Deano
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Nice looking tractor! Should service you well for years to come!!:thumbsup:
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hunter48820
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Hi Suzy, That's interesting, I think I missed that message. Where does it say that and why do they not want the door open when going through a gate? Seems to me it is just one more thing to worry about with the door sticking that far out and hinged at the rear! Just looking to go doorless!
It was a personal message about the gates from the kubota guy who delivered the tractor. Apparently it is a common oversight. (Get out, open gate, get back in, drive through gate, knowing you will jump out again to close gate...SMASH!!) Some of my gates are quite tight-this is the first thing that will get through an 8' gate-it's very exciting (for me) to haul stuff up from the barn without going out to the road.
Will find out today the cost of the tragic oversight...and clean up the glass and haul in the rest of the hay with my one-door wonder!
Will find out today the cost of the tragic oversight...and clean up the glass and haul in the rest of the hay with my one-door wonder!
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hunter48820
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Thanks Suzy, sorry for your bad luck. But just figure that you've now passed that lesson!! Hope I've also learned from your lesson!!
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At least you were doing something that caused it, we had the left side door on our Case CX80 blow out twice without contact with anything. We no longer own it.
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hunter48820
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Hi Mike,
I had talked to them when I first started looking a while back but to be truthful, I didn't even know what I wanted at that time. A month or so later, I happened to talk to Williams who had a new 2010 L5240 that they gave me (what I consider) a good deal and I looked no futher. No problem with the Dewitt dealer that caused me to go further from home.
Clearly the money is to be made in parts after the initial sale. $1000 for the door and an install...ouch! Why not a cheap plexiglass version?
For anyone else unfortunate enough to experience this, the glass cleans up with a shop vac, the door hinge pops off and the gasket can be removed in one piece, the end of the handle can be duct taped to the floor and socks can be pulled over the surviving bits of hinge to prevent further loss of little bits of glass while you are bringing in the rest of the hay!
For anyone else unfortunate enough to experience this, the glass cleans up with a shop vac, the door hinge pops off and the gasket can be removed in one piece, the end of the handle can be duct taped to the floor and socks can be pulled over the surviving bits of hinge to prevent further loss of little bits of glass while you are bringing in the rest of the hay!
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