Reasons not to buy an RTV 1100C?

[Paystar]

Not the 1120. It has no cab.

The RTV-X1100C is the cab model with AC.

 

[RickB]

Not the 1120. It has no cab.

The RTV-X1100C is the cab model with AC.

Correct. My bad.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

I bought a RTV1140 8 years ago believing it was just for having a sharing experience with my twin 6 year old grands. I've owned a Kubota tractor(s) for 15 years on 5 acres. I won't give up the RTV1140 and my grands, now 14 and an added 7 year old boy also love it and so does my wife. I sometimes open up the back seat for extra riders but usually keep it up to have the bigger bed. I've hauled the bed full of gravel and dirt and never reached what seemed like a limit in power. It isn't fast and I didn't want/don't want fast. I bought the 25 acre mountain/hill behind my home a couple of years ago and the RTv1140 handles the old logging roads great and even the gravel road to the top where the transmission tower used to be and I now have a 12'x40' pre built building that I'm getting ready to build on to it. It is a fairly steep hill in some places and the RTV1140 handles it all. I've even used the RTV1140 to pull my L3901 out of bad spots twice.
The Kubota is also hyd transmission which means no free wheeling/braking usually coming down hills, the engine brakes it. It does have the brake if you want to also use it.
My 14 year old grandson decided he needed a dirt bike and I nughed him toward a four wheeler and then nughed/pushed/demanded he have roll bar and seat belts for safety so we (I) bought a RTV500 since it has those required features along with the limited speed and hyd transmission for self braking. My grands stay with me on school breaks and one usually spends the weekend. They now drive both of them almost equally. The RTV1140 for the rougher muddier less maintained old logging trails and the RTV500 for drive way and few (two) streets in our neighbor hood. I do have tops on both and windshields on both but no heat or A/C and would rarely use either one in our climate and usage but......sometimes it would be more comfortable but wouldn't like the closed in door opening/closing all the time or 85% of the time so I don't have cabs on any of my equipment.
I've looked at some other brands and recently before buying the RTV500 but none seemed to stand up for the money and my interests like the Kubotas, obviously.:cool2:

 

[Rock Crawler]

Yep. You guys are sealing the deal for Sean at M&R in Butler. I will wait until my March bonus so I can pay cash for it and touch my savings. Now the question will be how much more is that 2 row of seats, 4 door one that the rear seats flip up and the bed folds out forward.... That would really be nice. But even the 2 door has that fantastic big bed!

So many if the side by side products in the market have beds that are actually smaller than the Rhino has, I'm off the opinion that the bed is why you buy these, so but all of the bed capacity you can. Kubota appears to have won that fight.

That Mahindra Roxor (Jeep CJ) would have been such an awesome option had the back halved the body and put a super sexy dump bed in it. To me, they doomed that thing to poor sales when they made it into a non street legal farm/property machine that can not move farm/property material.

I'm constantly moving wood, getting loads of limestone or River rock dropped, getting mulch and moving dirt around. Believe it or not, I had 10 tons of river.... To be continued.

 

[Rock Crawler]

River rock dropped this past fall. With my father in my Kubota B2650 and me on my Rhino, we hauled that 20,000 lbs of river rock from my asphalt driveway to my Beer Camp in the woods about a half mile away, up and down steep trails.

We did that 10 ton in 21 Rhino loads and in 4 hours. My father was shocked and amazed. As long as you make sure that you favor the rear of the bed with the weight of the load, it will dump.

My 12 years with that Rhino has been an absolute pleasure and the machine has taken the work I've asked if it in stride and it's never broke down once. I change the engine oil and the front and rear differential grease every spring with Amsoil, and then I work it all year for all it's worth. But it's time to move on.

 

[shooterdon]

After getting my tractor, I dumped both of my UTV’s and bought a used Wrangler. Use it for trail riding and as a second vehicle. For hauling wood, I use a beater 2001 Ram pickup and I can use it to get wood off site as well. The tractor gets used on the property for tough areas the pickup struggles with. Between the FEL and a carry all, the little tractor will carry a lot more than a UTV.

I know my Polaris dealer. After I got the Jeep he admitted he was looking for a used Jeep as well These $20k+ UTV’s are way overpriced for what you get.

BTW, my work UTV was a 2010 Polaris 850. Put 3000 miles on it so I guess I did not work it hard. I doubt there were more than a dozen times it went were I would have been leery of taking the beater truck.

