Maybe I am an oddball and the only one In The world that would actually buy a 5000-series....or M-sized Kubota with a HST?
I'm not trying to sell anyone on the idea of trying to plow or plant ground with a 70hp HST is better.
But I imagine there was once a time not long ago that some of you same folks thought there would never be a market for a HST 4000-series Deere or MX/Large grandL either.
But as farms keep getting bigger....and farmers are considering 100hp and smaller tractors their "utility" tractors and not their "real" tractors anymore....I can see the merits of having 80-90hp HST machines. Because those tractors and what farmers around here use for just general purpose stuff. Loading and unloading round bails or seed boxes, pulling seed hoppers, plowing snow and grading their driveways, shoving dead trees back up in fence lines, mowing waterways, towing a header cart, etc etc. All things that a HST would excel at and not be the "inefficient power robbing" machine that some claim