RusselF
New member
Hello from cold Canada...
Just got my Kubota yesterday. Trucked it in myself from this guys place over 120km away
from my farm, at night, in a snowstorm on ice covered 401 highway. Crazy drive, trailer was
a tad too small, but I made it home before midnight. I heard about this site from an old friend
who now lives in California. He has a Kubota B26, with the backhoe. I had asked him what
he thought, and he spoke highly of the Kubota. I found a nice, low hour 2011 L3400, with
the front loader, and just unloaded it today. Still has the grey oil filter, so first job will be
to change the engine oil. It is the gear model, not the HST, but I like that, being an old
school guy who first learned to drive on manual transmission vehicles.
I lurked about and read a lot of useful info on this site, so figured, I would register.
I have a small forest of a few acres at my farm, and I am really looking forward to being
able to use my Kubota, instead of being the human tractor, and hauling tree-trunks thru the
snow by hand! (Given this crazy polar vortex, we have had almost two months of minus 20
celsius nights, and we've used a garage full of firewood... ) But since the wood-pile is gone,
I have room to park my newly aquired Kubota. Thanx to all on this site who posted technical
comments and reviews of their machines.
Once I learn some more about the Kubota, I will post a mini-review about it.
One thing, I am quite imprressed that they can start up in minus 20 temperatures... (More
than I can do some mornings...)
- Rus.
Just got my Kubota yesterday. Trucked it in myself from this guys place over 120km away
from my farm, at night, in a snowstorm on ice covered 401 highway. Crazy drive, trailer was
a tad too small, but I made it home before midnight. I heard about this site from an old friend
who now lives in California. He has a Kubota B26, with the backhoe. I had asked him what
he thought, and he spoke highly of the Kubota. I found a nice, low hour 2011 L3400, with
the front loader, and just unloaded it today. Still has the grey oil filter, so first job will be
to change the engine oil. It is the gear model, not the HST, but I like that, being an old
school guy who first learned to drive on manual transmission vehicles.
I lurked about and read a lot of useful info on this site, so figured, I would register.
I have a small forest of a few acres at my farm, and I am really looking forward to being
able to use my Kubota, instead of being the human tractor, and hauling tree-trunks thru the
snow by hand! (Given this crazy polar vortex, we have had almost two months of minus 20
celsius nights, and we've used a garage full of firewood... ) But since the wood-pile is gone,
I have room to park my newly aquired Kubota. Thanx to all on this site who posted technical
comments and reviews of their machines.
Once I learn some more about the Kubota, I will post a mini-review about it.
One thing, I am quite imprressed that they can start up in minus 20 temperatures... (More
than I can do some mornings...)
- Rus.
