Buying Advice is position control really a big deal

[Jay4200]

What exactly is this infamous quarter-inching valve and how is it controlled? I evidently have a position control 3pt on my L4200, but I don't exactly understand how the other system operates. Does the quarter-inching 3pt work like a loader control or something (back for up, forward down, let go for stop)? Is it like the hydraulic lift accessory on a garden tractor?

JayC

 

[TripleR]

Quite a few posts on it, here is a pretty good thread from Chuck, he has gotten use to his, I hate them.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/212121-quarter-inching.html

 

[crazyal]

To me it's a matter of taste. I've watch friends with the 1/4 inching valve box blade a driveway smoother than a runway.

 

[TripleR]

To me it's a matter of taste. I've watch friends with the 1/4 inching valve box blade a driveway smoother than a runway.

I don't have trouble grading a driveway, I just hate having to bump the darned rotary cutter up all the time while bush hogging and when I am using the box blade as counter balance, it drifts down and winds up dragging the ground while doing loader work if I don't remember to keep bumping it up. It is just another annoyance I don't need.

Of course I grew up using position control, so that may have something to do with it.

 

[crazyal]

I don't have trouble grading a driveway, I just hate having to bump the darned rotary cutter up all the time while bush hogging and when I am using the box blade as counter balance, it drifts down and winds up dragging the ground while doing loader work if I don't remember to keep bumping it up. It is just another annoyance I don't need.

Of course I grew up using position control, so that may have something to do with it.

My 4240 is the first piece of equipment I've owned with a 3pt hitch and it's position so that's what I've learned but I imagine if I had gotten a model with 1/4" valve I would have learned that. It's kind of like the controls on my Case Backhoe, I can work magic with them but trying to use a two lever set up is a disaster. :laughing:

 

[Farmwithjunk]

A while back, I ran on to a used Kubota 7510 w/loader and a 5' finish mower @ a very low dollar. I thought it would be a handy tractor to have around. I'm used to using any of my other 16 tractors that ALL have position control on the hitch. I suppose if a person never used position control, and didn't know the difference, you could learn to adapt to the 1/4-inching hitch, but I'm here to tell you that it is the most frustrating, aggravating nuisance I've ever been around on a tractor if you DO know the difference.

If I had but one tractor, it sure wouldn't be WITHOUT position control.

YMMV...

 

[k0ua]

I had a B7500 for over 8 years and used a rotary cutter on it, and yes the "sinking" hitch was an annoyance, I solved it by putting guage wheels on the front of the rotary cutter.

James K0UA

 

[BethesdaEC]

I would avoid Kubota for this reason alone. The overwhelming majority of the B and BX series tractors that they make do not have position control with the exception of the B2x30 tractor which are very rare and expensive. From what I have seen the rest of the manufacturers offer this on all but the cheapest tractors.