Selling my MX5000
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JeremyL
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I was real excited about the e-bay auction for my MX5000 becasue lots of people were watching it. In the end only 4 people bid, with the high bid of $10,400 which didn't meet my reserve price. I don't want to give it away.
E-bay certainly gave a lot of people an opportunity to see what I had for sale.
Now I am going back and forth between keeping it afterall, and getting a Kubota that is small enough to fit in the garage at my new place. I cannot find the overall height specifications for smaller Kubotas. I need something that will clear a 7' high door. The MX5000 is 8' high. Anyone know which models are <7' high with a sun canopy. Kubota.com doesn't list that for the B series.
E-bay certainly gave a lot of people an opportunity to see what I had for sale.
Now I am going back and forth between keeping it afterall, and getting a Kubota that is small enough to fit in the garage at my new place. I cannot find the overall height specifications for smaller Kubotas. I need something that will clear a 7' high door. The MX5000 is 8' high. Anyone know which models are <7' high with a sun canopy. Kubota.com doesn't list that for the B series.
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JeremyL
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I was real excited about the e-bay auction for my MX5000 becasue lots of people were watching it. In the end only 4 people bid, with the high bid of $10,400 which didn't meet my reserve price. I don't want to give it away.
E-bay certainly gave a lot of people an opportunity to see what I had for sale.
Now I am going back and forth between keeping it afterall, and getting a Kubota that is small enough to fit in the garage at my new place. I cannot find the overall height specifications for smaller Kubotas. I need something that will clear a 7' high door. The MX5000 is 8' high. Anyone know which models are <7' high with a sun canopy. Kubota.com doesn't list that for the B series.
E-bay certainly gave a lot of people an opportunity to see what I had for sale.
Now I am going back and forth between keeping it afterall, and getting a Kubota that is small enough to fit in the garage at my new place. I cannot find the overall height specifications for smaller Kubotas. I need something that will clear a 7' high door. The MX5000 is 8' high. Anyone know which models are <7' high with a sun canopy. Kubota.com doesn't list that for the B series.
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JeremyL
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Thanks, MX5000, I'll give it a closer look.
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JeremyL
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Thanks, MX5000, I'll give it a closer look.
Before I put on the FOPS canopy, I just left the ROPS folded down all the time. I could move the tractor in and out of the garage just the way it was. Now that I've installed the FOPS canopy on the ROPS, I put the ROPS up and down each time I go in and out of the garage. When I fold the ROPS back down, I pull the pins on the ROPS and grab the ROPS from behind the tractor and slowly pull the whole thing back until the the canopy is upside down over the backhoe. In order to keep the canopy top from laying on the backhoe controls, I have to put a 6"-6" piece of wood across the back of the verticle ROPS part and let the top part of the ROPS fold back down against it. The 6"-6" piece of wood is secured at the same level as the toolbox mounted behind the tractor seat. I made a couple simple brackets to hold the 6"-6" pice of wood while I pull down the ROPS and canopy. It maybe a little easier for me. I'm 6'6" and about 270lbs.. I don't know if I could do it if I didn't have the height and leverage to pull the whole thing down. If I didn't do some part time commercial work on the weekends, I'd pull the canopy off and leave it off. That way I could leave the ROPS in the folded down position and pull in and out of the garage without doing anything.
Howard
Howard
Before I put on the FOPS canopy, I just left the ROPS folded down all the time. I could move the tractor in and out of the garage just the way it was. Now that I've installed the FOPS canopy on the ROPS, I put the ROPS up and down each time I go in and out of the garage. When I fold the ROPS back down, I pull the pins on the ROPS and grab the ROPS from behind the tractor and slowly pull the whole thing back until the the canopy is upside down over the backhoe. In order to keep the canopy top from laying on the backhoe controls, I have to put a 6"-6" piece of wood across the back of the verticle ROPS part and let the top part of the ROPS fold back down against it. The 6"-6" piece of wood is secured at the same level as the toolbox mounted behind the tractor seat. I made a couple simple brackets to hold the 6"-6" pice of wood while I pull down the ROPS and canopy. It maybe a little easier for me. I'm 6'6" and about 270lbs.. I don't know if I could do it if I didn't have the height and leverage to pull the whole thing down. If I didn't do some part time commercial work on the weekends, I'd pull the canopy off and leave it off. That way I could leave the ROPS in the folded down position and pull in and out of the garage without doing anything.
Howard
Howard
