Farm UTV's.....Mule or Ranger...or other?

[cathy liebchen]

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Now THIS is a "UTILITY" vehicle. Up for auction from a power company Currently just under a thousand bucks. 36 volt electric, Taylor Dunn.

No plastic, cammo, decals, flames, alloy wheels or cup holders!

Put some run flat tires on it and you'd have a bullet resistant golf cart.

We had every brand of electric golf cart (Yamaha, EX Go, Club Car)- too hilly here, anything electric runs out of juice right away. Yamaha gasser was great but the Mule is much better for hauling things,etc.

 

[coobie]

the Mules are very well made, durable and hold resale value better than any other brand. Kubota RTV is heavier duty but expensive and slow. We will never own another Polaris product. We have a Mule FXT 6 seater and are about to get a smaller 610 (I think they call it the XC now)

I have owned both Mules and kubota RTV 900 and both have a top speed of 25-28 miles per hour.Both are slowwww.The kubota is heads above the mule.

 

[Rock Crawler]

I have owned both Mules and kubota RTV 900 and both have a top speed of 25-28 miles per hour.Both are slowwww.The kubota is heads above the mule.

His FXT is a near 50 mph machine if it's the gas F version. My DX with the Diesel is still a 30 mph machine, and that's under perfect conditions. Most of my use is floored on steep hills and it can hit around 8 mph empty. Full of wood.... 4mph.

 

[Oleozz]

The wife and I are enjoying the 54x54 bed in the Mule Pro DX. This thing is massive! I think I'm really going to love this slow as molasses machine. It's not fast, as in floored is typically in the 6 to 8 mph range on my hills, but the amount of stuff that can be smashed into the bed is amazing!View attachment 593760View attachment 593761View attachment 593762

Shame on you for making your wife do all that hard work. (LOL). I agree, big beds on the Mules come in very handy.

 

[Rock Crawler]

Shame on you for making your wife do all that hard work. (LOL). I agree, big beds on the Mules come in very handy.

I didn't even ask her to go out with me, and I was kind of shocked when she grabbed gloves off of the day and started carrying logs to the machine. I didn't say a thing... I shut my mouth and let her do as she wanted.

 

[deezler]

His FXT is a near 50 mph machine if it's the gas F version. My DX with the Diesel is still a 30 mph machine, and that's under perfect conditions. Most of my use is floored on steep hills and it can hit around 8 mph empty. Full of wood.... 4mph.

Why.... did you go with the diesel? How can you stand 4mph? I would be pulling my hair out, that's just ridiculously slow. Could it even pull a loaded trailer up a hill? Sounds like a Kubota RTV 1100 would walk away from your DX.

 

[Rock Crawler]

Why.... did you go with the diesel? How can you stand 4mph? I would be pulling my hair out, that's just ridiculously slow. Could it even pull a loaded trailer up a hill? Sounds like a Kubota RTV 1100 would walk away from your DX.

My property is small, 15 acres. It's extremely steep, on level ground the diesel will hold 31 mph, but on the steep hills is will go around 9mph in low range (it's slower in high range on steep climbs), and will go about half of that loaded down.

I went diesel because it should last literally forever. And speed is typically not something I care about because you simply can't go fast on steep hills with tight turns and off-camber trails.

The only time I'm wishing for more tire speed is when I'm trying to "churn and burn" up a slick wet clay trail and.... Well.... There is no such thing as "churn and burn" in this thing.

I don't think it's going to be an issue. I suspect that I'll hook a 800 lb log splitter to, load it with 1000 ish pounds of logs and it will keep motoring along.

If I'm wrong, I'll sell it and go get something else with a hydraulic dump bed. But I don't think that a X1120C or X1140 is going to be any faster climbing 20-25° trails with a load.

My B2650 tractor can only push these trails in low range and WFO throttle, and even then you have to modulate the HST lever so that you don't stall the full throttle engine.

 

[deezler]

Gotcha, thanks for the reply.

Since you pay attention here, lemme ask you one more question. Does your electric/hydraulic bed dump work well? As in, can it dump that full load of logs without assistance? How about if you used your Kubota to fill that DX bed full of wet dirt - could it dump it back out? I have some trails and narrow areas I'd kind of like to berm up a bit higher, and front loader loads are just too slow at tractor speed from my gravel piles and dirt extraction sites.

 

[rooster1980]

utv, I would go Kubota, I have had gators and the mules, Kubota out last both of them,

 

[Rock Crawler]

Gotcha, thanks for the reply.

Since you pay attention here, lemme ask you one more question. Does your electric/hydraulic bed dump work well? As in, can it dump that full load of logs without assistance? How about if you used your Kubota to fill that DX bed full of wet dirt - could it dump it back out? I have some trails and narrow areas I'd kind of like to berm up a bit higher, and front loader loads are just too slow at tractor speed from my gravel piles and dirt extraction sites.

The logs you see above, I dumped out like the bed was empty.... After I got the 1 log out of the headache rack LOL! I was getting really upset because the bed would lift an inch, and then stall. I was really getting mad and nervous because my wife was videoing and it was failing.... But then as I'm spinninging in circles getting upset, I realized that one of the big logs is sticking under the steel headache rack and bending the each as it's stalling the dump.

After moving that log, all was fine. So a lesson was learned....