Missed out on a good deal...

Saturday I went hunting Insted of too the local monthy
equipment auction.. I"ve been looking for a loader tractor that I
can Brushhog and use at our new property. I obviously want
green to match the rest of the fleet.. Auction sold a 3020 Wf
gas side consol with a john Deere loader decent rubber
straight metal wheel weights and front weights full three point
and factory top link.. I know it is a gas job and it does not get
as good of fuel economy as a diesel.. Anyway the thing only
brought $3200.00 I would have loved to pick it up for that...

Woo who. Someone sure got a good deal.

i dunno ,, if you use that 3020 often enuf to keep the carburator slik and clean and gumless ,, you mite burn half that money in gasoline in a yrs time ,,i owned a early 3010 and i ran a 3020 ,,either of them would instantly start and run in all kinds of weather, regardless of how long they set ,, but my ,, you had to choke them till they warmed up, move the preheat manifold blox each season , and spark plugs would not last no matter what brand we used ,, always fouled them out ..and if you wanted power you had to open the carb jet up so much that it took to people to operate the jd , one to drive it and the other to bring in the fuel ,, that was 25 yrs ago ,, before ethanol blends ,,just hate to think about the pia they would be like running them today ..

You couldn't buy it for $3,200.00 because that was HIS bid. Who knows how high HE would have gone? Quit kicking yourself in the butt!

Jim, you probably may be kicking yourself, but I think you may have been lucky. I bought a 3020G to replace a 70 about 30 years ago, and it is the only tractor I have ever owned for less than three months. It started and ran OK, I guess, but it didn't have the guts of my 2520D, which, by the way, I still own. That, and it's also the last gas engine tractor other than a couple of antique toys.

Ha you got a point there...

Thats what id like to have in an ideal world is a 2510,3010,2520,3020, or 4010/20 diesel with a loader. Id like to find a rough one cheap and redoe it but we will see how that goes this winter...

I have a 2010 gas and simply have no ignition problems. I put a 6 volt coil on as JD recomends and points are about 6 years old. I put about 70 hrs a year on it in the hay fields. Sure, it loves it"s diet of gas, but diesel is no cheaper. Besides, I just got my 4010 injector pump rebuilt and that"s a $700 hit. I still need to pull the injectors and get them tested. I prefer diesels too, but the gasser prices are very attractive.

Hi
John Deere Rough and fix up cheap are 3 things that don"t go in the same sentence l.o.l.

I just had an 1830 in my shop it had a $40 seal gone on the pto, guy thought he was laughing on the repair at $100 , for seal and my time to do it.
We had a nasty surprise when it was apart. The seal leaked because of about $5000 of parts behind and around it that where scrap.
Guy ended up paying $1000 bucks in jobber stuff + time gluing bearings back in worn castings to get another year from it till he retires from cattle.

That tractor mint is probably only worth $7000 on a good day round here. so be very carefull what you buy and have to spend.
I was tempted to bid this guy on it so realistically I"d have to pay a $1000 or less for it . Glad I didn"t I would of lost my shirt and pants plus $3000 in the deal trying to sell it on for profit .


I would be thinking that by the time your done there is somebody with a nice one round thats desperate for cash, Just write the check and bring her home, then save the bother of time parts cost and your bank balance taking the un needed over spend let the other guy take the hit.
I know this sounds sad to say but thats why I'M getting out of re building used tractors.
Regards Robert

You are very, very, very lucky. In fact, you are so lucky that you may never realize why that is. And do you know why? Because the best way to deal with something like this is to deny to yourself that it ever happened.

Its kind of like having to go into some old, run down, filled to the gill with trash, delapidated house after the owner passes on to clean it out so it can be fixed up and resold. You put on the gloves, plug the nose, and throw everything out. A week later you find out there was $100,000 in one of the bags you threw into the dumpster that was picked up and hauled off. Good thing for me that I had no use for that money. Darn lucky as a matter of fact.

Water don't run back up the creek, so write it off.

Mark

The way I see it, the one who bought it may have been prepaired to go a lot higher. Stan

You where luckier than you know. A JD 3020 gas is a miserable tractor to keep running with todays gas. I used one for ten years to run the feeder wagon. I finally got tired of working on it to keep it running half A$$ed. It would never run right. Either the mixture was too rich for when it was hot or too lean when it was cold. I swear that the spark plug threads where shiny in the head. You would foul them out in a week or two.

I rebuilt the engine thinking low compression was causing the trouble, New ignition system, carb. rebuilt several times, starter 3-4 times in the last two years. The thing would not start if it was warm. If you stopped it to check on some cattle you had better not want to use it for an hour. You could grind the batteries to zero and it would not fire off. I even installed the electronic system and it was only a little better. You could pull start it in five feet when hot but even a diesel starter would not crank it where it would start hot.

It made me nuts trying to get it to run right. I even had a friend that is a real JD gas tractor guru and he could not get it to work.

I sold it to a fellow and told him right out it would not start hot. He called me back in a few weeks and chewed me out as it would not start hot. I even wrote that on the bill of sale and had him sign the note.

I will never again own a JD gas tractor to keep and use. resale fine but I am not wasting my time when I need a tractor to work.