JD 730

[Patatrcc]

Am keeping my eye open for a 730 gas if one shows up and was curious (after looking at a lot of pictures online) if the 730's came with fenders as standard equipment, or you had to order them that way. Most pics have fenders, but a lot don't and I didn't know if someone in the past had taken them off or the tractor just got ordered without them. Pat in Montana

 

[Bob Hess]

They were an option.

 

[jd2cylman]

I bid on the neighbor's 730G a couple of years ago. No 3pt with flat top fenders. I didn't really need it as I have 2 730LP's and a 730DE, but it came from the local (long gone now) JD dealer where dad worked for a few years in the early '70's. I stopped bidding at $2500.00 and it sold for $2800.00.

 

[Fordy20]

I had a 730 that came without fenders.

 

[Patatrcc]

That would have made me cry if I had missed that one by $300.

 

[Patatrcc]

Thanks for the info. So, if you take them off, you just have to re-route the wires for the headlights that are in the fenders and try and find the other headlights that come off each side of the tractor like on a 70 or 720? The reason I ask is the guy selling this said one fender is in really bad shape from either a canopy mounted on it or? and it's got a big rip and tear in the top where the mounting bolts for the canopy or AM radio went and it might just be better to take them off altogether than try and fix it, but I won't know for sure until I see it first hand.

 

[jd2cylman]

(quoted from post at 09:47:13 09/01/20) That would have made me cry if I had missed that one by $300.

As I said, I already have 3, so I didn't really need 4...
I set my price and stuck to it. I just didn't want it to go cheap.
Like I said, no 3pt, so I didn't really want/need it, but if I could snag it on the cheap... Well... 3pt probably would have come off one of the LP's.
Actually, the LP's are as good as having the diesel. The fuel never goes bad. As long as I have battery, they start. Kinda wish my 530 and 630 were LP too.

 

[Patatrcc]

That's a great point on the propane not going bad. Gasoline is so temperamental now, you can really have issues if
a tractor sits too long between start ups. I guess the "bug" hasn't bitten you as bad with only 4, I've been
bitten pretty hard since 2013 and if I get this 730, it's going to make 13 in the shed. They call it tractor
fever, but I'm thinking it should be called a disease~ ha, ha, ha! Pat in Montana.

 

[jd2cylman]

(quoted from post at 14:04:17 09/01/20) That's a great point on the propane not going bad. Gasoline is so temperamental now, you can really have issues if
a tractor sits too long between start ups. I guess the "bug" hasn't bitten you as bad with[b:6f8183000b] only 4[/b:6f8183000b], I've been
bitten pretty hard since 2013 and if I get this 730, it's going to make 13 in the shed. They call it tractor
fever, but I'm thinking it should be called a disease~ ha, ha, ha! Pat in Montana.

No, those are just my 730's...
I have a 420U all green, 430W w/DR, 530G NF, 630G NF, the 3 730's mentioned earlier (730D EL, and 2 730LP's), and a 830D EL.
I needed money for my kids college, so I sold my 320S that was 14th from end of production. Probably my most valuable tractor.
I'm finding I don't have much time for them any more and am thinking of selling all but the 430 and 830. We'll see...

 

[JDIH]

I dont know if this is true, but I've heard it depends on what state the tractor was sold new in, as some states required tractors to have fenders, some did not. Again, that's what ive heard before, not sure if it's true. Also if you're in corn country I'm sure many were removed to mount a picker and never put back on. Theres likely other implements that required fender removal in different parts of the country