Belarus 572

[Timbersawz]

Very few people buy anything to work on, and I have to keep about 130 or so pistons moving to keep me and my 5 guys working, I cant afford repairs or downtime and Im 2 hours away from the closest dealer. I work on my own tractors, chippers, stump grinders, trucks, chainsaws, skidsteer, skidder etc and appreciate having a machine, should it have issues, is not beyond repair by me or my guys (as ALL gear breaks down)

Everyone has a budget and priorities they have to work to when they buy gear. The belarus tractors have improved alot since the 80's and early 90's.

My 2003 4wd cab 100hp low hour belarus with a great loader was a quarter the price of anything else with the same specs. It doesnt suffer any of the issues you have named and it was what I can afford and it gets the job done.

There are better machines out there, much like there are better machines than deutz, but you pay what you can afford to get the machine to do the job you need.

 

[technodvor]

Very few people buy anything to work on, and I have to keep about 130 or so pistons moving to keep me and my 5 guys working, I cant afford repairs or downtime and Im 2 hours away from the closest dealer. I work on my own tractors, chippers, stump grinders, trucks, chainsaws, skidsteer, skidder etc and appreciate having a machine, should it have issues, is not beyond repair by me or my guys (as ALL gear breaks down)

Everyone has a budget and priorities they have to work to when they buy gear. The belarus tractors have improved alot since the 80's and early 90's.

My 2003 4wd cab 100hp low hour belarus with a great loader was a quarter the price of anything else with the same specs. It doesnt suffer any of the issues you have named and it was what I can afford and it gets the job done.

There are better machines out there, much like there are better machines than deutz, but you pay what you can afford to get the machine to do the job you need.

Thanks Timbersawz, for your insightful contribution.
Most times, just because some set of people desire to hang a dog, they tend to give such dogs bad names)))

 

[hurliman]

I currently own a Belarus 250AS 31 hp. I wouldn't trade it for ANYTHING! I sold Belarus tractors for years, and they are some of the best engineered machines out there. The people that give them a bad rap, don't know what they are talking about! The tractors sold here produced in the 90's were of less than stellar quality, ****, if you worked in a factory and couldn't get a regular paycheck, would you do your best work? They came out of the breakup of the Soviet Union relatively quickly, and are doing great now. How many countries could even survive something like that? If you care for your Belarus, and maintain it, it will outlast most other brands! Prejudice is alive and well in this country unfortunately.

 

[hurliman]

I sold over 100 Belarus tractors, and only had ONE guy that tore the clutch up, and it was HIS fault. A clutch is a clutch, don't matter what brand it is, they are all similar, with the exception that Belarus has a bigger heavier clutch than any machine i ever worked on. Most of my warranty claims on Belarus were the owner's fault, and Belarus paid to repair anyway. The people that trash them sure don't know what they are talking about!

 

[stuckmotor]

Hurliman,
Did you have customers break a lot of front wheel rims and spindles? Someone told me he had that problem on his Belarus. This was a larger tractor around 100 hp and water cooled, I think.
Edit:
I'm asking out of curiosity. I have no dog in this fight.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

There was a guy not far from here, he had a 572 and it went through clutches too, like two of them in 100 hrs... (from new)

This wasn't clutch abuse either, the guy was a farmer with several tractors and the 572 was the only one with clutch problems...

He got smart after the second one and had the wore out clutch plate "relined" with better material, and at least the clutch problem went away...

SR

 

[hurliman]

Hurliman,
Did you have customers break a lot of front wheel rims and spindles? Someone told me he had that problem on his Belarus. This was a larger tractor around 100 hp and water cooled, I think.
Edit:
I'm asking out of curiosity. I have no dog in this fight.

I had a guy that hauled massive logs with his 65hp tractor with a Great Bend loader. He wouldn't keep his lug nuts tight and ruined some wheels, but never had any broken spindles. I sure had broken axles, wheels final drives on Kubota's!

 

[hurliman]

Clutches don't go out by themselves. It is usually the nut behind the wheel. I had a customer who could destroy a two stage clutch on his Kioti 3054 every few months. He said Kioti had weak clutches, so the last clutch i put in for him i layed the Kioti clutch on the shop floor next to a Kubota clutch. I said which one is the Kioti weak clutch? They were identical. I then disassembled the Kioti clutch and showed him the metal parts that had turned blue from heat, from slipping the clutch. Once again, nut behind the wheel! Fyi, the 572 Belarus 65hp, has the same clutch as the 100hp Belarus has......enough said!

 

[stuckmotor]

I had a guy that hauled massive logs with his 65hp tractor with a Great Bend loader. He wouldn't keep his lug nuts tight and ruined some wheels, but never had any broken spindles. I sure had broken axles, wheels final drives on Kubota's!

This guy said he broke the wheels and spindles hauling hay.bales. If I remember correctly he claimed they weighed 1800 pounds. Even wet, I don't think mine are that heavy, but, I just kept quiet and remembered what he said for future reference.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

This guy said he broke the wheels and spindles hauling hay.bales. If I remember correctly he claimed they weighed 1800 pounds. Even wet, I don't think mine are that heavy, but, I just kept quiet and remembered what he said for future reference.

Depends on what baler was used and the size of the bale, moisture content ect...

Some bales easily go over 2,000 pounds...

SR