New B2601 in the garage

[Lucky13]

Hello Kubota owners! So for 18 yrs I've used an old 1950 Ferguson TO-20 for all of my tractoring needs on my small 3 acre place. Mainly just maintaining about 250 yards of gravel driveway, pulling out stumps and rocks, pushing snow around, etc. All with a rear-mounted blade with no position control and using the draw bar. Always wanted a little Kubota B with a FEL. Well... excited to say I finally acquired one. I've only had a chance to get about 6hrs of play-time on it so far!

I didn't have my rear tires filled. I figured that I've got a ballast box with weight, and I wanted to be able to drop that and have a lighter weight for working in the soft pasture should I decide to mow with it.

It's my first experience with a HST other than riding lawnmowers. I know that they are notoriously noisy, but I'm trying to determine if what I'm hearing is acceptable or if I need to adjust the way I'm using it. I know that if I heard transmission noise like this from my lawn mower, I'd assume it was being seriously overworked.

Also, the position control range 1-4 does nothing. The 3-point does not begin to lift until I get to 5 or so. Is this normal?

Pretty stoked new owner here!

 

[mickeyd]

Welcome to OTT Lucky.

Congrats on the new toy... I mean tractor.

I don't know what you mean by "The 3-point does not begin to lift until I get to 5 or so." Do you mean range 5?

 

[Lucky13]

Welcome to OTT Lucky.

I don't know what you mean by "The 3-point does not begin to lift until I get to 5 or so." Do you mean range 5?

Yep, that's what I mean. The position control lever doesn't begin to move the 3-point until around 5 or so (approx half way up the range). It's not a big deal, just curious as to why.

 

[sdk1968]

Hello Kubota owners! So for 18 yrs I've used an old 1950 Ferguson TO-20 for all of my tractoring needs on my small 3 acre place. Mainly just maintaining about 250 yards of gravel driveway, pulling out stumps and rocks, pushing snow around, etc. All with a rear-mounted blade with no position control and using the draw bar. Always wanted a little Kubota B with a FEL. Well... excited to say I finally acquired one. I've only had a chance to get about 6hrs of play-time on it so far!

I didn't have my rear tires filled. I figured that I've got a ballast box with weight, and I wanted to be able to drop that and have a lighter weight for working in the soft pasture should I decide to mow with it.

It's my first experience with a HST other than riding lawnmowers. I know that they are notoriously noisy, but I'm trying to determine if what I'm hearing is acceptable or if I need to adjust the way I'm using it. I know that if I heard transmission noise like this from my lawn mower, I'd assume it was being seriously overworked.

Also, the position control range 1-4 does nothing. The 3-point does not begin to lift until I get to 5 or so. Is this normal?

Pretty stoked new owner here!

HOLY CRAP!!

this cant be!! LUCKY13!?! from WA....

surely there cant be more than 1 lucky13 from up there...

Rollin is that you?



then we can get to the tractor questions!

 

[Thorny]

Congrats on the new tractor! Your position control sounds normal. Based on the size of your 3 point implement will determine at what position the implement engages the ground. With my box blade I can actually lower it below tire level so I can back up to a creek and pull rocks off the bottom and spread them up the embankment without actually backing down into the water. While grading my driveway with the same box blade I set it about 2 3/4 for a nice grade.

 

[Lucky13]

HOLY CRAP!!

this cant be!! LUCKY13!?! from WA....

surely there cant be more than 1 lucky13 from up there...

Rollin is that you?



then we can get to the tractor questions!

No sir, not Rollin. Sorry for the confusion!

 

[Stmar]

I went though the same deal, old tractors doing the job, but after a bad bad winter and age creeping up I went for the B2650HSDC. The tranny is louder than I had expected but the radio has speakers by my head so it's all rock and roll full speed ahead. I am coming up on a year and just over 100 hours and this thing has done all I have asked and is comfortable to work. You will have fun doing your projects.

 

[sdk1968]

No sir, not Rollin. Sorry for the confusion!

WOW!! thats even more wild... had no idea that was a common name up there!

good news: Rollin a great guy & i'll share this with him in the fall when we meet up. that will be worth a laugh for sure.

better news: You have landed at one of the nicest groups of people on the net & they for sure will get you going.

even better news: the B2601 is an awesome B! great machines. miss mine!

 

[Creature Meadow]

Welcome and when you say 3 pt does not lift until around 5, maybe this is the answer.

Lift arms are intended to lower close to ground for ground engaging implements.

So, with your ballast on your lower all the way. Now you lift it the arms will not move up until the height corresponds to the height it would be if the implement had not stopped them from going down.

I know I murdered that but cannot think of how to convey.

Another way, the implement will prevent lift arms from going any lower than height of pins but you can continue to push lever down. Same with lifting, the lever location will catch up to lift arm height somewhere and in your case around 5.

Depending on my implement my L4600 does same thing, My carryall hits the ground around 4 but I can continue to push down but nothing happens. When lifting the carryall does not move until it gets back to 4.

Hope this helps and you can read my mind

Jay

 

[Lucky13]

This is a pic of my Ferguson. It's a great tractor, but pretty much just for pulling and grading.

 

[Lucky13]

So, with your ballast on your lower all the way. Now you lift it the arms will not move up until the height corresponds to the height it would be if the implement had not stopped them from going down.
Jay

I think I get you, you're saying that if at level 5 my ballast box is on the ground then it will at that point seem that level 1-4 have no movement. At position 1, though, my box does not touch down. It's at the lowest point my 3-point can go. In order to raise my 3-point from it's lowest position, I have to move the lever to 5.

It's not really a big deal to me because it just means my entire range of movement is between 5 and 10, I just thought it was odd that Kubota would set up their numbered position gauge that way.

 

[pauly]

Nice looking fur kid! Oh the tractor too.