B5100D 4WD Experience

Bruce8989 · Mar 26, 2002

Just bought this small Kubota. Feel like the little guy among all the bigger machines - but pretty sure its right for what I need. I'm just moving up from riding lawn tractors to this. Would love to hear from other B5100 owners or similar machines. I want to add a tiller - and have a rear slip bucket coming for it. General landscaping plans - moving dirt / rock / regrading etc. Is this machine up to it? Rear blade / box blade? anyone have this tractor and experience with implements?

looch · Mar 26, 2002

As I mentioned in the private message I sent you - I miss mine. I felt like I abandoned an old friend when it was driven away on the flatbed that delivered my B7500.

I wanted to start taking care of my overgrown field and I didn't want to abuse the old girl.

Anonymous Poster · Mar 26, 2002

I have owned a B5100 for nine years and have gotten a lot of use out of it. I have used it for grading roads, clearing light brush, digging foundations for patios and driveways and rototilling gardens. One of the nice features about the B5100 is that it can get into tight areas, where larger tractors can not fit. For digging I recomend a tooth bar for the front bucket. If you buy a rototiller it should be one of the smaller ones. I use a 36" kubota tiller.

Anonymous Poster · Apr 5, 2002

I had a B5100DT for 2 years. It was a nice little tractor. I used a front dozer blade and 24" 3-point scoop to move fill around the yard. The rear scoop worked pretty well except when dumping. It is a little to low. If you have limited space you can't go wrong. I found a loader for it, but never installed it. I sold it after I bought a Satoh S370D with a FEL.

WVBill · Apr 5, 2002

I've had a B6100DT for two years now and my father-in-law bought it new in 1978. He bought, re-habbed and sold houses in southern california so he did a lot of landscaping with it.

I have a FEL, a 3 foot box blade, six foot rake, a tiller and a middle buster. This little tractor has done absolutely everything I have asked of it! Moving dirt/ rock/ regrading, etc. The only thing I find as a major annoyance is the lack of position control on the 3ph. If I'm grading with the box blade or rake it's just impossible to "feather" it up at the end of a run. It's either down or it's dump.

I have rented a post hold digger for it twice and it has worked fine - a PHD is my next planned attachment purchase - I hate to have to work to beat a deadline to return the thing when renting.

Best of lick with your 5100. I've got the original owner's manual and parts manual that cover the 5100 also if you need me to look anything up.

Anonymous Poster · Apr 10, 2002

Thanks for the feedback on the B5100. I've only had mine for a week - but gave it a good work out - excavating a large patio and moving 3.5 tons of crushed gravel with a rear dump bucket. I love this tractor! I miss the hydrostat on my Deere - but it can't lift anything! I'm sure this 48" bucket had 200# of gravel in it and the tractor never strained (front suitecase weights helped).

I've found a front Kubota blade - and I understand that with the valve I can direct the fluid to the rear PTO or to the front cylinder on the blade. If this old little Kubota is this nice - I can only imagine what the new ones are like!