A land owners dream machine! Click on the orange letter link below to go to current e-bay auction. 2003 Kubota L35 Tractor Loader Backhoe WITH Q.A. Bucket, Hoe, Forks & Grapple! More pictures to follow.
Quick Attach Backhoe! Now put the three point hitch equipment on and use your brush hog, plow, York rake, blade, etc. Or do this!
Selling it indeed. Just click on orange letters in first post in thread to see Ebay sale. Only 350 original hours on working meter. I am the second owner of the tractor and the tractor has always been kept inside by me and the prior owner. Let me know when you are interested. thewoodlands and some of you other members are pretty close by.
The only thing the tractor needs right now is a bath! I'll be using it tomorrow for fetching some wood I am going to cut. Hours on tractor will increase slightly as I am using it a couple times a week for a few hours at a time.
I am very interested I was actually at the deer dealer last week looking at a 1025r. How much are you wanting out of it.
I have the auction on e-bay with a $25,900 buy it now. Or best offer. You can send me a PM here or ask a question through the eBay auction. If you buy a new tractor this size with all this you will be looking at well over $40,000. This one is just getting broken in.
Furthermore the attachments he has are another 11 grand new at least! talking to a buddy who needs a tractor. see if I give him some if he will buy it I am wanting that grapple unfortunately already have tractor..
The L35 comes standard with the loader and backhoe. With this low amount of hours it is worth around $20,000. To convert the loader to Quick Attach (QA), the heavy duty, flat face conversion plate I think was around $600. Then there was the cost of welding/fabricating time and fitting it to the backhoe so that the bucket and other attachments sit correctly so bucket works the way it was originally designed. This took him some time to figure out how to do it and do it so it was super strong so it could put up with my work. I explained to him that I work my tractors. Take good care of them, but they are not garage queens. LOL. He said, "Oh, I know. I see you working your equipment." LOL Along with that comes the cost of cutting part of the "ears" off the original heavy duty bucket and welding a heavy duty QA receiver plate to it. All this completed made it so much more versatile of a machine. Now I can go between bucket and forks in about 2 minutes flat. Then there is the grapple. A good quality, serious, heavy duty grapple will run you anywhere from $2000 on up. You can buy them for less, and they will do the work most people use them for. But they will not have anywhere near the size opening this has and will not stand up to the heavier duty work. So I value this grapple at around $3500. I works great raking along the ground and picking up and moving brush. Picking up and moving logs, stumps, and medium to large rocks. All this lifting is of course determined by the lift capacity of the loader/tractor. I had the grapple built strong enough to be put on a larger tractor if I ever decided to upgrade to a larger one. I have since had my neighbor strengthen the two "links" that go from the loader arms to the top of the custom conversion triangle plates to hold the grapple straight up and down or perpendicular to the ground. I managed to bend them a bit , so he simply straightened them and welded a flat piece of steel 90 degrees all the way along the side down the center like an L and this made it much stronger. The heavy duty forks sold for somewhere around $700 when I bought them. So with the time and money of converting the loader to quick attach and adding everything up I come up with a little over $26,000 for a value. $20,000 + $600 + $3500 + $700 = $24,800. Then add in time for all the work. If you had to pay a full shop rate at a machining/fabricating shop you would probably have $1700-$2000 into all the fabricating. He turned all of his own pins and installed grease fittings in everything he made!
damm fine machine Gas! Here's wishing you a big GLWS! Corey you know you want to keep it in the FHC family!
Something tells me Gas is going to want more than just white dog shine so that deal would be no Bueno on this end. Your welcome to still stop by this spring or anytime though.
