Rmart30
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- Joined
- Jul 6, 2009
- Messages
- 612
- Location
- Alabama
- Tractor
- Currently have Kubota L4600HST, Kubota M7040, Kubota M8540, two Massey 265's, Massey 230, ...... Had Long 510, Mahindra 3510.Ford 4000, Deere 4230.
If you can get by with a 25 HP tractor do it. Tier 4 is a nightmare. Have you noticed all the truck fires in the last 10 years compared to before. That is what causes them. The Regen gone wrong. At some point every DPF must be replaced or baked out. Big cost. The engines on the non tier 4 are mechanical injection. They must be electronic for tier 4 to work. Electronic is less reliable especially if not used every day and if you get bad fuel. Again big repair costs. I wanted a John Deere 2038 but got a 2025R instead for that reason. I drove a truck for over 1.5 million miles. It was never towed in. It was a 1999 and didn't have that garbage on it. The 2014 has been towed in 8 times and has less than 400,000 miles on it. Every tow due to emissions malfunction. It is typical of all the trucks in our fleet. A very large fleet.
I agree. I work on this garbage on most all brands of construction equipment. it all has its faults.
In short same as you i drive a 06 KW, last yr of tier 3... we bought identical 07 but it had tier 4 emissions ... i have 465,000 trouble free miles with just normal maintenance . The 07 has been nothing but trouble with ... wait for it ... emission system problems. Whuddathunkit.
I bought a new tractor in 2013 to beat the tier 4 emissions. Wont own one that has it on it.