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Another 17 pages of right wing whining. I periodically take a break from this site after it regularly degenerates into this right wing bullshit. See Ya!

Mine ck4010) is at about 20 hours, but the button isn’t involved. The light comes on, it starts regen, and you keep on working. Just up the engine speed to 2400 rpm or so. Typically the cycle pauses after a few minutes, presumably to limit max temperature in the DPF, then resumes and...

I’m fairly certain the “Cummins” engines in the TYM tractors are actually A series engines, which were originally designed and produced by Onan in the late seventies. Cummins eventually bought Onan, probably in the late 80s or 90s, and integrated them into their generator business. The A...

Mine is a 74 hp Case 8800 lb machine. It’s been fine for personal use. The earlier machines had harness issues from what I have seen but that’s been fixed. New Holland sells essentially the same machine wit different paint and graphics. It replaced a Deere wheeled skid steer. The Kioti...

Apparently the really inexpensive units lack pilot controls, from what I gather, but that feature is there on the upscale versions. Pilot control would be desirable. I missed my chance at a Kubota version at our local municipal auction a number of years ago. It was diesel powered and went for...

I don’t know what happened, but this forum has pretty much become unuseable because of the annoying and incessant ads. Someone ruined a good thing. I won’t be back!

All modern diesel cars have limp home mode, DPF regeneration, and SCR after treatment. So do light and heavy duty Diesel trucks. So does construction equipment of any size. So what’s the point?

But they figured it out, didn’t they? That old 6.6l engine put out around 146 hp ( from memory) had open chamber heads and severely retarded cam timing, low compression, and a carburetor, but still put out probably five times the emissions the modern 6.2 l engine does. The 6.2 has efi, higher...

At one time the manufacturers all offered different displacement engines to differentiate the incremental power differences between models. IH had 155 and 179 three; 206, 239, 268 and 239 turbo four; 310, 358, and 402 and 358 turbo six cylinder engines, all on the same platform. This made...

Kioti dealer is about 5 miles away. I have to drive past the Kioti store every time I go to the grocery store another five miles up the road. Good inventory and they have mobile service. Deere is maybe 12 -15 miles away in the other direction. Kubota and Mahindra, along with another Deere...

You’re oversimplifying and obviously don’t understand the chemistry and physics of NOx formation.

I have four Stihl saws, a consumer grade ms171, farm grade 29 and 310, and a pro grade 460. I wouldn’t recommend spending the extra money for pro grade unless you use it like a ro. The cheap light 181 is fine for limbing and yard cleanup, the 029 are fine for most of my tree removal and...

I bought the 4010 for use with a front snowblower. I have added a box blade, landscape rake, and now a flail mower. With the exception of the rake, all the other implements could use more power on occasion, so I wouldn’t recomm the 2610 at all. The box blade is traction limited sometimes as...

Dewalt or Bosch. I have probably a half dozen or more Milwaukee M18 and M12 tools and find them disappointing compared to their Dewalt counterparts

Part of the analysis includes tooling, qualification, and warranty savings cost. Redesign and cost reduction are ongoing processes for any manufacturer. The consumer may never know, unless the changes are large enough to require a part number change. Often it’s just a revision letter change...

Any manufacturer who relies on product testing is living in the past. It’s all about upfront design, modeling and simulation now, and has been for over twenty years. Testing is more or less restricted to proof of concept and final product validation. The old ways of design, test, break...

Amazon remains about the easiest place to order from, even if they may not be the absolute cheapest. It’s a one or two click task vs having to set up an account, password, credit card info, etc. The main exception in my world is Auto parts. Can’t beat Rock’s catalog, and their delivery time...

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Yours is.

Local Kioti dealer was down a whopping two units ytd on Friday, but he sold two units Monday. Essentially a wash compared to last year. I need a well drilled at my shop. Of the two drillers in the area, one has an 18 months lead time, and the other said maybe November, if all goes well. My...

I’m biased to the Kioti CK 3510 or 4010 (or whatever the new designation is) hst, cab, with a front blower. Pretty good snow removal machine and big enough to do loader and fork work, along with landscape rake and box blade work. Fits in my garage too.

I probably run my Kawasaki Teryx in 2wd 90% of the time, but there are situations where you need 4wd, and low range, mostly to compensate for the light weight of the Teryx. My elderly neighbors make do quite nicely with a golf cart though. They use it mostly for yard cleanup, downed branches...

Yup. Been to both. Been stranded because the Ranton pass was closed. They get short spells of heavy snow, but it’s in general an arid climate compared to the Great Lakes and east coast, so there’s little corrosion on cars. I suspect the thin air at high altitudes arrests corrosion, too, since...

