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I bought a 4510 for my wife to use because the transmission is so smooth and the no stall feature works so well. The safety switch did crap out and was replaced under warranty but other than that it has done fine.

I have two UTVs - a 2010 Cub Cadet Volunteer (500ish hours) gas and a year old Kioti two row K9 diesel. From my experience when they hit about ten years old you start hitting ten year old vehicle problems - CV boots splitting, leaking hoses, belts need to be replaced, plastic body parts crack...

I have the 4 door K9 which is pretty much the same drivetrain as the Mechron and am happy with it. Had the clutch adjusted under warranty, but other than that it has been flawless for about 650 miles driving around pastures checking fences, spraying mesquite, spraying pecan trees, cleaning the...

Diesels really do need the emissions crap on them because they really are bad for the environment. Old smokey diesels put out big soot particles that make smog and turn everything black, the new diesels with high pressure common rail multi injection are much more efficient but they make tiny...

Check your neutral lockout switch - if it thinks it is in gear it will not let the starter engage. Should be a relay in that circuit too that could cause the same problem.

Looking for the workshop manuals for both the NX series and the RX. I ordered the RX one from Kioti last year and it is still on backorder. I don't mind paying for a paper copy from them, but actually getting it would be nice.

The Texas grid has been creaking and groaning for quite a while so don't expect it to get any better in the near future. When the big freeze hit we ran the house off of my Hobart Champion Elite for over fifty hours (if I had enough gas for it I could have run it for another fifty) over five...

When I bought my K9 the dealer said grease it when you change the oil every 250 hours or once a year whichever comes first (or if you get into deep water - nope, not doing that) and it will last forever or don't and it will last as long as all of the other non-greaseable stuff out there. From...

I originally posted this in the UTV forum but I don't think it gets nearly as many eyeballs as the manufacturer forums do. Finally broke down and bought a new side by side, a Kioti K9 2440 to go along with our older Cub Cadet Volunteer and here are my initial impressions of it. This thing is...

Look at the wire size. Circuit fuses are designed to protect the wiring and not the device.

If you are getting white smoke when it first starts and NOT losing coolant, you might have an injector that is leaking a little.

Finally broke down and bought a new side by side, a Kioti K9 2440 to go along with our older Cub Cadet Volunteer and here are my initial impressions of it. This thing is giant, 12 and a half feet long and almost seven feet tall with the roof (brushes the garage door going in). Turning radius is...

I was talking to my Kioti dealer a couple of weeks ago and commented about how many tractors they had on the lot and still boxed (they had more than I have seen there in the last couple of years) and he said that with demand up and all of the shipping problems going on they have to order pretty...

I have a 7320 with a cab and a 4510 open station. The cab model is great when mowing or doing any kind of dirt work (staying cool or warm and clean is a nice thing) but the open station is good for pulling mesquite and things where you need more visibility. Cab model if I could only have one.

You will probably going to want to get the plasma out of there as soon as you can. Plasma smoke contains a lot of fine metal particles that does a job on machine ways and it looks like you have some nice machines in there. I am going to get one next year after I move my shop and it is going to...

You obviously don't have a house full of teenage girls. Two Costco bundles is what I consider the minimum because they never tell you it is running low.

If you think that a coax is cool, take a look at a Haimer gauge. It will quickly you find your X, Y, and Z within half a thou. Next best thing to a Renishaw probe (they will repeat tenths all day long and auto calibrate).

If you think the Fray is complicated, take a look at a Brown and Sharpe Ominversal (especially with the optional vertical head). I think it has something like 9 axis that can get out of whack. You can do almost anything with it if you have six months to set them up.

480 volts is your friend because people are scared of it. Watch out for a decent used transformer that will run up to 10HP and it will let your run a lot of equipment that is heavily discounted because it is 480. Here is a good rule of thumb on three phase motors - if it is dual speed (say...

Welcome to the very heavy hobby of machining where one day your wife will look at all of the crap you have accumulated and hopes that she dies first and does not have to deal with it. I got back into it about 20 years ago and now make a living with it after abandoning the IT industry for...

I hauled my 30' dual tandem PJ gooseneck trailer out to the ranch over the weekend with a dumpster on it so I could clean up some of the junk the concrete guys left behind last year. When I loaded it back on the trailer it made the 7320 grunt a little so I figure it was at least 3500 pounds and...

I like the dually because the handful of times every year you need it you REALLY need it. Also I have had a blowout on a rear single that was loaded at the limit and it tried real hard to kill me. With the rear duals you have a little insurance until you can at least get stopped.

Here is my very initial input on the new Ford 7.3. I have had new style emissions diesels for the last 7 years - a 2014 Ram and then a 2019 Ford. The Ram spent over five months in the shop for emissions problems (and a couple of months more for other things) and was traded in on the Ford F350...

