I definitely expect to be using the bucket to it's fullest capacity.
Really appreciate any insight and looking forward to joining the community at some point