Businesses have to file quarterly, don’t they?

The Amarok is about twice the price as the Maverick, and is probably burdened with legendary VW quality (not). Plus it’s a soccer mom weeniemobile with no bed. Great for those trips to Walmart, though.

That’s why, in part, I ended up with Kioti, Deere, and Case equipment. Kubota shut down when I was buying. Glad to see they’re back now, presumably under new management.

Says the guy with an imported tractor. What a Patriot!

Magnesium chloride is more corrosive to automobile bodies than rock salt is. Your state is arid, with mild winters, very little snowfall, and low relative humidity. That’s why your cars don’t rust. You use volcanic cinders because you have vast fields of lava fields. That’s not common other...

The Maverick, when released, stickered at $1995 . Not a bad deal at the time, and was actually quite a good around town car with the 200 six, and even better with the 250 six or the 302 v8 that came along a little later. It was quite a good seller, too, with close to 600000 sold the first year.

Most cars meet 50 state emissions, and have for twenty years.

I get a chuckle every time I hear the term “over built” That term really means poorly engineered, or a we used to say, “woods engineered”. Make it, break it, then put on a few gussets or add a hundred pounds to the casting. That’s not engineering at all, it’s trial and error which leads to an...

Maybe he took the buyout.

Maybe if you had the proper withholding set up in the first place you wouldn’t have to write that check. Cry me a River.

Find a used CTL. Much more suitable for your application, and much more robust / less fragile. Tractors are primarily designed for dragging things around And farming type operations . Various types of construction equipment are for dirt work, land clearing, etc, and are much more rugged by...

Sounds like the op got caught up in the “no emissions for me “ bullshit propaganda spread by many here. It takes power to do work, especially in hilly terrain. Step up and buy the equipment with the power it takes to do the work you need to accomplish. You’re making a mistake if your 25 hp...

extending the auction a few minutes after the last bid seems fair. It eliminates sniping where people were using computer programs to get a high bid recognized just as the auction timed out. I was looking at eBay last night for the first time in years. What a cluster you know what. Mostly...

Narrow your search to those that include a tilt steering wheel. Be aware that tilt may only be available on the deluxe trim version, though. My Kioti ck4010 SE has it. Standard versions, ie non SE don’t, although it may be an option on them. Also, consider how flat the floor is, and whether...

My tractor doesn’t have springs!

I bought a landscape rake for the tractor. We’re on sand, so it rips the vegitation out somewhat, but it grows back.

They work great until the silicon band won’t ret the flimsy fuel transfer hose to the body. The hose flies off and there’s fuel everywhere. Better off buying some fuel hose, an inexpensive fuel lift pump and some alligator clips, then use a 12 v battery or power source. Much safer.

Might be better off selling your tractor and buying one with a factory cab……. Something to think about. There doesn’t seem to be much depreciation, and you get a brand new warranty that way. Our Kioti dealer routinely installs the Kioti field cab on open station tractors though. After...

I looked at those two brands, and ended up with a Kioti. Deere dealer had a take it or leave it attitude. Kubota had an old fashioned, uncomfortable treadle pedal for hst controls, an uncomfortable loader joystick, and seemed to have a larg, uncomfortable transmission hump. Kioti was an...

I sort of like the low mounted fuel tanks. Refueling a high mounted tank is somewhat difficult, as those fuel jugs aren’t exactly light. My ck4010 cab tractor has the high rear Polly tank. That was the one negative when considering it or the NX. DK didn’t have mid pto at the time. Only...

I’m just going by what I remember from setting master pumps on an engine dyno in the mid 70s. That’s a long time ago, and I don’t know how well a pto dyno or chassis rolls correlate to actual engine crankshaft power readings. I do know that when I worked at Ford Tractor when they were in Troy...

That’s generally how it was in our company. There are always exceptions, though. Also, the German apprentice programs are fine, but remember that there are also two university technical tracks. You pre determ which track you are entering. One is a more “practical” track, more akin to a high...

Didn’t read the entire thread, but I own a similar 1999 F450. Mine has a Boss straight blade plow, v10, and automatic, with about 73000 miles. I bought it at a municipal auction in 2007 for $4500. It was a former Park District truck, and cheaper than F250 pickups in equal condition. The...

I thing taxes, in general, are at historically low levels. lots of negativity and doom and gloom from some sectors that apparently want the country to fail.

I agree that short term, they can be rebuilt, but eventually they won’t be.Your grandchildren are unlikely to be using it for anything other than novelty or nostalgia purposes. If they need a tractor to do actual work, they’ll be looking for a 2035 model. Not much demand for Conastoga wagon...

