Uncle Doug
Gold Member
We had the same questions this year and wanting to upgrade to a side-by-side machine so I can carry additional people or equipment around the farm ant at the lease.
We ended up going with a used, low hours Kubota RTV 900 (Thanks, Two Guns). Over the past several months we have put the RTV to the test and it has passed every one. With the wet season we are having in East Texas this year it has been a real asset. Have not met a mud hole at the lease or the farm yet I would be afraid to go through even loaded. It is heavy so we have made a few mud holes bigger and will need to rework some of the trails when it dries out.
We were at the lease a couple of weeks ago and left the truck and trailer in our usual parking/turn around place. Rained all afternoon while we were there. Could not turn the truck around with the trailer attached and the slick highway tires on the wet clay. Dropped the trailer and used the RTV with my 15 year old grandson driving the RTV to winch the Truck around to solid ground. Then hooked the heavy lowboy to the RTV and the grandson drove it to the highway down a steep slick hill. The transmission on the RTV kept the trailer from pushing the RTV down the hill. I continue to be amazed at what the RTV will do.
As far a going fast 20+ MPH on my lease trails is plenty fast for me.
We ended up going with a used, low hours Kubota RTV 900 (Thanks, Two Guns). Over the past several months we have put the RTV to the test and it has passed every one. With the wet season we are having in East Texas this year it has been a real asset. Have not met a mud hole at the lease or the farm yet I would be afraid to go through even loaded. It is heavy so we have made a few mud holes bigger and will need to rework some of the trails when it dries out.
We were at the lease a couple of weeks ago and left the truck and trailer in our usual parking/turn around place. Rained all afternoon while we were there. Could not turn the truck around with the trailer attached and the slick highway tires on the wet clay. Dropped the trailer and used the RTV with my 15 year old grandson driving the RTV to winch the Truck around to solid ground. Then hooked the heavy lowboy to the RTV and the grandson drove it to the highway down a steep slick hill. The transmission on the RTV kept the trailer from pushing the RTV down the hill. I continue to be amazed at what the RTV will do.
As far a going fast 20+ MPH on my lease trails is plenty fast for me.