billythekid
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New to the forum as far as posting. Been reading for months and figured i would join in.
A quick back story: I live in Pittsburgh and own a lawn care business. We had a legacy XL that my dad had purchased which did fine up until this year. Needed something bigger that was able to lift pallets of fertilizer and basically anything ranging from 10 foot norway spruces to boulders. Started looking about 6 months ago.
Current story: read tons of posts on the LS tractor. I got quotes on deere, kubota, and mahindra. Ac ouple of horror stories about Mahindra from real farmers had me turned away. Orange tractors are awesome machines, the loader capacity is a joke. Next is the deere, my heart's true desire. Upon further inspection, it's all plastic, and the loader was just a dismal. I kept looking at the LS website and well low and behold i found one. The rest is boring i let the wolves fight over who could get me the best deal and ended up with a left over xr3037h. $20000 with just a loader.
Its home now, blew out the transfer case on my truck halfway home from my 2 hour jaunt but that's fixed too.
First Impression: The tractors fit and finish is way better than expected. online they look kind of cheesy but they are pretty impressive in person. I compare them to a WT pick up as opposed to the LTZ of a deere. The ergonomics are good the only thing i can complain about is the direction pedals seem backwards of every other tractor i've driven. The forward is inboard and the reverse is outboard. Give it 20 minutes and you don't notice and it actually is better for leg fatigue. My only other complaint is the steering wheels seems like it takes 20 turns to get it steering. I guess i'm used to the smaller tractor which didn't need as serious of a steering system.
Let's move to the loader. The thing is a real bastard. it'll lift basically whatever you have the guts to try. I only run it at 15-1800 rpm and it responds well, at full throttle it's down right fast. The SLQA is awesome, if you don't have one get one. The loader comes off easily and is built really sturdy. Lines are routed cleanly and protected. the only thing is the legs are are a little flimsy. I know why they did it every pound they weigh is weight taken off of the lift capacity.
Overall: Awesome machine, definitely happy with the intial purchase. Quality is on par with some manufacturers and surpasses others. The regen is not bad and the performance is awesome. This unit will be used commercially and i'm confident it will hold up to the abuse. The 10k saved over the deere will be put towards attachments. I appreciate the information from you guys and hopefully this will help somebody else out. :thumbsup:
A quick back story: I live in Pittsburgh and own a lawn care business. We had a legacy XL that my dad had purchased which did fine up until this year. Needed something bigger that was able to lift pallets of fertilizer and basically anything ranging from 10 foot norway spruces to boulders. Started looking about 6 months ago.
Current story: read tons of posts on the LS tractor. I got quotes on deere, kubota, and mahindra. Ac ouple of horror stories about Mahindra from real farmers had me turned away. Orange tractors are awesome machines, the loader capacity is a joke. Next is the deere, my heart's true desire. Upon further inspection, it's all plastic, and the loader was just a dismal. I kept looking at the LS website and well low and behold i found one. The rest is boring i let the wolves fight over who could get me the best deal and ended up with a left over xr3037h. $20000 with just a loader.
Its home now, blew out the transfer case on my truck halfway home from my 2 hour jaunt but that's fixed too.
First Impression: The tractors fit and finish is way better than expected. online they look kind of cheesy but they are pretty impressive in person. I compare them to a WT pick up as opposed to the LTZ of a deere. The ergonomics are good the only thing i can complain about is the direction pedals seem backwards of every other tractor i've driven. The forward is inboard and the reverse is outboard. Give it 20 minutes and you don't notice and it actually is better for leg fatigue. My only other complaint is the steering wheels seems like it takes 20 turns to get it steering. I guess i'm used to the smaller tractor which didn't need as serious of a steering system.
Let's move to the loader. The thing is a real bastard. it'll lift basically whatever you have the guts to try. I only run it at 15-1800 rpm and it responds well, at full throttle it's down right fast. The SLQA is awesome, if you don't have one get one. The loader comes off easily and is built really sturdy. Lines are routed cleanly and protected. the only thing is the legs are are a little flimsy. I know why they did it every pound they weigh is weight taken off of the lift capacity.
Overall: Awesome machine, definitely happy with the intial purchase. Quality is on par with some manufacturers and surpasses others. The regen is not bad and the performance is awesome. This unit will be used commercially and i'm confident it will hold up to the abuse. The 10k saved over the deere will be put towards attachments. I appreciate the information from you guys and hopefully this will help somebody else out. :thumbsup: