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Hi Everyone!
Longtime lurker, first time poster.
I currently have a JD770 and I'm looking for a step up in size and power. I came across a Kubota M7500 for sale about 3 hours from me. It actually may have *too much* power but hey, maybe not!
Anyway, this FEL is interesting. I have not seen it in person, but it almost looks like someone took a FEL from a backhoe or something and grafted it onto this machine. Maybe this is my inexperience, but I've never seen a tractor FEL that has the pivots and links for the bucket curl like this FEL. I've seen this lots on Case and Deere backhoes, but never on a tractor. Every other "tractor" FEL I've seen has the curl cylinders connected directly to the bucket.
The other thing is this loader has a front mount pump. Whatever FEL this is has it's own separate hydraulic system rather than using stock Kubota SCV and piping. In some ways I think this might be advantageous since the loader would not depend on tractor hydraulics and it would probably have more power this way - depending on the pump of course.
One thing that would discount my theory of this being a hacked on is the hydraulic reservoir is in the loader frame or one of the arms. This you would not find on a backhoe.
The downside is if this loader truly *is* hacked on from a backhoe, how the heck would a guy figure out where it came from?
Any idea who might have made this FEL?
What do you guys think of this machine for let's say $8500-$10K?
Thanks,
Michael
Longtime lurker, first time poster.
I currently have a JD770 and I'm looking for a step up in size and power. I came across a Kubota M7500 for sale about 3 hours from me. It actually may have *too much* power but hey, maybe not!
Anyway, this FEL is interesting. I have not seen it in person, but it almost looks like someone took a FEL from a backhoe or something and grafted it onto this machine. Maybe this is my inexperience, but I've never seen a tractor FEL that has the pivots and links for the bucket curl like this FEL. I've seen this lots on Case and Deere backhoes, but never on a tractor. Every other "tractor" FEL I've seen has the curl cylinders connected directly to the bucket.
The other thing is this loader has a front mount pump. Whatever FEL this is has it's own separate hydraulic system rather than using stock Kubota SCV and piping. In some ways I think this might be advantageous since the loader would not depend on tractor hydraulics and it would probably have more power this way - depending on the pump of course.
One thing that would discount my theory of this being a hacked on is the hydraulic reservoir is in the loader frame or one of the arms. This you would not find on a backhoe.
The downside is if this loader truly *is* hacked on from a backhoe, how the heck would a guy figure out where it came from?
Any idea who might have made this FEL?
What do you guys think of this machine for let's say $8500-$10K?
Thanks,
Michael
