Re: I NEED RELIABLE ADVICE..Buying a used Backhoe

Posted by Steve Crum on January 08, 2006 at 04:49:19 from (4.156.231.19):

In Reply to: I NEED RELIABLE ADVICE..Buying a used Backhoe posted by Keith Ace Bleicher on January 07, 2006 at 17:11:27:

I'm kinda partial to the Deere 310A and 410 series. A lot of contractors shunned the 310A as too small or underpowered. Dad and I bought a new 310A in 1979. An area dealer got it in for a large contractor to try. This had all the options. The contractor put 100 hours on it and turned it back in and ordered several 410 backhoes.
We bought this 310A dirt cheap at the time with all new warranties for 27 grand. It now has 2400 hours on it and runs and operates as well as it ever did, I've always done the maintenance of it and until last year Dad and I were the only ones that touched it. I bought it out of Dad's estate in 2001. For the appraised value at that time of $8,700. All I can say is approach this as you would and large dollar purchase, look the machine over as closely as possable, as previously stated try to operate it for a little while and try to get some history on it. One of these can be the handiest tools in the box, or the worst nightmare you ever had. Mine has been the handiest. But then again we didn't have a bunch of trained apes beating it to death either.
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