XR3037HC Couple questions

[breadtrk]

I have a couple questions that the LS dealers in my area couldn't answer. Near Nashville the pickings are slim.... one dealer had 3 the other dealer had 5. I would up driving an hour away to get to a farm community and he only had 2 but his showroom was packed with old men sitting around gossiping like school girls. That was the instant I knew was at the right place.

I'm getting the BH but the dealer is going to install it. Is there anything to look out for by it not being installed at the assembly plant?

Am I crazy for committing to $32,000.00 without ever seeing this model or cab in person? I did look the Owner in the eye and shake his hand so it is a done deal. Bank won't hand me the check without the VIN, serial, whatever a tractor has. He went ahead and ordered it without a deposit. The dealer closer to home wanted almost 5 grand more for the same rig.

Iv'e read everything I can find about the 3037 here, what else would or should be required reading?

 

[the whispering oaks farm]

I paid 32,900 for a XR4046HC with back hoe delivered from poplar bluff , Mo.

 

[George2615]

Welcome to TBN.
I have an XR3037HC. I don't have the BH. As long as the BH you are getting is installed by the dealer you should have no problems. Since you haven't seen the model in person I will say the cab is very roomy. I'm 6'1", size 12 shoe, 220 lb. and have plenty of room. I've only had mine a little over a month. Got some snow plowing in when I first got it. Cab heat was real nice. I have added some flashing strobe lights F&R, rear LED work light and mounting bar, reflective tape (white / red) on the sides, AM/FM/CD radio, made a front light bar bracket and relocated the front cab lights onto it. I did get the factory service manual. If you do your own work / service you'll need it. If you take it to the dealer for service or any work then you won't. Expensive but worth it in my opinion. The QA loader makes it nice for using Skid Steer attachments. Just bought forks for mine (posted pics here in the LS section). Later I'll be adding front remotes. I think your price is about where it should be with the BH and the fact you are financing. I also just bought a separate insurance policy for mine so its covered when I am on the road or on someone else's property. Full coverage including glass. Since you are financing it will be covered on your homeowners policy but only on your own property. You might want to up your contents coverage.

 

[GManBart]

I wouldn't worry about the BH being added at the dealer. I doubt they even ship them from the distribution facility in NC with the BH attached regardless of how you order one.

I'd love to have the BH for my 4047, but I'm not sure where it is on my list of "wants". I could use it today actually....the people that built the house two lots down didn't put a culvert in when they put the driveway in, and it stops all the water from getting to the creek that's only 50yds away. How that was never caught by the building inspector, I'll never know (actually, I do....he never left his office). Because of that, we have 2ft of water in the ditch along the roadside that can't go anywhere. I bought the lot, demo'd the house, and really need to open that ditch up....waiting on the neighbor to come over with his backhoe one of these days.

 

[breadtrk]

LOL, None of this is on my NEED list. I'm just tired of borrowing from neighbors and want to clean the place up some, couple food plots. Then I'm going to take on a hay field that hasn't been touched in 23 years, that should keep me busy and out of the bars for a couple years.

I'm sure every LS owner reads every thread so I'll ask in this one.

What is the first modification you do to a tractor.

 

[murphy1244]

LOL, None of this is on my NEED list. I'm just tired of borrowing from neighbors and want to clean the place up some, couple food plots. Then I'm going to take on a hay field that hasn't been touched in 23 years, that should keep me busy and out of the bars for a couple years.

I'm sure every LS owner reads every thread so I'll ask in this one.

What is the first modification you do to a tractor.

Bucket hooks, 3 of them 1 in the center and 1 at each part where the loader arm is.

 

[breadtrk]

Already have the hooks but no matching paint yet. Also have a tool box ready but not sure about mounting with the cab.

 

[breadtrk]

I'm going to have to dig out my garage 6" to house this thing, ceiling height inside is fine, door is short. The one who is always wiser than I smugly reminded me that the Camaro I was looking at 2 months ago would have fit just fine. I gently reminded her that Tractors don't attract 20 yr old gals........... maybe they do?

 

[George2615]

Already have the hooks but no matching paint yet. Also have a tool box ready but not sure about mounting with the cab.

Same here. Bucket hooks was first. Satin or matte black spray is what I used. perfect match.
Next was installing an aftermarket AM/FM/CD and wiring it up.
Added reflective tape 3 on each side of tractor (white and red like on sides of trailers)
Made front and rear light bars brackets. Moved front cab lights to bar. Added flashing strobe lights F&R.
Added trailer tie down D-rings on brush bar and twisted clevis on back for a tie down point.
Then my tool box. If small like mine it will fit on the back. Just had to make a bracket to support it.
Oh, and I have both. The tractor and the Camaro.

