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I originally posted this in the UTV forum but I don't think it gets nearly as many eyeballs as the manufacturer forums do. Finally broke down and bought a new side by side, a Kioti K9 2440 to go along with our older Cub Cadet Volunteer and here are my initial impressions of it. This thing is...

Finally broke down and bought a new side by side, a Kioti K9 2440 to go along with our older Cub Cadet Volunteer and here are my initial impressions of it. This thing is giant, 12 and a half feet long and almost seven feet tall with the roof (brushes the garage door going in). Turning radius is...

I went to the Kioti dealership to pickup the NX4510 (had an intermittent starting issue - safety controller replaced under warranty) with the 2019 Ford F-350 and the big PJ trailer. A couple of miles from the dealership I caught a whiff of diesel and thought I must have gotten some on me when I...

I run Lucas Fuel System Treatment in my 2019 Ford 6.7 diesel mostly because I don't have a lot of faith in the Bosch CP4 injector pump and figure any extra help I can give it might help. Might be just carrying a $25 a gallon rabbit's foot, but maybe it helps. We have a couple of Kioti tractors...

I am trying to not have a heart attack due to sudden sticker shock when I order the metal panels for the inside of the new shop/barn. I know that regular steel prices have more than doubled in the last year, but how are panel prices doing since the big runup? I need to get about another 4500...

Starting to narrow it down to two tractors. Need an open station hydro model with 40 plus pto horsepower that is easy to drive. It will primarily be used to pull a water wagon, nut harvester in a couple of years, and general farm work. I presently have a Kioti 7320 cab model that does a lot...

It looks like it is going to be another dry year around here so I am building a water wagon for watering about 250 young trees. Trailer is a single axle dual rear wheel with electric brakes and a 750 gallon tank. Estimated dry weight is about 1600 pounds and fully loaded about 7800 pounds. 250+...

I have a 3 year old 7320 that started having some strange transmission/clutch problems a couple of months ago. The main symptom, was the clutch pedal stopped working but at other times the forward/reverse lever also quit working. Turning off and restarting the tractor would fix it, at least...

I can spend a little money before the end of the tax year and would really like to replace my my old Schulte 10' 3 point mower. It cuts OK and has been great for cleaning the land up, but being a one piece deck it can dig in when turning on anything that is not perfectly flat and makes the...

It only took eleven months but I finally got my barn/shop dried in. Going to do the doors this weekend and then start on the windows. The building is red with white trim and doors, but my metal building supplier now only has aluminum (dull silver) and bronze in double pane and the wife is not...

I am making slow but steady progress on the new barn/maintenance shop for our ranch. Between weather, the pandemic, material shortages, flaky help, business slowdown squeezing cashflow, just 2020 in general has made good progress even more difficult. We have the framing steel up along with...

Our new farm building is coming along slowly and I am about ready to put the roof panels on. The building is a 40' x 100' with 16' sidewalls and a 4/12 pitch on the roof. The "kit" came with butyl tape for the roof seams, but I have read that it is only needed on roofs with a 2/12 pitch or...

I have a Ferris 700 zero turn mower that we use on our ranch for general mowing around the house and buildings, road frontage, and to mow under 200 pecan trees that are in former cattle pastures. Mower is great but cutting a mix of heavy coastal and bahia grass really dulls the blades quickly...

We started building a new barn/farm shop at our ranch to replace a couple of older buildings that are about done. The first phase is going to be a 40' x 100' central building (16' side walls with a 4/12 pitch roof) and then add 24' shed roofs coming off of each side for equipment storage. The...

My bumper pull equipment trailer is not nearly big enough and I am ready to buy a new gooseneck 30 foot dovetail trailer. Looked at some used ones and by the time you replace the worn out tires, bad brakes, weld up the existing damage, and fix the wiring you are almost at the price of a new...

We have a Cub Cadet Volunteer at the squirrel ranch and it gets ten to twelve hours of use/abuse each weekend. I have a 275 gallon water tote in the back of it and we put out about 2500 gallons of water on some new pecan trees and a 25 gallon sprayer mounted on the front rack that you have to...

Getting ready to build a 40x80x16 foot metal building at our place. It will be used for equipment and as a shop now and eventually for pecan processing in five to ten years. The soil where I want to put the building is a loam/clay/sand mix - it moves some between rainy and dry but the house...

Picked up an ancient Kubota KX71 mini excavator on Friday and spent Saturday morning digging up and pulling down some almost dead persimmon trees. Local tractor dealer took it in on trade and found the motor was toast from a bad ether start (broke most of the rings). They did an overhaul plus...

We have had our well water supply fail several times this year due to ants getting in the contacts of the Square D pressure switch. I have tried spraying several kinds of "long lasting" ant spray on any path that they can take to get into the switch but if you forget to do it every week the...

Last weekend we hit 99 degrees at the squirrel ranch and I did a bunch of loader and grapple work with the 7320 and can report that the AC works very well. Started around noon after the tractor had been in the sun all morning so it was already hot in the cab but it cooled off quickly. I was...

My wife and I bought an old ranch in central Texas at the end of last year (86 acres) with the intention to eventually retire there and raise pecans. One thirty acre pasture where we are going to start planting trees next winter was pretty beat up and rough from over grazing and too many fire...

Blew a pinched O-ring on the spoolvalve endplate on my RX7320 and pumped a lot of hydraulic oil out (ended up having to add 4 gallons to fill it back up). The manual was very specific about what fluids were compatible and the generic Tractor Supply 303 was not one of them. The Kioti branded...

Spent some time discing about 12 acres on Saturday with the 7320. This is beatup old cattle pasture that has not been turned in a long time. Lots and lots of huge fire ant mounds, bumps and lumps, and other irregularities. The ground is hard and I am only getting about 3 - 4 inches down even...

I bought an Armstrong Ag 72" 6.5" spacing brush rake grapple when I bought my Kioti RX7320 and finally have time to do a mini review on it. This one is heavier than the Everything Attachments style at about 850 pounds but it does have a heavier top gate. I have mostly used it for scraping up...

I need to replace the blades on my shredder and was wondering if the ones from Tractor Supply are any good. I have noticed over the years that a lot of their stuff is made in China which is not a huge mark of excellent quality to me. Doubt that I will be able to make it to the dealer before...

Are there any good rules of thumb for tractor horse power per foot of disc width along the lines of 5 PTO HP per foot of shredder? Need to get a bigger disc and wondering what a 70HP 4wd tractor will pull.

Here are a couple of pictures of our new RX7320 right after it was delivered and was still clean. So far we have used it cleaning up some old brush piles, dug a 4 foot deep hole with the loader, mowed the farm roads so you can see where you are going, and used the loader to move some equipment...

New RX7320 power shuttle cab owner here. Looked at a lot of tractors and did a lot of reading online (thanks TBN!) before deciding on the 7320. In-laws and an employee are huge Kubota fans, but I think that the Kioti offers a lot more value and features in this size of tractor. Been out of...