VS. Kubota 7510/7610

[vallyfarm]

I've liked the Yanmars for a while now...back surgery is done, so getting ready to get a new tractor. I am needing a small tractor to work my strawberry plot (about 2 acres). I can't find the low speed for the Kubota 7510 gear tranny. I have a Kubota dealer 6 miles from me. Is there a Yanmar that matches up to these tractors? I'm thinking the 1610D is close. Are there any real advantages for the Yanmar over the Kubota other than price? Does anyone know how the Hydrostatic trannys hold up to rototilling/ plowing? Posting here because answers seem to come quicker and more honest here. I have no dealer of Yanmars near me and would most likley have to get one shipped in from Little Miami Trading Co. ANY thoughts would be a big help. Also need to cary a 3pt hitch transplanter with a 55 gal drum of water too. How does the 3pt hitch compare between Yanmar and Kubota...Duribility,etc. Thanks for any help. Mike

 

[art]

I'm not that familier with the new yanmars but I feel they are the ones that got jd into the compact market and have built the best that they have offered. The 75 and 7610's arre both basically the same tractor with the 76 just having more ponies which could be nice when tilling. The hydro's we work on less then the gear drives. It's been that way for years as the clutches need replacing faster then the hydro's need work. The hydro gives you infinite speed slection so you are so to speak always in the right gear.

 

[Normmm]

I a a YM2020 which is one of the power shift models and It has a creeper gear that moves very very very slow and runs the 60' ym1400 tiller very well. I have used pto speed 1, 2, abd 3 for tilling but as yot have had no use for 4th.

 

[Tom_Veatch]

... I have used pto speed 1, 2, abd 3 for tilling but as yot have had no use for 4th.

Have I got it right? Pto speed 1 is for about 500 pto rpm (depending on engine rpm, of course), 2 is about double that or around 1000 rpm, 3 is direct drive -> pto = engine rpm, and 4 is a slight overdrive.

 

[LMTC]

None of the Yanmars have a hydrostatic transmission. If you mean the Yanmar Powershift, we have had one powershift transmission fail in our 13 years. I think it is very near bulletproof, and it is excellent for tilling. I have tilled many hours with both grey Kubotas and grey Yanmars. Both till fine. Gearing is important, as is the operator....keeping the speed slow enough for the tiller to do it's job properly, and not taking too big a bite on each pass. While a tractor with a hi-lo rear end and 4 final gears in the transmission will do a very credible job of tilling in the vast majority of circumstances, anything with 3 or more in the rear end (as does the 1610-the 2210 has 5) is going to till effectively in a wider range of conditions. A tractor without multiple ranges (hi-lo) is unlikely to have a low enough gear range for tilling well.