Dealer sold me a light duty scraper blade

k0ua · Sep 9, 2020

I have maintained my gravel driveway for many years with a light duty 60 inch blade. It was equipped with a much smaller tractor 3 tractors ago. It came with my Kubota B7500 with was about the right size for this blade. I have never gotten a larger blade as I traded up in size. Is this blade ideal for the purpose I use it for? No, not ideal. Will it work? Yes, it works. Just takes longer, and as it is a light blade, I have to take care to not "wad it up". Come to think of it I need to go out now and grade the road since the last big rain we had did some damage to the road. We have some extremely steep hills here and rain runoff will make scars in the road. Implements that are not matched to the tractor, and are not ideal can still be used. My 4 foot bush hog works fine on my much larger tractor too. It is not ideal either, but it works.

Jim Nelson · Sep 9, 2020

After moving to Ca. and buying a 5 1/2 acre place I traded for a worn out B7100 Kubota from a retiring landscape contractor. It came with a home made 72" box blade, a 48" rototiller, and a broke down 36"mower. The tractor had a cobbled up set of dual wheels on the rear which I immediately removed. The little tractor handled all the equipment well and I became the neighborhood road commissioner. I ran this machine for about 3 years without any problems then replaced it with a worn out B7200 HST that had started it's life in a rental yard, it also handled all the attachments effortlessly and the only thing I had to replace on the B7200 was the throw out bearing, which just seized up from age and lack of use.Both of these tractors had the FEL also. I finally bought a new B7800 in 2005 with FEL & 54" box scraper with scarifiers & TNT. I rebuilt the old home made 72" box scraper adding bolt on flippable cutting edges and use it most of the time I have any grading to do, only using the 54" if I need to do any scarifying .

The point of this saga is you are better off with the bigger back blade especially if you ever have any grading to do.

kthompson · Sep 9, 2020

You could ask the salesman for a letter signed by him on the dealership's letterhead confirming the blade is suitable for the tractor and is sufficient for the tractor even regardless Land Pride does not recommend it. If you are convince the dealership is not representing their products honestly I think you should share their name. Even though I have three Kubota's have no idea if you can post a review on their web site but you are open to send them letter (I have no doubt a registered letter would get their attention better than email) on your experience and how you think it should be handled. No threats just state the facts.
If you have proof Land Pride does not recommend the blade for the HP tractor you might even have a friend in small claims court. To me this would the end of dealership relationship.

airbiscuit · Sep 9, 2020

I'll say it again, I don't think hes going to bend or break his rear blade. It just won't perform as well as the heavier model. His situation is kind of like buying a new car, having all the paperwork done and saying, "but I wanted heavy duty floor mats", and the dealer saying I don't think we can do that. :confused3:

fried1765 · Sep 9, 2020

kthompson said:
You could ask the salesman for a letter signed by him on the dealership's letterhead confirming the blade is suitable for the tractor and is sufficient for the tractor even regardless Land Pride does not recommend it. If you are convince the dealership is not representing their products honestly I think you should share their name. Even though I have three Kubota's have no idea if you can post a review on their web site but you are open to send them letter (I have no doubt a registered letter would get their attention better than email) on your experience and how you think it should be handled. No threats just state the facts.
If you have proof Land Pride does not recommend the blade for the HP tractor you might even have a friend in small claims court. To me this would the end of dealership relationship.

"registered" mail is for sending valuable items.
"certified" mail is for sending documents

oosik · Sep 9, 2020

My situation is, and always will be, my driveway. It's a combo of gravel, sand, silt & volcanic ash. In the summer it dries out and becomes concrete. I had a Land Pride RB2596 at about 575#. It was fantastic for snow removal. It was total and complete joke regarding summer driveway maintenance.

So when I got the Kubota M6040 I upgraded to the Rhino 950 - 96" & 1050#. Difference between night & day.

The old saying is so true - "with land engagement implements - weight is your friend".

RickB · Sep 9, 2020

ruffdog said:
Wrong plow width right from the start. Maybe they have a bunch of the short ones to get rid of.....ordered by the salesman?

The Kubota dealer I work for does not even stock Landpride 05 series implements. 12 series are of marginal construction for the economy L series tractors, but that is what usually gets paired with them. I no longer own or need a tractor but if I did I would own 25 series implements or their equivalent.

JOHNTHOMAS · Sep 10, 2020

crazyal said:
Did you get the Kubota insurance? If so I believe it will cover attachments that are financed with the tractor. I would look into it. If nothing else if you bend it you are out the $250 deductible. OTOH I would think KTAC might not be too happy with a dealer financing an attachment that's not recommended for the tractor. Most likely the dealer will take it back. They may say you need to put the cash towards the loan leaving you to buy the new blade with cash or finance with a new loan just for it. If they don't and KTAC will cover it if damaged I'd be working it hard to see if it was up to the task knowing that if it wasn't I would be getting what I wanted.

Do what? Bend the blade that the dealer forms back into shape for ONLY $230 which the customer pays up to $250 so customer pays $230 and still has the blade. He can keep bending it and keep paying. Or pay the extra $100 to get the heavier duty blade. No doubt in my mind that the dealer will not trade the blade to a heavier duty one for the cash difference.
KTAC will not care that the customer has a heavier duty blade and still cover/insure the item that KCC has the debt against, why would they?

Coboco · Sep 10, 2020

Maybe one day I'll get this figured out. Been so busy didn't make it back to the dealer until this morning.

My luck, he wasn't in til 10am so I walked out back with another salesman and scoped out the attachments they had in stock. I think we'll work something out. At this point I'd rather just drop that $550 off my deal but then it would be more complicated through Kubota so we'll see...I noticed the PFL1242 light pallet forks sitting there. Of course seem overpriced for what it is around $650 but that would be a pretty straight up trade that I might get better use from? I didn't even ask the price on the 2042 but thinking they are $750. For moving logs (on them and chain lifting) and pallets of wood and compost, and also hoping to pick out some rocks etc. maybe the 1242 would get it done?

Again, a heavier duty used forks on CL is ideal, or even another manufacturer's new - but I'm most likely trying stick to a close to even swap with them and get this blade gone and this deal done.

These do seem better Compact Pallet Forks with 42 inch Tines
In fact most things from EA are looking better to me not just price wise but performance wise, Especially the grader blade they have lol.