Which Tractor?

[SSdoxie]

With the attachments listed, 40 HP is plenty to run 6' cutter. Your next application to consider is loader capacity handling round bales and clearing up woods. The extra HP is not a big advantage in this application, you should be looking more at overall weight and loader capacities.

 

[whodat526]

Theres a couple different kubota dealerships around here, one or 2 John Deere, and the mahindra. The kioti dealership in Baytown closed down I guess about a year ago and I don't know of any others around the area. I live east of Houston about an hour or so, I'm not opposed to going to any dealerships around Houston. The closest kubota dealership is wowco and I've heard alot of bad things about the guy that runs the place. so the next closest would be landsdown moody in houston. Why do you say the 5100 felt small? How much of a price gap is there between the 5100 and 5040? Would anybody say the extra hp of the kubota is worth more that the extra weight of the mahindra or vice versa?

the owner of wowco is a really good man i know him personally i dont know who runs the store but i deal directly with the owner when i kneed kubota parts

 

[gerard]

Id also look at kioti. (bobcats are kioti with white paint). Look at the dk series. They come standard with a set of remote hydraulics, you can conteol the 3 pt hitch from the rear of the tractor while on the ground, extendable lower three pt arms, and an air ride seat. All things that are extra on kubota. (I have a kubota and am very happy woth it but when considering upgrading I was very interested in kioti. Also has a much stronger loader life capacity. I would not consider mahindra. Just doesnt seem the quality control is there in the manufacturing process. Also have a friend that leased some big ones for commercial snow plowing. Brand new and he had too many problems with them during the season for me to consider them.

 

[Hollow]

Id also look at kioti.

I'll second that notion and add Massey Fergison and New Holland.

 

[TXMike06]

I was at work and had an order at a grass farm and talked to a couple guys that operate a tractor 8+ hours a day and they all said kubota was the way to go, bigger dealership networks to get parts faster and around here there's alot more kubota than mahindra dealers. They also said in their opinion for what I'd be doing with it power would outweigh weight, if I was gonna lift a couple round bales a year, not to even worry about being able to pick bales up with the loader, to just carry em all with the 3pt. Plus they all agreed if I do any kind of discing or tilling the power would definetly be the way to go. They all recommended normagee tractor would be the best place to buy from. I think I will go try to operate the kubota and see how I like it. I don't need a huge tractor so I don't think the tractor being smaller will bother me. I'm only gonna have 6-10 head of cattle so I'm not runing any kind of major operation.

 

[whodat526]

I was at work and had an order at a grass farm and talked to a couple guys that operate a tractor 8+ hours a day and they all said kubota was the way to go, bigger dealership networks to get parts faster and around here there's alot more kubota than mahindra dealers. They also said in their opinion for what I'd be doing with it power would outweigh weight, if I was gonna lift a couple round bales a year, not to even worry about being able to pick bales up with the loader, to just carry em all with the 3pt. Plus they all agreed if I do any kind of discing or tilling the power would definetly be the way to go. They all recommended normagee tractor would be the best place to buy from. I think I will go try to operate the kubota and see how I like it. I don't need a huge tractor so I don't think the tractor being smaller will bother me. I'm only gonna have 6-10 head of cattle so I'm not runing any kind of major operation.

if disking the weight is the way to go. you can have all the power in the world but if you cant put it to the ground it is useless. the weight is going to help with traction and stability.

 

[TXMike06]

Looking at the kioti, I'm really liking it, 50 hp is alot more than I need and there's actually a dealer not far from where the property is. I like that they come with the hydraulic ports standard that was gonna be an extra $600+ bucks to add one on the kubota.