Is it an in house engine or purchased from an outside vendor? edit. I looked it up. The 2.4 and (3?) liter engines are (or were?)made by Deere, in Mexico, for smaller Deere equipment, and, I presume, loose engine sales. The design has been out since the early/mid 2000s. The latest brochures...

7% probably isn’t a bad rate if you look at history. We bought at 12% back in 1985, if I remember correctly. It didn’t stay there long, so we refinanced a couple of times, though. Even our first house a decade earlier was, I think, around 6% or so. My memory says 5% was pretty typical for...

You’re seeing the same thing for electric cars. Almost brand new cars listed in the private market for $20 k above sticker. The dealers are all sold out so “ entrepreneurs “ are buying up the few that are available and flipping, or trying to flip them to turn a quick buck. Same thing that...

We live in Az in the winter

We never referred to oxygen impingement in Engineering. Must be a Cummins term.

Best I can tell Yanmar engines introduced in the last, say five or so years are all parent bore. They don’t really talk much about it but the cutaways in their new product release videos sure look like parent bore blocks. Legacy engines retain liners, as it’s very difficult to economically...

Correct. Big bore engines are pretty much exclusively wet sleeve.But you’re talking engines that have a manufacturing cost of close to $20000 in the case of a class 8 big bore truck engine, and that’s not taking in profit or return on investment into consideration. It’s also why mid range and...

I can say that I have never been stuck off roading in my side by side. Can’t say that about any of my Broncos or 4x4 pickup trucks. Even if I did get the (1200 lb?) side by side stuck, it would be a lot easier to get out and back running than my old 4000 lb Bronco or a 5000 lb + pickup.

A wet sleeve engine typically has better cooling around the circumference and length of the cylinder bore, and can generally be rebuilt in place, rather than pulling the engine and remachining the crankcase. There is also less mechanical distortion in most cases because cylinder head bolt...

That’s not true, due to the reason I explained before. An engine set up with zero torque rise, pulling any sort of implement at full power, will die and have to be restarted in a lower gear if it hits heavier soil or encounters any condition that requires more torque to keep moving. An engine...

Did Deere make a five cylinder in house? There’s a lot that goes into product planning decisions that really aren’t technical issues. Volume of a particular model, factory utilization, engineering costs to meet emissions for low volume engines, product cost, packaging, and a hundred other...

Back in the mid seventies, one of my first jobs out of college was developing master pump settings for various engine applications on the dyno. What I recall is that a relatively high power turbocharged tractor would have a torque rise of 15% at the time. NA engines had less torque rise, as...

Navistar never really left the on road market, but certainly reduced their footprint. Their “BigBore” engine built in Huntsville is a heavy duty derivative of the MAN engine., and was introduced well before they exited the medium duty market. Now that Volkswagen owns Navistar, along with MAM...

Look up Daedong engines in your browser. It has all the different engine models, power, peak torque, and emission levels for the Kioti engines. Looks like includes engines for other applications, too, with, for example, higher rated eng speeds. The interesting thing to me is the major torque...

You’re talking about tractors that have been out of production for thirty or forty years. International for one hasn’t made a small or medium sI e wet sleeve tractor engine since the mid eighties, and nobody that I know of makes a dry sleeve Diesel anymore. Perkins was probably the last...

Central Valley in California is where I saw that when I worked in Engineering for the Red Tractor company in the seventies and eighties. Not common for small operations, but seen sometimes with the big guys.

You’re looking at heavy, high power farm tractors in your dissertation, not scut, cut, and utility sized tractors that most in this forum have. A farm tractor may get 2000 hours or more in a year, while these smaller tractors never accumulate that many hours in the owner’s lifetime. The...

Rent a skid steer, as Rusty suggested. Preferably a tracked machine if the ground is soft or wet. Those are construction equipment tasks.

My dealer sells both, but he recommended that that I get a ztr for mowing rather than a belly mower for a tractor.

40 hp isn’t all that much when you’re dragging a fully loaded box blade, although traction may be an issue then with a CUT. Snowblower operation can take a lot of power too, and the higher power tractor may have higher road speed, if that’s a factor to you. The lower power engines with old IDI...

My tractor is a Ck4010. I bought it with a front blower, and a box blade, and sold my skid steer. I was doing work on the lakefront at the time, and it was too wet for the skid steer to be effective. The tractor didn’t work out for that, as it was too wet for the tractor too, plus the cg of...

I gave up on finding a reasonably priced used tractor in good condition, and shopped for new. My neighbor bought a one year old ck2610 open station with a backhoe about two years later. It works for him, but he paid almost as much as a new one was going for at the time, so what’s the point in...

