Selling dilema

[PACubCadet]

Think about it before making any harsh decisions. We have two Kubotas without FEL sand they are pretty solid machines, with only regular maintenance at the scheduled intervals. Plenty of power to do everything we need. I am speaking of the B series Kubotas however, not the BX series.

Dig around on the internet and read comparisons between Cub, Kubota, Mahindfa, Kioti, JD, etc.

[J-Mech]

Originally Posted by drglinski

I'd buy a CC before I'd buy a Kubota....but that's just me......

Not to be rude to you Daniel, but I think your making a comment based on a love for a particular color, and not from any experience you have with all the machines in question. Kubota tractors are far superior to CC's. Even their GT's are better made. I love my CC's, but Kubota's are just made better in every aspect. Plus, in that size range Cub doesn't make a competitive machine at all. Their SCUT's are J-U-N-K!!

Originally Posted by andyw

Oh I agree, if i found a package on a Cub Cadet 5234D i would jump on it but that machine is few and far between it seems. My yard is to soft to jump up to a 7 series too, there seems to be plenty of those second hand.

so that leaves me to a kubota BX series machine, Iv read some very favorable reviews on the 2200

Don't even look at the 5K series machines. They aren't made well at all.



So what exactly do you do with your Cub that you are looking to upgrade? You have a loader, but yet you say you have a skid loader. Why would you need 2 loaders? The skid loader would be far superior anyway. Do you do a lot of gardening? Are you planning on needing and using a 3pt?? All I see you have listed for attachments for the Cub are a mower, blade and a blower. Well..... if those are the attachments that you plan to use on a SCUT, it still takes time to interchange them. None of SCUT's decks are all that easy to remove. Deere has an auto attach deck, but even those are not overly easy to remove and install. Dad has one and I personally don't think it's all that great. Sometimes it doesn't want to latch and unlatch. The Deere doesn't carry the deck, you set the height and leave it. You can raise and lock it up, but it's always in the way when really using a loader or rear attachments. People leave them on and use them that way.... but it's not really very handy. I don't want to till my garden with a big heavy 60" deck on the tractor, if no other reason than I don't want to extra weight carried over the garden. Point here is, I don't understand why people justify the cost of a machine that they don't really use to it's full potential. When dad bought his, I thought he made a mistake as his needs were actually larger than the tractor he got. He traded in a IH utility tractor towards his, and should have went at least 1 size larger. HP wise, the BX2200 is only a 22HP motor. Not really all that different from your 1782 in that department. You do have the option of rear equipment, which is fine.... IF you use it. If your one of those guys who has a "tractor" but never uses the 3pt or the rear PTO, then why do you need that stuff?? (Like the guys on here who want SGT's with rear PTO and 3pt but don't ever mount anything to them. Personal gripe of mine.)

So.... do you need a SCUT?? Or you just want a SCUT..... It's your money.

[Sam Mac]

Over the last few years I've owned and sold about 8 Supers, I have one BX2660 with a FEL, snow plow and rear PTO driven finish mower. The Cubs are nice but they are toys next to the BX. If I had to pick one or the other the BX wins.

[DeltaCub]

Crapola 7264! I want to replace this with a Deere or a Kubota!

[J-Mech]

Originally Posted by DeltaCub

Crapola 7264! I want to replace this with a Deere or a Kubota!

Oh, you should have played it down to be a nice machine. Maybe you could have made him a "deal"!!

[red56turbo]

Buy a Kubota. You'll never look back. I bought my B3300 back in 2012 brand new. Right before all the new tier/regen crap came out. Probably one of the best pieces of equipment I've ever bought for my modest acreage. I've had many "toys" come and go, from CC's with loaders (more a toy than loader tractor), to a Bobcat Skidsteer. After buying the Bota, I wondered why I didn't do it years earlier. I did the research before buying. Looked at/priced Jane Doe's, Mahindra, and New Hollands. Every review I did always put Kubota at the top. Might be a tad pricier, but we get what we pay for. My next Kubota will probably be a ZD1211 zero turn. But the B3300's staying put, too.

If you can swing it, keep the 1772 as a toy as Todd said. I still have a handful of Cubs, one being a 1772. Probably the only Cub I have that I will never sell. She's my favorite.

And I love my Cubs, but for an all around acreage tractor, a Kubota would run circles around a Cub. Daniel, there's a reason our Cub diesels have Kubota's in them.

Good luck on your decision. A quick pic of the B3300 and 1772.....

[andyw]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

Not to be rude to you Daniel, but I think your making a comment based on a love for a particular color, and not from any experience you have with all the machines in question. Kubota tractors are far superior to CC's. Even their GT's are better made. I love my CC's, but Kubota's are just made better in every aspect. Plus, in that size range Cub doesn't make a competitive machine at all. Their SCUT's are J-U-N-K!!




