Buying Advice New Tractor Help - Kubota B2601 or Deere 3025e

[paulfun9]

The treadle is odd for the first hour, then you have absolutely no conscious knowledge that your foot is even on it and doing it's thing. I sure wouldn't let that have any weight on deciding. If your brain is unable to convert that treadle action to unconscious muscle memory in a very short time of use, you likely need to wear a helmet and carry a droll towel....

Getting used to it is no problem, getting used to being uncomfortable while using it is the problem!

I would skip any tractor that comes with a treadle pedal as I haven’t been on one from any manufacturer that doesn’t make me uncomfortable while using it.

 

[Trillium Farm]

Getting used to it is no problem, getting used to being uncomfortable while using it is the problem!
I would skip any tractor that comes with a treadle pedal as I haven’t been on one from any manufacturer that doesn’t make me uncomfortable while using it.

Me Too, I find the treadle so uncomfortable that I'd forego any and all tractors with that contraception, especially if you sit in them for a long time!

 

[Milo]

Treadle seems perfectly intuitive and comfortable to use for me, similar to a Zero Turn...... control forward for forward or same control backwards to reverse. OTOH I have a JD with two peddles, you push one forward to go forward and the other peddle (right along side it) forward to go backwards. I've started off opposite my intended direction a number of times. My sister has a Deere with the same set up and when her SIL was driving it for the first time he stopped in front of a tree, turned around to back up but pushed the wrong peddle forward and crunched forward right into the tree. Just seems counterintuitive.

 

[Jchonline]

Getting used to it is no problem, getting used to being uncomfortable while using it is the problem!

I would skip any tractor that comes with a treadle pedal as I haven’t been on one from any manufacturer that doesn’t make me uncomfortable while using it.

Some I have seen are using it wrong. You do not keep your foot on it and "rock" it forward or back...that is the wrong way to use it. On Kubota the forward and rear pressure points are often offset. So your foot comes off the forward and moves back and to the left for the reverse. Then off the reverse and moves up and to the right for forward. It feels like 2 pedals now to me.

 

[Geotech]

Too much hullaballoo about pedal configuration. I like the side by side pedals better than the treadle in general. But my Kubota has a treadle pedal and it's fine. I don't have as much control with my heal as I do with the ball of my foot. So in reverse when I need fine control, I put my entire foot on top and rock back or sometimes pull up from the bottom with my toes. I'd certainly not pick an inferior tractor because of the pedals.

Too bad for the folks who can't use a treadle. They miss out on an entire brand of CUTs considered by most to be the best.

 

[paulfun9]

I don稚 get it.

I have bounced from one machine to the next gear to hst to treadle to two pedal and back again and can稚 remember once getting any of them wrong. But then again we have people who can稚 drive a straight line, those who can稚 remember that thier rear finish mower hangs off the back and will hit things when they turn, those that run along and don稚 pay attention to elevation changes and ram thier loader into the ground.

Are they reasons to pay more attention to what one does or to use a different type controll that they won稚 so easily make a mistake.

I would suggest that if you can稚 pay attention to which pedal your hitting you have most likely went the wrong way on the treadle also but are just unwilling to admit to it.

 

[Jchonline]

I would be turned off by the tredal pedal on the Kubota. But I would also pass on the 2 gear range HST on the Deere.

So I guess I would say "None of the Above"?

Next bigger Deere maybe?

Are there NO OTHER tractor dealers (brands) anywhere near you?

Definitely agree on the 2 range HST. It is bad. That is my least favorite feature on the BX series (at least the BX23S). You basically spend all of your time in L.

 

[paulfun9]

Some I have seen are using it wrong. You do not keep your foot on it and "rock" it forward or back...that is the wrong way to use it. On Kubota the forward and rear pressure points are often offset. So your foot comes off the forward and moves back and to the left for the reverse. Then off the reverse and moves up and to the right for forward. It feels like 2 pedals now to me.

Here we go again!

Someone doesn’t like what I do so they must be doing it wrong. At least you folks are consistent.
Sadly owning multiple kubota tractors and having thousands of hours on them as well as owning and operating other machines with a treadle design over the years surely should tell you that I know all the possible ways to work the darn thing and every single one becomes uncomfortable to me in short order.

I don’t like HST compared to gear and was probably one of the first on this forum to own one. My oldest current HST. Is from the 80’s but since I prefer gear I mus t be operating it incorrectly also.

Give an old man a break and understand just because you think Betty is the cats meow doesn’t mean everyone else does and it surely doesn’t mean we don’t know how to ride her if we wanted to!

 

[Homestead360]

I started this thread because I can't settle on a Kubota B2601 or a Deere 3025e. I know they are not in the same class which is why it makes comparing difficult. Those are my two options because of cost (I am also not driving all over NY state to all sorts of dealers. I could get them for the same price with same outfitted implements. I could couldn't care less about the peddles. I have the room for the bigger deere and I know the kubota will meet my needs (my back and legs are my current tractor), I also don't need creature comforts.

My question is since they are the same cost is the deere good enough to go bit bigger or is the smaller kubota so good and JD3025E unproven that I go for the smaller kubota?
Thanks!

 

[Steppenwolfe]

I started this thread because I can't settle on a Kubota B2601 or a Deere 3025e. I know they are not in the same class which is why it makes comparing difficult. Those are my two options because of cost (I am also not driving all over NY state to all sorts of dealers. I could get them for the same price with same outfitted implements. I could couldn't care less about the peddles. I have the room for the bigger deere and I know the kubota will meet my needs (my back and legs are my current tractor), I also don't need creature comforts.

My question is since they are the same cost is the deere good enough to go bit bigger or is the smaller kubota so good and JD3025E unproven that I go for the smaller kubota?
Thanks!

I haven't been on the Deere, but I do like the Kubota L's. Great little tractors with some meat to them. Consider the geared version, it ain't that big of a deal to use.