You’re not describing CUT work. Go with a full size backhoe or a CTL. A CTL and small excavator would be ideal, but above budget. You can sell them without much depreciation, though. when you’re done, buy a Kioti DK or CK.

You’re describing construction dirt work, not Scut or Cut work in the original post.. I’m not a fan of construction backhoes, but either that or buy a CTL and rent a mini excavator. The small tractors are ok for maintenance, but they’re too light for real dirt work. My neighbor is trying to...

Nobody can answer your question because the fuel is blended at either the local distributor terminal or the regional terminal. As an example, the only local diesel with gelling problems was from Walmart. All the others seemed to be ok. I get my fuel, ie diesel and propane from a local jobber...

Different priorities for different people. We get 300” of snow most years. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Blowing wet spring snow takes a lot of power, especially after a 24” snowfall. Even 40 hp is marginal sometimes if you don’t have all day to spend doing the cleanup. Toting a loader...

I agree with much of the original post, with exceptions. My primary use for a tractor was originally for snow blowing. I still have visions of my late father coming in with his red hunting hat and jacket covered with snow after a session walking behind first the Montgomery Ward / Gilson, then...

Not the current 35 hp engine. The 2610 is the old IDI, mechanical fuel system variant and, as such, has little in common with the Direct Injection, common rail engine in the 3510 and 4010. Having said that, overall my brother in law likes his 2610, despite the low power. Personally, I find...

Good post, but don’t forget that there are both vertical lift and radial lift machines. My old wheeled Deere skid steer was a vert lift machine, and my curr Case CTL is radial lift. After using both, I would look fo vertical lift if I ever had to replace the radial CTL. I would strongly...

None in Mi.

I suspect the 1/3 or 50% derate from actual lift capacity has something to do with the dynamics of a machine in motion vs stationary operation. It’s one thing to be able to lift something off the ground, and it’s another thing to be able to safely transport that load across who knows what...

Concentrate on your education by going to college, or at least getting some type of career and skill training for now. After you are established in your professional career, there’s plenty of time to help your parents out financially. Sixty is still pretty young in the scope of things...

That will get you one with 7000 hard hours. A new one runs $100-200k, depending on size and options.

Non friend ~60%. Friend, either 50%, or free, depending on how good a friend he was. On the other hand, if I was the friend, I would want to give you at least 50%, and maybe full price, if they’re really like new.

Where are you getting your data on how weak the dollar is? The dollar is trading at about 1.35 Canadian dollars, and 1.09 Euros. That’s the strongest the dollar has been in years. Do you have some data that I’m not privy to or are you just regurgitating right leaning talking points?

House next door sold in about a week. Same floor plan as mine, and the woman got full asking price… 75% more than we paid three years ago, and 30% more than the identical house across the street went for 14 months ago. The housing market may be down, but not everywhere. Realtors here in my...

Yes it could be a gasser like I sgated in my post. The gassers were sort of declining in volume worldwide during that timeframe and were eventually discontinued. I think the gas engines were built in Doncaster, but I’m not sure.

Doncaster built tractor with a direct injection 179 cu inch three cylinder wet sleeve diesel engine built at the IH factory in Neuss Germany. Probably a Bosch VA injection pump. There were gasoline versions with a British built engine too. The replaceable cylinder liners had only one oring...

That’s the problem with testimonials devoid of fact. You have no way of knowing that any comparable tractor or truck run along side yours, with the same service and maintenance interval, wouldn’t be just as clean. modern lubricants have come a long way from the stuff that was on the market a...

Our Kioti, Deere! Kubota, and Mahindra dealers all seem to have a pretty good inventory, at least compared to the past couple of years. I’m most familiar with the Kioti dealer since I have to drive past him every time I leave the house , and although his stock was certainly low for the past...

A conspiracy theory website. When will you guys get hour heads out of….

Your manifesto is the epitome of conspiracy theory propaganda.

Mouse milk. Save your money, and let those guys hawk their additives at the county fair, along with the Veg-a-Matics and household gutter guards.

Are you sure that both your three and four cylinder engines are both with the same combustion system?? An IDI engine will require glow plugs by design, independent of number of cylinders. on the other hand, a four cylinder will always start better than a three, given the same cranking speed...

Mine is a Deere 26G. I bought it new, without a cab. It was a tough choice between the 26G and 35G with cab and air. though, and the slightly larger machine would have the advantage when pulling stumps. In the end, the budget forced the decision to go 26G. There just weren’t any used...

As long as it wasn’t delivered running on fumes, full or only partially filled doesn’t matter. (For the record, I think mine was full, and so was my Case CTL and Deere mini ex.) Just remember, the fuel, hats, sweatshirts, etc aren’t really free. You’re paying for them one way or another.

