Century or Kubota

[5030]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I guess we look at tractors two different ways. To me a tractor is a piece of equipment that must give me the biggest bang for the buck.)</font>

Your "buck" dosen't "bang" quite as loud as ours.

 

[Pacesetter300]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Your "buck" dosen't "bang" quite as loud as ours. )</font>



Because????????
Pacesetter

 

[Woodbeef]

Obviously I've missed some very obscure well kept secret out there in farming,because I've yet to see a Kubota tractor being used for real farming in my life!! Yes I have seen the smaller M series in dairy and chicken barns with loaders,or the bigger M series pushing snowblowers,and oh ya in the brochures they show them mowing,round baling and loading bales.......but never in real life. The new M100 looks like a very good tractor on paper,but can it handle ground engaging work.........I'm not sure,they have never been proven at it anywhere I've ever seen!! I've never ran across anyone that has used them hard in a farming environment either. So I guess the jury is still out as far as I can tell!!

 

[Woodbeef]

Hey Pacesetter,

Near as I can decipher he is comparing the value of the Frostback to the Greenback. I wonder though if he's been watching the exchange rates lately?

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( in the brochures they show them mowing,round baling and loading bales.......but never in real life )</font>

They haven't been around as long as a lot of other brands, but I've seen them in real life being used for farming. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[5030]

I see them everyday as I cruise through Detroit, plastered on billboards for the casino's, though I've been out "farming" for the last week so I don't know if there has been a drastic change. By the way, that's "farming with my "wannabe Kubota tractor"---Eh!!!

 

[5030]

I don't want to get into a political/financial discourse here, but it seems like everytime there's a farm auction around here, there are more Canadians than domestics buying implements and tractors and taking them home. I heard a rumor that your government is subsidizing the purchases. I can see why you folks don't buy new anything, you buy our used equipment . Maybe your government should subsidize your roads and not the farmers, I thought Michigan roads were bad until I went to Northern Ontario last year. The worst road in Michigan is like an airport runway compared to your roads. Besides you have a "funky" speed limit. Eh!!

 

[JerryG]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I've yet to see a Kubota tractor being used for real farming in my life!!)</font>

Kubotas are fine tractors for many things. In my area there have been several farmers that have bought Kubotas. It seems that they have them for 2-3 years and then you notice that they have a JD, NH or a MF again. I have a friend that has a M series that is about 3 years old and he is looking at new MFs and NHs. He is the only one that I have talked to to find out why. He say that the tractor is too top heavy and the parts are way to high. I don't know why the others are trading, but they are.

 

[Pacesetter300]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( </font><font color="blueclass=small">( Your "buck" dosen't "bang" quite as loud as ours. )</font>

I repeat:

Because???????? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

I really want to know what you can do with your tractor that I can't do with my Century 3045. Shouldn't be too hard to come up with a lot of examples of "bang" for about twice the price /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Pacesetter )</font>

 

[_RaT_]

"I have found the more power you have, the less the hydro is necessary. If you're in a less then optimum gear the engine power is there for you. I'm talking 3045 which has the JD 4710 Yanmar four."



Pacesetter, all the other tractors I use have much bigger engines. A 5 cylinder Kubota L4850, my International 454 2WD, a JD 210, even a large JD ag tractor. I don't understand your comment about HST. It's almost as though you have never used it saying what you said. Its not about the power, its all about the responsive instantaneous speed control and abilty to go to reverse instantly. Really the most advantages thing about HST are those two things. There are other benefits as well, but those really stand out. Anyway, after having used HST, my other much more powerful tractors pretty much sit. Rat