Overall width of Grand L 6060 with R-4 tires

[newbury]

If there is anyone on here with the Kabota grand L 6060 with the industrial tires?

Could you please measure what the overall width of your tractor is from outside of tires two outside of tires.

The Kabota website says 67.3 minimum but it doesn't mention if that's industrial tires or ag tires

Thank You

It's Kubota, not Kabota.

 

[genze]

This stuff is not all that precise of course, even though tenths of inches are quoted. I notice that your 6060 Grand has one choice of 54.5 and that plus the 17.1 inch tires makes 71.6 inches outer edge to outer edge. The 74" blower running behind that will clear theoretically 2.4 inches more than your tire path width. Two inches "ain't much" when there is snow all over the place and you may well want more clearance by going to the 51.2 spacing on the 6060 which adds 3.3 inches, a little over an 1.6" on each side or leaving the tire path a total of 5.7 narrower than the nominal width of the blower. It becomes a personal preference thing at that point as to what you want and whether you really care about small differences. I recommend you have the dealer deliver the tractor with the tires set to whatever width you decide on, agree on liquid in them or not, cast metal wheel centers for weight, if you chose that option, etc. He really should set this up the way you want it. Moving rear tires around yourself is not that much fun. Of course I do not know your operation, how much help you have, etc. I would be very surprised if the dealer in your area lacks quite a bit of experience with snow blower applications and he should be able to provide the direct experience/advice. I have no idea whether you have any steep slopes or significantly uneven ground on which this machine will be used. I am always more comfortable the wider the rear tires are apart. By the way, I like the inner edges of my front tires and inner edges of my rear ones to match in spacing.

Boy it sure doesn't give you very much extra room for that snowblower.

3 inches on each side doesn't seem like very much but I don't want to go so narrow that I can't put chains on in the winter if I end up needing them.
My road and the area around the house and barn are relatively flat but I still want the option of being able to add chains if I want to.

I will be fully loading the rear tires with rim guard.

It's almost like Kabota should've made that blower that they offer for the 6060 around 78 inches minimum instead of 74

 

[JWR]

genze -- I don't want to influence your buying but there is no magic in a Kubota brand snowblower. The paint will sure look nice all matching, but they are all made by someone else. There are many good brands of snowblowers on the market and a large variety of widths. You can get whatever you want in width. You said "Boy it sure doesn't give you very much extra room for that snowblower." Maybe it is just the frailty of our English language, (I'm often caught saying not exactly what I meant) but I'm wondering because of what you said -- you do realize the 3pt mounted snowblower is back behind your tires far enough that it is not restricted in any way in width by your tires ?

Nothing great about this, but here are 2 pics of the blower I use up in WV with an older B2150 Kubota. This is a 5ft Agro-Trend blower made in Canada. For some reason a lot of blowers are made up there. I got it new from a dealer in PA. Never a problem with it , but I sure recommend buying from a dealer close to you.


Note the fat turf tires on the B2150 which totally preclude chains on the rear. These pics are from 12 or 13 years ago. I have since swapped these tires out for R1 ag tread tires and found they are so much better in snow that I don't even need/want chains anymore. I'm sure my snow challenges are quite minor compared to Hailey Idaho (!) and your new machine should be a thing of beauty for that area. I see a foot or two most seasons and a few times 30 inches. Big problem back East is heavy wet snow at times and snow followed by rain and freezing. Only being up there (in WV) sporadically, I tend to face badly packed snow that has been on the ground a while.

 

[genze]

It's Kubota, not Kabota.

Oops, I guess I better stop having my phone type for me.

Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[Fallon]

That's very helpful because as I said, I want to set it up so the outside of my industrial tires are at least 3 inches narrower than the 74 inch Kabota snowblower.
And I'm not sure if 74 inch on the rear Kabota snowblower is to the absolute outside of steel to outside of steel or the 74 inch is like the auger width.

I just wanted to make sure that after I cut a path with the snowblower that I had at least three or 4 inches on each side for the tires and a bit of maneuverability.