A couple of hp, at most. Those big power loss numbers were being thrown around in the fifties and early sixties when air conditioning in cars was becoming more common, but they were a stretch even the,. Modern rotary compressors are more efficient than those old reciprocating beasts, too. I...

Your timeline that’s “in perfect order” is, to be blunt, wrong. Ford improved the spark plug retention with the introduction of the PI heads in the 2000 model year, and then again in the 2003 model year. There hasn’t been an issue with plugs blowing out since these changes were implemented...

Those things have been out of production for years. The replacement is an International with a Chevy cab and a Duramax / Allison powertrain. International sells the same truck, albeit with a different front clip.

Spark plug spitting was over with by the time the 6.0 went into production, and Chevy has the same exhaust manifold bolt issues as Ford. Get your time line in order is all I can recommend. By the way, Ford continues to dominate the market, so a lot of these stories are hyperbole.

Miles don’t mean much on a line truck.most engine run time on a rig like that is idling. v10 had something like 3800 hours at 150000 miles, if I recall correctly. That’s an average of around 39.5 mph. A line truck probably averages 10 mph, and would have 15000 hours at the same mileage. That...

Looking at your pictures reaffirms that a compact tractor isn’t the right tool for your project. They are too light to do what you are asking, and will be torn up before the project is complete. They can handle the mowing, but that’s about it. Consider saving a little more money for a year or...

I seem to remember that there is some sort of registry run by the financial community that lists serial numbers of equipment that is financed. The list includes tractors, equipment etc.

I’m a broken record on this subject, but you seriously should look into a CTL, and, eventually, a mini excavator. Compact tractors have their place, but you’re, in my opinion, describing work beyond their intended scope. They’re just too dainty.

Go directly to the scrap yard with that one. Virtually nothing is salvageable.

That’s true, but it’s also why they make class seven and eight trucks, and why Diesel dominates in those markets. Using your rationale, a class 8 semi could probably reduce your trips to five. The F550 and equivalent rigs aren’t used much for real hauling anymore, since they require the same...

I worked for a Diesel engine manufacturer for around thirty five years, doing engine developmen, but own two Ford Super Duty V10s, a two valve F450 4wd dump truck, and a three valve F350 long bed dually crew cab. Why don’t I have a Diesel, you ask? I simply don’t drive either enough miles to...

Not sure, but I believe you’re going to have to find a tractor with a common rail fuel system and HST to find something with cruise control. The old school mechanical fuel systems typically wouldn’t have the flexibility and contrl that a modern electronic engine has. Take a look at the Kioti...

153 posts and there’s still confusion? Must be a home schooled group

Valve train separation design point is generally at 150% of rated speed and power. Another words, if the manufacturer rates the engine at 2600 rpm, you’re safe running the engine downhill at least to 3900 rpm, if not more, almost indefinitely. Friction and pumping work increase rapidly above...

Don’t take it too personally, Tim. You’re a public figure now, so thick skin is part of that deal. Frankly, I followed you for quite a while, and still do occasionally.. you lost me on the health care deal, though. Strikes me as being not very inclusive, and rather elitist, but that’s not...

We’ve had good luck with our Kawasaki Teryx 850. Bought it in 2013, so it’s coming up on 9 years old. One fouled plug in all that time. Still on the original battery. I think top speed is somewhere over 50, but I keep it closer to 30-35 for the 1 mile road trip to the shop. Bought it for...

I watched him for years, but soured on him first when he went to promoting a health care scam. One that’s worked for some, but has thrown others under the bus. I am not anti Deere. I had an excellent Deere skid steer for ten years, and my excavator is a Deere. Great products. I still think...

I quit watching him for the same reason as I ditched TTwT. Nothing more than a talking head with an infomercial, fo which he gets paid handsomely. He’s basically a Deere and Kubota shill. I quit watching after he badmouth the “minor “ brands with the same tired old resale value tripe. It...

That’s been refuted numerous times. Nice try, though.

I used to watch Tractor Time with Tim too. Great entertainment, but take what he says with a grain of salt. He’s a paid shill for all things John Deere. I have nothing against John Deere. That’s the label on my excavator.

Liability only provides coverage to damages caused by the implement. It doesn’t cover theft or damage to the implement, unless caused by the dealer or his employees.

That’s why modern factories rely on automated machining and assembly processes. They are more reliable and repeatable than the nostalgic fairy tale craftsmanship folklore would have you believe.

As Dr Demming said, 100% inspection is 50% effective. Not arguing that the technician should have done his job right, but rather that relying on a technician to do this type of work is a lost cause. There’s simply no way to insure quality in a process that is essentially a “ write a job ticket...

