MY new LS P 7010

[Gary Fowler]

I have never heard of auto-leveling of 3 PH on a tractor in the USA. Maybe it is for those folks that farm on the mountain side. I have seen photos of combines that the tires would slant over like a road grader front tire and the headers would tilt about 45 degrees. I doubt you would find a need for that in the USA.
Your are right about bells and whistles, they come standard on LS and optional at mucho additional cost on everyone elses. Even the smaller HP compacts seem to come with at least one set of rear remotes. Mine came with 2 sets. We need to get the word out to the other potential buyers on TBN about these tractors. The majority seems to be Kubota minded even though they seemed to me to be less than adequate for a tractor. I guess they are OK for folks who want to drive a tractor just like his family car, put in gear give it gas and stop with one brake. Steering brakes are almost an essential item on a tractor and I find it impossible to believe any mgf. produces a tractor without them even while I am sitting in the seat of one.

 

[8404]

The auto leveling feature i found was at the LS website, but not the US website. LS Tractor


its seem to me that if the us model had this feature then when your bush hogging or tilling you wouldnt have to worry with the implement getting in a bind. some people will replace the side lift bars with chains to let the impliment flex so this Auto level would eliminate that problem for them.

 

[gregsm33]

Gary,

I see you have written your 7010 came with 2 sets of rear remotes, for whatever reason in Canada 3 set of remotes is standard on the 7010.

8404- glad to see you are looking into LSA as they as not a Chinese knock off and definately are well equipped with all the bells and whistles for a fair price and excellent warranty (check out my previous posts)

 

[Gary Fowler]

Heck mine might have 3 also, I only had it a week before I came back to Nigeria. I do remember that it was blue and big and comfortable and lots of power. I never used anything but the 3 ph. I am going back home in 3 more days and will have to get back acquainted with my girl. I think you are right though, the small ones had 2 and the P series had 3 now that you mention it. I seem to recall that I could put a TNT and still have one set to put on an implement. I dont know if I will ever do that or not, but the option is there. The top link is nice to have, but tilt I dont know if it is worth that or not unless you do a lot of grading which I dont plan to do.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

I am from moncton NB as well. I had a Montana and just bought a bigger kubota. Montana 2740 serviced my 45 snow blowing customers. I found that when in deep snow the 6 foot blower was a bit to much for the tractor.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I spent 5 years in Canada in Calgary and Fort McMurray working on the Syncrude upgrader project. I love that country especially Calgary. Not too much snow normally and summer fishing cant be beat. I went on fly in fishing trips at least one for each year I was there. Never got over to Sasketchewan to do any fishing there

 

[LittleBlueTractor]

Even the smaller HP compacts seem to come with at least one set of rear remotes.

My little S3010 didn't come with any remotes so I tried to buy a dual remote kit. Ended up with a single remote kit. Decided to go with it as it was so cheap -- just $200 delivered. (Thought it was going to be much more expensive when I saw what the name brand crowd pays for those things.)

Never worked with hydraulics before. Installed it yesterday and it was the one of the biggest pains I've ever encountered. Instructions were probably fine for an experienced tractor mechanic, but not so much for me. It took me about 8 hours. It would have gone quicker had I pulled off the right rear tire like the instructions said. Sure it would have gone better with another set of hands too -- oh, well lesson learned I guess.

 

[204saskman]

I spent 5 years in Canada in Calgary and Fort McMurray working on the Syncrude upgrader project. I love that country especially Calgary. Not too much snow normally and summer fishing cant be beat. I went on fly in fishing trips at least one for each year I was there. Never got over to Sasketchewan to do any fishing there

Dont worry, we dont have big fish out here at all This is my buddies 13+ lb walleye he caught at Nipawin,sk. Lots of big fish in that lake.

 

[rocknrod]

I spent 5 years in Canada in Calgary and Fort McMurray working on the Syncrude upgrader project. I love that country especially Calgary. Not too much snow normally and summer fishing cant be beat. I went on fly in fishing trips at least one for each year I was there. Never got over to Sasketchewan to do any fishing there

Thats funny Gary - I just spent three years in Ontario on power plants there.

 

[Gary Fowler]

That is one nice walleye. I sure do miss the fishing up there and here also for that matter. I havent had my boat in the water in a couple of years. Next spring I plan to get back in the habit if possible BUT my company is talking about a job for me in Egypt next, so who knows what this coming year will bring. I hope the new job has a good internet connection.
It seems that there is never enough time home to take care of the chores and fish also. Chores pile up for 8 weeks then the 3 weeks I am home is eaten up with doctor visits and personal issues and maybe a week or so to fix up everything or do some of the tasks around the farm that I wanted to do.

