rented a Kubota 4wd diesel tractor today

[rfuerst911sc]

Had some yard leveling to do before installing a RV port for the truck camper so I rented a 4wd Kubota diesel tractor today from Home Depot. This is an impressive man tool . I had two spots to level/clear and it only took 3 hours total and I think I only used 1/2 gallon of diesel fuel. I was really impressed how user friendly it was and very powerful. Much easier than a pick and shovel .

[enzo1]

[MT930]

They do it all !

[Rusty Heap]

LOVE MINE!!!


Orange is my favorite color of shovel when you own 5 acres.






you really want to go into 8-10 foot tall blackberry bushes with a Machette? or spread a bunch of soil?


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Heck I just had 15 yards of 1" crushed rock delivered, and the next day 45 yards of bark chips............

Orange Shovel is the only way to go............hydrostatic transmissions ROCK

[Zeke]

I dug an in-ground swimming pool with one of these. It was in 1978.



Tough little 4WD tractors. Wish I had land to own one. Lots of fun even when you're working.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Tough little 4WD tractors. Wish I had land to own one. Lots of fun even when you're working.

In my best Crock Dundee, "That's not a tractor, this is a tractor":



Not mine...borrowed that one. I have three smaller ones

[Mark Henry]

I've been Jonesing for a backhoe....

[vonsmog]

Used mine today to bushhog the trails to my tree stands. The deer follow the trails right to the stands as soon as you cut them in!

[Jrboulder]

I find it interesting that everything east of the Rockies is John Deere but then as you get closer to the northwest you start seeing more and more Kubotas until you get into western Montana and Idaho and Kubotas are literally everywhere. My cousin has one and we've used it a lot clearing some of his property up in Idaho.

[Gretch]

my boys.

Kubota is a 2000 3710. I have personally put 1800 hours on it. it is bullet proof and works like a rented mule.

Need em both to maintain 105 acres of forest and apple orchard on the top of a mountain.

[Drisump]

It's one of those tools that if you went out and got one you'd have to keep it busy....man would my acreage be gentrified. There's a local guy with an excavator that "keeps the weeds down" on his property by dragging a chunk of railway rail over the ground periodically. Cheers

[intakexhaust]

Originally Posted by Zeke

I dug an in-ground swimming pool with one of these. It was in 1978.



Tough little 4WD tractors. Wish I had land to own one. Lots of fun even when you're working.

Neat. Back then Yanmar was a light green color. A bit more crude than the Kubota.

Memories: John Deere needed a small utility tractor to compete so eventually they adapted power plants from Yanmar into the still too light JD chassis but with their hood styling, grill do-dats. Eventually JD just adopted the whole damn Yanmar chassis as they had no other way to compete.

My father was one of the early dealers of Kubota.. 1973 ish?? There were quite a few snidely remarks having jap tractors brought in the states, but these Kubota's were outstanding compared to the throw away US products. These jap tractors were an invasion enough for legislation pushed for new tarriff's but really didn't stop the flood of them. They caught on especially well because of the three-point hitch, a key feature allowing other implement makers to jump on board. Those early 2 cyl. clackers were tough machines. The crates they came in were made of really decent redwood and the tractors saturated thick with cosmoline. PITA getting that stuff off. I even recall of Kubota offering a 100 percent remote controlled large lawn tractor... perhaps a 60 inch cut... thinking that was the early 1980's and sold for $24K... big dollar unit back then. The original little B2000 two cyl. guessing retailed for $2,400.

[rfuerst911sc]

I looked this thing over top to bottom and she was clean. Zero leaks anywhere. I don't know how old it was but it was a nice piece of engineering.