- Joined
- Feb 21, 2003
- Messages
- 26,363
- Location
- SE Michigan in the middle of nowhere
- Tractor
- Kubota M9000 HDCC3 M9000 HDC
Waiting for Hay Dude to chime in and talk about his really large units...lol My M9's both have rops that stay up all the time. In the case of the cab unit, the ROPS is built into the cab structure. The open station has a canopy attached to the ROPS. Only reason I removed the ROPS entirely on the mower was because even in the folded position, it was snagging low tree limbs when mowing under trees. If I don't fit, it won't fit either and I really don't have any off camber or hills to deal with anyway. It's all flat mowing. I don't even engage the (in the case of the F series mower) the rear wheel drive unit. It stays in front wheel drive all the time. If I could have purchased a front wheel drive unit, I would have. It's a mower, not a tractor. IMO, it a heck of a mower at that. No belts, drive shaft operated. The only belt is the fan belt on the motor and a multi rib belt on the mower deck that drives the outer spindles and it's completely enclosed under shields on the deck itself and in typical Kubota fashion, everything is greaseable without any disassembly. The mower, like my tractors are 'festooned' with grease fittings everywhere.
Always got a kick out of his disparaging comments about my 'small Kubota tractors'. They are perfectly sized for what I do. I don't need bigger units and certainly not smaller ones either. Took me about 10 tractors bought and traded in to get to what is ideal for me, hence my screen name '5030' as that came about when I owned (and traded in) a 5030 HSTC cab tractor as it was too small to be an efficient unit for what I do. Was a nice tractor but the hydrostat wasn't ideal for me and neither was the overall weight of the unit. The 5030 never had sufficient pto power to run the disc mower, let alone the round bailer. I was always coming up short in the power department.
Always got a kick out of his disparaging comments about my 'small Kubota tractors'. They are perfectly sized for what I do. I don't need bigger units and certainly not smaller ones either. Took me about 10 tractors bought and traded in to get to what is ideal for me, hence my screen name '5030' as that came about when I owned (and traded in) a 5030 HSTC cab tractor as it was too small to be an efficient unit for what I do. Was a nice tractor but the hydrostat wasn't ideal for me and neither was the overall weight of the unit. The 5030 never had sufficient pto power to run the disc mower, let alone the round bailer. I was always coming up short in the power department.
