DK10se owners, power question

hodag hunter · Sep 29, 2019

HondaKen said:
I recently had my DK4710SE HC delivered. All finished, not including tax, I got filled tires, 72" LandPride box blade, block heater, kioti cutting edge for the bucket, and the 3 hats for 29,100. Pretty pleased I went with this model! I got the tractor 5 days ago, but the box blade came yesterday. Ground is still frozen rock hard but...here some pics!

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I too am from WI and deciding between a Kioti DK4210se or DK4710se, may I ask where you purchased your tractor?

HondaKen · Sep 30, 2019

I got mine from swiderski in waupaca, Chris was the salesman and was excellent. I recommend more power the better

hodag hunter · Sep 30, 2019

Thanks for the information. The pricing I am receiving is from Swiderski in Wausau and our first "go around". Its higher than what you paid.

Kiotikirk · Jan 29, 2020

I bought the DK4710sehst last November. I got the cabbed version and have the loader and a 74 inch blizzard rear mount blower. Love the tractor except for 1 thing. Cannot keep the windows fog free. cab seems to be really tight and hard to get fresh air in. bought a 12 volt fan and that seems to help with moving the air around the cab or open the back window. seems to have lots of power for what I am doing. another issue is the hydraulics when operating the bucket. It struggles to do 2 functions at the same time.

grsthegreat · Jan 30, 2020

Just run the ac compressor at same time as running heat. That’s what I do with mine. No more issues with misting windows

redman135 · Jan 30, 2020

Kiotikirk, the issue you describe can be likely be tracked to a budget valve control for the loader.
I ran into a similar issue with a hydraulic post rammer.

Phantese · Jan 30, 2020

Kiotikirk said:
I bought the DK4710sehst last November. I got the cabbed version and have the loader and a 74 inch blizzard rear mount blower. Love the tractor except for 1 thing. Cannot keep the windows fog free. cab seems to be really tight and hard to get fresh air in. bought a 12 volt fan and that seems to help with moving the air around the cab or open the back window. seems to have lots of power for what I am doing. another issue is the hydraulics when operating the bucket. It struggles to do 2 functions at the same time.

Hi,
I've had my DK4210SE HST back to the dealer a number of times for fogging issues, no real solution, Kioti suggested a sock full of kitty litter in the roof of the cab as the final solution... it helps moderately to run the AC full time for me but when I change temps from hot to cold (with the AC running full time) I still get fogging sometimes.
My experience with these tractors hydraulics is they cannot do 2 functions at once very well, my Kubota has a more finely tuned loader valve and it was perfect at two functions at once. Kioti uses a "cheaper valve - IMHO" that sends more oil to the curl/dump function than the raise and lower, therefore if you are raising or lowering the loader and try to curl/dump at the same time it almost stops raising and lowering to do the curl/dump as the priority. I also took mine back to the dealer for this, (to bad so sad) so I just live with it.
I bought a 3rd function valve and was going to install it this winter, but I'm thinking it might be a waste of money since doing more than 1 function simultaneously with the loader is limited, so I took it back and had a second set of rear remotes installed to run my grapple.

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