Recent content by PaulL

You'd normally expect the upgrades to be relatively minor, and absent some complete screwup by Kubota, for it to be essentially the same machine with more creature comforts. Therefore same capability and often quite a few interchangeable parts. If you're upgrading to your last machine, you...

I often wonder how Kubota do financing, and whether it's in the local country/franchise, or done by Kubota global. The reason this matters is that Japan has long had near zero interest rates. Companies like Kubota can borrow in Japan at rates that American companies only dream about (albeit...

One of those appears to be self identifying as a Kubota.

That makes a lot more sense.

Rototiller probably fine. 60" land plane is a bit of a stretch. It'll work, but that's a reasonably big implement for a BX. If you want the rippers down and turn up quite a bit of depth, it may take a few passes. Not impossible, but I think it's a task the L would do better. But you have that...

A B lifts quite a bit more than your Massey Ferguson does, even though it's not a lot larger. Tractors with a loader are easier to resell if you ever needed to. If you find a good machine without a loader, then fine, buy it. But if they all have a loader.....no harm done.

On my B2610 I use the height adjustment to hold it up (not an option on an LX). I often do things with it still on, including using the 3ph. If the things I'm doing don't require ground clearance, then it's easier to just leave the mower deck on. I can't go into/out of my shed with the mower...

The L235 is quite a bit bigger machine isn't it? The BX is a good machine if you're mostly on lawn, and not doing too much 3ph work. If you need more ground clearance, or more range of motion (and capability) on the 3ph, then it's pretty compromised. What work would you anticipate doing with...

I believe the LX decks ride on wheels (rather than them being anti-scalp wheels). That means the height is adjusted by adjusting the height of the wheels - the tractor can't have a height dial because the tractor isn't holding the deck up. Pros and cons. I think on a wider deck riding on the...

Very dubious about that. I mean, maybe, but that's quite un-Kubota-like. But it is quite service rep like. Can you redrill the holes? Are you really sure there's no way to align them?

I have an MX on 15 acres in NZ. Our land is pretty dry, and the MX is perhaps a size too large given the grass is sparse and not a lot of trees. But it does the driveway well, and I'd rather be one size too large than one size too small. The MX is good buying - a lot of metal for your money. The...

If they don't know they're from their, they shouldn't be posting on the internet? ;-) I often have difficulty with left from right. Some people are very strongly "handed", I'm not. I'm mostly ambidextrous, I write with my left hand (a very sinister thing), and play sports right handed...

There's a captain. And the captain must be sober. The helmsman, however........ Had a friend who used to take his teenage daughter out on the yacht, she had a boat master's certificate. He could drink and sail. She was in charge.

I have noticed that the brochures are often wrong. I think the workshop specs are written by technicians. The brochures are written by marketing people. I imagine the former to be a crusty old guy who knows tractors, and the latter to be a pretty young thing with a marketing degree who's never...

Doesn't mean you blew it. Sometimes, like you, they don't want to screw around. If it's a fair offer they take it. My dealer (in rural NZ, where things are a bit different) just gave me the Kubota price list to them, and told me the deal he'd do, said they don't negotiate. His deal was fair...