Kioti Broken in Half

[ptsg]

I was doing a little bit more digging on this tractor and found some comments from the owner.

One was that the tractor is a 2019 and the warranty was only 2 years, at least for the structural warranty as he said.

The other comments from him after someone pointed out that it may or may not been a case of abuse: "Not only every oil change but every week!! I owned a heavy equipment dealership for 27 years I paid guys like you. We use it in our boat yard, right application? Show me an owners manual that says you can plow grass but you can't push rocks?! Listen the reality is the machine should be designed so as not to be able to break itself apart because its lift capacity exceeds its structural integrity, keep in mind only 800 hours not 8000 hours of use."

I think it explains really well how this tractor has been treated. People see a loader on a tractor and expect it to behave like a skidsteer or a bulldozer, only to find out that it will eventually turn into an expensive expectation.

 

[daman1]

A combination of a junk tractor and design and abuse, I've seen a couple posts on the web now of a kioti cracking and breaking in that area. POS.

And then try to get any warranty work out of them good luck

 

[prometheus303]

hope its not out of Warranty

 

[Agvg]

But doesn't this have a subframe for the loader? Hard to really see much in the pictures.

 

[prometheus303]

This example does not fit this model that broke in half but to illustrate how company mislead technically with the truth, and yet misleading. See the pic below Lift Capacity 1835. It uses the KL4030 You figure that it's the Lift Capacity to Full Height at Pivot Pins. which would be 98.4" in case of this loader. Not so. See second pic. It's Lift Capacity at 59.84 in. (1,520 mm) Pivot Pin. It does not tell you what the Lift Capacity to Full Height at Pivot Pins. I'm guessing read the manual on loading you would find out. You know it's going to be less 1835lbs. Of course if you the Loader model KL4010 which fits the same unit is the does the full 1835lbs.

 

[Boss 302]

A combination of a junk tractor and design and abuse, I've seen a couple posts on the web now of a kioti cracking and breaking in that area. POS.

And then try to get any warranty work out of them good luck

Partner it's not just Kioti, check the web and you'll see quite a few Massey's as well as others that have also been abused beyond their intended use.

 

[k0ua]

OMG. my junk tractor is going to fall apart in the middle real soon. I best be trading it off. I sure have moved a lot of heavy boulders with it. Darn. Sure stir up some more FUD.

 

[RjCorazza]

Ones thing's for sure... That machine didn't break while moving boats around a yard. The combination of the woods, grapple, and boulders leads me to believe he had a large load in the grapple and was bouncing over those boulders.
He probably wouldn't have taken so much heat in the Facebook comments if his salvage price was reasonable. I've never priced salvage equipment, but my W.A.G. is in the 10-15k range. Any more experience opinions?

 

[IndyJay]

OMG. my junk tractor is going to fall apart in the middle real soon. I best be trading it off. I sure have moved a lot of heavy boulders with it. Darn. Sure stir up some more FUD.

I think I might take off my grapple. I don't want to break my junky tractor in half. Maybe I can get a smaller bucket for my loader.

 

[deezler]

So am I seeing this right, it didn't actually "break in half" so much as the front axle just ripped off? Huge disaster but seems repairable, ultimately. A lot of grinding, welding, and new parts, for sure.

If you go bouncing off-road through the frozen woods carrying a giant boulder, well I guess that's about the worst abuse possible for a front end. Still pretty lame.