L3560 loaders?

[Fallon]

Any plans to get a backhoe attachment in your future?
If yes, then then the larger FEL may allow you to get the BH92 mount with a sub-frame installation.
Just one more consideration for your decision.
-Jim

Not that likely. I have a friend with a big old industrial backhoe & another with a small Allmand (basically a big Terramite). So I can probably borrow if I have personal need.

Digging would take me out of landscaper insurance into digging insurance, which I hear is WAY more. Haven't researched it that heavily though. I don't do enough side work at this time to justify trying to buy one let alone insurance.

 

[Fallon]

I paid $27,500 new for my L3560 with LA805, L2296 HD, RB Bucket, Draft Control, open station, in 2013. Of course the one you are inspecting has a cab and presumably air conditioning. (No sales tax on ag tractors in Florida.)

When I speced our a base L3560HSTC + loader on Kubota's website the other day it was $38k or something. I think I figured I'd be at $33k if I negotiated the dealer 15% off list, which would be very good & probably a bit more than I could manage. I'm guessing $200-300 each for the BXpanded tooth bar & loaded tires that are the only things other than loader on the machine. It has a 72" LandPride box blade as well. I already have a 72" King Kutter, so I'd sell the lighter of the 2. If they weigh similar, probably keep the color matched LandPride.

 

[kubotacres]

It's my primary reason for upgrading. Plowing snow is to cold & I'm tired of being hot, sweaty & dusty when mowing & doing other summer stuff.

HST+, radio & other bells & whistles are nice, as is more loader & to some degree 3pt capacity.

alrighty. Was just going to add if it wasn't you could get a non-cab l3560 for well under the prices you mentioned.

 

[Fallon]

Spent a few hours at Front Frange Kubota this afternoon. They knew the guy selling & its legit & a good machine. Got a text this evening saying somebody is going to be putting a deposit on the machine tomorow. Not gonna race or fight, so its gone.

Did find out the L3560 & L4060 should be the same frame. 1 more cylinder, 5 more HP & bigger tires. 200lbs & a few inches from the tires. only thing I cant explain is it being 7" longer... Tires only make it less than 2" taller. They cant keep up assembling em they are selling so fast, so there wasnt a L3560 or L4060 to drive. They had crated ones next to each other. that more or less looked identicle.

Got some quotes that were decent. Will probably pester them to get a pair buit fot the lot so I can drive & compare at some point. But Im not in a rush, I have a good tractor. L4060 having the extra HP, but not frame size is the likely candidate.

 

[rScotty]

Spent a few hours at Front Frange Kubota this afternoon. They knew the guy selling & its legit & a good machine. Got a text this evening saying somebody is going to be putting a deposit on the machine tomorow. Not gonna race or fight, so its gone.

Got some quotes that were decent. Will probably pester them to get a pair buit fot the lot so I can drive & compare at some point. But Im not in a rush, I have a good tractor. L4060 having the extra HP, but not frame size is the likely candidate.

Fallon, I've been following along and think I probably know what you are going through.
It took us 40+ years to gradually move up in machine size. Starting with a home-made lawn size tractor and over the years made attachments and improvements as needed. Each upgrade enabled more work to get done. A basic Category 0 three point was a great thing; a cat. I 3 pt even better.....now they are all Cat II. Same for loaders and backhoes; starting with rebuilt or homebuilt and now they are real heavy duty equipment. Overall, everything just kept getting more capable and with more bells and whistles.

What I'm saying it itwas a fun journey and we enjoyed the heck out of it. But there's a downside to doing it that way. I now realize we would have had just as much fun and been time and even some money ahead by simply skipping a couple of steps and starting with about 40 hp, Cat. II 3 pt, and heavy duty real loader & hoe.

On cabs, a good insulated canopy like the one on some TLBs is a nice compromise between all weather comfort and the ability to see exactly what you are doing at close quarters. But I gotta confess that our largest tractor has a cab with AC&heat. And if I was doing field work I'd sure have a cab on everything. Our cabbed tractor is nice, but it's still not the machine you jump on for a simple chore either.
Luck,
rScotty