Buying Advice Which Kioti?

[DiverDarrell]

Thanks for all the reply's. For now i know the DK40 is too large for this property, unless we start loading the barn with large square bales. The next property will bring lots of stump digging (dream of a small X-mas tree farm). and caring for what the lady hopes is 15 or so horses. There will be a larger tractor in the future im sure, but this would be the around the house kind of do all tractor. as i'm fairly sure will be using it to clear some land and prepare it to build on.

 

[IslandTractor]

Thanks for all the reply's. For now i know the DK40 is too large for this property, unless we start loading the barn with large square bales. The next property will bring lots of stump digging (dream of a small X-mas tree farm). and caring for what the lady hopes is 15 or so horses. There will be a larger tractor in the future im sure, but this would be the around the house kind of do all tractor. as i'm fairly sure will be using it to clear some land and prepare it to build on.

While I don't disagree with MtnViewRanch regarding the CK being a good around the property utility tractor, your plan to clear land and prepare a building lot would benefit from something bigger. The CK can do it no doubt but the 40se would be far more efficient at that type of task. Still, it is probably better to get something you can afford now and start using it rather than waiting.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Just to be clear, I currently have both a 75hp and 32hp Mahindra tractors.

My thinking is that a CK is just right for now and on a bigger property it is great for the little jobs and a bigger than 40hp tractor is also needed for the bigger property. As in the DK40 is not going to cut it on a 100 acre place, just to small and the OP would end up buying a bigger and smaller machine.

Again, just my opinion.

 

[rd_macgregor]

I have a DK45SC and 250 ac. Since I don't do any crop work, including hay, this tractor is plenty big enough for nearly all my jobs (pasture mowing, snow blowing, woods work, turning the manure pile). I think the DK40 would do just as well as the DK45 on your expected 100 acre spread, as long as you don't intend doing a lot of plowing or big bale work.

I was surprised that everyone so far has kept quiet about your landfill plan. Last summer I moved what seemed to me to be a lot of fill with my FEL bucket...but nowwhere near 1000 yds. With small loads, this amounted to too many back and forth trips. If you could get your hands on a fair-sized dump truck (or trailer), your job would be eased considerably. Still, even with a 10 cu yd dumper (which is pretty big), you'd be making 100 round trips.
I don't suppose you could find anybody local who is trying to dispose of some good fill?

BOB

 

[CowwFace]

Hey Diver,

Crimony you are going to give me a complex..

I live on 2 acres and have a DK40SE HST. Mainly used for pushing snow, and maintain private road. I've had my tractor since Sept 2009, and I can tell you I have not once in that time thought "wow... this tractor is too much tractor".

ie:
1.

I used it to load some tree stumps into a dump truck (for good friend/neighbor) and I was GLAD I had the 40.​

2.

I pushed down some dead pine trees (beetle kill) and was glad I had the 40.​

3.

I used it to hang Christmas lights on a tree and I was glad I had the 40.
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4.

I used it to lift the back of my F250 pickup to rotate tires ... you guessd it I was glad I had the 40.​

5.

I used it to load re-claimed asphalt on my trailer to haul for our road (Found a guy on Craigslist GIVING away re-claimed asphalt) uhhh yes I was glad I had the 40.​

6.

I use it to move my camper around the yard. (Starcraft 18SD.. about 6000# empty, with ATV's about 9000#.. and I'm glad I have the 40.​

7.

I use it to walk the cat ... ok ok ok... it's too much tractor to walk the cat with.​

My DK40 actually has a shorter turning radius than my Polaris 500 ATV ... but that bucket and rear blade hang WAAAyyyyyyy out there.

Go 40 my good man!

Carry on

 

[Gittyup]

I have a DK45SC and 250 ac. Since I don't do any crop work, including hay, this tractor is plenty big enough for nearly all my jobs (pasture mowing, snow blowing, woods work, turning the manure pile). I think the DK40 would do just as well as the DK45 on your expected 100 acre spread, as long as you don't intend doing a lot of plowing or big bale work.

I was surprised that everyone so far has kept quiet about your landfill plan. Last summer I moved what seemed to me to be a lot of fill with my FEL bucket...but nowwhere near 1000 yds. With small loads, this amounted to too many back and forth trips. If you could get your hands on a fair-sized dump truck (or trailer), your job would be eased considerably. Still, even with a 10 cu yd dumper (which is pretty big), you'd be making 100 round trips.

I don't suppose you could find anybody local who is trying to dispose of some good fill?

BOB

I moved over 700 tons of dirt and rock with my little CK25. Ran ads. on Craigslist for free fill dirt. Usually got all could take everytime I ran the ad. They would dump just off the street in the culdesac and I would then move it down hill and into place. Farthest ferry distance was about 300 feet. If I had to go a long distance, no way would I do it one bucket at a time. I sure got a lot of seat time running that loader!

If you can get free fill delivered closer to the fill spot, do that rather than dig up your own fill (unless you really need that moved too).

A dump trailer would be of great help, especially if you had someone else operating it while you run the tractor.

 

[Coyote machine]

I just traded in an '09 DK-35se/hst for a DK-40 due to the loader not having enough muscle for my needs. I use their KB-2485 backhoe and am very happy with it. The stronger series loader KL-401 on the DK-40 is a big improvement in my mind.
I'm going to get a bush hog, possibly a Kioti 72" one which the DK-35 could NOT handle- due to size. I suggest getting the 40 and not looking back.
The larger differential, loader, increased size of things like bush hogs etc. is worth it to my mind. I ran the DK-35 for a year and 265 hours- it too is a fine tractor- but the 40 is the sweet spot of the Kioti line- no one knows this better than Rick Wallace- he's 'de man when it comes to specking out size for power, etc.
Good luck !

 

[gerard]

Here's 2 cents from a different orange owner on a 10 ac horse farm with 10 horses.

1. Moving 1000yds by digging it up and moving it bucket by bucket is using the wrong tool for a job that big. Your time is worth something, even if you enjoy doing it, AND that's a lot of wear and tear on the tractor which has a cost factor also. (With a 1/3 yd bucket that's over 3000 trips!). A large loader or excavator with dump truck is the right tool or get free fill dumped as someone else said.

2. I love the specs on the dk40se. 2700lb lift capacity is awesome. I move big square and round bales with my 27hp kubota but I'm about maxed out. (It's rated at 800 lbs). The bales weight between 750 and 800 lbs. With 2700 lb capacity I could move two at a time like my hay farmer does with his skidsteer!

3. Even on a 100 ac farm, the dk40 would be doable unless you plan on actually farming it, tilling, bushhogging it. Like other stated, you would then want something bigger as well as bigger implements to match but then you're getting into big $$ for the implements too.

I don't think you'll regret going bigger. I bought mine new in 1999 with no prior tractor/farm experience. It does everything I've ever asked of it but I would mind something a little bigger with a little more hp but I know if I could move up to a 2700lb loader capacity I wouldn't even think twice. That's three times what I have now!.

 

[JoelD]

What wallace said.

 

[DK35vince]

I'm going to get a bush hog, possibly a Kioti 72" one which the DK-35 could NOT handle- due to size. I suggest getting the 40 and not looking back.

I've been running a 72" brush mower and an 84" rear finish mower behind my DK 35 for years.
It handles them very well.