New Kubota owner has question......

[deserteagle71]

After several months of researching and searching I found a new (to me) Kubota M7060HDC12 to replace my ailing, hard-used, 50 year old John Deere 2020. I spent a lot of time reading the posts and opinions on TractorbyNet, then finally joined up so first of all I want to thank all you good folks for all the great information I was able to glean here.

This is a 2015 model; according to the former owner he bought it in 2016. It came with a box scraper and pallet forks in addition to the bucket on the loader, and had only 179.5 hours on it when I drove it off the trailer here at home on my ranch outside of Winnemucca, Nevada. It has been snowing here for 8 days and snow is predicted just about every day for the next week so I've been reading my owner's manual to learn all the features and operations of this thing. What a difference from my old John Deere! But I found something that puzzles me in the manual, and it has to do with resetting the tripmeter. See photo of the pertinent instruction from the manual below. Does this thing actually have a tripmeter, like in my pickups that resets mileage? Or does it reset the hour meter? I would hate to reset the total hours on the tractor - that doesn't make sense. Does it actually have two hour meters - and I can reset one after an oil change, for example??

 

[ovrszd]

It's actually a handy feature if needed. It's a "job timer". So,,,, for example,,,,, you want to know how long it takes you to clear the pending snow from your driveway. Reset the timer to zero, do the job, read the timer. Great for owners that "hire out" their machines by the hour.

 

[deserteagle71]

So why the devil does Kubota have to confuse things by calling it a tripmeter? That implies mileage!

 

[ovrszd]

A tripmeter would imply any device used to measure that can be reset.

 

[TripleR]

Best not to try to understand a woman or manual, just take the default position and do what you're told.

 

[oosik]

DE71 - same operation as on mine. You have an hour meter than CAN NOT be reset and you have a trip meter THAT CAN be reset. Has nothing to do with distance traveled - both are logging hours of operation.

 

[deserteagle71]

DE71 - same operation as on mine. You have an hour meter than CAN NOT be reset and you have a trip meter THAT CAN be reset. Has nothing to do with distance traveled - both are logging hours of operation.

Thank you! That's what I wanted confirmed.

 

[goeduck]

Best not to try to understand a woman, just take the default position and do what you're told.

Now you tell me... first I heard of this.... :banghead::banghead::banghead:

 

[TripleR]

Now you tell me... first I heard of this.... :banghead::banghead::banghead:

Trust me, been married to the same woman 49 years.

 

[teg]

You have an hour meter than CAN NOT be reset...

So I wonder if he is looking at the tripmeter (179 hours) vs. the real hour meter!?!