JD 3032E Second Thoughts

[msmud]

Folio,
If you feel in the middle of a bar brawl with ground work, the first thing I would check would be your tire pressures. These short wheelbase machines amplify axle impacts, and this is worsened considerably by overpressure in the tires. In my 3038e, I get bounced around pretty badly if my rear R4s are 11 - 12 psi or higher, but at 8 - 9.5 the ride is pretty good as is 2wd traction. I keep 17.5 in my fronts, with 560# of weights in the weight bracket; I don't have a loader. You might need a bit more for loader ops, maybe not. Filling the rears might even stiffen the ride for you, as it reduces sidewall flexing.
I wonder if a landplane would allow you better grade control than a boxblade with your road maintenance. A lot of people swear by them as the best tools for the job, with less of the washboarding effect. It's a lot cheaper than a new tractor, though it potentially solves only one of your problems.
I have the feeling you probably can make do with what you have, with just a few minor mods.

 

[Folio]

Okay, advisors and counselors and friends, today I'm minding own business running odd errands here and there, reminding myself all the while that I'm really stupid to be thinking about a different tractor. The 3032e is perfectly sufficient, I say. I live on a hobby farm, for Pete's sake; I'm doing what I'm doing for fun, not profit. Suck it up and live with your choices, I lecture myself.

Can I help it if my route takes me past the JD dealer or that my car takes an unexpected turn into the lot filled with all manner of pretty green and yellow colors? Is it my fault that there, in the middle of everything, is an orphan 3320? Can I help it that the sales guy (with whom I've done a load of business) is as honest as my day is long?

The suspension seat feels like I'm sitting on a marshmallow. He demonstrates the quick detach loader (I'm speechless) and points out all the advanced electronics. The mid-mounted mower would be perfect, he says, for my acres of lawn and barnyards. If you were I, could you disagree? The foldable ROPS will get me into spots I can't go now. The loader will easily handle the crushed granite I haul around where my present loader struggles. All my current implements fit like proverbial gloves. There's actually room for my long legs in the operator station.

To top it off, he will give me 95% of what I originally paid for the 3032e and loader three years ago, and throw in filled tires. Extra rear hydraulics extra. Fortunately, I can pay the difference in cash if I don't buy other fun things on my list. (Why are tractors always first?)

So here I am, begging for help. Stop me, please, from visiting the local Kubota dealer tomorrow to see what he has to offer and then returning to JD to talk turkey. I'm in deep guys and sinking fast; we all know where this can go from here. Don't we?

 

[k0ua]

Don't walk run!.. BACK to the JD dealer, and get what you want. If you are getting 95 percent back of what you paid for the 3032.. my goodness what more do you want? Sheesh man life is short.. enjoy it.. go GET THAT TRACTOR:thumbsup:

James K0UA

 

[Zebrafive]

Don't walk run!.. BACK to the JD dealer, and get what you want. If you are getting 95 percent back of what you paid for the 3032.. my goodness what more do you want? Sheesh man life is short.. enjoy it.. go GET THAT TRACTOR:thumbsup:

James K0UA

DITTO! DITTO! What else can you buy, use and have worth 95% to trade. Get it before it's gone.

 

[Cocre]

I bought a lightly used 3320 four years ago (the stickers were still readable on the backhoe and loader buckets). I had sat on several different colors of tractors, but the 3320 was different. Things were actually designed to work together, not just a hodge podge of this and that bolted to a frame.

I got no regrets buying that tractor.

 

[kiotiken]

The number one rule in buying a tractor is SHOP, SHOP, SHOP, make sure you look at every brand and every color and every feature. The number one rule about a dealer offering you 95% of what you paid is STOP SHOPPING and TAKE THE DEAL!!!!!

I just went through the EXACT same thing with Kioti. My CK30 wasn't keeping up to me. My dealer offered me 94% of what I paid 1 year and 158 hours ago. I now have a DK45 and let me tell you, the suspension seat is just the beginning!

 

[cartod]

I have put 32 hours on my 2 week old 3320 and am very pleased that I decided to spend a bit more and get what I want. The power is impressive, the features and comforts are spoiling me (traded a JD 670).

Im glad I stepped up, and you will be too!

 

[murphy1244]

I have put 32 hours on my 2 week old 3320 and am very pleased that I decided to spend a bit more and get what I want. The power is impressive, the features and comforts are spoiling me (traded a JD 670).

Im glad I stepped up, and you will be too!

How many hours on the 3320?

 

[art]

You have advanced from not knwing what you want to having a better idea as to what you need to get your work done the way you want to. Now what is important is to remember that as the work gets done much of it might never need to be done again or only in small batches.

There are things like the roll bar not folding that will always be there but how far are you to having the garden beds done or the land you have wanted to clear? These things will and should make a difference as to the future needs of the tractor. To throw into the mix that you might not need all the weight when doing the different tasks you have left especially if you have been doing it with the tractor you have and the new one will be heavier to begin with.

 

[Ductape]

OK, so your dealer is doing you right on a trade. This time get the cabbed model and don't look back. Ok..... since it's your money I'm spending, go up a notch in HP and get the 3520.