Kubota tractors.

[Davey]

I've got an M9960 with loader and it suits me fine.

I don't do mega hours so the slightly basic cab doesn't bother me and with quite a tight yard the small turning circle makes life much easier.

For my needs and the money I couldn't find anything to touch it but I would agree with the comments about them being light on the back end as anything over around 800kg on the loader has the rear wheels lifting.

Oh, and the window opens all the way, even has a couple of side windows to open if you really want!

 

[Darren]

If there wasn't the option of closing the window for a perfect view that would be a good point......

I thought glass was see through ?

 

[jimmer]

i got self cleaning windows on kimberley

 

[General-Lee]

i got self cleaning windows on kimberley

Ha loving your stead![emoji50][emoji107][emoji90][emoji38]

 

[Cowabunga]

I've got an M9960 with loader and it suits me fine.

I don't do mega hours so the slightly basic cab doesn't bother me and with quite a tight yard the small turning circle makes life much easier.

For my needs and the money I couldn't find anything to touch it but I would agree with the comments about them being light on the back end as anything over around 800kg on the loader has the rear wheels lifting.

Oh, and the window opens all the way, even has a couple of side windows to open if you really want!

The tight turning circle and the two speed front axle to further aid turning on the smaller models is indeed a great and unique feature of them. No other farm utility tractor can match them for this and it must be a deciding factor for many when purchasing. I mean, even a 70hp 4wd can turn as tight as a MF135.

 

[7610 super q]

Maybe it's an age thing then.
Dusty, noisy power harrowing = window closed.
Muckspreading = window closed.( I know someone with a barrel spreader that doesn't )
Most other things I prefer the window open........ I like to hear when my elderly wibbly-wobbly implement starts making a grinding/knocking type noise.

 

[Roy_H]

Maybe it's an age thing then.
Dusty, noisy power harrowing = window closed.
Muckspreading = window closed.( I know someone with a barrel spreader that doesn't )
Most other things I prefer the window open........ I like to hear when my elderly wibbly-wobbly implement starts making a grinding/knocking type noise.

Baling straw with a JD 550 with the back window open and l heard a strange grumbling sound. Got off to have a look only to find a bearing so hot you couldn't touch it ( And it was covered in Chaff). I often wondered what might have happened if the back window had been closed and l had the stereo on full blast.....

 

[Davey]

Previously I would always have the rear window open (although for no reason beyond habit).

Since seeing a thread on here about hydraulic fluid poisoning from a pin pr*ck whole in a hose the window says firmly shut! A bit gruesome but worth a read as a cautionary tail.

 

[Barleycorn]

Pin plonker! We all know what he wrote, isn't it time that Clive sacked the net nanny, I'm sure we can all read p r i c k without needing smelling salts, deminishes the forum in my opinion.

 

[sheepmatilda]

Tell us more. What did it replace? How does it perform in comparison - what where your other considerations that you still chose the Kubota over?

Previous tractors valtra got on very well with them extremely reliable great residual only problem was Agco decided to move valtra from my dealer 2 miles away to one that's over hour. We were due to change them so kubota and local dealer aranged for us to go to Germany to drive a prototype in 2014. Deal done tractors arrived into dealer February2016 took them when plates changed. 5 year 5000 hour warranty replaced t151 hi tech with m7171kvt 10 horse more but kvt box. matched on performance when new, but Drivers say they are getting better and better.

 

[Will 1594]

Think you will find Neil Richardson can sell the big kubotas in Norfolk ,Tns can only sell the smaller agricultural range .neil has now got a 171kvt for demo

2 going here with planters on. With Neil's stickers in Vario ones. Fendt so chopped out for them

 

[Outsiderofthree]

With regard to fuel use in the big Kubota's, I was cultivating with a weaving sub disc at about 11" deep. My Deutz M420 (155hp 4cyl not ad blue) used 6lt per acre. Put a Kubota M7151 (150hp) powershift on and tried to set exactly the same, it used 5.3lt per acre. I did about 25ac with the Kubota to get that consumption figure. Kubota had done a bit over 200hours so only just starting to loosen up.

 

[quickfit24]

When everyone with green tractors with yellow wheels and green tractors with red wheels have finished blowing their own trumpets. They might realise there are other brands out there with just as much technology.
Touch screen more user friendly than fendt and JD and cheaper, don't knock it if you haven't tried it!!!

 

[crashbangwallop]

When everyone with green tractors with yellow wheels and green tractors with red wheels have finished blowing their own trumpets. They might realise there are other brands out there with just as much technology.
Touch screen more user friendly than fendt and JD and cheaper, don't knock it if you haven't tried it!!!

Excellent post! Iv got green/ yellow here, and am perfectly happy with them. I'd never shout down another mans tractor on the basis of colour scheme or badge on the grille

 

[David.]

Baling straw with a JD 550 with the back window open and l heard a strange grumbling sound. Got off to have a look only to find a bearing so hot you couldn't touch it ( And it was covered in Chaff). I often wondered what might have happened if the back window had been closed and l had the stereo on full blast.....

Specifically on the 550, I think you would have been better with the window shut....If it was anything like ours.

 

[brynseiri]

@jimmer raves about his. I couldn't find one when looking . A dealer in West Wales has several with more than 12000 hours with customers

Have you tried Major Owen in Porthmadog? They might not be the cheapest, but their back up and service is second to none. All the footballers and captains of industry on the Wirral can't be wrong.

 

[Grassman]

Baling straw with a JD 550 with the back window open and l heard a strange grumbling sound. Got off to have a look only to find a bearing so hot you couldn't touch it ( And it was covered in Chaff). I often wondered what might have happened if the back window had been closed and l had the stereo on full blast.....

But if you had the window shut you would of got shut of the 550 earlier!

 

[Jim B]

First dyno run of a fresh M7-151, 150 hp.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

First dyno run of a fresh M7-151, 150 hp.

What's the engine revs @ 1000 PTO? Just trying to work back the corrected torque. 6.1 litre motor?