I've been considering getting either the new L39 (with the finance deal Kubota is doing now) or a used L35 (they have one for about $18.5 at my dealer) for our business to use on a variety of tasks on site. I need to be able to pull it with my 3/4 ton diesel truck and already have a dump trailer that either of these would fit into for moving from job to job if we need to. We would use it for grading driveways with gravel to prep for slabs, trenching and filling for electrical laterals and gas laterals to the house, trenching water and sewer lines, digging foundations about 3 ft deep for small additions and garages that we often build, and putting forks on the front to be able to move lumber and things around on the site (move the pile of roof plywood up to the edge of the roof instead of out where the delivery truck dropped it). Will this type of machine work well for what I would like to do with it? The other option is just rent as we need but it's about $300 a day for the mini or something like that. We do have several jobs right now including 3 different large garages, an addition on the back of a home, and a couple of new homes with fairly large driveways that we would consider using this machine for that work. Have any of you used these machines? Are they too small or will they be up to the tasks I'm looking at? Are there substantial maintenance costs I'm not thinking about on them?