 

[breadtrk]

A Have huh?

Will a box like that all the way across interfere with the back hoe?

Since you have a cab, does the glass come out for spring and fall?

I've seen in another thread where someone built a guard to protect the lights and bars from the top of the cab to the top of the grill guard to deflect brances out of tube stock but I can't find it anymore. I've been really working that out in my head.

 

[George2615]

Unless you remove the SMV triangle there's not enough room for a box to go all the way across. Maybe your triangle is elsewhere since you are getting it with a backhoe. Can't answer if it will interfere. Maybe Whispering Oaks who has the BH can reply to that.
The rear 1/4 windows do open slightly for air if you don't want to run the heat or A/C. The rear window does tilt out from the bottom but as far as I know that's for an emergency escape hatch. I don't know if you should operate the tractor with it open. I'd like to remove the doors for summer use but with A/C I think I'll get used to leaving them on.
Myself and at least one other member have built our own brackets for light bars.
I've attached some pics of the light bar brackets F&R, 1/4 windows that open, and my Camaro (mentioned in your previous post). Where are the 20 year old girls? At my age I'd settle for 40 year olds.

 

[Underdog57]

A couple of sweet machines, George!

 

[George2615]

I have a couple classics too, 72 Chevelle Conv. and a 79 T-Top Corvette. What the heck, you can't take it with you when you die.

 

[the whispering oaks farm]

the triangle bracket is on the tractor as well as another on the backhoe. you just switch it from one to the other. I do open the rear glass as it has a hydraulic shock to keep it partially open. I saw that the P7010 series has an added bracket for the doors to clip them partially open, I saw them on youtube somewhere but can't find them again. I want to try and add them, they would make airflow nice without the A/C. The triangle bracket is a bolt on unit so you could just remove it and relocate it easily.

Unless you remove the SMV triangle there's not enough room for a box to go all the way across. Maybe your triangle is elsewhere since you are getting it with a backhoe. Can't answer if it will interfere. Maybe Whispering Oaks who has the BH can reply to that.
The rear 1/4 windows do open slightly for air if you don't want to run the heat or A/C. The rear window does tilt out from the bottom but as far as I know that's for an emergency escape hatch. I don't know if you should operate the tractor with it open. I'd like to remove the doors for summer use but with A/C I think I'll get used to leaving them on.
Myself and at least one other member have built our own brackets for light bars.
I've attached some pics of the light bar brackets F&R, 1/4 windows that open, and my Camaro (mentioned in your previous post). Where are the 20 year old girls? At my age I'd settle for 40 year olds.

 

[breadtrk]

Nice car.

The light bar I'm looking for had the lights mounted behind an upper and lower round bars, almost like an off road front bumper . Then he welded a bar from the top corners of the top of cab mounted light bar to a fabricated brush guard to deflect branches away from the tractor.

I wish I could explain it better, then maybe I can come up with some search terms that will let me find it again.

Oh, and what I'm calling a bar is really pipe of some kind welded and fabricated.

 

[breadtrk]

Found one that shows the theory.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/owning-operating/302353-brush-guard-cab-tractor.html


Edit, that is the exact one I was referencing. Now the hard part will be to not over think it and wind up with an exoskeleton like the rock crawlers have. I suppose 1/2 black gas pipe would be strong but EMT would be a lot lighter.

 

[Deerherd]

I saw that the P7010 series has an added bracket for the doors to clip them partially open, I saw them on youtube somewhere but can't find them again. I want to try and add them, they would make airflow nice without the A/C.

It does make driving with the doors open quite nice. I went out and took a couple of pictures this morning.

 

[Deerherd]

Here's screen shots from the parts catalog if you wanted to order some of the pieces.

 

[the whispering oaks farm]

Thank you Dave

Here's screen shots from the parts catalog if you wanted to order some of the pieces.

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[BSHfieldmaster]

Brdtrk: you'll enjoy the 3037, sadly I bought mine and it quit snowing!! I was able to push some 2 1/2 foot drifts last week with it with wind howling about 40 mph, it was heavy spring snow, had to take hat, coat and gloves off and turn the heat way down, it was too hot in there! Make sure that you get the rear wiper, it's worth it. Great tractor, worth the $$, the dealer I bought from is great as is the LS rep, I may get another one for the other farm, that one will be the XR4046, only cause I want a little bigger frame and HP, I think the 37 has more umph than the XR4040 and I had it first and swapped the dealer for the smaller one so that it would fit under the barn doorway, at my elevation, 6300 ft, the turbo really helps.