Buying Advice Kubota L35 2400 hours

[4570Man]

I wonder what the front/rear weight distribution really is on these TLBs? 500 lbs is a guess on the light side, but has anyone weighed theirs? I haven't. Maybe the workshop manual has that spec?

Spiceman, from all the things written about the L39s here on TBN I'd guess they are destined to become a classic. Can't tell from the photo if yours has a thumb, but if not I'd add one. Athough the usefulness of a thumb could depend on what you plan to do with it.

A thumb wasn't even on our "maybe" list when we bought our M59, but ours was a demo & already had one on it so we took it. Now my wife thinks it's the best feature of the tractor. At least half the time we start the tractor it's purely to use the hoe and thumb combo to do some lifting and positioning of something heavy. Well, now that I've said that, I got to realizing that we live rurally with a patch of forest, wood heat, a creek, and we are always moving local rocks to sort of sculpt the landscaping. That's why the thumb works so well for us. So as always, "it depends on the use".
rScotty

This probably isn’t a terribly accurate test but it’s the best way I had handy to measure. Lifting the front end up on my trailer squats the hitch about 2”. Then I rolled the jack up until a block would slide under and loaded the trailer again until it was squatted the same amount. These oak timbers proved to be an almost identical load. They’re 12”x13”x10’. Using a density of 40 pounds per cubic foot it’s about 430 pounds each.

 

[goeduck]

Congratulations on the L39!! More pictures please.