Kubota Tractor Technical Survey

[Citydude]

You cant operate 3pt from rear fenders on your Kubota? Mine have the buttons. My implements are bigger so I dont use the 3 point much anymore. Most of mine are towed. They are usually more in the way than useful.
I would really like to have the PTO buttons like my Massey does.

Kubota Seats do leave something to be desired. After about 8-10 hours in the seat, you start feeling it. It’s really just the seat BASE on mine-could be shot and I dont realize it. The suspension is fine.

Nope, can’t operate the 3pt from the rear.

The seat suspension is somewhat OK, the seat bottom tilts downwards and is plastic. Annoying as all heck.

 

[Hay Dude]

Nope, can’t operate the 3pt from the rear.

The seat suspension is somewhat OK, the seat bottom tilts downwards and is plastic. Annoying as all heck.

Oh yeah, I remember the plastic seats. Mine are cloth

 

[PILOON]

I swear i saw an internet connected toilet for sale in Japan.

Think it included automatic blow dry and automatic flush.

 

[airbiscuit]

Got news for ya, on the bigger ones, they already have unless you farm for profit like me and Hay Dude do. You won't be buying a cabbed utility tractor with FWA and mid range (70-120 pto) for less than 80 grand which is way beyond the means of most hobby farmers or suburban homeowners.

And man are those profits diminishing

A Farmer won a multi-million dollar lottery, and a reporter asked him what he was going to do with it. He replied "i figure I'll just keep farming until it's all gone."

Another person won a multi-million dollar lottery, and a reporter asked him what he did with it. He said "I spent half of it on whiskey and women, and the rest I just wasted."

 

[5030]

Have to say that I've never lost (been in the hole) on farming yet. Not getting wealthy but holding my own doing something I enjoy. Sure beats working at a salt mine job for someone else.

The old saying 'farm to you go broke' only applies to farmers that have zero business sense. My wife manages our outfit, not me.

 

[rScotty]

Have to say that I've never lost (been in the hole) on farming yet. Not getting wealthy but holding my own doing something I enjoy. Sure beats working at a salt mine job for someone else.

The old saying 'farm to you go broke' only applies to farmers that have zero business sense. My wife manages our outfit, not me.

Your saying that caused me to think about the dirt farmers that I knew growing up as well as today. I say "dirt farmers" because they are the ones who grew crops as opposed to dairy and livestock operations. Anyway, the farmers that were successful at making a living and even putting some money away seemed to share a couple of the same ways of doing things.

For one, they seemed to do a lot of their own maintenance and building.... well, some did more and some did less, but they all did a surprising amount of their own mechanical work. Including welding, fabricating, re-building, and carpentry. The exception to that came at harvest. If a piece of equipment broke during harvest it got replaced right then. But even so they knew exactly what they wanted and where to buy it. I got the impression they tried to stay ahead of the game. They might have a newish tractor, but they also kept an old one that could be used in a pinch.

The second thing I noticed was that the successful dirt farmers tended to have second jobs that they did for someone else. Sometimes these were part time jobs, but most seemed to have a second job they enjoyed that brought in its own income and provide something different & maybe more social. I knew several who were part time teachers, coaches, dealer reps, one salesman, a pilot, and a several were machinists.

On the whole - and maybe just because of where I grew up in the Tex/Okla/Ark area - the folks who had dairy, cattle, and livestock operations didn't do as much of their own maintenance and spent more of their time just working their own place. I didn't know them well enough to know how they did financially because our family did farm labor.... not ranch labor.... but that group didn't seem to do quite as well in spite of working harder if anything.

So 5030, I'm wondering if it is the same today and up in the Great Lakes area.
rScotty

 

[mikester]

Kubota cannot even make a cup holder to fit a normal cup or bottle. I seriously doubt they could get a heated refrigerated one right.

My Kubota cup holder is heated and works really well, thank you. I can steep tea in it no problem, HST pumps out tons of heat. Only problem is the holder is so shallow if you put anything but keys in it your bottle/cup falls out.

 

[Hay Dude]

Have to say that I've never lost (been in the hole) on farming yet. Not getting wealthy but holding my own doing something I enjoy. Sure beats working at a salt mine job for someone else.

The old saying 'farm to you go broke' only applies to farmers that have zero business sense. My wife manages our outfit, not me.

Same here. Some years better than others.

My favorite old saying on farming
“ If you want to make a million farming, start with 2 million “

 

[airbiscuit]

My favorite quote on another thread is

The horse is the most efficient means to turn cash into crap!

 

[powersrp]

I hope they don't add a bunch of electronic doodads to their small tractors. I costs more to add all that stuff, and it costs even more when it quits working, and it most likely will at some point in time, and you have to take it to a dealer to have them hook a computer up to it to figure out what is wrong. Ends up costing $400 to figure out that a $100 sensor went titsup and made the tractor a $25,000 paper weight.
I guess I'm somewhat of a Luddite when it comes to adding all that stuff to a tractor. It's a tractor, just leave it alone.

agreed, its an easy way for them to add power folding mirrors and call it a new model.

 

[powersrp]

I swear i saw an internet connected toilet for sale in Japan.

Is it blue tooth capable?

 

[dstig1]

I did check tonight and it is a 3-position switch so you can do on, off or activate with door switch. The only problem with that is that the door latch does not hold as tight as a typical car door, so driving with chains on means the light flickers on and off. Quite annoying, so it went right back to off...

 

[rScotty]

Let's turn the question upsidedown. What valuable features does your recently purchased tractor - say 2010 to 2020 models - have that the older models did not?
rScotty

 

[sea2summit]

Let's turn the question upsidedown. What valuable features does your recently purchased tractor - say 2010 to 2020 models - have that the older models did not?
rScotty

Quick detach loader and BH...depending on your definition of quick that may or may not be something older models had. And shuttle shift has grown on me vs the old manual forward/reverse lever you had to hit the clutch for, but I didn't mind it when that was all we had.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

One thing I have heard, is Kubota is seriously considering making digital keypads mandatory on all construction and tractor equipment sold, starting around July, 2121. Such a keypad will lockout equipment starting, until the assigned number code for that equipment is entered on the pad. This basically will replace keys and the hope is this will limit theft of skid steers and tractors.

Yeah, but if they are starting to do it in 2121..... well that's 100 years from now.... I am sure there will be something else by then.... sorry, couldn't resist....

 

[5030]

Let's turn the question upsidedown. What valuable features does your recently purchased tractor - say 2010 to 2020 models - have that the older models did not?
rScotty

Pollution controls that are prone to failure.........:thumbsup: