Any feedback on Milsco's V5400 Air Ride Seat?

MinnesotaEric · Mar 3, 2016

Deerherd said:
I have the factory suspension seat upgrade on my Ferris and it looks just like the line drawing Eric posted. The seat is great and combined with the suspension on the mower makes for a great ride.

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Still too cold for me to make a video of the Milsco's V5400 air seat, but I'm hoping it will work out for me!

Cord · Mar 3, 2016

Looks like you're a bit a head of me in a search for a new seat. While you are looking for a flat seat, I'm actually needing one with lumbar support. Got long legs so maybe the MSG75 isn't the best choice for me? I gotta check, but I might have a different model of a Milsco in my skid steer. That unit only has the suspension in the seat pan to reduce the clearance requirements, but the lumbar profile is about right for me.

Edit- I have the Michigan 5300 in the skiddy. This seat looks like a splitting image of the Milsco 5400. Makes me think the two companies are related.

Ford850 · Mar 3, 2016

Spring is almost here, so I've been wondering if you ordered the V5400 yet. You have it mounted on the mower already? Where did you order from, and did you get the seat belt too? Thanks

MinnesotaEric · Mar 3, 2016

Cord said:
Looks like you're a bit a head of me in a search for a new seat. While you are looking for a flat seat, I'm actually needing one with lumbar support. Got long legs so maybe the MSG75 isn't the best choice for me? I gotta check, but I might have a different model of a Milsco in my skid steer. That unit only has the suspension in the seat pan to reduce the clearance requirements, but the lumbar profile is about right for me.

Edit- I have the Michigan 5300 in the skiddy. This seat looks like a splitting image of the Milsco 5400. Makes me think the two companies are related.

Milsco is Michigan. The mechanical and air suspension (V5300 and V5400) share the identical seat but different suspension. Milsco also makes a seats commonly found in skid steers.

Putz around the Milsco web site and hopefully you will find your skid steer seat.

Milsco

xring100 · Mar 3, 2016

Re: Any feedback on Milsco's V5400 or Grammer MSG65 Air Ride Seat?

I'm waiting to hear what you think I've ordered a new Kubota ZD1211 and was thinking about an air ride seat. lots of good links here

xring100 · Mar 3, 2016

Re: Any feedback on Milsco's V5400 or Grammer MSG65 Air Ride Seat?

Eric in your search did you find anything that resembles this seat?

MinnesotaEric · Mar 4, 2016

Re: Any feedback on Milsco's V5400 or Grammer MSG65 Air Ride Seat?

xring100 said:
Eric in your search did you find anything that resembles this seat?

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That appears to my eye as the air seat version of the Seats Inc of my Ferris's standard stock seat. I couldn't get one aftermarket as Seats Inc only does OEM. Speaking as a former outside B2B sales and then sales manager, I don't blame Seats Inc.

My musing aside, that seat is the I3A. I found out about it and shared what I found out about it on post number 7 on the first page of this thread.

Anyway, I would have really liked to get my hands on one.

I wasn't really planning on sharing this end-of-December video as I'm looking to do a better review of the V5400 air seat once it warms up. Even so, gleen what you wish from what I did think to share in my cold December garage.

Ford850 · Mar 4, 2016

Hey Eric, how much difference is there between your original seat and this V5400 (seat surface depth)? I see those new Kubota ZD1500 series are supposed to be out this year, and maybe they already are, so could you get an air seat (replacement part) from a Kubota dealer? That would have the original seat design plus the air suspension.

murphy1244 · Mar 4, 2016

Seems we need to go to the seat factory and sit on a couple dozen seats to find our match. Eric, thanks for the video as your doing a lot of testing for me.