I really appreciate you taking the time to measure that for me.

Thank You

If you set them narrower than 72" you won't be able to run chains. I might not even be able to run chains on my L4060 (same frame size) with them set to 72" outside track. I've got 1-1.5" of clearance tops if I recall when I was looking at potential for chains. I haven't picked up chains for mine yet. Was gonna just see what kind of traction I got, then probably pick up front tire chains first, then see if I need rear chains.

You may want to think about a wider blower or adding wings onto the side to make it a few inches wider.

 

[genze]

genze -- I don't want to influence your buying but there is no magic in a Kubota brand snowblower. The paint will sure look nice all matching, but they are all made by someone else. There are many good brands of snowblowers on the market and a large variety of widths. You can get whatever you want in width. You said "Boy it sure doesn't give you very much extra room for that snowblower." Maybe it is just the frailty of our English language, (I'm often caught saying not exactly what I meant) but I'm wondering because of what you said -- you do realize the 3pt mounted snowblower is back behind your tires far enough that it is not restricted in any way in width by your tires ?

Nothing great about this, but here are 2 pics of the blower I use up in WV with an older B2150 Kubota. This is a 5ft Agro-Trend blower made in Canada. For some reason a lot of blowers are made up there. I got it new from a dealer in PA. Never a problem with it , but I sure recommend buying from a dealer close to you.
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Note the fat turf tires on the B2150 which totally preclude chains on the rear. These pics are from 12 or 13 years ago. I have since swapped these tires out for R1 ag tread tires and found they are so much better in snow that I don't even need/want chains anymore. I'm sure my snow challenges are quite minor compared to Hailey Idaho (!) and your new machine should be a thing of beauty for that area. I see a foot or two most seasons and a few times 30 inches. Big problem back East is heavy wet snow at times and snow followed by rain and freezing. Only being up there (in WV) sporadically, I tend to face badly packed snow that has been on the ground a while.

I know there's nothing particularly special about the Kubota snowblower but it happens to be the one that my dealer carries.

I did research it quite a bit and I know they're made by RAD of Canada, and from what research I've been able to do I can't find anybody that's had any thing bad to say about them and from the videos I've watched it seems like it does a nice job of throwing the snow.

I used a poor choice of words, what I meant to say is that snowblower sure doesn't make a whole lot of extra room for that tractor to go through.

We did get a lot of snow this year, I still have at least 3 feet of snow everywhere in my yard and around our house.

The problem that I have here in Idaho is there are very few options for dealers that stock snow blowers.

Anything other than the Kubota snowblower
I would have to order from somebody and have it shipped without ever looking at it.

If I had a dealer down the street I would probably order a Pronovost, but I don't even have a dealer in my state. It would have to be shipped to me and I would have to handle all the set up and Assembly of the snowblower myself .

I also like the Lorenz but I have the same problem nobody local to buy it from.

I'm open to suggestions,

Thanks again for all the help

 

[JWR]

Yep. Understand. You have a very different "row to hoe" than I do; lots more snow. I have been through Hailey many years ago (skiing at Sun Valley of course.) I would definitely do what you did and get the blower from the nearest dealer, handy that he happens to be Kubota too. There have been a lot of shear pin issues with the front mounted RAD-made snowblowers ( and very lengthy TractorBYNet forum discussions on it.) RAD makes them for Kubota, Massey Ferguson and probably others. I have NOT heard shear pin issues discussed on the rear blowers. You can search thru the forums using RAD 2360 or '2360 shear pin' in the search box. The longest one I know of was started by a guy whose handle was jrogers in Anchorage Alaska with the thread title: "Going through second stage bolts." At last count that thread has 128 posts and is extensive to say the least. RAD had 2 different designs for shear pins on the front mount 2360 blowers. My impression is that many of those with major issues (broke pins every time they tried to use it) were using beat up older machines, had the shear bolt holes elongated and did not know it and similar issues.