Hi from new Kioti owner

[mddorange]

:welcome:
To the forum from Alabama. Congrats on your new toy, I mean tractor. That was the reason I bought a Kubota instead of a Mahindra was the dealer. He has been easy to work with even when I changed my mind on attachments late in the game. Delivery 50 miles away was included not extra as with the other guy.

 

[Tractor Tom]

Congrats, and Welcome to TBN from Snowy Eastern Canada. I'm thinking not much snow down your way is there??
The CK35 is a Beast of a machine!! You're going to love it!!

 

[JohnMacca]

Congrats, and Welcome to TBN from Snowy Eastern Canada. I'm thinking not much snow down your way is there??
The CK35 is a Beast of a machine!! You're going to love it!!

Thanks everybody for the warm welcome.

And no, I won't be needing a snow plough or snow blower attachments any time soon! It has snowed once here in my memory (1964) and I remember just scraping up enough off the garden path to make a small snowman :laughing:
Typical daily temperatures in winter would be from 2C overnight to 15-20C during the day and in summer the maximums are often over 40C (105F)

I will post some pics when I can, and thanks again. John.

 

[lakngulf]

Another welcome to the forum and Kioti ownership. I bought the CK30 in 2009 with 200 hours and now have almost 1200. I bought used but did some legwork beforehand and found a great dealer/service between where I live and the farm where I use the tractor most. It has been a warrior and the CK30 and 35 are great tools.

 

[TJP89]

:welcome:

You'll like the tractor, although the key and flasher switch are really in bad spots, I have same problem. And 300 acres...well I'll just stop thinking about how maybe a little more HP wouldn't be bad on my 25

 

[JohnMacca]

Hi Tony, thanks for the welcome.

I'm sure I will get used to not banging my knee on the key, but as I have seen this mentioned on many threads, you would think someone higher up would take note and change the design.
I have also managed a trick that I have seen posted before - catching the leg of your shorts on the range lever when getting off and nearly going down face first! Fortunately the shorts tore before my head hit the dirt:ashamed:

There would not normally be much heavy work to be done on the property so the 35hp is going to be all I need. Half is cleared, half is native bushland. We are not producing any income from the land, we just graze few sheep for our own meat (and feed about 200 freeloading kangaroos).

I have seen mentions in threads about state laws in the US that require brush to be cleared to prevent fires. Fortunately we only have to clear a 20 foot fire break around boundary fence lines - and it's not policed, so many ignore that anyway.

Regards, John.

 

[TJP89]

Yes the loader up the shorts is about the only one I haven't done, mostly because I almost never where shorts, especially when I'm doing brush work with the tractor. But, I can't remember the last time it hit 90F up here