Still looking. Went to the local Kioti dealer yesterday. The CK3510 is a whole lot of tractor for the price. He also had just gotten in a used Kubota L3710 with only 800 hrs and immaculately maintained. That's looking like it might be "the one" if I can convince the wife.
Is the L3710 a hydro or glide shift? The early glide shifts had a bad clutch drum and the snap ring would break it causing loss of drive.
They are great tractors. If good clean oil was used it should be good. Avoid anything with a particulate filter.
Kioti's have a very general approach to tier 4. Common rail fuel system, egr, and a particulate filter. That's what Kubota is doing too. It takes a simple tractor, makes it very efficient with the common rail, then takes away the efficiency with the egr. Then the particulate filter that loads up and needs to be burned out when the tractor is not loaded enough. It is what it is if you want a new tractor you have no choice. Buying an older L3710hst is your best value for the money. You avoid all the malfunctions of an over complicated 40hp tractor. Also, the resale value on that L3710 should go up as people will be looking for pre tier 4 emission tractors for the reasons I stated.
I would be pretty excited over that L3710. That is a premium tractor with some nice features. My brother has a L3540-a newer version and that is one great tractor to use!
I went with the Kubota L3710 today!!! Glad I looked at it Friday. Someone looked at it on Sat. and someone literally came in to ask about it while I was doing the paperwork to buy it. I think wife and I will be very pleased. So happy that I found a low-hours used tractor rather than buying a new Tier 4 emissions model. Dealer is going to lube, replace filters and fluids before delivery. Not too shabby.
Nice. If the dealer is doing transmission fluids also, that's worth some real coin. I just priced my HST/gear oil change at 12 gallons @$15/gallon for fluid alone.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. Definitely a couple hundred $ between filters and fluids. He's definitely doing air, oil, fuel, hydro filters and oil change. I think he was waffling a little on the hydro fluid, but in the end I think he said he'd do that too. If you ever want to swing by, please let me know. I would appreciate any advice/experience you could share with me. I also have 2 big downed tulip trees that need to be bucked up, so we could run some saws, too.
