NX 6010 21 Month Report

[JimR]

Jim, you're only rated at 10 more hp. Really no difference (unless you're doing ground-engaging work). Not sure the frame size of that Cub, but my B7800 feels like it's a running shoe on my foot compared to the NX, which feels like a big overcoat

I'd been doing a lot of grading work around my new garage. I managed to ding the garage with the B7800! I've run the NX around it too, but, thankfully, I haven't encountered any collisions- I run really slow if I'm very close. The B7800 is insanely nimble, I've done stuff with it that one really cannot do with any other tractor (size and power don't exist in any other tractor that I know of- some come close, but really nothing is a match, other than another B-series tractor [but there's power differences]).

Interesting about the notion of nimbleness. The brochure showed some iffy numbers for turning radius. I was comparing to an MX5200 at the time and the Kioti specs were WAY inferior. Dealer looked at me and said Kioti doesn't mess up with their literature (ha ha!). Good folks here in the forums actually measured the turning radius for me and it confirmed the suspicions that Kioti's specs were wrong. In the end the numbers weren't significantly different enough to turn me away from the Kioti. I have a lot of tight spots around me, places that you can quickly go to stuck unless you can navigate with some agility; a fair amount of trees that I have to mow around. Anyway, the NX is pretty decent for nimbleness; no, it's nowhere near like my B7800 (which I can literally spin around trees flailing the brush hog behind me), but with a little extra thought one can navigate it pretty well.

That is a funny way of saying the difference. My Cub is comparative to the B7800. I think the Cub weighed in at 3000 pounds with the loader. The NX is much faster than my Cub was. The Cub was much easier to judge distances in the front of the loader than the NX is. For ease of use I think the Cub was more agile than the NX due to its smaller size. The Cub was easier to lift the back end off the ground with a full load of dirt in the loader and easier to lift a rear wheel off the ground on slopes. So far I haven't been able to get a wheel off the ground on the NX under the exact situations. I was told that the NX4510 HST weighs in at 5000 pounds with the loader. I have had to open up my roads where I would have been able to easily maneuver with the Cub. The NX feels like a much safer machine with the wider wheelbase than the Cub was when whipping around with a loader full of dirt or cut up wood. I had a set of wide turf tires on the back of the Cub. I may have to put a set on the NX if it starts ripping up my fields when I mow. I bought it in September and mowing season was pretty much over by then.

 

[DieselBound]

My B7800 spent a lot of time on it's front wheels D) before I got the rears ballasted. Since then the loader will stall out now before the rears lift. It's nice that way. Not sure what it's weight is with the loader, but w/o it it's 1,975 lbs. It's ground clearance was a big selling point, and I've taken advantage of that (climbing over all sorts of things); ground here is relatively flat and presents little concern with regards to tipping over- the added ballast now makes it very stable.

I've had the rear of the NX up in the air: I tend to find limits! (front wheels sinking in while I had a cage of wood on my pallet forks; also tested the loader out on a stump) I really need to get a nice, heavy box blade. But when I was doing a bunch of loader work with material I could pretty much fill the bucket and the tractor was still stable, though one wouldn't necessarily want to try going very fast or very far: I was even making tight turns toward my dump trailer, actions that tend to make things even more tippy.

My B7800 is MUCH quicker and faster than my NX. It's top speed is spec'd higher (I think by about 3mph, which, when we're talking tractors is a significant difference): my property, however, isn't all that smooth, so high speed isn't really something that I have a need for; driveway, or perhaps when I go up and down my road. And without a computer's delay being involved the B7800 moves instantly! (which you have to be careful of, especially if you've recently been operating the NX!).

R4 tires aren't bad. I have them on both tractors. Not too much of a problem until you shift into 4wd and or are also turning. I'd tear things up with my B7800, but that was mostly due to the brush hog digging in around tight corners. Not sure the load rating on turfs, but it's something to keep in mind if you're looking to do loader work (R4s, I think, are the best).

Around here, come September I have to throw out the anchor as everything starts to go under water :laughing:

What rototiller do you have? I'm pondering getting one. No idea what I should shoot for.