Price Check Price Check 790... PLEASE...

[TexasOaks]

I wanted to get a price check on a John Deere 790:

Super clean John Deere 790 4-wheel drive tractor with John Deere loader. Only 133 hours on this one! Includes the R4 Industrial tire option on the tractor. Also includes a JD LX5 Mower with rear chain guards. This tractor is a one-owner trade-in that we received when the customer traded up to a larger tractor. He purchased it new from a JD dealer in 2003. The tractor is in excellent condition with only a few minor scratches here and there from normal usage. The loader bucket is slightly bent in the middle, which does not affect it's performance, and could be straightened if someone wanted to. The mower has one small dent on the left hand side about the size of a golf ball.

Can the loader be bent back easily?

Item Specifics - Tractors
Make: John Deere Fuel: Diesel
Model: 790 Engine Cylinders: 3
Model Year: 2003 Engine HP: 30
Hours: 133 Transmission Type: Manual (Do these come with the hydrostatic transmssion or does manual mean gear transmission?) I know what manual means on a car but...)
Drive: 4WD Condition: Used
Serial Number: G696728

Selling for $12,500

Wanted everyones opinion this tractor please. Thanks everyone!

 

[RollTideRam]

I wanted to get a price check on a John Deere 790:



Can the loader be bent back easily?



BFH Big Freakin Hammer

 

[TexasOaks]

I wanted to get a price check on a John Deere 790:



Can the loader be bent back easily?



BFH Big Freakin Hammer

Is that a no?

 

[Jae]

item Specifics - Tractors
Make: John Deere Fuel: Diesel
Model: 790 Engine Cylinders: 3
Model Year: 2003 Engine HP: 30
Hours: 133 Transmission Type: Manual (Do these come with the hydrostatic transmssion or does manual mean gear transmission?) I know what manual means on a car but...)
Drive: 4WD Condition: Used
Serial Number: G696728

Selling for $12,500

My opinion, this is a better deal than most in this area. After an exhaustive search of the North Texas area for a tractor of my own I can attest to the scant availability of "resonably priced" tractors. The price does seem resonable and I would definetly want to see some pictures before makin a final desicion if it were my dollar. But the damage as described dosen't sound like it would be much to fix. The transmission won't be a hydrostat, but more than likey a shuttle shift (meaning shuttle from forward/reverse with one lever) and selectable gears, ie: 1,2,3 and 4 with a gear selector. Probably quite similar to my old Montanna 3040. Admitidly I never really looked at any JD's when I was shopping as they always seemed to be priced at a premium versus the others. As they say a picture is worth a thousand words, and a few pics might help us help you spend your money!

 

[RollTideRam]

Is that a no?

A BFH will fix a loader bucket bent in the middle. JC

 

[TexasOaks]

 

[TexasOaks]

Thanks guys for the help... ya I have been looking hard for a couple of months now and this is the best deal I have found that is close enough to me. Keep the opinions coming please.

 

[TexasOaks]

How good is the mower on the back?

 

[TexasOaks]

Jae... here are some pictures to look at. Ya... pictures usually help.

 

[RoyJackson]

That's a good price since it includes the rotary cutter. Hours are low...I'd make the deal, personally.

A few dents and such? Well, it is a tractor after all...right? You'd expect a scratch on a used car. These are working tools. I wouldn't even worry about that minor dent on the bucket.

A Manual tranny (collar shift) on the 790 has 4 speeds and reverse and High/Low Ranges which comes to 8 speeds forward, 2 reverse.
You don't shift these trannys. You select your working gear and go right from there. There is no lever to flick between forward and reverse (that's a power-reverser transmission on a Deere). To reverse, you must move the gear shift. As this is a non-synchro transmission, you've got to stop (or almost stop) to shift gears...especially from a forward to reverse gear. It's actually pretty quick when you get used to it.
This tractor has a "live" PTO. On the 790, this is a dual stage clutch. Pushing the clutch ½ down allows shift of the transmission gears and the PTO keeps spinning (when it's engaged). Pushing the clutch all the way down stops the PTO too. There's a bit of a learning curve, but it's pretty simple and rock solid as long as you don't ride the clutch continuously.

