M9540

[art]

Art-I appreciate your opinion. I think the lighter weight will actually be a plus for me as we are in a river bottom here with lots of boggy areas that heavy equipment likes to sink thru. I agree the hp is there to run the implements. I think my concern is really with simply durability. The Kubota seems to be well built but will it hold up over the years with proper usage and maintenance to last as long as the JD's, Ford's and Massey's.

Gary I do sell one of those other brands in a different color and I have a bit of experience with one other of the brands from the trade-ins we get. I have good faith that the Kubota will work fine for you with your work as well as give you hours of use with out aggrivation.

 

[Gary51]

I wish mine would bring that much but I've seen two identical cab tractors like mine sell for about $18,000. They both had about 4000 hours on them and were in better shape than mine.
This SLE model has a load sensor which requires removing the cab and splitting the tractor to just replace the pto clutch. That's were the expense is. I was quoted a price of between $5M to $7M just to replace the clutch if there were no other issues found. With this many hours, I would be concerned that other significant repairs would be needed shortly after this.

 

[Grrrr]

If that 7740 was in the UK and you were going to scrap it people would think you were crazy.

Those sorts of tractors are in big demand here and you would still get the equivelent of $30,000 to $40,000 for it.

But it might be different where you live.