Traded my Bota for a CK30HST

[Bob_Skurka]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Ck is much heavier, factor rear hydraulics, alternator is 55 amps, larger hydro pump. Those are just a few reasons. I just thougth the Kioti was a much more heavy duty tractor.


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Doh. Of course the CK30 is heavier than the lightest and smallest of the 30hp tractors on the market. But they are designed for different tasks!

If you needed a heavy tractor then you made a huge mistake buying the B7800 in the first place because you didn't analyse your needs properly. The B7800 is not designed to be heavy, it is a light easily trailerable machine with modest capacity and a very small size designed not to tear up much. Landscape professionals love it because its size lets it fit into places larger tractors can't fit into, but its HP lets it run good sized PTO powered equipment, and it can do that without tearing up their customers lawns. It is great with a mid mount mower, something the CK30 doesn't even offer. I suspect had you looked at your needs in the first place, you'd have looked at a heavy Kubota like the L3130 or L3400 the first time around; or some other brand's comparable machine.

The CK30 is a very nice machine, and I like it and would have one if I needed that type of machine, but you obviously are posting for no reason other than to stir trouble. Well sorry, I won't bite. But it is a shame you wasted money the first time around, had you studied things better up front, you'd very likely would not be dissatisfied with your original purchase. I guess you learned.

 

[gippolit]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( </font><font color="blueclass=small">( Ck is much heavier, factor rear hydraulics, alternator is 55 amps, larger hydro pump. Those are just a few reasons. I just thougth the Kioti was a much more heavy duty tractor.


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Doh. Of course the CK30 is heavier than the lightest and smallest of the 30hp tractors on the market. But they are designed for different tasks!

If you needed a heavy tractor then you made a huge mistake buying the B7800 in the first place because you didn't analyse your needs properly. The B7800 is not designed to be heavy, it is a light easily trailerable machine with modest capacity and a very small size designed not to tear up much. Landscape professionals love it because its size lets it fit into places larger tractors can't fit into, but its HP lets it run good sized PTO powered equipment, and it can do that without tearing up their customers lawns. It is great with a mid mount mower, something the CK30 doesn't even offer. I suspect had you looked at your needs in the first place, you'd have looked at a heavy Kubota like the L3130 or L3400 the first time around; or some other brand's comparable machine.

The CK30 is a very nice machine, and I like it and would have one if I needed that type of machine, but you obviously are posting for no reason other than to stir trouble. Well sorry, I won't bite. But it is a shame you wasted money the first time around, had you studied things better up front, you'd very likely would not be dissatisfied with your original purchase. I guess you learned.

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Bob,
If you read the guy's post you would have commented on these factors. ( factory rear hydraulics, alternator is 55 amps, larger hydro pump. Those are just a few reasons. )Not just how heavy the tractor is. IE factory rear hydraulics, which is an up grade with kubota. Lets not for get the alternator is also an upgrade. Maybe those where his deciding factors.

I do agree he did jump classes, but he only knows why.

 

[Bob_Skurka]

<font color="green"> Bob,
If you read the guy's post you would have commented on these factors. ( factory rear hydraulics, alternator is 55 amps, larger hydro pump. Those are just a few reasons. )Not just how heavy the tractor is. IE factory rear hydraulics, which is an up grade with kubota. Lets not for get the alternator is also an upgrade. Maybe those where his deciding factors.

I do agree he did jump classes, but he only knows why.
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Glen, when you jump classes you get greater capacities in things like pumps and alternators, that is so OBVIOUS that it hardly seemed worth pointing out. The larger class Kubotas have larger alternators (although not 55amp) and larger capacity pumps (even greater than the CK30s), and even more weight, and even significantly stronger hydraulics (compare the 723 loader . . . and be sure to compare the same measuring points, not the inflated pivot point capacities) and the 3pt hitch capacities.

As for the remotes, they are optional equipment on the tractor he purchased, and they are optional equipment on the tractor he traded away. Again, I think he bought a nice tractor, a very nice one in fact, but I also think he probably posted just for the purpose of raising a stink and nothing else, and I think he made a totally uniformed purchase the first time and had he looked at his needs in the first place he probably would have purchased a suitable tractor to begin with.