How many on here own a kubota?

this auction site has one. looks like a good deal

In 2004 I bought a new Deere, lots of people here did not like it and probably still don't.  I'm sure happy I didn't buy an Agco.

A friend has two B8200 one 4wd with loader and one 2wd he likes them and has had the 4wd one since new in about 1980. They seem durable but buying parts is a pain because they are only available from the dealer. He uses the 2wd to mow in his tree nursery, and the 4wd to pull a mini traveller irigator in his crop land. I have drove both my only complaint is that they are about the right size for his 14 year old kid and not a 6ft tall 300 pound guy. Also on his the rear tires were very expensive. He bought a john deere 5320n rated at about 60 horse which is a way better tractor and runs circles around most tractors the same size it is the size of a d-14 but has a catagory 2 3 point and a 3 cyl turbo diesel that starts at -20 and all you have to do is crank it and it starts no glow plug switches or either buttons it has some kind of automatic start aid or it just start very well.

Todd you are 100% right

Go to south korea and say the same thing, the young have the same frame, but not obesity of america.  The older generation is much smaller.  Size depends alot on nutrition during the growth years.  

I work at a jd dealership that also sells kubota. I don't care for working on them. Some people love them, others can't wait for the lease to expire to get rid of em. Kinda depends on what your going to do with it. I'm assuming your probly looking at a 108, or 125. They're deffinetly a cheaper tractor, but you get what you pay for. Its completely normal to drain the oil out of the front axle and for it to have metal filings. Deffinetly not designed for anyone 6 ft tall, i hit my head on that overhead console every time i get in and out of one. For 30 or 40 grand you could probly do worse though

I worked at a Kubota and you couldn't give me one of there tractors.  There engines are good and i am suprised that they last as long as the do in the skid loaders. We mainly sold the smaller utility and compact tractors. and there hydros and hydraulics are not the greatest. I have changed many hydro units on ther ZD series lawn mowers. The BX series were ok. We did replace a few transmission cases becouse they would crack. The BX series seemed to go through u joints in the front drive shaft. Then they had the BX 1500 which would vibrate so bad that Kubota put a 15 lbs weight on the engine to help balance it when it was at a idle. We had a lot of front axle problems  larger L series. Kubota likes there ball bearings which didn't seem to last when you had a loader on them. I had to fix a few of them that  where the 3rd. link attached to the rockshaft housing the housing would break. On there RTV 900 utility carts we had to put new brass plates in the charge pump and there front axle cv shafts would break. As for ther larger tractors we never sold them much. The few they did sell came back with shifting problems. I know one framer that demoed a 108 and was using to bale hay on a hill. The baler would push it bown hill and then the tractor would pull it up hill. He called us to get the tractor and finished baleing with the old 185. The main reason that i wouldn't buy one is that they don't seam to have the product suport like Agco or Deere. where you can get parts for old equipment. I needed parts for a Kubota that was built in the 80's and they were no longer availible. So i my mind the only thing they have going for them is the orange paint.   

never

The two tractors are the M125X and the M7040HD.  There their "bigger" farm tractors.  I love my RT100A and if AGCO didn't drop the orange I'd have a used LT70 in my barn right now with it.  I moved some round bales to my neighbors today and was in a spot I didn't know if the RT would pull out of but she did.  I thought I wonder if that Kubota would do this.  It's an option though cause, did I mention, I'm ticked at AGCO.

My brother in SD bought a new M125X two years ago and likes it.  It spends all its time on the TMR wagon, probably gets 3-4 hours a day put on it. He says it doesn't like jelly fuel when it gets cold out, but the filters aren't too hard to change. I drove it last November and thought it was an easy tractor to drive.  It felt a lot smaller than his RT140.....

DaveCinIN wrote: I could NOT buy anything foreign made if I could find one that was made in the USA.

They're built in georgia. I know its like another country down there but technically its still the good ole usa. Jk georgians

I think most tractors and other vehicles are just assembled here.

DaveCinIN wrote: I could NOT buy anything foreign made if I could find one that was made in the USA.

I agree Dave within reason.  In the under 40-100 hp class the only machine that is remotely assembled in the US is some John Deere models and their only assembled there.  And, my brother, who is a John Deere nut, says they aren't worth the jacked up price. 

If you get to the 100 hp range you can find some but they start around $90,000 but so do the foreign made ones too.

You could get one of these new chinese tractors with a perkins diesel, dana axle, and cab with air for less than a used kubota or deere or pretty much any name brand tractor.