Why Blue is Better

[ccsial]

I think tractor people want to see this stuff in good, high res, well done photos.

Not if you live in the country and have a dial-up connection.

Kubota has a high speed and low speed option which is a good idea.

 

[AndyMA]

Personally I do think Blue is better. When I go to my dealer who is a decent size New Holland Kubota dealer the machines I see with broken axles, casings etc tend to be mostly orange. When I ask the service manager he tells me that it is true, the New Hollands are just heavier and built stronger.

Andy

 

[frank_f15]

Not if you live in the country and have a dial-up connection.

Kubota has a high speed and low speed option which is a good idea.

EXCELLENT don't think enough folks realize some people can't get high speed for what ever reason!

 

[N80]

Personally I do think Blue is better. When I go to my dealer who is a decent size New Holland Kubota dealer the machines I see with broken axles, casings etc tend to be mostly orange. When I ask the service manager he tells me that it is true, the New Hollands are just heavier and built stronger.

Andy

Maybe its because he sells more Kubotas and there are MORE Kubotas out there? A tractor that doesn't sell doesn't get used and usually doesn't get broken.

But you know, every time I go by the Kubota dealership there ARE a lot of orange tractors in the shop....and what's even more mysterious is that when I go by the JD dealer there are lots of green tractors in the shop and the other day I was at a NH dealership and a lot of the tractors in their shop were blue...every one in fact. Wonder why that is?

In all seriousness, when I looked at NH they had nothing to compare to my Kubota L4400 and the dealer said as much. They had bigger and more expensive and they had smaller and fancier and more expensive, but nothing to go head to head. Bottom line: more expense for things I didn't want or need. Seems odd that Kubota gets branded as the 'expensive' brand.

 

[rback33]

I'm a big Kubota fan and find their site to be pretty disappointing. Mostly I want more, bigger and better pictures. They have 'gallerys' but for any given series you might not even be able to find a pic of the model you're interested in.

I think tractor people want to see this stuff in good, high res, well done photos. (And no, I don't need pictures because I can't read.........I do pretty good if I sound the words out.)

And the JD site is even worse. Tiny little pictures and not many of those.

Do you do better if the words have a Latin base to them? lol

 

[Podunkadunk]

Awesome website. "Their tractors are pretty" (wife's words at last weekends parade when she saw them). The blue and white go well together!

I especially liked the turning radius of the smaller boomer! WOW, talk about turn around on a dime!

I don't have anything bad to say about NH. I think they're fine tractors with one hades of a marketing dept.

Good on em.

Podunk

 

[N80]

Does anyone have one of those 'super steer' models? Seems like an okay concept, but quite frankly, I'm pretty sure I would have broken it already.

 

[geedub]

Podunk, the New Hollands have an option called Super Steer which is what you saw in the video. Without that option the radius is probably similar to the other brands.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Does anyone have one of those 'super steer' models? Seems like an okay concept, but quite frankly, I'm pretty sure I would have broken it already.

The supersteer system has been around for quite a while now and there doesn't seem to be any more problems with the supersteer axle as there is with non supersteer axles. If you abuse or don't maintain your equipment you will have problems with the axle regardless of supersteer or not.

Once you use the Supersteer axle you will love it for tight turns.

 

[Superduper]

Great site and done very well. However, when looking at the comparisons, I couldn't help but wonder why during the sensitrak 4WD demonstration, the Deere and the Kubota did not have any weight at the rear end whereas the NH was fully weighed with a BALLAST BOX. Would it have made a difference? Who knows. But I am left to guess why not equip them evenly because doing the demo any other way makes me suspect wild things. Also when most demonstrations compared the NH to both Kubota and Deere tractors, noticeably missing was the JD tractor in the sled pull demo. For the most part, Kubota tractors are built fairly light for their power ratings which translated to orange spinning the tires only and having no success pulling the sled. However, JD's are built on the heavy side and could it be that including Green in the demo might not have ended with blue shining so brightly?

Clearly, it's all marketing. If the demos were scrutinized, one can see the slant. Initially, I was impressed by the turning radius demo which clearly showed the NH tractor having tighter turning radius. Too bad the deliberate handicapping of the other tractors in the other demo made me wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the marketing.