 

[Gary Fowler]

RocknRod: Closest I got in that side of Canada was Toronto once when we visited wife's girlfriend there back in 1989 when I was working in Buffalo NY on a powerhouse. We lived on Grand Island which is right in the middle of the Niagra River with the northern bridge exiting in Niagra Falls and south in Buffalo. Man the snow was a killer there.

 

[rocknrod]

Seems we both work in the power industry. Im a road ***** myself

 

[Gary Fowler]

I work construction primarily for KBR (40 years) with a couple years with other companies when KBR had nothing. I have worked in Louisiana, Texas, California, New York, North Carolina in the states and internationally in Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Canada, Mexico, UK, Peru and now in Nigeria. The wife I picked up in Venezuela and after the kids were grown up, she went with me to Canada, UK, Peru, Mexico and UK. She couldnt go to Nigeria though so she mothers the grandkids while I am gone and spoils them rotten although that has toned down a bit since we moved to Bismarck and all the kids are still in Houston. They all love coming up to the farm though.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I forgot to mention that I kinda started in the power division with boilers and then moved to Petro-Chem for refineries and chemical plants. I started out welding and fitting, then moved into Quality Control and Management. Right now I am kind of doing both QA and project management of a small ( $52 million budget) small bore pipe fabrication effort for a multi-billion USD gas liquifaction plant for Chevron and the Nigerian Petroleum Company (govt owned) that is in Warri Nigeria. The actual plant is about 40 miles down river from our location, but we receive all the material at Warri Port, stage it and send it to site as needed because the site is so small it has no storage area. We have about 7000 people working on the project now and maybe it will be completed in 2012 if the local communities agree to that as a finish date. They control the workers production and they only work as fast as the chiefs let them although it doesnt take any forceful effort to make them not work fast.

 

[rocknrod]

I was jusy asked to go to Nigeria as the owners rep. I declined it.

 

[Scott Sawyer]

Hi Greg I am also from New Brunswick. Where did you buy your LS? The one here in Fredericton is only about 2 grand less than John Deere...thanks.

 

[gregsm33]

Hey Scott,

Im from Miramichi, and I bought my tractor from Patterson's, which I think they are the dealer in Fredericton too. I find that surprising that a 7010 is only 2 grand less than a John Deere? What kind of John Deere?
I never price checked JD when I bought, but I did look at Ford NH and they were more than $10k with less options,less warranty and less loader lift capacity. I think base for 7010 with loader is around $42000 and they have been selling for $39900 a lot. No tax of course.

 

[Scott Sawyer]

Hi Greg,

We may be talking about different tractors, I think yours is bigger. I was looking at similar models in the CUT catergory, 30 - 35 HP range. All companies I went to Kubota, LS, Kioti/Bobcat, and JD, the only local dealers i could find. All tractors were in the same class, all offered the bucket free. LS and Kioti were same price for similar model - $19,500.00. JD and Kubota were $23,00.00 more or less. Research I did was that all seem to be good tractors, matter of opinion which is better. Result - JD and Kubota never called me back and were more expensive. The LS they had would not start and it took the 30 min and a mechanic to start it, I knew more about the tractor than the dealer (I did my research but wanted to know if he knew about the tractor) and when they finally got it going, it seemed to ride nice but did not have the hydrostatic transmission and when the bucket went up and down the whole tractor shook like it was going to tumble....so a little light. I went to kioti and they had a leftover 2010 Bobcat, bigger than the ones I was looking at, more HP, more bucket space, more load capacity, fully loaded for $19, 500.00. So even the ough the tractor was a later model it was still brand new and was bigger, and was loaded. The dealer was the most knowledgeable about his product, let me try out all the tractors, delivered free, free block heater, full tank, and the 50 hour maintenance is free they come and do it for you and show you how to do the maintenance. When they delivered the fellow spent all the time in the world with me to ensure I knew how it worked and answered all my questions. In my case I was sold not only on the product but the dealer as well.

 

[gregsm33]

Good luck with your new purchase Scott, hopefully it serves you good. I can see your issue with looking at a new tractor and it wouldn't start, that would put a bad feeling in your stomach for sure.