I went to the Kioti dealership to pickup the NX4510 (had an intermittent starting issue - safety controller replaced under warranty) with the 2019 Ford F-350 and the big PJ trailer. A couple of miles from the dealership I caught a whiff of diesel and thought I must have gotten some on me when I...

I have a couple of Okuma mills and an Okuma lathe and they easily hold half a thou all day every day. Great machines. Finally retired my old ones a couple of years ago (electronics got flaky after 25 years but the iron was still good) that had over 25,000 hours of runtime on them and they...

I run Lucas Fuel System Treatment in my 2019 Ford 6.7 diesel mostly because I don't have a lot of faith in the Bosch CP4 injector pump and figure any extra help I can give it might help. Might be just carrying a $25 a gallon rabbit's foot, but maybe it helps. We have a couple of Kioti tractors...

When I bought my utility tractor 3 and a half years ago the biggest consideration was NO DEF. It is hard enough keeping a DEF system on a pickup working right even when it is driven every day so imagine the pain with a tractor that easily sees long periods of little use. If you cannot find an...

You might want to watch some scissor lift safety videos on the u tubes. That one is pretty narrow and it does not take a lot of side force to tip them over especially when the scissors get a little loose.

I talked to another guy that had a 4044 open station and he thought is was underpowered and not a "real" Deere. My wife is very happy with the NX Kioti and I have been using it in the shop as a forklift and I really like it too. Deere make some nice stuff but the need to take the 4000 series a...

Our big tank had come up over seven feet and was a foot over the spillway Saturday morning and we have gotten another 3" of rain since then. There is enough standing water in the fields that it seems to have drowned all of the fireants and their little ghosts have turned into mosquitos. I...

Since I started my six month barn/shop build a year and a half ago I have added a few necessary tools (two scissor lifts, a bunch of Makita and Dewalt cordless tools, a second tractor, a 30' gooseneck trailer, etc...). I heard one time that whoever dies with the most tools wins (as long as it...

I have a bit of a saw problem. I have a cold saw, couple of vertical bandsaws, 3 auto feed horizontal bandsaws (bought another one today - an Amada HA250W), a 10HP Kalamazoo chop saw, high speed non-ferrous saws, etc... But for fab work I have found my new best friend. I saw a review of the...

Having your own is so much nicer than a rental. I use mine out in the mud by booming it down onto the trailer and pulling it around with my tractor.

I wish that there was a legal provision that allowed emission deletes after a certain number of years. I suspect there are going to be a lot of parked diesel pickups with bad emission equipment and no spare parts in 15 or 20 years. Most small farmers have old trucks and modern diesels don't...

Seems like there are more bigger cab tractors on dealer lots right now than the smaller ones. I suspect the manufactures are throwing the limited resources at building the higher margin bigger machines than the more competitive smaller ones so that might help you out. My Kioti rep told me that...

I started building the barn/maintenance building right before the pandemic. 4000 feet enclosed and 4200 under lean to roofs. Guys I had lined out to help put it together disappeared and materials got harder and more complicated to find. At least the main building is dry now and I have...

I have an ancient Kubota excavator and like the local dealer and I looked at tractors there but there is not much over 25HP with the hydrostat in stock right now. I used the Kubota online builder to see where a L4760 would start for ordering one and got scared pretty quick (add a loader, a...

A halfway worn out Bridgeport style mill makes a great drill press. Even better if it is 3 phase because you can put a VFD on it and have even better speed control and run it off of 220/240 volts. Only real downside is the weight, but a tractor can help with that.

Looked at the Deere 4044M (no 4052s and they have no idea when any will be in) again and as much as I wanted to like it I just could not. The Deere was loud, it was over 2500 to add a single front and a pair of rear remotes, and whoever thought putting the fuel tank that high on the back was...

Things to check for. Clogged fuel or air filter, clogged vent in the fuel tank cap. Do you get more exhaust smoke when it starts to die?

I am trying to not have a heart attack due to sudden sticker shock when I order the metal panels for the inside of the new shop/barn. I know that regular steel prices have more than doubled in the last year, but how are panel prices doing since the big runup? I need to get about another 4500...

Get a herd of goats and let them clean it up. After it is clean have a big BBQ.

I have a 7320 and pull a 12' batwing mower with it. I Normally run in ePTO in midrange 3rd or 4th gear, depending on how high the grass is. I know I have about 10 more hp than you, but those thing really pull well. I have also pulled a 12' disc with a 10' cultipacker hooked to the back of it...

Starting to narrow it down to two tractors. Need an open station hydro model with 40 plus pto horsepower that is easy to drive. It will primarily be used to pull a water wagon, nut harvester in a couple of years, and general farm work. I presently have a Kioti 7320 cab model that does a lot...

