Front End Loader... Do you realy need it?

/ Front End Loader... Do you realy need it?
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If you can afford it get a 4-n-1 bucket on that front end. You will be glad you did. My front end with the 4-n-1 was $4500.

Good luck
 
/ Front End Loader... Do you realy need it? #22  
Once you have one, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it. Every time you use it, you'll get an idea of something else it'll do.

Get the 4300 now. Wait maybe 2 years and get the loader - it'll seem more feasible then. In the meantime do some looking around - you could stumble across a deal.
 
/ Front End Loader... Do you realy need it? #23  
Guess I could have made 9 trips and hand carried these 400 feet through the snow but this sure was a lot easier. Course it would have been a LOT easier if Harv had let me use his forks!!! Whadda ya say Harv, I have to move these back in the spring, seems like a perfect job for your bucket forks /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
 

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/ Front End Loader... Do you realy need it? #24  
Same here - didn't NEED it, but it sure beat a wheelbarrow! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
 

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/ Front End Loader... Do you realy need it? #25  
Looks like you got a big load there. You forgot to say the FEL works well for picking up old rusty farm equiptment./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

PS those bars came off the truck a LOT harder then they went on. Wish I had a FEL that time.
 
/ Front End Loader... Do you realy need it? #26  
Hope you didn't have to tight corners to make, /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif for there a bucket full. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif
 
/ Front End Loader... Do you realy need it? #27  
<font color=blue>Whadda ya say Harv, ... seems like a perfect job for your bucket forks</font color=blue>

No problem, Gerard, just swing on by and borrow them any time. Shouldn't add more than a few days to your task.
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/ Front End Loader... Do you realy need it? #28  
lets see, 3000 miles, 13 mph, 8 hours sleep and eating per day, thats about 208 miles per day........ See you in around Feb 1. Can you have them ready to put on so I don't waste a lot of time?? Oh and maybe you can point me to the dealer nearest you so I can get a new set of tires for the trip back /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif. On second thought maybe using a couple of tie down straps ISN'T such a bad idea.............
 
/ Front End Loader... Do you realy need it? #29  
just to add my two cents, i would not ever think of a tractor without fel, but that is me and my needs. if at al possible go for it. post pics. when u get it!!!!
 
/ Front End Loader... Do you realy need it? #30  
I just scanned this thread and didn't see the use for the FEL that was an absolute necessity for me at least four times in the two months I've had my JD4100 - "walking" myself with the FEL out of a buried in mud situation. Of course I probably wouldn't have been stuck a couple of those times if I wasn't digging in the mud with the FEL /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif!

When I got my 4100, I sold my Ford 9N and several heavier attachments I didn't use. I gently lifted a 2-bottom plow, cultivators and a couple of other things into the buyer's pick-up using a chain as a sling. You are only limited by your imagination as to what you can do with the FEL. I sure wouldn't have a tractor without one now.

Duane
 
/ Front End Loader... Do you realy need it? #31  
I bought my JD 790 tractor back in July without a FEL. I found all kinds of honey-do's that needed to be done, but, I did not have a FEL to complete them with. HMMM, what to do? Can do only so much with a boom pole and a box blade. We purchased 18 acres this past fall and then I really found a need for a FEL, as the honey-do list got MUCH LARGER every time we went out to the property! Talked to the better half about it and thought maybe I would purchase one in the spring. Better half has a hot line directly to Santa Claus, and he brought me one for Christmas! (one of the many reasons she IS the BETTER HALF). Now my honey-do list is getting smaller, but I keep adding to my list of things that need to be done with the FEL.
This is a small list of things I use my FEL for:

Moving skids of ARCh building parts around.
Hauling trees and brush from the property.
Moving a 260' long 19th century rock wall that is on the road frontage of our property.
Moving mounds of dirt to a location about 400' away.
Installing culverts.
Moving surface rock.
Moving rolled up balls of old barbed wire.
Cleaning up after the contractor leaves.
Raising people in the FEL to help assemble my arch building. (you saftey conscious people ignore this statement)
Moving Generators and compressors.
Loading implements on the flat bed trailer.

And, the list goes on and on. If I puchase another tractor, I can guarantee it will come with a FEL. It has to be the most useful implement I own.
 
/ Front End Loader... Do you realy need it? #32  
DAVE: amazing what u can find to do with the fel . sounds like u have a keeper in the better half/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif do u let her use it once in awhile?/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif post some pics when u can and welcome to the forum.
 
/ Front End Loader... Do you realy need it? #33  
Frank,
Yup...she gets on the tractor any time she wants to. In fact, believe it or not, she got on it early this past Saturday morning when I was having a work party at my property puting up my ARCH building. She drove it around the back woods collecting firewood for the bonfire to keep us guys "warm" while we worked on assembling the building!! Can't beat that with a stick, ehh? She doesn't do any dirt or gravel moving yet, but I figure thats just a matter of time. Oh, she doesn't rotary mow either. Of course, you can't really blame her for that one! Got some pictures taken, just have to get them posted. Been too busy working on the property to do much other.
 
 

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