Can a Kubota L2501 move a round bale?

[MRollins10]

Hello, I am new to TBN and am in the process of buying a home on 7 acres. I will have a couple of cows so that i can keep my ag exempt. I am looking at possibly buying a new Kubota L2501 HST with FEL and R4 tires. My property is flat / gently sloping. I will need to be able to bushhog and drag the gravel drive with a box blade. Occasionally i will want to move around a round bale for the cattle. Out of the barn to the pasture. I am planning on filling the tires with water and antifreeze for extra weight. Does anyone have any experience with this this tractor? Will it lift and move a round bale?

I have also looked at John Deere 2025e and a Massey Furgeson 1726E. I think the L2501's body is a bit bigger. Or at least it feels like it.

Suggestions anyone?

 

[jeff9366]

Round bales weight from 800 to 1,200 pounds dry. In Texas most round bales are probably towards 1,200 pounds.

The L2501 weighs 2,700 pounds, bare tractor. You cannot lift 1,200 pound round bales safely with a tractor that weighs less than 4,000 pounds bare, 5,000 pounds bare safer.

In Kubota the 4,000 pound tractors are in the Kubota MX series and the larger Grand L series. Even in the MX series you need 600 - 900 pound implement mounted on the Three Point Hitch as FEL counterbalance when moving 1,200 pounds on the FEL.

https://www.kubotausa.com/products/tractors/economy-utility/mx

I am in the process of buying a home on 7 acres. My property is flat / gently sloping. I need to bushhog and drag the gravel drive with a box blade. I am planning on filling the tires with water and antifreeze for extra weight.

Aside from moving round bales a L2501 is ample for your other tasks, using 60" wide implements.

For two cows, buy square bales. Transport square bales in the FEL bucket.


MORE: L251 bales site:tractorbynet.com - Google Search

 

[Citydude]

I have an L2501, I use it for logging. I think you could lift 1200 pounds off the ground for transportation however that would be it. So if your getting bales off a stack, that would be too dicey.

 

[MRollins10]

I have an L2501, I use it for logging. I think you could lift 1200 pounds off the ground for transportation however that would be it. So if your getting bales off a stack, that would be too dicey.

How do you like the L2501?

 

[MRollins10]

@Jeff - Thank you.

 

[Citydude]

How do you like the L2501?

I like it. It's been a workhorse in steep terrain pulling logs and stacking them. The rear tires need to be loaded as you mentioned. The loud exhaust is my only complaint.

 

[MRollins10]

I like it. It's been a workhorse in steep terrain pulling logs and stacking them. The rear tires need to be loaded as you mentioned. The loud exhaust is my only complaint.

Knowing what you know now...would you have gone with a bigger one? Or some other brand?

 

[Citydude]

Knowing what you know now...would you have gone with a bigger one? Or some other brand?

I've got the machine that fits my needs as far as logging in deep timber and narrow trails. When it comes to running implements off the PTO, it is a few ponies shy for the size of tractor it is. So you might keep that in mind. The 3901 is the correct engine for the PTO to run a 6 foot cutter.

I've only had 2 Kubotas and no issues with them. An L3400 and the L2501. No experience with other brands. There are only Deere and Kubota dealers here in the middle of nowhere. Closest dealer is 75 miles away.

 

[newbury]

To answer the question posed by the thread title based on specs at Tractordata.com - Yes, on the 3pt.
BUT - If you are only going to have 2 cows and they are grazing on 3 acres how much hay do you need? Would round bales "go bad"?

 

[MRollins10]

I've got the machine that fits my needs as far as logging in deep timber and narrow trails. When it comes to running implements off the PTO, it is a few ponies shy for the size of tractor it is. So you might keep that in mind. The 3901 is the correct engine for the PTO to run a 6 foot cutter.

I've only had 2 Kubotas and no issues with them. An L3400 and the L2501. No experience with other brands. There are only Deere and Kubota dealers here in the middle of nowhere. Closest dealer is 75 miles away.

Thanks. Good to know.