I am going to have electric brakes on the trailer and 95% of our place is very flat so I am not too worried about stopping from 5mph, much more worried about it actually being able to pull it without killing it. Looked at the Kubota L4701 for a few minutes last week and while I liked it it is...

I had the Pfizer. Sore arm and felt like I had a cold for a day after the first one. Second one gave me a REALLY sore arm, some fever, and a vicious headache for the day. It felt like a bad hangover.

It looks like it is going to be another dry year around here so I am building a water wagon for watering about 250 young trees. Trailer is a single axle dual rear wheel with electric brakes and a 750 gallon tank. Estimated dry weight is about 1600 pounds and fully loaded about 7800 pounds. 250+...

Looks great and I think I will do the same to mine. The paint matches to me but I am very red green color blind.

I have had a 7320 cab model for 3 years and it is a good tractor. Recently had the first real problem with it that I fixed with a can of electrical cleaner and a little head scratching. Maintenance is easy on them, the loaders are strong (just used it to unload a bundle of 50 8" x 25' C...

I have a 3 year old 7320 that started having some strange transmission/clutch problems a couple of months ago. The main symptom, was the clutch pedal stopped working but at other times the forward/reverse lever also quit working. Turning off and restarting the tractor would fix it, at least...

This was my Saturday evening view. And I enjoyed a cold beer with it.

I finally got a chance to take a couple of pictures of the shredder. Stump jumpers and blades are nice and heavy, the deck is thick enough that if it ever broke a blade I don't think it would go through it, and the folding mechanism is well done. Kapper outdoors on youtube also has a...

Project update. I finally have the walls, roof, and roll up doors in and am going to start the man doors and windows this weekend. I have some temporary LED lights in so that I am not dependent on the sun for light anymore so I can get more work time in during these short days. After the...

I can spend a little money before the end of the tax year and would really like to replace my my old Schulte 10' 3 point mower. It cuts OK and has been great for cleaning the land up, but being a one piece deck it can dig in when turning on anything that is not perfectly flat and makes the...

It only took eleven months but I finally got my barn/shop dried in. Going to do the doors this weekend and then start on the windows. The building is red with white trim and doors, but my metal building supplier now only has aluminum (dull silver) and bronze in double pane and the wife is not...

We got some work done over the last two weekends but between the extreme temps and 35 mile an hour winds did not get a lot done on the roof. Finished the back wall, put some trim up, and did a lot of general farm work. Amazing how long some things take.

We made a little progress last weekend. Got the first course of roofing steel on, finished the front corners, and put the trim on the first end (wanted to make sure that everything was lining up). We had brutal heat and a lot of wind that really slowed stuff down but progress is progress...

I am making slow but steady progress on the new barn/maintenance shop for our ranch. Between weather, the pandemic, material shortages, flaky help, business slowdown squeezing cashflow, just 2020 in general has made good progress even more difficult. We have the framing steel up along with...

Our new farm building is coming along slowly and I am about ready to put the roof panels on. The building is a 40' x 100' with 16' sidewalls and a 4/12 pitch on the roof. The "kit" came with butyl tape for the roof seams, but I have read that it is only needed on roofs with a 2/12 pitch or...

I have a Ferris 700 zero turn mower that we use on our ranch for general mowing around the house and buildings, road frontage, and to mow under 200 pecan trees that are in former cattle pastures. Mower is great but cutting a mix of heavy coastal and bahia grass really dulls the blades quickly...

We got more done last Saturday (it was misting and windy on Sunday so I did other chores) - used the scissor lift to raise the main trusses. We bolted them together on the ground and then used the tractor to put them on the lift and then up, up, and away. It went a lot smoother than I had...

We got a bit more done this weekend, my neighbor who has been in construction for 43 years spent most of Saturday and Sunday afternoon on it with. Really learned some good tricks from him. The scissor lift made things so much easier and safer. For standing up the lighter beams we used...

After last weekend when I got a feel for how much aerial work this building is going to take and how much I really dislike working on a ladder I figured a scissor lift would be a huge help. Rental rates around here run around a thousand a month for a small 19 footer 32 inches wide and over...

The weather was supposed to be pretty bad today so the game plan was to inventory and clearly label the iron (bundles were labeled but they were not holding up in the rain) to get a jump on next weekend. Needed to move some prestaged pieces on the slab so I decided to test lifting some of the...

I forgot to mention that we poured on New Years Eve. We had about 16 concrete guys, 2 inspectors from the concrete company and a supervisor. Ended up using about 129 yards and got the last truck out at about 10:30 in the morning. They used a gas powered vibrator to help get the air...

We started building a new barn/farm shop at our ranch to replace a couple of older buildings that are about done. The first phase is going to be a 40' x 100' central building (16' side walls with a 4/12 pitch roof) and then add 24' shed roofs coming off of each side for equipment storage. The...

