Buying Advice HST vs Gear Transmission - which would you recommend on this tractor ?

[4570Man]

I've found reading the listing of equipment helps me judge the poster. ASSuming it's truthful.
Like putting in your location helps tune reponses.
I doubt someone like jeff9366 would have much need for a snowblower.



Also what one can afford and what is offered. I NEEDED a bigger tractor for moving logs. For the money appropriated at the time, $15K, I could have gotten a 30+HP Kubota w/ HST. Instead I got a 50HP geared, older M4700 for $11.5K. And remember it used to be ALL the larger Kubotas were geared, they didn't offer HST much above 50 HP.

I sold my Kubota because I “needed” a backhoe. Big iron definitely gets more done per dollar. My point has been the whole time has been a high percentage of the people here don’t need to get more done. They want to mow grass, take care of their garden, grade their driveway, and such as that.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I've found reading the listing of equipment helps me judge the poster. ASSuming it's truthful.
Like putting in your location helps tune reponses.

Have you looked at some of the "list", guys are posting here? AND some of the comments on "their" list??

In most cases it's become, like a "bragging board"! lol

AND "if" I listed everything I own, like most do here, most likely Richard would come along and accuse me of bragging forsure!

Long time ago, I saw on here where a guy even listed his damdogs! lol lol

I have to admit, THAT one, really cracked me up!! lol

BTW, I already know if "I" need a sno-blower. lol

OK, thanks for posting, but no thanks on the list...

SR

 

[4570Man]

I don’t care what chainsaw someone has or stuff such as that but it’s helpful to know what someone has to work with when they ask a how to question.

 

[goeduck]

You guys kill me with all this quibbling..

This is not our first rodeo (on this subject) and won’t be our last

 

[crazyal]

I'm sure the OP didn't realize the can of worms opened when starting another HST vs gear thread. Hopefully he can make a choice as there was some good information mixed with some personal opinions that works for him. I have had gear tractors (since you could buy old tractors for cheap decades ago) and now have an HST. To me anything to do with the PTO is just easier. I set the engine speed for how fast the attachment is designed to operate at and there's no shifting gears because I need to change speeds. For snow blowing being able to speed up and slow down as you go around turns and through drifts without having to shift makes doing it a lot easier. Both will work, both will last a very long time, one is designed to make life easier.

 

[goeduck]

Long time ago, I saw on here where a guy even listed his damdogs! lol lol

I do not have any damdogs. All mine have the last name of dam-it. And the last name is spoken louder than the first name.

 

[k0ua]

I bet there is 100 hydrostat vs gear threads on this forum if there is a single one.! This has been going on long before I arrived here in 2009, and will be going on when I am long dead.

 

[4570Man]

I bet there is 100 hydrostat vs gear threads on this forum if there is a single one.! This has been going on long before I arrived here in 2009, and will be going on when I am long dead.

They should probably add this topic along with politics and religion.

 

[goeduck]

I bet there is 100 hydrostat vs gear threads on this forum if there is a single one.! This has been going on long before I arrived here in 2009, and will be going on when I am long dead.

The definition of insanity, is, doing the exact same freaking thing over and over again, expecting shiit to change. Why stop,at 100?

 

[k0ua]

The definition of insanity, is, doing the exact same freaking thing over and over again, expecting shiit to change. Why stop,at 100?

There could easily be more, it was just a guess, but it seems like there have been so many of them. All the same. Someone stops by and says "hey what is best gear or hydro". And then the fight began. Of course there is the ever present, "hey AG or R4 tires?" About as bad. And what ever the he77 you do, don't even say Chevy, Dodge or Ford. Many people have been killed over that one.