Kubota or mahindra

[5030]

Neither my 2002 M9 with 6000 hours or my 2004 M9 with 3000 hours have ever been split and that is all farming hours. Do my own services too.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Anyone who thinks lighter castings on machinery is better, doesn't know much about casting durability on machinery.

SR

 

[4570Man]

Anyone who thinks lighter castings on machinery is better, doesn't know much about casting durability on machinery.

SR

Lighter being better isn’t a sure fire measure but neither is heavier being stronger. Something can be heavy and still suck.

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

I think it all comes down to the design and where the stress points are. I will reference this older thread as an example of a heavy casting but bad design:

Brand new 1735M broke after ~3hrs of use. Is this a freak occurrence?

Did I just have some bad luck? Or do these things break like this on a regular basis? Another user mentioned seeing a similar break, but wasn't sure if it was a Massey. This broke pulling the same box blade my Ford 2N has been pulling for years. I'm new here and have been lurking and reading...

www.tractorbynet.com

 

[Hay Dude]

Lighter being better isn’t a sure fire measure but neither is heavier being stronger. Something can be heavy and still suck.

sign me up for heavier

 

[4570Man]

sign me up for heavier

You can buy whatever size kubota you want. If you want a 4000 pound Kubota you can get that. But it’s probably going to be 50-60 hp opposed to 40. Is that supposed to be a bad thing? As already mentioned comparing tractors by HP is pretty meaningless. You wouldn’t separate pickups by hp opposed to class would you?

 

[RjCorazza]

I think it all comes down to the design and where the stress points are. I will reference this older thread as an example of a heavy casting but bad design:

Brand new 1735M broke after ~3hrs of use. Is this a freak occurrence?

Did I just have some bad luck? Or do these things break like this on a regular basis? Another user mentioned seeing a similar break, but wasn't sure if it was a Massey. This broke pulling the same box blade my Ford 2N has been pulling for years. I'm new here and have been lurking and reading...

www.tractorbynet.com

I snapped off the lower arm connection point casting on my Kubota L4060 this summer pulling old fence posts.
In my case, I was applying a load to the 3pt arms that it was not designed to handle and I should have known better.
That mistake cost me 2 Grand.

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

I snapped off the lower arm connection point casting on my Kubota L4060 this summer pulling old fence posts.
In my case, I was applying a load to the 3pt arms that it was not designed to handle and I should have known better.
That mistake cost me 2 Grand.

Why didn't you chain them around your drawbar instead? Or better yet your loader?

 

[airbiscuit]

The castings on our 1950 John Deere B were a lot more refined than the ugly castings on a Mahindra made in India. The TYM made Mahindras don't seem to suffer the same affliction.

 

[Hay Dude]

You can buy whatever size kubota you want. If you want a 4000 pound Kubota you can get that. But it’s probably going to be 50-60 hp opposed to 40. Is that supposed to be a bad thing? As already mentioned comparing tractors by HP is pretty meaningless. You wouldn’t separate pickups by hp opposed to class would you?

Nope not bad at all.
Given other things equal, I will always prefer more weight over less, because maybe you don’t know this, but weight is traction. Weight in the proper place is also stability with something like a raised loader.
Tractors are built for traction and stability.
I see 1-2 threads literally every week about traction and/or stability.
I think weight and HP, outside of build quality, are probably 2 of the most important considerations in a tractor purchase.