I don’t really consider tradesmen as independent business people in that sense. Not denigrating them or their trade by any means, although I expect to get pushback from that statement. What I am talking about is internally developed quality standards for a business that are recorded and...

Same issue on most small, low spec tractors. Part of the appeal is low cost, but then, you have to learn to live with the lack of features. If I had to do it again, I would go with a Kioti NX instead of my CK. Draft control was standard on the NX.

The tractor is shipped on a pallet on a flatbed trailer . The dealer installs the tires, loader, and accessories, and does the pre delivery prep. You’re complaining about Kioti, the Corporation, but every one of your issues is a dealer issue. The dealer is a franchisee, and doesn’t work for...

Deere has three different types of dealerships, from what I can tell. “Yellow “ specializes in construction equipment. “Green” ag dealers are commercial farm equipment, mostly aimed at corporate farmers. “Green” lawn and garden dealerships handle smaller CUT and SCUT equipment, as well as skid...

My wife was talking about how her 96 year old (!) aunt hops on the Internet to order things or figure out how to set up new gadgets. My own mother, though, was afraid to turn the computer on when she was 70. Scared her to death (not literally).

I’m likely older than you. The fact is, though, many older people are resistant to change. It’s pretty evident if you spend a little time perusing some of the threads on this forum.

I suspect it’s because of the relatively high specific gravity of the solution. More weight than something like methanols or whatever washer fluid was comprised of. That why beet juice derivatives are popular today. High specific gravity and nor overly corrosive.

Clutch wear and replacement is a bigger problem than hst or turbo warranty. Ever wonder why you can’t get a manual transmission in a heavy duty pickup anymore, or why the majority of mediums are Allison’s?

That’s what happened in the car, truck, and construction equipment business. Manufacturers really don’t want to deal with small dealerships if they can avoid it. It’s not very efficient. Thus the evolution of the mega dealers.

Most of the communication leading to the purchase and delivery of my tractor, CTL, and mini excavator was done via email or text. The CTL and mini were from dealers a little over 100 miles away, and the tractor from about five miles, which I have to drive past every time I go to town. (Well...

The latch is a little on the flimsy side, and is easy bent. Lubing it up really well helps immensely though. It tends to freeze up with the fine snow from a front snowblower too. Had to use a salamander a couple of times to melt the ice off mine to get it to release.

I don’t think that a cab is all that expensive, all things considered. Mine was around $5k, maybe a little more, but if I were to sell now, after four or so years, I would get much of that back. Some people plan to keep their tractor twenty years. If the cab is amortized over that period...

Automobile and heavy truck sales went the mega dealer route years ago, as did Deere and Cat, among others. The mom and pop dealer is rapidly becoming extinct, just like the local auto parts or corner grocery. Messick sees the handwriting on the wall, and chose to participate, rather than wither.

Lots of older peopl don’t accept changes, and never will. They eventually age out of the system, as we all do, and change and new ideas and ways of doing business happen anyway. Change is inevitable, and clinging to old ways won’t stop it.

Loader lift specs are a lot like vehicle tow ratings, in that there are a lot of internal corporate engineering standards and criteria that have to be met in order to advertise a lift capacity value. In the vehicle world, it’s not only if the vehicle will tow a given trailer up a given hill at...

White smoke is generally associated with low compression, retarded injection timing, or low cetane fuel.

Maybe some should stick with mule power then. Same argument.

Can we stop the right wing cable propaganda nonsense and get back to tractor discussions?

I don’t believe there were fewer tractor brands fifty years ago. Tractor manufacturing history is rich in bankruptcy and merger stories, going back to the twenties and before. Nobody makes a Ford, Oliver, Allis Chalmers, Co-op, White, Case or a dozen other brands that have been dissolved...

Sounds like a wiring harness issue. It would be highly unlikely that an intermittent fault would be a sensor Ecuador’s fault. Wiring harness or plug / pin issues are often intermittent.

I wouldn’t base judgment on turbo Diesel engines on experience with a forty year old gasoline sports car. Of the same animal at all.

Woods equipment is pretty stout.

Don’t think so. Integral power steering is a term used in the 60s to distinguish the Saginaw power steering boxes from the earlier technologies that used a separate hydraulic ram that clamped on the tie rod to provide the hydraulic assist.

Not sure on this, and it’s largely speculation, but the Kioti has orbital valve hydraulic power steering that’s run off the main hydraulic pump, and I suspect the power steering only draws flow when the operator is actively moving the steering wheel. When the wheel is stationary, all hydraulic...

Plow prices vary with the season in the snow belt. They peak in September -November, the slide until spring and early summer when everyone is fed up with winter. Plows go cheap without the wiring harness, switches, controllers, and truck adapters and undercarriage, especially if they aren’t...

