Compact Tractors are Designed All Wrong

[boggen]

I know..It was stirred back up again..Might be something relevant coming out of it ...Who knows...Didn't cost me anything

any chance of the mystery tractor of john deer being like a power-trac?:licking:

 

[RoyJackson]

any chance of the mystery tractor of john deer being like a power-trac?:licking:

I wouldn't put money on it...

 

[MossRoad]

John Deere 8020.

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[czechsonofagun]

But a lot of us want a tractor that looks like a tractor. Reckon some of us (me included) miss the days in the sandbox with the Tonka toys (me included...now I have a 2.5 acre sandbox with no sand).
I'll suggest that describes a lot of TBNers, rather or not they'd admit it...

No question about it:thumbsup:

 

[DFB]

Wow some things just keep going and going...

1999 JD4100 no leaks no creaks no squeaks

 

[MossRoad]

Wow some things just keep going and going...

1999 JD4100 no leaks no creaks no squeaks

I could say the same thing about my father in law.... he's 83 and acts like the energizer bunny! :laughing:

 

[SpringHollow]

I like how the original poster basically described a Power Trac.

Ken

 

[MossRoad]

I like how the original poster basically described a Power Trac.

Ken

Yep. Pretty close. :thumbsup:

 

[MossRoad]

Time to bump this thread back up and report my Power Trac PT425 is still great for our needs after 10 years! :thumbsup:

I had the opportunity to watch a couple Kubotas moving horse manure around a couple weeks ago while volunteering at a therapeutic horse riding center. I was quite impressed with their power and traction, and the deisels were very quiet. They were much much stronger than my PT425. However, they were painfully slow when it comes to the task of moving large amounts of loose material ( like road apples ) long distances. I'm fairly certain I could have done the job in half the time or less. And the buckets could not curl back enough for my liking when down on the ground. Many times when they would crowd the bucket and then lift up, much of the heaped material would fall out. I don't think the buckets were deep enough either. And no 'power down' on the 3pt hitch on the smaller tractor meant the back blade had to have a lot of extra weights added to it to keep it from hopping over things.

Other than that, they were pretty sweet machines. Slow but sweet. I could see owning one if I had some harder ground engaging tasks to do like plowing dirt or pulling stumps. :thumbsup:

 

[slowzuki]

The cheapest Kubota loaders don't have a linkage on the bucket and very little roll back and dump range. They do come with various size buckets though. My "little" 50 hp Kubota doing similar tasks to what you describe will out work my 100 hp tractor with a bucket twice the size unless there is a long drive that would require a range change in the Kubota. My big tractor even has a reverser on it but its just too clumsy for some precise tasks.