Buying Advice Buying my first SCUT...So many options

[Poopdeck Pappy]

. . . If you have any uneven terrain or brush at all, don't get any SCUT with underbelly HST cooler like is on the BXs.

I see this all the time, but $150 buys you some Under Armor from BXpanded and solves all those problems. Oh, and it takes about 10 minutes to install it for even the most mechanically inept among us.

BXpanded Under Armor

 

[AxleHub]

The Kubota treadle pedal does not require you to use your toe for going forward and heel for reverse. I use the ball of my foot to go forward and then either put my toe under the pedal and pull up (there's a flange that sticks out from the side of the pedal for that purpose) or use my heel to reverse.

To me, it's 6 of one or a half dozen of the other. My Kioti DK50SE has twin pedals and I like them. My Kubotas both have treadle pedals and I like them. No issues switching from one machine to the other.

This always reminds me of the arguments I used to hear about the turn signals on BMW motorcycles. Instead of one unit with a switch you pushed left or right, there was a switch on each side - one near the left grip and one near the right grip. I owned BMWs and other bikes at the same time, and never had any issues switching from one bike to another. Other people loved one style and hated the other.

Pappy . . Apparently you have no physical difficultues in any shape or manner relating to those several I described. The point was never about the difficulty of getting used to a treadle . . . the point is there are many who a treadle is a PHYSICAL LIMITING issue. While you may not have any of those movement limiting issues currently . . . It only takes one sprained ankle or a stiff or wrenched knee to make it readily apparent. Jmho.

 

[TripleR]

There will always be examples of physically limiting factors from one individual to the other especially as we grow older, I have several and like Poopdeck Pappy, own both styles and really don't see either design inherently better or worse than the other. Each of us needs to buy what works best for us.

For all those interested, Kubota treadle type controls vary from one model to the next requiring different foot positions, so while you might find one uncomfortable, another may not. On my L5740, I never use my heel; toe for both forward and reverse and often times I use my cruise control rather than foot control.

 

[jenkinsph]

There will always be examples of physically limiting factors from one individual to the other especially as we grow older, I have several and like Poopdeck Pappy, own both styles and really don't see either design inherently better or worse than the other. Each of us needs to buy what works best for us.

For all those interested, Kubota treadle type controls vary from one model to the next requiring different foot positions, so while you might find one uncomfortable, another may not. On my L5740, I never use my heel; toe for both forward and reverse and often times I use my cruise control rather than foot control.

I agree ^^^^^

Buy what you like the best after trying the various type pedal arrangements.

 

[AxleHub]

Each of us needs to buy what works best for us.

For all those interested, Kubota treadle type controls vary from one model to the next requiring different foot positions, so while you might find one uncomfortable, another may not. On my L5740, I never use my heel; toe for both forward and reverse and often times I use my cruise control rather than foot control.

Good point TrileR, the op was talking about scuts so I referred to the bx products. I'm not familiar with the seating positions on the l and m models.

But the writing is already on the wall about the trend in scut design as related to the treadle. Even less makers use treadles today
Than they did 2 years ago even though there are more makers and models . . . and reviewers are following that tendency as well because they like flat and open floors. 2 pedals on the right and brake on the left allows all pedals to be set back more and offer the favored open floors. Yanmar in their 2006 thru 2013 product featured the treadle and brake on the right. It was a great scut. But in their new products their redesign eliminated both to simplify design, improve placement and floor use and respond to customer surveys #1 comments.

 

[TripleR]

Good point TrileR, the op was talking about scuts so I referred to the bx products. I'm not familiar with the seating positions on the l and m models.

But the writing is already on the wall about the trend in scut design as related to the treadle. Even less makers use treadles today
Than they did 2 years ago even though there are more makers and models . . . and reviewers are following that tendency as well because they like flat and open floors. 2 pedals on the right and brake on the left allows all pedals to be set back more and offer the favored open floors. Yanmar in their 2006 thru 2013 product featured the treadle and brake on the right. It was a great scut. But in their new products their redesign eliminated both to simplify design, improve placement and floor use and respond to customer surveys #1 comments.

Yep things are changing for sure and I won't be surprised if a uniform system comes about. I grew up when some motorcycles shifted on the right and some on the left. I had to buy my last right foot shift, a new 1975 right foot shift motorcycle, Triumph T120RV, as "used" shipped to Canada then to KCMO.

I traded in a perfectly good Kubota L5030HSTC in for a new L5740HSTC to avoid the "improvements" on the new L60s which included left foot brakes; hate em and can't use them, it's only a matter of time until it's on all Kubota HSTs, won't be surprised hen Kubota changes from treadle to twin pedals. As mentioned though, I use both so no big issue to me.

 

[GoldenCityMuse]

My LM55 has brakes on the left & 2 pedals on right. F & R.
I like the brake pedals fine, and the twin pedals are good, but I still need getting used to them.