So you’re in favor of dismantling the military. Not a popular position to take.

No doubt that an HST is the way to go. Second, living where you do, consider a factory cab with air conditioning. Third, unless you expect to be really pressing loader capacity limits, look into the ck3510 or ck4010 Kioti. I don’t believe the bigger is better folks understand the value of a...

Nice antique. Where’s the heated and air conditioned cab, mid pot, and front mounted blower? How’s the stereo working?

Your investments have gained probably well over fifty percent over the past twelve or thirteen years. It’s nonsense to look at a four week period and start fretting and wringing your hands. Markets go up, and they correct and go down. Look at stock charts over the past fifty years. If you...

Go to the Kioti website and type in your zip code. Looks like there are six or eight dealers in Arizona.

Last I checked, both Scalia and Daimler offered V8 engines in their largest trucks for the European and worldwide markets. The main advantage of a v8 is packaging in cabover trucks. That style truck isn’t popular here for a number of reasons, mostly centered on not much mobility needed here...

The problem with these press releases and the numbers thrown around is that it’s not clear exactly what 16%, with a twenty % target means. I think he’s referring to the 20 hp segment, not to all of the markets in which they compete, which probably goes up to 75 or 100 hp. Same issue as the 50%...

Last 6.4 was produced, what, eleven years ago, by a company whose CEO refused to embrace DEF. That CEO is now unemployed because of that decision.who is now unemployed

Look at the sources of that opinion piece. It’s a right wing think tank, one whose sole purpose is to foist ideology on the public. It’s clearly identified as an opinion, not a scientific based fact. Nice try, though.

Someone spreading hysteria to drum up views for YouTube monetary rewards and five minutes of fame. Emissions controls are established technology that’s been refined since introduced a decade ago.

Our local parts store dropped the Optima lineup. Too many failures is what they told me when asked why. Any modern common rail tractor should have better starting and cleanup than the old garbage mechanical tractors. The electronics don’t have the limitations in calibrating timing to...

Well worth it!

Kubota was off my list for three reasons when I got my Kioti a few years ago. Didn’t like the treadle pedals. Didn’t like the price. Dealer was going under in a messy divorce. I see they’re back in business not, but the first two issues haven’t been addressed.

That’s why God gave us the cabbed tractor.

Also, you have to play everything close to the hip when you’re talking to those guys. They listen to every word you speak, and use it to build internal intelligence so they can figure out what your future product plans are, so they can make long term market and industry forecasts. Marketing...

Yes they are.

Global Market Insights would be one.

The later 7.3 liter Navistar Diesels don’t have a return line, nor do engines with common rail fuel systems. Spark ignition gas engines run within a narrow air/ fuel ratio window, around 14.6:1, so they use a throttle plate to reduce airflow and increase vacuum in the cylinder at less than wot...

My tractor is a relatively light 40 hp with a factory cab and rimguard loaded tires. It’s pretty much traction limited when using the loader to move sand or gravel. I only have a experience with three rear ballast devices. Rotary cutter works, but is impractical because of the size or form...

Says who? Can you back that up with anything but anecdotal data?

My FIL had a place in Texas. His message was that, when you look at all the taxes and use fees, it’s about a wash between Texas and his other home in Michigan. When comparing, you can cherry pick to make one look better or worse, but all in, it takes money to support roadies, fire departments...

My Grandfather and great grandfather cleared their 160 acres of logged over white pine stumpage with horses and a little dynamite in the early 1900s. That’s how they did it back then. That’s all they had.

I paid a lot more than that to get n Engineering degree, and I pay for my own CTL expenses. $500/ year is chump change, plus, if you’re running your own business, it’s deductible on your income taxes, so the government is subsidizing you anyway.

I’ve Had skid steers, and now a CTL for almost fifteen years, and have pulled a lot of stumps with them.. It’s a lot easier, and quicker to use the mini ex, even a small one. Plus, it’s easier on the machine.

I’m a “keep drugged up truckers off the highways “ type. Sounds like you’re not.

Sounds like you’re looking for the taxpayer to support you via a government bailout. Maybe find a different career?

Sounds like the rubber on everything I have ever bought from Harbor Freight.

Only if you have a business that can depreciate the purchase price. A firewood business would qualify, but a homeowner likely wouldn’t.

I would rather have you be required to be drug free than to have my granddaughter killed by a drugged up trucker whil she’s driving back to college. Remember the pill popping truck drivers on the roads and the accidents and deaths they caused that ultimately led to CDL licensing requirements...

Deere and Kubota aren’t major brands? They both make pretty much all of their own tractors in their own Factories at various locations around the world.

