Yes! sell it immediately so we can all have peace from your constant complaints about Kioti, Kioti Corporate and various dealers.
Put us all out of your misery.
Easy now. TBN, first and formost, is to get help with issues we're having with our tractors. After that, it's a place to post what we're doing to people who are interested in similar things (and who don't roll their eyes at us like our wives).
LAK, don't sell your tractor, you won't find anything else like it at the price you paid for it. You'll also take a big hit. You've now found a good dealer, so work with them (and THEM only - pretend Kioti Corp doesn't exist and Connie works for Kubota), to get through all your issues.
Cm, one stop reading my post then. The only dealer issue I have is where I bought cm and with kioti corp when you get a issue and you want it straightened out call ask for Connie I'm share she help you. I will keep posting freedom of speech. So get off my back you dip can't say the other word. I think people are also tired of your post to half the time. You think you know it all.
I'll have to agree, if you see a thread started by LAK, don't bother reading it and ignore his posts. None of us come here for personal attacks. "Look at kioti.com" isn't all that helpfull either, I'm sure the OP figured that much out all by himself.
To the OP, I don't have any real experience with the DS line because my dealer doesn't seem to push them. My impression from what I've read is that it is similar to the relationship between the Standard L Kubota line and the Grand L line. They are more basic tractors with fewer features. They are smaller and lighter than the corresponding CK or DK model and they don't have the same capabilities as the corresponding CK or DK model. That said, they are a value tractor that will meet all the needs of a type of tractor user and are a fantasitic buy. I also think they are leaps and bounds ahead as far as utility to what other colors offer.
Some of the differences off the top of my head that you can verify at Kioti.com as suggested by CM:
3pt hitch load sensing as already pointed out. Also doesn't have the dial to adjust the rate at which the implement is lowered if memory serves.
Lighter
Less cap. on 3pt
Less cap on loader
Less cap on hydraulic pump
Less features. No rubber floor, no telescopic link ends, no telescopic sway bars etc.
Gear only, no HST avail.
No draft control. CK doesn't either.
No remote included. DK has one included and you can add a second. DS and CK have single and double remotes as options only.
Hope some of this helps.