Buying Advice Which Kioti?

[Hoosier Hay Man]

Buy the 40.:thumbsup: It will work fine on your small acres now and it will be a decent sized utility for the 100 acres later. If you do hay later you will want to add a larger AG tractor either way, but 40HP will be a good start. I love my DK45 and wouldn't have wanted to have gone any smaller. I can run my small square baler when I need to. I have never thought of any of my tractors as having too much HP.

 

[Kiotisooner]

Get the 40. I have a DK50 which is basically the same size, just more HP. I pull a 7.5 ft. 1250lb. flail with mine and it doesn't even know its back there. You won't be sorry. The extra cost for the larger tractor isn't that much when you consider how much more it will get you. :thumbsup:

 

[DiverDarrell]

I have more than likely overstated the amount of dirt i need to move, but it's around the size of 100'X50 and 15' deep on one end going to 1' on the other. I've got a 1.5yd trailer for the garden tractor and one lady who loves to drive her little tractor and is very anxious to get her riding arena done. Most of the dirt will be dragged there with a box scraper while leveling/scraping down the current area. the rest will be scraped up from leveling out 2 or 3 more padock areas, and trailer the 100 or so feet to where they need to be dumped. I'm pretty set on the DK40SE I just need to save up another 5 grand.
This isn't my first go around with tractors. I learned how to drive an 1953 oliver 550 diesel when i was 7 (was heavy enough to push down the clutch, and break, but not both at the same time) and ran a 3pt grader blade and 7' finish mower on it for years and years (grandparents owned a campground). A bunch of my friends were dairy farmers, so at 10 i found my self on a deere 4440 cutting, raking, square bales, spreading poo, and all that other fun stuff. Used an International 2+2 articulated tractor for all the plowing, and things that needed pulling like when I buried the 4440 in mud.
This is however the first tractor that I have ever purchased. I thank you all for your advice, I think the DK40se will be a good fit, and i hope to purchase at the end of January, sooner if the local dealers are willing to negotiate the price a little lower LOL

 

[CowwFace]

I have more than likely overstated the amount of dirt i need to move, but it's around the size of 100'X50 and 15' deep on one end going to 1' on the other. I've got a 1.5yd trailer for the garden tractor and one lady who loves to drive her little tractor and is very anxious to get her riding arena done. Most of the dirt will be dragged there with a box scraper while leveling/scraping down the current area. the rest will be scraped up from leveling out 2 or 3 more padock areas, and trailer the 100 or so feet to where they need to be dumped. I'm pretty set on the DK40SE I just need to save up another 5 grand.
This isn't my first go around with tractors. I learned how to drive an 1953 oliver 550 diesel when i was 7 (was heavy enough to push down the clutch, and break, but not both at the same time) and ran a 3pt grader blade and 7' finish mower on it for years and years (grandparents owned a campground). A bunch of my friends were dairy farmers, so at 10 i found my self on a deere 4440 cutting, raking, square bales, spreading poo, and all that other fun stuff. Used an International 2+2 articulated tractor for all the plowing, and things that needed pulling like when I buried the 4440 in mud.
This is however the first tractor that I have ever purchased. I thank you all for your advice, I think the DK40se will be a good fit, and i hope to purchase at the end of January, sooner if the local dealers are willing to negotiate the price a little lower LOL

WAIT a min here!!! I want to change my vote.. I did not know we had to WAIT if you went with the 40. <grin>!!

But serously, I think it is worth the wait. Dave Ramsey would be proud of you!

Carry on

 

[Coyote machine]

DK-35,

Ok Vince, I may be mistaken when I said the DK-35 could not handle a 72" mower- I was basing my comment on what my dealer had told me about mowers and using them on various size tractors.
Can you address this issue in more depth?
Not trying to hijack here just want more data about what works with which tractor, which I believe to be on topic in this thread.

 

[tulenutn2o]

I would get the bigger machine now and enjoy all that you do with it. It is still a compact tractor size wise, but will have much more capability for the bigger things you will find yourself doing in the future.

 

[Josh61513]

If gear is an option you probably have more than enough $$ for the DS 4110, or even 4510...:thumbsup:

*edit* just saw you listed HST as a requirement, so scratch that!

 

[DK35vince]

DK-35,

Ok Vince, I may be mistaken when I said the DK-35 could not handle a 72" mower- I was basing my comment on what my dealer had told me about mowers and using them on various size tractors.
Can you address this issue in more depth?
Not trying to hijack here just want more data about what works with which tractor, which I believe to be on topic in this thread.

I can tell you what I run on my DK 35
6' rototiller
6' brush mower
7' rear finish mower
6' boxblade
7' rear blade
7' front snow plow
8 1/2' backhoe with a 12", 18" and a 36" bucket.
My 35 handles all the above implements very well.

 

[PA hayseed]

I've seen some numbers thrown around on this thread, specifically 2750 lift capacity. Just want to make sure no one thinks a 40 is going to lift *AND* carry over a ton. Maybe on a test track in the kioti factory, but not real world.

I have a 45, and I know what it will and will not carry, and it ain't carrying 2750. I have probably have around 200+ hours of just loader work time on my tractor, which does not make me an expert by any means. But after that much time, I know what I won't attempt to pickup and carry with the tractor anymore. Tractor in the air too many times.

Any other 40, 45 owners wanna guess what they can actually carry as a load?

I'm guessing 2000-2100 tops. And anything over a ton is moving real slow and real low.

 

[jimmyj]

Here is another vote for the 40 (that you are leaning towards). I have a CK30 and while I LOVE it, if I bought today I would go one step up (that said the CK30 was one step up budget wise when I bought it so I don't regret the buy). The stronger loader would be the deal maker in my book. I doubt I would have to lift as much as 2000 lb often, but I'm pushing the limit of my loader all the time and that's a recipe for a problem I think.