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Originally Posted By: totegoat
Your NA Kubota 3710 may be fine for your use at sea level.
Its a different story at altitude.
I wouldn't buy a non-turbo tractor, the performance is dismal.
Funny that I got the exact opposite impression. It ran a tiller, finish mower, bush hog, and the loader just fine. What are doing with a compact tractor that's so demanding? Maybe you should match the tractor to the job. I did have a big 3 point disk the tractor didn't like to pull. Not a big deal since the attachment was intended for a real tractor. It would have pulled a smaller disk just fine. I have a two bottom plow but I never pulled it with the Kubota. I'm sure it would have been fine since my ancient gas Ford 641 can pull it.
Your NA Kubota 3710 may be fine for your use at sea level.
Its a different story at altitude.
I wouldn't buy a non-turbo tractor, the performance is dismal.
Funny that I got the exact opposite impression. It ran a tiller, finish mower, bush hog, and the loader just fine. What are doing with a compact tractor that's so demanding? Maybe you should match the tractor to the job. I did have a big 3 point disk the tractor didn't like to pull. Not a big deal since the attachment was intended for a real tractor. It would have pulled a smaller disk just fine. I have a two bottom plow but I never pulled it with the Kubota. I'm sure it would have been fine since my ancient gas Ford 641 can pull it.
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Originally Posted By: IndyIan
A neighbor was testing a newer Kubota turbo 80hp tractor to replace the old NA 75hp one, and liked it except for hauling wagons down the road.
Wow, that seems like a lot of (rated) horsepower for a tractor like a Kubota. That old Oliver 1600 I'd love to have is rated at 58 PTO horsepower (Waukesha-Oliver 4.3L inline 6 N/A diesel), but the rig weighs close to 8000 lbs by itself and I have a feeling it could just about drag a Kubota around the field backwards... though maybe not very quickly. The biggest Oliver of that era was the 1900 and it had a 93-hp pto rated Detroit Diesel 4-53, and that was considered a pretty darn huge tractor for the day. Of course that was way before big center-articulated tractors like the Case/Steiger with Cummins N-14 power were the upper end, too.
Kubota make tractors up to 120hp now I think. One of the small dairy farmers near me has a set of them to make round bales and silage.
We still have a few smaller farms where they run 80-90hp tractors and that size of equipment. Not many running Kubota's of that size but there are more every year it seems.
I sometimes think about getting a set of hay equipment and some old hp to run it, but hay is still pretty cheap for a dozen goats.
Originally Posted By: IndyIan
A neighbor was testing a newer Kubota turbo 80hp tractor to replace the old NA 75hp one, and liked it except for hauling wagons down the road.
Wow, that seems like a lot of (rated) horsepower for a tractor like a Kubota. That old Oliver 1600 I'd love to have is rated at 58 PTO horsepower (Waukesha-Oliver 4.3L inline 6 N/A diesel), but the rig weighs close to 8000 lbs by itself and I have a feeling it could just about drag a Kubota around the field backwards... though maybe not very quickly. The biggest Oliver of that era was the 1900 and it had a 93-hp pto rated Detroit Diesel 4-53, and that was considered a pretty darn huge tractor for the day. Of course that was way before big center-articulated tractors like the Case/Steiger with Cummins N-14 power were the upper end, too.
Kubota make tractors up to 120hp now I think. One of the small dairy farmers near me has a set of them to make round bales and silage.
We still have a few smaller farms where they run 80-90hp tractors and that size of equipment. Not many running Kubota's of that size but there are more every year it seems.
I sometimes think about getting a set of hay equipment and some old hp to run it, but hay is still pretty cheap for a dozen goats.
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