Mowing Twelveyear old B7500HST overheating and starting to blow hydraulic hoses on LA272 FEL

[brain55]

I suspect that 90% of "CUTs" do not do this much work in their lifetime!
It is like using a pickup truck- again, 90% bought by commuters/weekend warriors-to haul three loads of crusher-run a day, 5 days a week.
The CUT builders need to keep a sharp eye on the retail price, and that means building to that 90% market.

Well said. A certain percentage are going to expect their $15,000 machine to work, last, and perform like a $60,000 industrial machine and be disappointed when it doesn't.

 

[Verticaltrx]

Well said. A certain percentage are going to expect their $15,000 machine to work, last, and perform like a $60,000 industrial machine and be disappointed when it doesn't.

While I don't expect my B3200 to perform as an industrial grade machine, I completely expect it to perform as a commercial grade machine (and it has.) Aside from the loader/hoe/sub-frame arrangement, much of the B-series use the same parts as the B20/B21/B26's have over the years. FWIW, I have put 500 commercial hours on my B3200 in the past three years doing construction, light grading, and landscaping work and it has held up very well. The sole reason I bought a Kubota was because I DID expect it to last under those conditions. The only failures have been induced by me (broken fuel filter housing, wrapped some hay around a seal) and one steel hyd. line that I think was defective. Keep everything well greased, serviced and maintained and be a smart operator and I see no reason why any B-series shouldn't last a few thousand hours.

 

[Egon]

While I don't expect my B3200 to perform as an industrial grade machine, I completely expect it to perform as a commercial grade machine (and it has.) Aside from the loader/hoe/sub-frame arrangement, much of the B-series use the same parts as the B20/B21/B26's have over the years. FWIW, I have put 500 commercial hours on my B3200 in the past three years doing construction, light grading, and landscaping work and it has held up very well. The sole reason I bought a Kubota was because I DID expect it to last under those conditions. The only failures have been induced by me (broken fuel filter housing, wrapped some hay around a seal) and one steel hyd. line that I think was defective. Keep everything well greased, serviced and maintained and be a smart operator and I see no reason why any B-series shouldn't last a few thousand hours.

I surely have no complaints on my Kubotas B7100 HST. At 3000 hr. it was traded on a larger machine, not for mechanical reasons.

It was used to it's fullest limits most of the time. Some things did break but those were cases of use well beyond the scope of the B7100. It was one Tough Little Mule!