treeboone
Silver Member
Finally took delivery after a month delay. This is the 9000 on a L4610 Kubota. It is the new subframe (apparently the reason for the delay) with self contained hydraulic. The thumb is a Rankin. The dealer had my tractor to install the hoe and replaced a loader ram and the battery on warranty at the same time. Apparently this subframe is a new item, or at least the first of its kind the dealership has seen. He dropped it off saturday afternoon and pretty well left me to figure it out. I dug 4 stumps the same size as the one in the picture, took about 2 hours total. Keep in mind I was learning how to run a hoe. Then I decided to drop the hoe so I could do some loader/backblade work. I thought the hoe would disconnect from the subframe, and the subframe would stay on the tractor. No way. The whole assembly comes off. Took me 45 minutes from the time I started to finish, including reinstalling the 3 point hardware. I think it will go alot faster next time, because I won't have to figure it out from scratch. So how did it go? Considering my lack of experience with this unit, pretty well. I ran the engine at 1500 rpm, well below the 540 PTO speed. The engine never strained, and hardly noticed it was pulling the pump. I expected the hydraulics to be jerky after reading some previous post, but glad to say I did not have that problem. The controls were friendly and easy to feather. I expect this will be a great tool when I get up to speed. The thumb is not as easy to use as I'd hoped, The pins holes are not aligned very well and it is not easy to change positions. Not a big deal.