The beater cost me $3500 with a plow and I have spent $1500 in the last 4 years maintaining it. It also serves as an auxiliary vehicle. Something the UTV could not do.

 

[s219]

That Mahindra Roxor (Jeep CJ) would have been such an awesome option had the back halved the body and put a super sexy dump bed in it. To me, they doomed that thing to poor sales when they made it into a non street legal farm/property machine that can not move farm/property material.

I was real intrigued by the Roxor but it's not really a utility as you note. My neighbor recently bought a Mahindra Retriever and it is more along the lines of the Kubota, but missing diesel (it's an option), HST (instead has CVT), true hydraulics, and heavy duty build. But it is still very nice and better than most other gas UTVs on the market. Price wise, they are up there though. Used to be Mahindra was a value option but their pricing has crept up in the last couple years. Pretty sure it's priced several thousand higher than what I paid for my RTV-X1120D two years ago.

 

[Rock Crawler]

Your tractor, nor your truck, nor your Jeep are going across my yard, down over the hill into the woods and coming back out until the ground freezes, so you'll have maybe half of the summer and none of the fall/winter/spring aside from frozen times on my property that your plan would work.

I say this as an avid off-road Jeep person. My Jeep would be skid sideways,down in the trees, long before I made it across the yard to the cut in trails. I've made the mistake once of going straight down to the trees, I had to use the winch and go tree by tree back up, tore the heck out of the trails, and utterly destroyed a section of my yard that took a few years to correct. It was quite the show though! If you've ever seen a yard converted into a 40 foot high rooster tail off mud and grass, ruts a foot deep, and non stop on the rev limiter until you climb to the top..... Man! Something to see!

My Rhino crab walks sideways across the yard as it's trying to slide down into the trees. I absolutely can not take a truck or tractor out in the slope. The Jeep... With ProRock axles, Eaton E-lockers, aired down to 8 psi and 37x13.5 mud tires... The Jeep can pull it off in an emergency. You likely do not live on a side slope that is near swamp!

 

[shooterdon]

Your tractor, nor your truck, nor your Jeep are going across my yard, down over the hill into the woods and coming back out until the ground freezes, so you'll have maybe half of the summer and none of the fall/winter/spring aside from frozen times on my property that your plan would work.

I say this as an avid off-road Jeep person. My Jeep would be skid sideways,down in the trees, long before I made it across the yard to the cut in trails. I've made the mistake once of going straight down to the trees, I had to use the winch and go tree by tree back up, tore the heck out of the trails, and utterly destroyed a section of my yard that took a few years to correct. It was quite the show though! If you've ever seen a yard converted into a 40 foot high rooster tail off mud and grass, ruts a foot deep, and non stop on the rev limiter until you climb to the top..... Man! Something to see!

My Rhino crab walks sideways across the yard as it's trying to slide down into the trees. I absolutely can not take a truck or tractor out in the slope. The Jeep... With ProRock axles, Eaton E-lockers, aired down to 8 psi and 37x13.5 mud tires... The Jeep can pull it off in an emergency. You likely do not live on a side slope that is near swamp!

That is exceptional terrain you are dealing with. There are a lot of swamps here, but not as bad as you described....and no good reason to go into them unless during hunting season. Thankfully, I do not have swamps on my property but border one large one. I wonder if a tracked Polaris UTV would work for you? I had tracks on mine but found the speed decrease and noise increase was not worth the added traction on snow and mud. Plus I did not have a cab, and they threw a lot of crap onto me.

Good luck

 

[ovrszd]

River rock dropped this past fall. With my father in my Kubota B2650 and me on my Rhino, we hauled that 20,000 lbs of river rock from my asphalt driveway to my Beer Camp in the woods about a half mile away, up and down steep trails.

We did that 10 ton in 21 Rhino loads and in 4 hours. My father was shocked and amazed. As long as you make sure that you favor the rear of the bed with the weight of the load, it will dump.

My 12 years with that Rhino has been an absolute pleasure and the machine has taken the work I've asked if it in stride and it's never broke down once. I change the engine oil and the front and rear differential grease every spring with Amsoil, and then I work it all year for all it's worth. But it's time to move on.View attachment 584211

Wow, you hauled 1,000lbs on your Rhino? Don't think mine would handle that. No way it would self dump it.

My RTV will work circles around my Rhino.