Just bought a new M7040 HD with LA 1153 FEL

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JR LEWIS

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Gettysburg, PA, Prattsburgh, NY
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2008 Kubota M7040 HD
Thanks to some very good info on this site, I chose to go Orange. I really like this unit. Have not taken delivery of it yet. Possibly tomorrow. My 50 acre hobby farm is in Western Upstate NY. I live in Gettysburg, PA. The farm is my stomping ground neighborhood and will go back permantly in 5-8 years.

For now, building a pond, cleaning up downed trees in the 30 acres of woods, brush hogging 20 acres, planting food crops for wildlife and maybe a little haying and corn next year. And , of course, plenty of hunting !!

I wanted one tractor to fit my needs, even if I decide to do a little more. Hopefully this size tractor fits the bill.

I have a 2007 New Holland ,TC35DA with FEL, 7 foot belly mower and a 1973 574 IH diesel that I am swapping in for it.

The TC was for my wife at our PA home and 3 acres, but it's just a little too big for that situation, but too small for the farm for what I do.

Thanks again for all the terrific information that eventually led me to Kubota. I hope to pass it down to my kids, one day.


J.R.
 
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Welcome to Orange, you made a good choice. We will need to see some pics.

Bake
 
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I just hit 48 hours on my new M5040 so it is going in Monday to have the dealer do the 50 hour service.I sure hope that before spring I can get use to that hydraulic clutch.
 

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   / Just bought a new M7040 HD with LA 1153 FEL
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I just hit 48 hours on my new M5040 so it is going in Monday to have the dealer do the 50 hour service.I sure hope that before spring I can get use to that hydraulic clutch.

Nice tractor. Where in NY are you? My farm is 2 miles from Keuka Lake, One of the Finger lakes. 20 minutes from Penn Yan.

J.R.
 
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I just got a 9540. So far I really like it, better than the TN75 I had.
 
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Nice tractor. Where in NY are you? My farm is 2 miles from Keuka Lake, One of the Finger lakes. 20 minutes from Penn Yan.

J.R.

I am way up near the ST Lawrence river 20 miles from Canada. I got some relation around Syracuse and Manilus.
 
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I am way up near the ST Lawrence river 20 miles from Canada. I got some relation around Syracuse and Manilus.

Gotcha! My roots are from the Potsdam area. Use to visit yearly. Home right on the river. Have a very good friend with a cottage on the thousand islands. Vermont was not too far away.
 
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I just got a 9540. So far I really like it, better than the TN75 I had.


Very nice. It seems with the TC series like the one I'm trading just does not have the torque with the hydrostatic tranny. I'm guessing it's just a tad bit bigger motor than my smaller TZ24DA with a 5 foot deck for lawn mowing that I had last year. The chassis on the 35 dwarfs the 24, but the engine is in the same family line. I liked it for around the house, but wife thought it was too big and she was not crazy about operating it.

The TZ24 with the 4 foot bucket was grat for her. She'd dig everything up. She's a country girl and doesn't mind getting dirty. She cleans up nice !!


J.R.
 
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Gotcha! My roots are from the Potsdam area. Use to visit yearly. Home right on the river. Have a very good friend with a cottage on the thousand islands. Vermont was not too far away.

I ws born,educated and worked in Potsdam at SUNY until I retired 6 years ago.I have lived here all my life except for the time I was in the military. I live out near West Potsdam.
 

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