Are all sub compacts essentially equal?

[k0ua]

I can't imagine a side by side HST control. I have been heel toe since the 90s when I used to own and run a couple of Elgin Pelican street sweepers. I will have to check a side by side out...

it is not that big of a deal, It took me a day or two to transition from the treadle pedal to the 2 pedal design. Now it seems natural. Of course I did not like it when I first tried it, but you get used to things pretty quick, and now it seems great! You just leave your heel on the floor and your toes rotate either left or right to engage which pedal you want to push. Once your ankle gets "educated" it happens automatically without any thought. They are both good.

 

[GManBart]

So I am belly mowing again, but OMG what a pain.

Glad to hear you got it back up and running!

 

[JDgreen227]

it is not that big of a deal, It took me a day or two to transition from the treadle pedal to the 2 pedal design. Now it seems natural. Of course I did not like it when I first tried it, but you get used to things pretty quick, and now it seems great! You just leave your heel on the floor and your toes rotate either left or right to engage which pedal you want to push. Once your ankle gets "educated" it happens automatically without any thought. They are both good.

Only treadle pedal design I drove was on an fork truck and due to the nature of the operation (constantly stopping, starting, reversing) it was a good system...but on a tractor you rarely need the immediate switch between forward and reverse and my preference is the two pedal layout.

 

[Cherokee140]

Glad to hear you got it back up and running!

Thanks I really like that 650.

 

[cmkh3]

I am leaning towards the Mahindra 28XL hydro with loader backhoe box scrapper. The Branson and TYM come up next. Johyn Deere and Kubota are nice but for allot more money.
Best
Chris

 

[Gittyup]

I am leaning towards the Mahindra 28XL hydro with loader backhoe box scrapper. The Branson and TYM come up next. Johyn Deere and Kubota are nice but for allot more money.
Best
Chris

The 28XL would be a very good choice.

 

[94BULLITT]

Simply untrue. Posting information like this, when you've never seen the machines in question, and haven't even taken a minute to check the stats on them does a disservice to people looking for help. You saw a Boomer 30 at a show, but that's a much bigger machine....like 1,200lbs heavier and over a foot longer.

The Boomer 20, 24 and 25 are virtually identical in size to the Deere 1025R, and several others that you suggest are "real" sub-compacts.

I saw a Boomer 25 last week at a dealer. It is defiantly larger than a SCUT.

 

[GManBart]

I saw a Boomer 25 last week at a dealer. It is defiantly larger than a SCUT.

Defiantly? Was it shaking its fist at other tractors or something?

If the Boomer 25 is larger than a SCUT, then so is a 1025R, by your definition.

Opinions don't change specs, and math isn't negotiable.

 

[94BULLITT]

Defiantly? Was it shaking its fist at other tractors or something?

If the Boomer 25 is larger than a SCUT, then so is a 1025R, by your definition.

Opinions don't change specs, and math isn't negotiable.

I think you know that was a typo.

Have you ever seen a Boomer 25? Have you ever seen a Kubota BX or JD 1 series?

 

[GManBart]

I think you know that was a typo.

Have you ever seen a Boomer 25? Have you ever seen a Kubota BX or JD 1 series?

Really, it was a lot more fun imagining a Boomer 25 on the top of a mountain shaking it's fist/FEL at all the other tractors saying "I am larger than a SCUT."

I've seen the LS version of the Boomer 25, and yes, I've seen both of the other two. I know this is a dead horse you like to beat about the larger SCUTs, but it's nothing more than your opinion. I don't think anything that's well under 2,000lbs is a CUT, but that's just my opinion.

A Boomer 25 and Deere 1025R are within an inch of being the same length, and I don't trust the shipping weight specs because they don't specify whether they are with, or without tires, and we know a lot of tractors get shipped without tires (since the 1025R was made by in Japan and shipped here).

Further, a 1025R is a full 8" longer than a BX2370, but the Almighty Deere says it's still a SCUT, so who am I to argue?

A fraction of an inch doesn't suddenly make a tractor jump to another category when there are no officially recognized distinctions between the size groups.