False. Deere makes their own lawn tractors, including the home center models. The internet continues to be propagated, I see.

Kubota claims to be Nimber 1, but by what measures? Sales volume? Customer satisfaction? Highest R/100 failure rate? Most dissatisfied customers? Not sure what they’re peddeling without supporting data.

I agree with this, but the other poster claimed some engines will function by putting deionized water in the DEF tank. Still waiting for a list of engines you can do that with. It’s going to be a long wait, I believe. Water in the fuel tank most certainly will destroy the fuel system...

Name an engine make, model, and application that will function when deionized water is substituted for DEF.

Both CHina and Russia are restricting fertilizer exports. The US is a net exporter of urea, though. Urea for DEF production is a tiny fraction of that used for agricultural purposes. Worldwide prices have certainly gone up. Much US production comes from natural gas, which has risen this year...

The common rail systems on the higher hp tractors are Delphi Korea. At least the controller is Delphi, based on my ck4010. I didn’t look at the pump, but the controller and pump would almost certainly be from the same vendor. The PLN mechanical systems on the low hp tractors may be Bosch...

You rememberwrong. Mann and Hummel is a German filter company that has been around in Europe for a long time, and has been here for at least fifteen or twenty years, if not more. They produce filter media for industrial use and are the oem for a number of European engine manufacturers, as...

I would think an industrial type tire would be better than an ag tire in the woods and, in general, for what work you describe, except, possibly the tiller. The radials seem to be quite popular. O personal experience with the ag tires, just going by what I see and what my dealer told me.

Got me: 1200 ft lb.

So there’s no shortage, correct?

Not sure what 1400 ft lb of torque capacity has to do with warranty cost, or, for that matter, the price of tea in China.

Lowe’s had a bin 10 jugs wide x three jugs high x three jugs deep. That’s 90 jugs. There was more stock overhead.

My database comes from a manufacturer, one that sells hundreds of thousands of diesel pickups per year., none of which has a manual transmission available anymore. You can’t argue that the forged and machined gears in your manual are more expensive to produce than the simple stamped and...

Per my former compatriots at Ford, manuals are more expensive to produce than automatics, and have been for years. Manual gears are expensive machined forgings, and bearings are large and expensive. Most automatic internal parts are precision stamping. Warranty costs were consistently...

They don’t make the Focus anymore, in case you haven’t noticed. It’s essentially been replaced by the new Maverick pickup. Hybrid standard with a cvt and Ecoboost with automatic optional. No manual transmission.

Auto fill error. A CTL is a compact track loader. Apple seems to like that better than commercial drivers license.

No, you don’t need to take your test with a manual to get a class A CTL in Michigan. You can take a test with an automatic equipped truck, but you will only be permitted for an automatic. I doubt the same applies to a B license, since so many are now automatics. Very few new cars are even...

I don’t recall any delays when changing range on my CTL. Does snap your head back, though.

The other thing to consider is the extinction of a manual transmission in light duty trucks and the trend towards automatics in medium duty trucks. Manual transmissions were dropped from the Super Duty line, and eventually both competitors. It seems that the manuals cost more to build than an...

Not sure why people dwell on the power loss with a hst Transmission, especially on a light weight compact tractor that is traction limited. As far as I know, most manufacturers offer multiple power ratings within a frame size, but most customers, I think, based on what I see, chose the lower or...

Textron picked up Arctic Kat maybe two years ago, initially they rebranded the Arctic Cat UTVs and side by sides Textron, but that didn’t go over so well, so the original name was brought back. Prior to the acquisition, they had another SXS line, but it seems that it’s easier to get market...

Shelf life of DEF is one year. Typical dosing is 1.7% of fuel consumed. At least that’s the target most commonly used by engine manufacturers. That may have changed since I was involved, though.

The DEF shortage is more than likely a container shortage. Production capacity isn’t an issue, or shouldn’t be, anyway. Only the European vehicle/ engine manufacturers were using it when the EMA started to develop domestic sources to support domestic consumption. The suppliers went from no...

Until you go across the same grass a half dozen times.

They have a successful YouTube channel. Having said that, Kubota gives them free equipment. They are essentially sponsored by Kubota, so I would look at them as simply entertainment. They’re shilling for Kubota.

Those tires look typical for mining or quarry work, which is what that machine is normally used for. They aren’t bald. Deeper lugs would get torn to shreds in mining operations.

I doubt there are any class 7-8 trucks still being made with metal fenders and hoods, nor have there been for twenty years. The engine compartment side panels on my old Deere skid loader were composite, and were still like new, albeit with faded paint when I sold it. The steel hood on my lawn...