Kubota Questions

[jwstewar]

I rewatched the video last night and I guess between 2 young kids (20 months and 4 months) screaming to go to bed and my CRS /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif working full swing you are correct in that I was thinking of the clutch and not the brakes. Is this an issue with the HST? I guess I really don't see the clutch being used all that often.

 

[MChalkley]

jwstewar - I never used the clutch on my L4310HST, except to engage/disengage the PTO, and when starting the tractor when it was below 30 degrees. As for the brakes, I almost never used them, either, except for parking, and occasionally when I needed to shift ranges on a hill. Turning brakes are for 2-wheel drive tractors that are poorly designed, as far as I'm concerned. (And yes, I've driven a bunch of them, too. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif) I guess the more diplomatic way to say it is: I've used tractors that would have been useless without turning brakes, but I've never found a situation where a different turning brake design would've been useful on the Kubota. It just didn't need turning brakes. When I first got the Kubota, I worried about it a little, because I'd found them so useful on previous (old) tractors. I soon forgot about it.

As for your initial questions, I third (or is it fourth?) Bird's answers. You will love HST. It's far safer, far more productive, and far easier on the operator than anything else.

MarkC