NOW, read my signature line below

I'd always offer less, at first...say $11500. You can always go up if you need to, but it's hard to negotiate down if you start high. At minumum, I'd ask the dealer to through a ballast box in as part of the deal. You'll need that counter weight if you expect to use that loader efficiently.

I wouldn't wait too long. I reckon that tractor will sell pretty quickly.

 

[TexasOaks]

Thanks Roy... all good info.

 

[machmeter62]

How good is the mower on the back?

The tractor looks good; however, the bucket has been "hammered" a little, or used as a brake?? I agree with Roy, and start out at 11.5k. One other point to consider; if the loader was abused, you may want to have the clutch checked also?

 

[madpogue]

Sounds like a steal to me. 133 hours is hardly more than break-in. A brand new one of these, with NO loader, NO mower, industrial tires, is gonna run $12,000 and change. How much is a loader, two grand? And unless that mower is as beat as the used King Kutter we just got, it would sell used for at least $500-ish. So you're getting a setup that would cost about $15,000 new, and saving three large for just 133 hours use. DEAL! Tractors don't depreciate the way cars do. I've seen Ford 17xx's with close to 1000 hours on them for only a few grand less than the new price. Frankly, I'm astonished anyone would let one of these slip from their fingers at such low hours. I reckon low-hours used 90-series tractors are exceedingly rare.

As for running a collarshift with two-stage clutch, I hadn't so much as sat on a tractor when they delivered our 790 MFWD a couple weeks ago. I had the hang of the clutch and tranny levers within minutes. The two-stage clutch becomes intuitive quickly.

 

[Jae]

I agee, that is one nice lookin JD..

I would have jumped at the chance to buy that one when I was lookin for a 30HP tractor for sure.. The mower looks strikingly similar to mine, specifically the gearbox, although mine is not green. I use ours to mow our 30 ish acre's and it hasn't balked yet. With all this rain lately the grass has be growing like it's on steroids, but the mower just keeps chuggin along without a hitch. I'm pretty sure it has mowed through an ant hill or two as well..

I did change out thr gear oil when we recieved it but i'm just picky that way, it probably didn't need it as the mower had less than 100 hours use as well.

If it were me at this point i'd be geting wiggy, Its a good deal and won't last long i'm sure.

 

[TexasOaks]

Guys I appreciate the opinions, we are trying to make it happen so we will see. And yes, I am starting to get wiggly...

 

[TexasOaks]

Just was notified that it just sold. It sold for the full amount $12,500. I am not going to give up and just keep looking (God will find me our family the right tractor). Thanks guys for all the help, I will probably need some more help in the near future. I am the legs on this operation and my family has most of the backing to this operation... we were just to slow on this one.

 

[RoyJackson]

Just was notified that it just sold. It sold for the full amount $12,500.

I'm sorry you missed that one, but I can't say I'm surprised.
While you're looking, peruse Machine Finder. You might find something else locally.

I found my 790 on Machine Finder. It was also a 2003 model (which has 27 Gross HP, not 30 as that dealer wrote about the one you looked at, and 24 PTO HP). The price was $12500 and the dealer wouldn't budge either (but you gotta try). My tractor had 24 hours on the meter when I bought it about 2 years ago. My 790 was purchased from a dealer 400 miles from my home.

790's are great, but so are 4200's, 4300's, 4210 or 4310. Older Deere's, such as the 870 or 970 are quite viable alternatives (but if you think that 790 went fast...the 870's and 970's move like the speed of light)

Although I'm a Deere guy, don't necessarily limit yourself to Deere.
If other dealers are close, look at New Holland (TC-30, especially) and Kubota (larger "B" series or lower priced "L" series).
Other brands...well, only if a dealer is close.
Grey market...not for me, but some folks like them.

 

[kbota]

Be sure to check out Used Tractors at TractorHouse.com: John Deere Tractors, used farm tractors and farm equipment, Case IH, New Holland, Agco, Caterpillar.

There are many Texas dealers that advertise on that website. You will find many choices to go look at. And you can always keep "new" as an option.

Good luck