Price Check Pricing on CT335

[43acresofhell]

What is the going rate on CT335s these days? I am finally willing to accept a left-outside-over-the-winter model because apparently, the dealers got the machines at last year's pricing and also get a selling incentive to get rid of them now.

I am looking for a 335, 8T loader, hydrostat, GP R4s, 0-2 rear hydraulic valve, and whatever needs to be done to work a grappler.

The best price I have received is $18,500 for all this, not including tax. It just seems to me that these guys aren't moving too much. Is this a good price??

Also, someone here suggested installing a third function auxilliary for the grappler. First off, Bobcat doesn't sell the kits. Second, there is no option for a front hyr valve on the 335, only a 445. So the question is, how can I fit the machine with what I need so I have one lever for all the movements of a grappler? I am a newbie but it just seems like this is a big deal when perhaps it shouldn't be.

If there is anyone in central PA that can deliver to the Harrisburg area, I welcome a quote or discussion. Any help is appreciated...I want to get the plumbing all done now so I don't have to go back later to take care of it.

Thanks.

Roger

 

[43acresofhell]

Sorry, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Check out Wallace tractor, he can set you up with all that you need at a good price.

 

[43acresofhell]

I actually talked to Rick early in the process and he was incredibly knowledgeable. Seemed like it was a little bit of an issue to deliver it though. Also, we didn't get too much into price either.

The issue I am having is that the local guys just want to put me into the machine the least expensive way as possible (Rick was NOT like this, by the way). I asked a guy today about adding a third function so I could lift the loader and grab with the grapple at the same time and he looked at me like I had straw growing out of my head. After calling his boss he learned that BC doesn't make this and that you couldn't add front valves to the 335, anyway.

I am most interested in a machine with the plumbing already onboard and so I can use the grapple in the most effective way as possible. I just don't even know what I need to make this happen though.

A very frustrating process indeed.

Roger

 

[MtnViewRanch]

I'm surprised to hear that delivery was a problem. Rick has delivered several states away before. Maybe check with him again, get a price and ask about the hydraulic controls that you want. Should ask him about a grapple also. I know that he was happy to get me a price a few years ago when he was selling Kioti's and I am on the West coast. Of course we would have used an independent carrier for delivery if I had bought from him. His prices were very good.

 

[43acresofhell]

I probably misunderstood. Maybe I am a tweener--too close for third party delivery and too far for him to bring it.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

You should talk to him again, can't hurt to ask. All he can say is no he can't help you. I'm thinking that he can. :thumbsup:

Good luck

 

[powergod1]

haved always heard good things about Wallace, never hurts to ask again or maybe he has another option you have yet to discover?

 

[ttriff]

I asked a guy today about adding a third function so I could lift the loader and grab with the grapple at the same time and he looked at me like I had straw growing out of my head. After calling his boss he learned that BC doesn't make this and that you couldn't add front valves to the 335, anyway.

When I was getting quotes on a CT335 and CT445, the sales manager for Bobcat of the Rockies asked me if I wanted the front auxiliary package installed on whichever tractor I bought. I have email attachments that quote ~$840 for the package installed on either tractor.

 

[andersonst]

now I'm a little confused...I have a 335 and when I bought it I had the dealer put the plumbing up front to use a grapple and there wasn't an issue. Now I don't have a grapple yet, I have looked at a few but just can't afford it yet, but I'm assuming that what my dealer installed is going to work...??? Am I missing something that I don't know about? there is a switch on the joystick/loader control that he told me will work the grapple.