Kubota lawn tractors

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Anyone here own or have experience w/ Kubota equipment? I just bought one of their lawn tractors & it should arrive next week.

 

[roundgunner]

I have a B-21 and like it alot. I hire out at $100 for the first hour and $60 each after.

I have dug up septic tanks, preped my driveway for cement, spread stone, moved rocks, transplanted trees, moved hills and right now I'm putting in a foundation for a 3 car garage.

 

[Wickahoney]

I bought a B-18 a few years back. It is the smallest of the Kubotas that is actually cataggorized as a mini tractor rather than a Garden Tractor.

I got mine with the hydrolics and it has saved my poor old tired back a million times. I move everything with the trasctor, hay, dirt, feed and use the backhoe attachment for ditches instead of my back and a shovel.

I got the B-18 instead of the b-21 because it was just a tiny bit smaller and fit between the wheel wells on a Dodge pickup. So all it takes to haul it around is a set of 4 wheeler ramps.

I love the thing and consider it money well spent.

Ross W Thomas

 

[gunsmith11]

it will last longer than you

 

[servmgr64]

I had a B7100 for almost 10 years was used when I bought it, had 0 problems with it. Now have a BX2350 bought new 2 years ago LOVE IT. They make great products. And yes what gunsmith11 said.

 

[kritter]

one of the places i use to work at had a Kubota L185... early 80's model.. daily driven @ roughly 10 hours a day by Amish teenagers.. only thing it got was a addition of "push-bars" and a bunch of dents. regular oil changes, and the occasional flipping back upright on to it's wheels..

anyhow things still going strong..

 

[News Shooter]

I have a friend who is an AR type. When he was looking for a tractor he spent six months researching them before buying a Kubota. By the way, that was over twenty years ago and it still looks and runs like new. He says he's never had a problem

 

[Faulkner]

I'm on my second Kubota. My first was a B7100 with hydrastat transmission and 4WD. Absolutely loved that tractor and it was pratically bullet proof, but I eventually bought a finishing mower and it was a little underpowered for that. Sold it 10 years after I bought it for exactly what I'd originally paid for it.

2nd tractor is a B2710, also with hydrastat and 4WD. At about 28 HP this one does everything I need it to do on my 6 acre homestead.

 

[AKtinman]

This should keep you occupied for awhile:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/index.php

Enjoy that Kubota.

 

[zercool]

My fire department uses one of their RTV900s as an off-road rescue/brush fire unit. Haven't been able to get it stuck yet, and it goes plenty fast. I'd get one. Green paint costs too much.

 

[n4zov]

Kabota tractors are widely used in this area by government and commercial users, and they all seem to be very satisfied or at least they seem to replace the old ones with new Kabodas.

 

[gregintenn]

They are bullet proof!

 

[jonnyringo]

I have owned a B7500 for around 10 years and it has never given me a problem. I just now replaced the battery for the first time last week. Keep the air filter blown out and the oil changed and they'll last a lifetime.

 

[Nframe]

I have this little one

BX2230




Its a fatastic yard tractor. A 60 mower deck and PTO driven bagger. (dual PTO one on the belly the other in the back) The deck raises with the 3 pt. hydraulics. Its the best "lawn" tractor I've ever had.

 

[wheelgun1958]

Originally posted by kritter:
one of the places i use to work at had a Kubota L185... early 80's model.. daily driven @ roughly 10 hours a day by Amish teenagers.. only thing it got was a addition of "push-bars" and a bunch of dents. regular oil changes, and the occasional flipping back upright on to it's wheels..

anyhow things still going strong..

I wasn't aware Amish used anything with an internal combustion engine. Mennonite perhaps.

 

[jrm53]

I bought a new M6800 cab tractor in 2000. Good tractor had a lot of trouble with air conditioner finally after spending a gross amount got it fixed. The last problems were with the front axels, this is not four wheel drive the first L.H axel broke off at 1300 hrs the R.H axel broke in the middle between the large rear bearing and the smaller outside bearing. This was a problem that is not to common but after much bitching they paid 2/3 of the cost. Tractor is good but parts a very high. These were front steering knuckles that broke.

 

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You guys are all out of my league w/ your Kubotas. I got a T2080 lawn tractor which is the smallest series they make. It has a 20hp Kohler twin that I'm hoping gives the same reliable service the Kohler single did in my 11 yr. old JD. The rest of the lawn tractor is pretty beefy looking.