High hour JD8520

[Strungup52]

Looking at a high hour (10600) ‘02 JD 8520. The tractor is visibly very clean in and out from the pics available but is at least 3 hours away and tyres are good.
The price is in my ballpark, what can I check if I go to see it apart from the obvious milky oil etc?
The same dealer also has a ‘12 Case Magnum 235 @4800hrs for only $5000 more. What is the chance of upping the horses on this closer to 300? The motor is the same as a Magnum 290.
I know nothing about these Cases, no mates have one locally but there are a lot for sale at dealers, roughly half the price of similar age/hours JDs of the same HP.

 

[daveydiesel1]

Case magnum is best tractor of this size ever made bar none. Dont care what any1 says or which colour your loyal to. Am not a case man but magnums are simply the best so id go way it

 

[Strungup52]

Are they also cheaper - seriously cheaper - than JD in UK?

 

[Flat 10]

Case magnum is best tractor of this size ever made bar none. Dont care what any1 says or which colour your loyal to. Am not a case man but magnums are simply the best so id go way it

Really? Second generation magnums seem fairly cheap to me and I thought they weren’t overly popular? No doubt I’ve got the wrong end of the stick.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Really? Second generation magnums seem fairly cheap to me and I thought they weren’t overly popular? No doubt I’ve got the wrong end of the stick.

They had their faults. And in fairness the JD will have much the same potential issues.

Not sure I would want to take a lower end model and try to get the engine power out of it as the top tier version.

 

[Deerefarmer]

8020 series deere tractors are a straightforward relatively simple machine in all fairness, plenty of them still going over 10k hrs. A 2012 tractor with with less than half the hrs of a 2002 for only 5000 more?

 

[daveydiesel1]

Really? Second generation magnums seem fairly cheap to me and I thought they weren’t overly popular? No doubt I’ve got the wrong end of the stick.

They may be cheap. Bearing in mind places like uk hasnt got a massive market for that size o tractor and most farms that justifys a tractor like that will be lookin at new or nearly new the second hand buyer generally is lookin at somethin 230 hp down. Plus jd has a bigger loyal customer base than case which will reflect on used prices and any jd will be worth more second hand than equivalent case no matr what size. But when case and nh formed they done away with the smaller case and just rebranded the nh. They kept the steyr variants and the magnum cause they knew they were far betr than anythin they had to offer in comparrison

 

[Chae1]

Are they also cheaper - seriously cheaper - than JD in UK?

Yes look very cheap hp in UK. There must be good reason. I've been tempted before but quickly put off by prople on here.

Did @Mr Charisma run one?

Think @Speedstar was another that put me off.

Perhaps its amount of roadwork we do in UK. I have a tractor that only roadwork it does is too fields. Just ploughs/drills/runs mowers and square baler. No haulage. Often think a magnum or deere would suit this role along with some bigger machinery.

Think the earl has both
A big JD and a Magnum.

@TheEarlOfMoray

 

[daveydiesel1]

Yes but

Yes look very cheap hp in UK. There must be good reason. I've been tempted before but quickly put off by prople on here.

Did @Mr Charisma run one?

Think @Speedstar was another that put me off.

Perhaps its amount of roadwork we do in UK. I have a tractor that only roadwork it does is too fields. Just ploughs/drills/runs mowers and square baler. No haulage. Often think a magnum or deere would suit this role along with some bigger machinery.

If speedstar had his way wed all be buyin green with red rims.

 

[Chae1]

Yes but

If speedstar had his way wed all be buyin green with red rims.

Pretty sure he was all MF at the time. Was a few years ago.

 

[Galcam]

Let’s face it a lot of guys on here can only dream of green things with red rims so fair play to him I say.

 

[warksfarmer]

We had a magnum 310 and JD 8530 together. The JD was auto power so nicer to drive but there wasn’t anything in it really. Over 3 years neither broke down but if you had to own one I’d say the magnum just because you don’t want to repair an auto power gearbox.

 

[TheEarlOfMoray]

Yes look very cheap hp in UK. There must be good reason. I've been tempted before but quickly put off by prople on here.

Did @Mr Charisma run one?

Think @Speedstar was another that put me off.

Perhaps its amount of roadwork we do in UK. I have a tractor that only roadwork it does is too fields. Just ploughs/drills/runs mowers and square baler. No haulage. Often think a magnum or deere would suit this role along with some bigger machinery.

Think the earl has both
A big JD and a Magnum.

@TheEarlOfMoray

Haven’t got either I’m afraid. 2 7r’s and a puma here

 

[Strungup52]

8020 series deere tractors are a straightforward relatively simple machine in all fairness, plenty of them still going over 10k hrs. A 2012 tractor with with less than half the hrs of a 2002 for only 5000 more?

Yes, it sounds like a deal, thats why I wondered about upping the horses ‘cos it will struggle with an 850 bushel cart load of wheat on some of our ground.

 

[puntabrava]

Case magnum is best tractor of this size ever made bar none. Dont care what any1 says or which colour your loyal to. Am not a case man but magnums are simply the best so id go way it

The latter ones not so, know of a few that have been nothing less than big trouble.

 

[sputnik]

We had a magnum 310 and JD 8530 together. The JD was auto power so nicer to drive but there wasn’t anything in it really. Over 3 years neither broke down but if you had to own one I’d say the magnum just because you don’t want to repair an auto power gearbox.

JD 8520 is powershift

 

[Mr Charisma]

Yes look very cheap hp in UK. There must be good reason. I've been tempted before but quickly put off by prople on here.

Did @Mr Charisma run one?

Think @Speedstar was another that put me off.

Perhaps its amount of roadwork we do in UK. I have a tractor that only roadwork it does is too fields. Just ploughs/drills/runs mowers and square baler. No haulage. Often think a magnum or deere would suit this role along with some bigger machinery.

Think the earl has both
A big JD and a Magnum.

@TheEarlOfMoray

We looked at a 8345 RT , looked a lovely machine , and Deere were prepared to bung a lot of warranty in but the fact that it had just short of 100k spent in it during its warranty and the fact that our finance company were not impressed persuading us to have a rethink
Ended up with a Puma 240 instead ,
Chalk and cheese I know ,

 

[Weasel]

Let’s face it a lot of guys on here can only dream of green things with red rims so fair play to him I say.

Dreams come true if you've a kind bank manager. All them fendts are never paid off

 

[Speedstar]

Looking at a high hour (10600) ‘02 JD 8520. The tractor is visibly very clean in and out from the pics available but is at least 3 hours away and tyres are good.
The price is in my ballpark, what can I check if I go to see it apart from the obvious milky oil etc?
The same dealer also has a ‘12 Case Magnum 235 @4800hrs for only $5000 more. What is the chance of upping the horses on this closer to 300? The motor is the same as a Magnum 290.
I know nothing about these Cases, no mates have one locally but there are a lot for sale at dealers, roughly half the price of similar age/hours JDs of the same HP.

them big deeres are good for lots of hours seen some last week with 20+ k hours on them & they still looked good