www.kubotabooks.com (Free manuals)

[alchemysa]

Kubotabooks.com

 

[lp333]

Thanks mate.

 

[Lockport]

Kewl Koala Kewl

 

[Mat]

WOW !! however long did it take you to do this? i'd come along and give you a big hug but you might misunderstand!!! thanks anyway for all you hard work, i look forward to any updates

Mat

 

[Aquaman]

You've done a great service for all of us. THANK YOU.

 

[Barneyhunts]

Thank you!!

 

[Riptide23]

This is a great thing you have done. I had already downloaded most of them from Mediamax, and never did thank for them.

So let me say it now: Thank you!

Pat

 

[MessickFarmEqu]

Not to be a wet blanket, but your probably going to be hearing from Kubota about this. For one, you used "Kubota" in your URL for a site that could be confused with some affiliation with Kubota corporate. I recomend you add a statement on the home page that your not, and setup a link to Kubota.com.

You also spelled out that your looking for copyright free content... but everything that posted there is copyrighted. It may not say so in the .pdf files, but that content was ripped from an early version of our dealer parts programs which contains a copyright in the EULA. I know you have good intentions, but it defentialy has the potential to raise some eyebrows.

 

[alchemysa]

Not to be a wet blanket, but your probably going to be hearing from Kubota about this. .

That'll be interesting! I'll let you all know if anything develops. In the meantime I still invite any TBN'ers with suitable books to upload them.

I'm sure you know I didn't rip these off from anywhere. I just collected them from various other free internet sources. Many came from the original (but now defunct) kubota4you mediamax site that I first heard about on TBN. As you say, theres no copyright info on the books, so I didn't know what the legal situation was (and still don't really). I have wondered about kubota's official attitude to these manuals. Until now, dealers on TBN had been totally silent about them too. My local dealer knew about them and didn't care. He said that it was good that people who came to buy parts had a good idea of exactly what they wanted. (But I guess he didn't have much of a business selling manuals to worry about)

Anyway, we'll see what happens (if anything). I'm not 'on a mission' here.. just trying to offer a little help to fellow TBN members.

(edit) Fair point about the link to kubota. I'll add that, and a note that this isn't an official site of any kind.

You have very good site by the way. Those service articles are excellent.
Messick's Farm Equipment Service

 

[chinawall]

Al.. What a fantastic site!

 

[KeithInSpace]

Awesome! I understand what Mr. Messick is saying...unfortunate, but it seems to be the way things work now-a-days.

Hope it stays out of trouble! Got mine, though. The parts manual will be a LIFESAVER at some point, I am sure. I've rebuilt more than one thing off of these exploded parts diagrams.

Thanks, again.

 

[ctpres]

Here is my vote for TBN "Man of The Year."

 

[allenr]

Thanks, I've seen some of your early efforts guiding us to MediaMax, I tried to use it but gave up in frustration.
Managed to download a parts manual from your site in seconds without any humbug.
Sorry I don't have anything new to offer but encourage others to support this great service, you must have spent considerable time and some money on this.

 

[alchemysa]

you must have spent considerable time and some money on this.

Time and frustration (with mediamax) yes. But I cant pretend it was expensive to set up this new site. Just $10 for a domain name and about $20for the web hosting space at
Free Hostia: free php, mysql and domain hosting
This is how an internet hosting service should be run (but the free space only allows for 500k file sizes, so I took out a $23 plan).

Mediamax had a good service originally but had a big screw-up and lost about a gazillion tetrabytes of files. Mediamax are now totally hopeless. I only lost about 20 parts manuals but some people lost irreplaceable files, photo's, original music etc. People were suggesting class actions, lynchings, and worse.

TBN Man of The year? Nah, I just wanted the **** thing to work right for once.

 

[Northland]

great idea alchemysa!

many thanks​

 

[lyon]

GREATt&USEFUL HARD WORK ALCHEMYSA !!!
Unfortunately for me, I didn't find any manual in your data base (operator's , service/repair or parts manuals).
If somebody can help me with any document (scanned) for this tractor. KBT B1600DT is known in US market as ZB1600DT, "Z" from Zen-Noh (Japan Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations). On the hood is just "Kubota ZB1600"

In fact I have a Kubota B1600DT (from the B series), with:

- 16 HP-pto output power, 20 HP-engine output
- drive: 4WD,
- 3 cylinder,
- engine model: D950, in fact 927 cc,

Note: "B1600" without "DT" is just 2WD !!!

P.S. note: universal invitation: Let's get rich this free resources !!!

 

[SamWalton]

I checked the files and couldn't find the B26 manuals which use a TL500 loader and the BT820 back hoe. If anyone knows where I can download these PDF file for free please let me know.
Thanks

 

[lyon]

A Horse, a Horse! My Kingdom for a Horse! (King Richard the Third)
A manual, a manual. My Kingdom for a KBT B1600DT maaaanual...!!! ("King Lyon the Last"...)

 

[samofsweden]

WOW! Thanks for your help. Hope that Kubota understand the need of this.
Thanks!

 

[Ob1kubota]

Kubota is so worried about new product development Japan won't take the time to even review this issue. Your disclaimer seems adequate and similar to other sites who use a manufacturers name in a web address. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!