Joined the toolcat club!

[LBrown59]

Isn't it?

No comparrison.

 

[LBrown59]

That is like saying, "Isn't a Kubota BX just a big lawnmower?"

not by a long shot.

 

[LBrown59]

That is like saying, "Isn't a Kubota BX just a big lawnmower?"

Not a very helpful post since it didn't explain the difference between a tool cat and a UTV.

 

[cowboy357]

Not a very helpful post since it didn't explain the difference between a tool cat and a UTV.

& Your 4 posts have been helpfull how LB, Is Your edit button broke ? All that could have been said in one sentence . Bob

 

[LBrown59]

& Your 4 posts have been helpfull how LB, *Is Your edit button broke ? All that could have been said in one sentence . Bob

The multi quote button was stuck .

 

[Dargo]

Not a very helpful post since it didn't explain the difference between a tool cat and a UTV.

Since I've spent hours and hours researching and at least 2 hours test driving a Toolcat, I can tell you that comparing a UTV to a Toolcat would be more like comparing an El Camino to a tri-axle dump truck. They are similar in that they haul things, but the (gonna make up a word here) heavydutyness is huge. A Kubota RTV1100 is a pretty heavy duty UTV, the strongest in my opinion, but it isn't even close to being in the same class of 'heavydutyness' as the Toolcat. Again, this is just my opinion, but I'd say that there is far more difference between an RTV1100 and a Toolcat than there is between an RTV1100 and a Yamaha Rhino. The Rhino is a dang sturdy vehicle that has a bed and can haul a load but you'd ruin a good Rhino using it for work like you could an RTV1100.

Again, no disrespect intended towards any unit I mentioned, I just wanted to point out that the Toolcat is considerably different than a UTV.

 

[LBrown59]

Since I've spent hours and hours researching and at least 2 hours test driving a Toolcat, I can tell you that comparing a UTV to a Toolcat would be more like comparing an El Camino to a tri-axle dump truck. They are similar in that they haul things, but the (gonna make up a word here) heavydutyness is huge. A Kubota RTV1100 is a pretty heavy duty UTV, the strongest in my opinion, but it isn't even close to being in the same class of 'heavydutyness' as the Toolcat. Again, this is just my opinion, but I'd say that there is far more difference between an RTV1100 and a Toolcat than there is between an RTV1100 and a Yamaha Rhino. The Rhino is a dang sturdy vehicle that has a bed and can haul a load but you'd ruin a good Rhino using it for work like you could an RTV1100.

Again, no disrespect intended towards any unit I mentioned, I just wanted to point out that the Toolcat is considerably different than a UTV.

They look a lot alike.

 

[Duffster]

They look a lot alike.

Except for that big loader boom on the front of the TC.

 

[radman1]

They look a lot alike.

Doesn't a riding lawnmower and a Kubota BX with belly mower look the same?

 

[Redfox]

Not a very helpful post since it didn't explain the difference between a tool cat and a UTV.

A Toolcat has twice the mass, three times the HP, and a full sized hydraulic front lift.

 

[ToolcatWonka5610]

Comparing a TC to UTV is like comparing a car to a truck.
Bigger, and has more capabilites and feautres.

Radman, I finally got to see a TC 5610 on Monday.
That is a nice machine! I'm hoping to try one out, see what it can do

 

[farmboy12]

That is like saying, "Isn't a Kubota BX just a big lawnmower?"

Since when has a BX been big?




Kyle

 

[radman1]

Since when has a BX been big?




Kyle

I was being nice.

 

[stewmoore]

Hello radman1,
Are you able to use a backhoe with the TC5610?

 

[stewmoore]

I checked out the TC5610 yesterday and unfortunately it can't use a backhoe. I guess its back to a compact tractor.

 

[Spudgunner]

Since any flavor of TC cannot be put into neutral (i.e. free-wheeling), I'm not sure what a hoe on a TC would be good for other than digging holes (as opposed to longer trenching). Same with the hoe attachments for skid steers as far as I can tell. I mean, it's not like you can pop the tranny into neutral and use the hoe to move 'ya when trenching. (In this regard, my BX23 is way cooler than my TC despite the fact that I can only trench 4'-5' deep. )

 

[snowboss94]

well................so much reading................so much info..............i was sold on a 5600 then i saw radmans dump box and the bed being the only thing holding me to a 5600 has now turned into a 5610 search............

question......ive read a few different peoples posts on the 90 inch finish mower - - -does this attachment leave a lawn quality cut? or just a "nice brush hog cut"

thanks people .....a pricing i will go.......

 

[snowboss94]

yes i know this is a year old post....lol

 

[radman1]

The cut of the 90" mower is as good as any rear finish mower I have owned on a CUT. It is very good but not quite as good as a zero turn. It has a much better cut than a rotary mower.

 

[snowboss94]

Awesome, thanks..............the wife and I are restarting a family business that was liquidated because ..................well ................it was a family business [note to self.....do not go into business with family, lol] so we are trying to get the most versatile piece of equipment that will be the "core" of the company for a while. we've looked at CUT's and side by sides and skid steers {had them all in the last business along with a mini excavator} and while having all that equipment is nice we just can't justify all those payments right now. we even researched the used market heavily and by the time you get anything worth buying lined up we will have spent more than a lightly used 5610 or even a new one and a couple attachments.

we even looked pretty hard at the Vent-trac system, but for the money they want it was just to small to do anything i want to do.

i really thing the toolcat 5610 and a mini excavator down the road would make for a very tidy, streamlined, low impact one or two man operation.

i do have a 20+ acre property that could easily be mowed with a finish mower quality cut level and 90 inches would shave hours off the 60 inch zero im using now .....not to mention air conditioning and shock absorbers....lol