Buying Advice Kubota compared to John Deere

[rScotty]

Do JDs have their own style quick attach for the front bucket? I remember reading about that but never got to the point where I was serious enough to look into it. For me that would be a detractor.

At the end of the day I think either tractor would give years of service. Each brand runs the risk of being a lemon and each brand has it's share of poor design choices.

Yes, they do. JD still uses their own quick attach (QA) system - or at least they still did two years ago when I was looking. But they also offered the loader arms with a factory upgrade to the more universal Bobcat or skid loader type QA system. That allows you to buy or rent a whole universe of handy gadgets for the front. I remember that the universal QA did cost extra and that it was just under a grand on the model I was looking at. But like a lot of JD equipment it worked well and looked good. Nice cast pieces with molded handles...things like that. The same thing can be accomplished with only slightly more difficulty using conversion adapters available to mate JD QA on one end with skid loader QA on the other.

The Kubota QA latches look more primitive. Theirs looks like the parts were assembled out of cut and stamped steel with fittings from the hardward store. But it works just as well, is even more heavily built, fits the universal skid load standard, and comes as stock on the tractor.

I concluded that the loader attachment system wouldn't make me choose one brand over the other - but with JD I made a mental note to specify the upgraded QA type and also double check that in changing it that the bucket still had the full advertised movement.
enjoy! rScotty

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[bp fick]

Different colored tractors debates are as pointless, TO ME, as the different size tractor debate. One is not better than another, but they different. Take any of the top 5 or 6 manufacturers and you'll find excellent products.

Different doesn't mean better or worse. They are just objectively and subjectively different. One man's tea is another man's poison.

The dealer really cannot make your decision for you. He can assist with wisdom, experience and product knowledge, but the decision has to be your own. Once you get the right tractor, or one that is the best you can decide upon and the one you can best afford, it is then all about the dealer's price, prep, delivery and service after the sale, I don't care what color it is.

 

[texasjohn]

Whoa right there, boys....for my money I'm certain within a gnat's eyebrow that it is 74.8% of the time that 83.4% of the statistics are found on the spot...and I've got the precision to prove it:laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::thumbsup:

 

[TripleR]

John, I am 89% sure you are right.:laughing:

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics". - Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

I'm 99.9% sure that I read somewhere that it is 83% of the time if it is in writing and only 34% if it is told verbally or 43%.......well I'm 89% sure it was one of those if it was told verbally. If pictures are included I've also heard the percentages increase by roughly 12% course that was told to me verbally which cuts that by another 40%.
Maybe warm enough weather will return so some of us can get back out and off the computers. Which I've heard on the weather channel has a 90% possability.:thumbsup:

 

[crazyal]

Are you 100% sure about that?

 

[ham]

HEHE JT I do think I got under your skin

Let me clarify. I meant that the Kubota guys always use price to nail John Deere. Now some of the other brands deservedly can say that as they are markedly less expensive...like a Massey. But not Kubota anymore.

But with Japan's inability to get their banking and finances to adapt they have had a struggle keeping their prices as low as they once did (too bad they don't have our well controlled banking system...tongue in cheek).
Meanwhile John Deere has become much more aggressive. The 4XXX series which I know best at least has much more as domestic content. Now we will see if they get cocky as their profits and stock have been cruising.

JT I am mindful I am on a Kubota lover site...thats what makes it so fun. And remember I had orange up until one year ago Have a nice day.

 

[crazyal]

Just thought I would throw this out there for fun. Toyota had a great rep until a gas pedal they designed and had built by two different companies, one of which did a great job building them while the other not so good.

 

[vaskeet]

0% for 72 for the kubota l3700su 6.9 for 60 for the JD 3038 I bought the Kubota Randy

 

[ham]

Yes it helps. I got 0% for 72 on my John Deere. Makes it sweet.

Korea is eating Japans lunch much the same way they ate ours for lunch.
I think there is suffiieint data out there now showing what some of us who drove Toyotas for years already knew...they switched to volume instead of quality, but they have a long ways to fall as their stuff was quite well turned out. Personally I don't think they have a thing on today's Ford, Some of GM, and the Koreans.

So it did take more than a gas peddle...but I get your meaning. If you outsource you better watch the product.

Kelty packs long felt to be one of the best packs in the busines actually had the majority of their packs manufactured by EMS. Just cause it says Kubota on the part...does that mean they made it? Maybe they are just better at labeling

In reality there are just a few things that make guys decide after the dealership issue is hurdled. Color. Seat. Foot especially, and hand controls. Quality and performance are judged largely by the previous and experience. We are not all built the same, have different missions, different terrain.