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brianNH
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The chain clearance issue isn't with width - it's with height. Maybe the Ls have more clearance than the Ms - I'm not sure. A friend of mine here in town just got a M7060 this summer. He ordered it with chains. Come late fall and he wanted them to mount the chains, it came out that you can't put chains on over the ag tires, because of the fenders. The tires fit up inside the fenders, and there's no space. He was NOT a happy camper that the sales girl sold him a combination that did not work. Townline had to take the tractor back, swap out all 4 ag tires for industrial so the chains would go on, and my friend had to pay extra for the different wheels & tires.
I've ended up with the M5660 being my main choice, and the same sales girl my friend had is saying "no chains over ag tires". She's also saying I can't get liquid filled in the front tires. If you look at pictures of the M60 tractors with ag tires, you can see how tight the tires are up inside the fenders.
Another friend has an older M9000 and he says it has chains and liquid filled on all 4. Maybe Kubota is building new ones with tighter fender clearance now.
Maybe I need to try a different dealer with hopefully a more knowledgeable sales person. I'm going to Townline tomorrow - we'll see what new info she has. I'll ask about wheel spacers, but these are wide tires (14.9-28), so spacing them outside the fenders would add 2.5 feet to the width, and I don't think I'd want it that wide, plus she probably has some reason I can't do that, either.
I have some experience with the emissions issues because Townline provides new demo tractors for the Cornish Fair, and I drive the "People Mover", a wagon with seats towed by a large tractor. More than once, I've had to shut it down and call for the dealer to come fix their tractor because I have alarms going off. It gets fixed by letting the tractor just sit there with the engine screaming for awhile, then they tell me to run it several gears lower so the engine is always screaming. Apparently you can't just drive these new tractors like an ordinary tractor - you have to have them revved up much higher than any other tractor I ever used. Maybe it gets exacerbated because I am trying to pull these People Movers gently so people aren't bounced out of their seats, and so the engine isn't screaming so much I have to wear ear protection. Only the newest tractors seem to have the problem.
