Guess I'm calling the dealer

[aczlan]

That's exactly what I'd expect. So far I've had three Kubotas w/ FEL's. B7500HST, L3200HST and L4240HSTC. Loaders on all of them are off or back on in 2 or 3 minutes without any tools. My tractor usage is mostly mowing and I don't mow with the loader on. There have been days that I had a loader on and back off twice. The loader usually gets parked in the shed on a wood floor. Right now the loader from the L4240 is parked just outside the garage on blacktop.

Same here. The loader on our B7500 comes off easily. One big thing that I do is lift the front of the tractor a little before I try to install the pins. That pushes the loader into the mounting brackets and lines up the pins.

Aaron Z

 

[nbryan]

My la534 loader has always been put on and off on gravel. Or frozen ground. it took me 1/2 dozen times of removing and installing it for the front snowblower, but I can attach or detach it easily now on almost any surface, in a few minutes.
My only complaint is that the 4 hydraulic connectors warm up in winter with use of the snowblower and melt any snow that lands on them. The resultant water "soaks" into the connector fittings, and builds and freezes up inside the release sleeve. In most cases this makes them impossible to release, so I have to soak them with lock antifreeze fluid and wait until they loosen.
Anyone else run into frozen disconnects like this?

 

[Industrial Toys]

I thought carrying a propane torch was pretty much a necessity for any winter hydraulic coupler work. FF being by far the worst.