PAB_OH
Platinum Member
I'm getting ready to pick up a GL-21 this week from a local importer. I posted down in the Grey Market forum and was told I might want to move it up here as the grey K's are the redheaded stepchildren of the grey world. So here I am.
For those of you who haven't seen any of my posts down in the grey forums I basically have been looking for a good, reliable, AFFORDABLE, FIRST tractor. I know price isn't everything but I can tell you it has rapidly become very important to me lately. Anyway, I started looking at JD & NH, for about 2 minutes. Then looked at Kioti, Mahindra, and Branson (all three have dealers within 25 minutes of me). After I realized a new tractor wasn't in my immediate future I started looking at greys.
Initially I was all wound up about the Yanmars (still am really) but I used a friends Iseki for 3 weeks to do emergency repairs on my driveway (1300+ feet) and really liked it. I started looking at just about everything and found an Iseki TA262F up near Cleveland and went to test drive it. While I was there I drove a Hinomoto N209 and a Kubota (Zen Noh) GL-21.
Needless to say I finally settled on the Kubota and now I'd like to get to making it mine. The most important thing I would like to know is what, if any, US model(s) does this tractor cross to? I want to get a parts manual for both the GL-21 and whatever it crosses to (if any).
I'm also wondering about the ability to put newer wheels and tires on it (R-4's, maybe R-3's) and also a ROPS. I was tipped off by a fellow TBN'er about a new Kubota ROPS up on ebay and some of the models listed that it was for are some that I think this might cross over to.
Please, if anyone has any info about this model or the GL series in general please let me know.
Thanks in advance for all the help. This site has been a huge source of info for me and I'm looking forward to finally getting my trractor home and putting it to work.
For those of you who haven't seen any of my posts down in the grey forums I basically have been looking for a good, reliable, AFFORDABLE, FIRST tractor. I know price isn't everything but I can tell you it has rapidly become very important to me lately. Anyway, I started looking at JD & NH, for about 2 minutes. Then looked at Kioti, Mahindra, and Branson (all three have dealers within 25 minutes of me). After I realized a new tractor wasn't in my immediate future I started looking at greys.
Initially I was all wound up about the Yanmars (still am really) but I used a friends Iseki for 3 weeks to do emergency repairs on my driveway (1300+ feet) and really liked it. I started looking at just about everything and found an Iseki TA262F up near Cleveland and went to test drive it. While I was there I drove a Hinomoto N209 and a Kubota (Zen Noh) GL-21.
Needless to say I finally settled on the Kubota and now I'd like to get to making it mine. The most important thing I would like to know is what, if any, US model(s) does this tractor cross to? I want to get a parts manual for both the GL-21 and whatever it crosses to (if any).
I'm also wondering about the ability to put newer wheels and tires on it (R-4's, maybe R-3's) and also a ROPS. I was tipped off by a fellow TBN'er about a new Kubota ROPS up on ebay and some of the models listed that it was for are some that I think this might cross over to.
Please, if anyone has any info about this model or the GL series in general please let me know.
Thanks in advance for all the help. This site has been a huge source of info for me and I'm looking forward to finally getting my trractor home and putting it to work.