Don't even look at the 5K series machines. They aren't made well at all.



So what exactly do you do with your Cub that you are looking to upgrade? You have a loader, but yet you say you have a skid loader. Why would you need 2 loaders? The skid loader would be far superior anyway. Do you do a lot of gardening? Are you planning on needing and using a 3pt?? All I see you have listed for attachments for the Cub are a mower, blade and a blower. Well..... if those are the attachments that you plan to use on a SCUT, it still takes time to interchange them. None of SCUT's decks are all that easy to remove. Deere has an auto attach deck, but even those are not overly easy to remove and install. Dad has one and I personally don't think it's all that great. Sometimes it doesn't want to latch and unlatch. The Deere doesn't carry the deck, you set the height and leave it. You can raise and lock it up, but it's always in the way when really using a loader or rear attachments. People leave them on and use them that way.... but it's not really very handy. I don't want to till my garden with a big heavy 60" deck on the tractor, if no other reason than I don't want to extra weight carried over the garden. Point here is, I don't understand why people justify the cost of a machine that they don't really use to it's full potential. When dad bought his, I thought he made a mistake as his needs were actually larger than the tractor he got. He traded in a IH utility tractor towards his, and should have went at least 1 size larger. HP wise, the BX2200 is only a 22HP motor. Not really all that different from your 1782 in that department. You do have the option of rear equipment, which is fine.... IF you use it. If your one of those guys who has a "tractor" but never uses the 3pt or the rear PTO, then why do you need that stuff?? (Like the guys on here who want SGT's with rear PTO and 3pt but don't ever mount anything to them. Personal gripe of mine.)

So.... do you need a SCUT?? Or you just want a SCUT..... It's your money.

I bought the skid steer 7 years ago while building an addition on my house. Iv used it for many yard projects over the years and have simply grown attached to the convenience of it. Its a bit heavy for my yard and im tired of causing more damage than good honestly. Any more its a matter of want than a need, could i live without a loader... sure... do i want to? nope. I have 4 acres, garden, woods, mulch, snow ect ect, I bought the loader for the cub several years ago as a project that just never gained any steam. iv got more projects and dreams then time any more

The largest i would realy need is a 23hp... Id like the shaft driven snow blower and deck as we get some pretty big blizzards up here in the snow belt. TBH, i dont have a need for a rear pto either.... if i found a decent deal on a rototiller my wife would certainly find a use for it tho... Iv survived without a 3pt up till now too but i could definitely put that to use.

I dont realy have the room inside for two machines, my skidsteer sits outside as it is but i would not want to do that with Kubota

And thanks for the info on the 5 and 7 series cubs... tbh my draw to them is merely the love of the brand.

[SS5150]

Interesting topic. Last summer I moved into an equestrian neighborhood, I think there are 75-80 properties, all in the 2-5 acre range. We got about 2.5, and the neighbors near us all do too.

Older couple across the street have a Deere SCUT, with a snowplow on a loader frame. I gotta be honest, my old 782 with a QA42 thrower ran rings around it last winter. They have a lawn service, and they don't use it for their horses. I really wonder what the point is.

I've mowed, leveled dirt, cleared snow, and just put a garden in with my Dad's old tiller on my 782. My biggest complaint is I wish it had a newer/more modern engine. Darn old thing can really work. Cheap.

[zippy1]

Not helping you out, but we have a Bota L3400, "Compact" that replaced a Ford, something or another, and it's a way better tractor all around.
We have some pretty big farms in these parts, with a lot of Red and Greene big tractors, but most of them run the Bota's for their compacts...
"If" I was in the market for something of a yard tractor as you, it would be a pretty easy decision what color it would be.

[drcjv]

Andy to me the answer is simple if you need a SCUT then get a SCUT if you can also keep the SGT then keep it. They both have there uses. The problem I see is getting rid of the 1772 and buying a sub compact that really won't do a whole lot more than the cub. Limited lifting and pulling ect... I would keep the cub for mowing and snow blowing and get a compact for the real work something around 30hp. If you do need or want to sell one for the other I think if you sell everything you have separately you have about $5200 worth. It should be very easy to sell a 1772. You will see fairly quickly that doing loader work with a mower deck on or mowing with a loader on is a real pain in the ass sometimes and putting decks and loaders on and off is also a pain in the ass when you just want to get the work done. I love my SGT but would never give up my TC33D best investment I ever made. At first thought one machine for all sounds good but it definitely has it's draw backs. That's why I think most of us have multiples. As far as Kubota goes I think they are great machines. I also think there are other brands that are just as good for less money.