Need feedback from Kubota CAB owners

[Kendall69]

I’m looking a getting a cab tractor heat/air, but need on that is “air tight” .

I looked at the John Deere site, and they had an impressive video that make the Kubota can look like junk. Granted that’s what they are supposed to do, but if you saw the video you would understand my concern. They blew smoke to simulate dust at the rear of a Kubota, and at the rear of a Deere cab units. They opened the door to the Deere and it was smoke free, then they opened the door to the Kubota and smoke just poured out from it.
With that I’m looking for some real world advice. I have had my Kubota for years, and it has been a beast, performing better than anyone could ask for, but now this cab thing is super important, so there in lies my dilemma.
Also is the Air Conditioning cold on these units? I deal with 120 plus temp here in the Desert where I live.

Thanks in advance.

 

[5030]

Kendall:

You are in the wrong forum, Kioti, not Kubota but I'll reply anyway as what I have to say applies to Kioti Cabin tractors as well as Kubota.

There isn't any cab tractor cabs that are air tight. They all have various openings for ingress and egress of cables, linkages and even the heating and air conditioning hoses so Deere's comparison is without merit.

It's easy to show the JD's cab as air tight by simply pressurizing the cab area with incoming (filtered) air. This will cause a positive pressure inside the cabin and will exclude any smoke or dust or whatever from the inside. All cab tractors will do this as long as the inside air control is on fresh and not recycle.

Both Kioti and Kubota come with intake filters and you can get a charcoal inlet filter for spraying on both models as well as JD.

I have had 3 Kubota's with cabs so far, my old 5030 and my 2 present units, an M9000 and a 105 S and all the cabs are comfortable, weathertight and dust free (so long as the air flow is in the fresh position and not on recirculate). The large frame tractors, M9 and above have bigger, more roomier cabs than the small frame tractors. Side room as well as head rooom and for and aft movement are greater.

Both my M9 and my 105 are old style AC units, that is, in the headliner as opposed to the new style under the dash units. My old style units in the M9 and 105 never need to be on fully cold and high blower even on hot humid summer days doing field work. If the new underdash units are just as good, there will be no problem cooling the cab even in desert heat which, is dryer than our humid Michigan summers.

My 5030's AC unit was marginal at best, but again, the large frame tractors have much bigger evap and condenser units and bigger pumnps.

 

[Kendall69]

5030 - exactly what I was looking for, thank you sir.

 

[Oleozz]

5030----I learned something from your message, didn't know you could get a charcoal inlet filter. I plan on doing quite a bit of spraying this spring so I will have to check into that type of filter. I do know that when I sit in the shed warming up the tractor there is no diesel smell inside the cab.

 

[5030]

It never ceases to amaze me what advertising hype and protracted conditions one manufacturer will resort to to make another brand look inferior. I guess that's part of the "sales" game.

Yes, you can get activated charcoal filter panels for all the major players and I believe aftermarket suppliers like Donaldson also sell them.

Personally, I like Kubota, but I'm colorblind. All the major players build good machines. If we only had one choice it wouldn't be any fun and TBYNet wouldn't exist.

 

[MessickFarmEqu]

I've seen that same demo done by Kubota before with the exact opposite results. I could be wrong, but Deere does not have a fresh air setting on their cab - Kubota does. So when they set the kubota to pull in outside air it fills the cab right up, the Deere does not have that option so it does not. All they would have to do is flip the switch to use recirculated air and the Kubota would not fill with smoke. Again, double check this - but I thought this was the case.

All of these cabs are remarkably air tight, so much so that they put one-way valves in so that its possible to close the door without poping your ear drums.

 

[tractorhill]

I thought this was KIOTI world.

 

[Kendall69]

You see, the knowledge here is, well just amazing.

So Deere snookered me with their test, I thought I was a tad bit sharper than that. Looks like P.T. Barum was right, There is a sucker born every minute, and the minute I bought the hype I was that sucker.

I’m on my second Kubota and am kicking and screaming looking at the other colors. I’m headed up to the huge tractor AG show in Northern Ca. tomorrow to sit in, feel and touch them all, in one day. I’ll be dead by the end of the day, with all the “hype” I'm about to be spoon fed.

I think I’ll give each tractor the Bean Burrito test, if it can keep out the smell of a Bean Burrito, then it in fact will be air tight

 

[DK35vince]

I don't get it??????????

This was originally posted in the Kioti section.. It has been moved.

 

[flyingn]

I too saw that JD video too and was shocked to learn that it is indeed NOT true.. one bit.. That soured my to JD forecer and I have a 3030 with cab. Heat works FANTASTIC as does the ac. The cab is second to none..

Frank