2 Piece Kubota

[Just Bill]

A guy I work with recently bought a new MX5100 4x4 w/o a FEL.
Last week he told me that he was pulling a graderbox (rippers not down)
and heard a loud noise and a jerk and the tractor stopped.
He thought he hit something that he hadn't seen, he got off of the tractor to see what the problem was.
There was oil pouring out, the tractor broke between the transmission and the rear end.
The dealer picked it up in 2 peices with a roolback wrecker.
The tractor had 32 hrs on it, no user abuse found, and Kubota is replacing with a new one.
The guy says the metal was very thin and not what he would expect to see
on a tractor of that size.

Bill

 

[Willl]

3PH backhoe ?

 

[newbury]

Pictures needed!!

 

[Just Bill]

No BH, waiting on pics

 

[fishpick]

Bigfoot is developing the photos - no doubt...

 

[texasjohn]

very unusual...never heard of this happening ... looking for more details.

 

[Johndeere3720]

That sure would be a bad day for me. I agree though, pictures!

 

[TomOfTarsus]

And here I was thinking that this was about some oddball articulated Kubota!

I'm interested in the pictures, particularly if there are good closeups of the fracture surfaces.

 

[RWEST]

Anything on this, yet....

 

[wushaw]

You didn't happen to ask him how fast he was pulling his grader box?
I can see it happening if he was going full out and hit an immovable object.