Bigger tractor with cab??

[art]

With the rear window defroster kit, back wiper and rear work lite kit you'll be looking for other driveways to do. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[5030]

Art:

I could be wrong about this so I'll stand corrected but, my 5030 came with a defroster grid embedded in the back window.

I added the (rear) worklights and wiper along with the am-fm-weatherband radio (so I know how long I have before it rains on my hay!!).

Kubota also has an optional filter for the fresh air system for spraying herbicides.

 

[snowbound]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( What would you you all recommed for a tractor with factory cab around the 60 hp range?)</font>

We got a New Holland TN65 for our farm and my aunt (who runs the farm) called me yesterday to thank me for the tractor. For like the ninth time. They are extremely happy with it. I don't know how many hours it has on it, but I would guess they might have put a the better part of a thousand hours on it by now. Lots of snow removal recently and they say they don't need chains with the 4WD. Their place isn't much flatter than mine but they have a lot more roads to clear.

I'm not knocking other brands - we were very close to getting Kubota tractors instead, but we knew the New Holland dealer near the farm really well and trust them for service.

 

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snowbound:

Very well put.

If your local dealer is NH and you are comfortable with him or her, go with NH, or any other brand.

Mine is Kubota.

The dealer makes the difference for me. Sooner or later, you will need that dealer for something whether it's a repair or advice. It's good to have a working relationship.

 

[snowbound]

I agree about the importance of the dealer. If we hadn't been getting two tractors at the same time, one for the farm and one for my place, I probably would have bought a Kubota from a very well established dealer about five miles away. There is a New Holland dealer about ten miles away, but I don't know how good they are. On the other hand, we expected service to be more important near our farm (they put about fifty hours on the tractor there for every one I put on mine). And near the farm, the New Holland/Ford dealer has been doing business with my family for about fifty years and the Kubota dealer is a huge place where they don't deal too much with agricultural customers and hardly had the time of day for someone "only" buying two tractors, loader, plow, bush hog, post pounder, and pallet forks (all new).

 

[_RaT_]

Andy, my suspicion is that you are right. We have a 1996 2120 NH 12X12 shuttle and I posted way back in 2000 that I felt the NH while a nice strongly built tractor, also was a bit underpowered for being NH/Ford's largest compact. I was familiar with another brand and after using a brand new NH, I would routinely kill the engine while driving into a pile of dirt in medium range gear 1. So much so that I twice caused the engine to end up running backwards. It's not easy but what would happen is that just prior to stall, I would step on the clutch and it would remove the load just a fraction of a second before complete stall and next thing I knew, the exhaust sucked and the intake blew. Very odd. My feeling is that the torque curve is not flat or very forgiving at the higher RPM's.

 

[Rowski]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I can't believe another 11 inches makes that much difference )</font>

I don't think that the width makes the difference in using more power. It is the diameter and depth of the drum and the number of impeler blades.

I'm really curious to know the depth and diameter of the drum of your snowblower on your NH2120. Would it be possible for you to get the measurements?

Thanks

 

[Rowski]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( With the rear window defroster kit, back wiper and rear work lite kit you'll be looking for other driveways to do. )</font>

Art

115 rural drives is at our limit. My self and my father plow for about 12 to 15 hrs each and our third driver 8 to 9 hrs. Our trucks take a pounding during heavy snows like we had. We were using our 1 ton f-350 dually wrecker with chains on all 6 wheels opening drives. Took about 2 years out of the trucks life /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif. I mean trucks aren't meant for that kind of punishment. Tractors can handle it alot better.

 

[sweettractors]

Sounds like the Kioti DK65 CHA to me--Contact us if you need pricing--Specs can be found here--
Kioti Website

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Ken:

I think the shipping would kill him. From Kentucky to Vermont?

He could always drive it back. By the time he got home, it would be spring.