Bobcat Compact Tractor

davitk · Dec 8, 2007

I know for a fact they're at the dealer's (select and far between) now; wonder why it's so quiet.

radman1 · Dec 8, 2007

Yes, they bobcat tractors should be showing up at select dealers soon or maybe now. Talked to a bobcat select dealer 1 month ago and he had already ordered a few. Said I could order one if I wanted.
Bobcat rep I spoke with said they will be priced below the competition.

ChuckinNH · Dec 9, 2007

I saw a couple at the Bobcat dealer in Chichester,NH (near Concord) yesterday when I was driving by... Looks like they are here

davitk · Jan 15, 2008

caddison · Jan 20, 2008

You would think a Bobcat tractor would come standard with a quick-attach bucket.....wonder how hard it is to remove the loader?

davitk · Jan 20, 2008

Wierd, isn't it? QA isn't even available on these tractors. Yet.

IslandTractor · Jan 20, 2008

caddison said:
You would think a Bobcat tractor would come standard with a quick-attach bucket.....wonder how hard it is to remove the loader?

No reason to remove the loader...maybe you meant the bucket. That should be trivial. The issue is how to get a pin mount QA adapter for whatever pin spacing arrangement Bobcat has decided on for the loader. The loader is the one piece of the Bobcat tractor that is not sourced from Kioti so a Kioti bucket will not fit. You can get QA adapters for most pin mount FELs from places like ATI and Horst Welding (and others) but I don't know if any of them are manufacturing anything for the Bobcat specific pin mount QA adapter yet.

The other thing you could probably do is buy the Bobcat tractor and put an orange (Kioti) FEL on it. Should be a simple bolt on given the tractors are identical. You can definitely get QA adapters for the Kioti FELs. Of course if you were going to do that you might as well just do the whole deal with a Kioti dealer and have an orange tractor too.

fishpick · Jan 22, 2008

davitk said:
...No doubt dealer support is equally important to machine quality...

More so - IMHO - since EVERY tractor used as such will have SOMETHING break, bend, stick or snap at some point in its life - no matter how refined the engineering - the QC - or the materials used... and it's at that time the tool is broken and it really doesn't matter the color... just the willingness of the human on the other end of the phone to fix the problem.

HPDrifter · Jan 22, 2008

I had a chance to take a look at the new Bobcats at the National Western Stock show here in Denver last weekend. Nice enough machine but they definetly need to do some dealer training. I have been a salesman most of my adult life and I asked some basic questions about the machine which they really had no clue how to answer. In fact they told me I was there nightmare customer since I actually knew what the tractor could do. I hit them up about the missing QA bucket. I while quote them on this and this is supposed to be Bobcat's answer to the question. If you want quick attache attachements you should be buying a skid loader. I told him wrong answer and that would turn me off right there. I run a masonry company in my spare time and I want a machine that not only can I work my acreage with, but also put on a set of pallet forks and load bagged masonry onto my truck. Also there price was way to high for a company trying to get market share. Quote was in the 18 1/2k range on the 25 horse model. Biggest laugh was I asked him what the specs were on the loader and he changed the subject to point out there nice cup holder.

IslandTractor · Jan 23, 2008

That sort of experience with established Bobcat dealers is the reason dedicated Kioti dealers should not be too worried about losing market share.

You can get a new 41hp DK with loader for roughly what they were asking for a 25 hp CK.