My bumper pull equipment trailer is not nearly big enough and I am ready to buy a new gooseneck 30 foot dovetail trailer. Looked at some used ones and by the time you replace the worn out tires, bad brakes, weld up the existing damage, and fix the wiring you are almost at the price of a new...

We have a Cub Cadet Volunteer at the squirrel ranch and it gets ten to twelve hours of use/abuse each weekend. I have a 275 gallon water tote in the back of it and we put out about 2500 gallons of water on some new pecan trees and a 25 gallon sprayer mounted on the front rack that you have to...

Getting ready to build a 40x80x16 foot metal building at our place. It will be used for equipment and as a shop now and eventually for pecan processing in five to ten years. The soil where I want to put the building is a loam/clay/sand mix - it moves some between rainy and dry but the house...

The older Volunteer line had two seats and the Hurst shifter between them. I have a 2015 Volunteer 748 with the fuel injected Kohler motor and it is a great UTV. Very roomy for two people but a little bit on the loud side and the floor gets pretty hot after a couple of hours spraying mesquite...

Picked up an ancient Kubota KX71 mini excavator on Friday and spent Saturday morning digging up and pulling down some almost dead persimmon trees. Local tractor dealer took it in on trade and found the motor was toast from a bad ether start (broke most of the rings). They did an overhaul plus...

We have had our well water supply fail several times this year due to ants getting in the contacts of the Square D pressure switch. I have tried spraying several kinds of "long lasting" ant spray on any path that they can take to get into the switch but if you forget to do it every week the...

Last weekend we hit 99 degrees at the squirrel ranch and I did a bunch of loader and grapple work with the 7320 and can report that the AC works very well. Started around noon after the tractor had been in the sun all morning so it was already hot in the cab but it cooled off quickly. I was...

My wife and I bought an old ranch in central Texas at the end of last year (86 acres) with the intention to eventually retire there and raise pecans. One thirty acre pasture where we are going to start planting trees next winter was pretty beat up and rough from over grazing and too many fire...

I have the Kioti 7320 which seems to be their version of the 7060 and am discing and planting 30 acres of old cattle pasture now. I borrowed the neighbors John Deere folding disc (12 foot wide folded and 20 when it is open) and I am not having any problems with it. When I started about a month...

If you want a suggestion on a new one, I went with a Kioti RX7320 with the power shuttle transmission and cab. Tractor is rated at 73HP but it pulls a 12" John Deere disc way better than it should on hard ground and damp clay soil. The loader is very stout, unloaded a 10' double row...

Blew a pinched O-ring on the spoolvalve endplate on my RX7320 and pumped a lot of hydraulic oil out (ended up having to add 4 gallons to fill it back up). The manual was very specific about what fluids were compatible and the generic Tractor Supply 303 was not one of them. The Kioti branded...

I don't think you will have any trouble pulling a 6' disc, we used to pull one with a 40 year old (then) Ford 8N. I spent last weekend pulling a drag behind that was twice that wide with only 20 more horsepower than you have and it did fine.

Spent some time discing about 12 acres on Saturday with the 7320. This is beatup old cattle pasture that has not been turned in a long time. Lots and lots of huge fire ant mounds, bumps and lumps, and other irregularities. The ground is hard and I am only getting about 3 - 4 inches down even...

I bought an Armstrong Ag 72" 6.5" spacing brush rake grapple when I bought my Kioti RX7320 and finally have time to do a mini review on it. This one is heavier than the Everything Attachments style at about 850 pounds but it does have a heavier top gate. I have mostly used it for scraping up...

I have a whopping 20 hours of mostly loader work on mine now. I need to disc, drag, and plant about 40 acres and was going to start this weekend but the weather forecast was for steady rain so I scheduled a family visit instead and took the kids to see their grandparents. I got back tonight...

I need to replace the blades on my shredder and was wondering if the ones from Tractor Supply are any good. I have noticed over the years that a lot of their stuff is made in China which is not a huge mark of excellent quality to me. Doubt that I will be able to make it to the dealer before...

Are there any good rules of thumb for tractor horse power per foot of disc width along the lines of 5 PTO HP per foot of shredder? Need to get a bigger disc and wondering what a 70HP 4wd tractor will pull.

Here are a couple of pictures of our new RX7320 right after it was delivered and was still clean. So far we have used it cleaning up some old brush piles, dug a 4 foot deep hole with the loader, mowed the farm roads so you can see where you are going, and used the loader to move some equipment...

New RX7320 power shuttle cab owner here. Looked at a lot of tractors and did a lot of reading online (thanks TBN!) before deciding on the 7320. In-laws and an employee are huge Kubota fans, but I think that the Kioti offers a lot more value and features in this size of tractor. Been out of...