New Boomer 55

[droy]

Traded my 2012 Kubota L4740 & as you might expect some operator adjusting needed. Major points are the two pedal vs treadle hydrostatic pedal, and seat to steering wheel placement. Feel I can adapt to the two pedal but after about 4 hours with boxblade yesterday I think I prefer the treadle. Biggest complaint is when seat is adjusted for leg comfort the steering wheel is almost out of reach. Adjust for arms & hydrostat pedals seem almost under me. Best position so far seems to be far enough back for leg comfort, but stretching arms to reach steering wheel which also puts me away from seat back.
Think a “spinner” on steering wheel might help a bit, but not a complete fix.
Adding to the mix, I’m 5’9”, wife is considerably shorter & often cuts our pasture. A telescopic steer column would be the fix, but I doubt NH offers one. Wondering if replacing steering wheel with one that has a deeper dish is doable.
Moving to another page, tractor was delivered with 3.9 hrs, now 8.3 after yesterdays play. Kept the revs around 2200rpm while boxblading & it went through the regen process twice, with the regen temp light also coming on. Normal while new? Was expecting longer intervals between regen, & skimming through op manual doesn’t tell me much.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[alwaysworking]

I could be wrong for your year model, but on my older boomer you turned the center of the wheel (like where the horn would be on a old car) and the steering column telescoped. On the regen, I bet the first 3.9 hours was idling around the yard at the dealer, so it has to do a few regens to burn off the soot build up. On my emission canister'd Kubota it would regen probably every 4 hours or at least once a day when running it all day. Now, I was terrible about keeping the RPM's up when toodling around. And thank god I have not seen a treadle pedal in 10 years, nothing was more uncomfortable to operate for me than a treadle!

 

[droy]

I could be wrong for your year model, but on my older boomer you turned the center of the wheel (like where the horn would be on an old car) and the steering column telescoped. On the regen, I bet the first 3.9 hours was idling around the yard at the dealer, so it has to do a few regens to burn off the soot build up. On my emission canister'd Kubota it would regen probably every 4 hours or at least once a day when running it all day. Now, I was terrible about keeping the RPM's up when toodling around. And thank god I have not seen a treadle pedal in 10 years, nothing was more uncomfortable to operate for me than a treadle!

Thanks alwaysworking, went to local NH store & owner suggested same steering wheel trick but couldn’t say for sure if they still extended. Back home I turned my silver center a bit, then pulled it off steering wheel, underneath was the large nut holding wheel on; guess telescopic column is a thing of the past.
Owner also suggested I wasn’t working tractor hard enough causing it to regen more. Yesterday evening put about 4 more hours with bb, & it again regened twice but second time was when I shut down for the night & it was idling while I paused to wet down a hot tire