Bought a mx4700 today

[motownbrowne]

I know I was cutting it close to the end of the year, but I managed to cut a check today for a new mx4700hst this afternoon. Dealer has to switch tires to ag, which apparently will take two weeks (i wanted the 13.6-28 instead of the 14.9-26s), but then it comes home. Very excited to get it home and see what it can do. I've never owned a tractor with a loader or 4wd (or power steering, live pto, live hydraulics, working brakes, for that matter) before, so it should be a world of difference.

I was a little hesitant to buy a Kubota after looking at the price for a Kioti, but I felt a lot better about the dealership and it's closer too. I needed something to fit in a pretty rigid production system, 13.6 tires are the absolute widest I can use, and I need to bring the tread width down to 52-53 inches. So the choices were an L3800 or a mx4700; I guess the 4600 uses the 14.9 tires. Anyway, after driving both, and talking myself into spending the extra 4k to get the mx, I pulled the trigger.

Can't wait to get it home and take some pics for everyone. Thanks for all the info, I felt much better going into the sales office after spending about a week on tractorbynet. Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm very glad to be done trying to figure out which machine to buy, so I can spend a little less time staring at the screen.

Ryan

 

[Bob77064]

Congratulations

 

[TripleR]

Congratulations, the MX47/5100 machines are very nice.:thumbsup:

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

Congrats. That's a nice tractor. If you're going to be changing implements very much, you might want to ask them about adding the extendable lower link arms that the MX5100 has.

 

[motownbrowne]

I thought about the lower links, since we do switch implements pretty often, but honestly right now, the budget is pretty tight. I'm thinking right now I'll run it as is, and maybe think about a quick attach down the road. Do you think the extendable arms are better, or should I focus on the quick attach. I've seen some pretty crazy prices to add the extendable arms.

 

[TripleR]

Another member went through the MX47/5100 debate some time ago and adding the extendable lower links was prohibitively expensive the best I remember, many people swear by PATS and they are worth checking out. I don't use mine as I have the extendable links, if I didn't I sure would though.

I got by most of my life without either, so life can go on though a bit more difficult.

This might help, I am too old to kick things so I use a rubber mallet or dead blow hammer handy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSatF4QoqmI

 

[bucktaker]

I have the extendable llinks and a quick hitch....given the choice I would take the extendable links . I know money is an issue but see if going to the 5100 is possible,

 

[wmonroe]

Congrats on your new tractor. I have the extendable links on my Kubota and love them, but the tractors I used growing up didn't have them and my old ford I have now doesn't have them and other than taking a few extra minutes to hook up an implement it's not a big deal. If the money is available to upgrade them now or go to the 5100 then that would be great but it's not absolutely necessary I don't think.

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

I thought about the lower links, since we do switch implements pretty often, but honestly right now, the budget is pretty tight. I'm thinking right now I'll run it as is, and maybe think about a quick attach down the road. Do you think the extendable arms are better, or should I focus on the quick attach. I've seen some pretty crazy prices to add the extendable arms.

If all your implements will work with a quick hitch, then I think the quick hitch is better because you attach it once and all your attachment and removal of implements thereafter is easy.

But I do agree with the other posters that most of us get by (or got by in the past) just fine without extendable links or a quick hitch. It's a luxury that has spoiled many of us, but is by no means a necessity.

 

[milkman636]

I thought about the lower links, since we do switch implements pretty often, but honestly right now, the budget is pretty tight. I'm thinking right now I'll run it as is, and maybe think about a quick attach down the road. Do you think the extendable arms are better, or should I focus on the quick attach. I've seen some pretty crazy prices to add the extendable arms.

I have both and rarely use either. I've been buying implements with the clevis style hitches and park my stuff on level surfaces. With the HST I can back the 3pt arms into the C made by the clevises pretty darn precisely.