Have you ever considered a Cab Tractor? Cool and clean in the summer, and warm and dry in the winter?
You said you hadn't looked into Kioti..
You were concerned about the tilt wheel and parking Brake
The Kioti DK series Cab tractors have the following items as STANDARD EQUIPMENT..Heat, Air conditioning, Cruise control, Tilt wheel, Am/Fm CD player, Cell phone holder, charging outlet, front and rear wiper/washers, Work lights up on the cab front and rear, fold down sun visor, turn signals, 4 ways, nice set of mirrors, plus rear view mirror, Adjustable suspension seat, 3 cup holders, storage cubby, 2 rear Hyd outlets, telescopic lift arms on the three point, a lever at back by 3 point to raise or lower while hooking up, oh,and a parking brake
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The lift capacity on the DK series loader (KL401) is 2700 lbs.
Enough of my rant, but I'd be willing to bet that by the time you put a loader on the open station Kubota, you would be similar money for a loaded Cab Kioti with loader.
Just food for thought...
I just bought a DK45SE HST Cab and am very impressed with it so far.
Lot of tractor for the money.
Hear is something else to think about, my tractor was manufactured in 2013 but is still tier 3 emissions.. mechanical injection, no catalytic converter, just a muffler...
A guy could still work on it himself if you ever needed to.
No high pressure common rail injection with all the electronic hocus pocus with regen and egr cooler, dpf filter, catalitic converter etc.
The tier 4 units will also use more fuel as they use diesel to burn the soot out of the dpf filter.
When these tier 3 left overs are gone that's it, then its all tier four with all that fun emission control stuff.
I don't know what stage Mahindra and Kubota are in with their emission controls, but it would be something I would recommend looking into with any brand of tractor you may consider.