Help identifying my finish mower?

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SharkmanDan

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I bought a 1977 B7100D (gray market) last year, and it came with a 48" finish mower. I recently broke a blade on the mower. I am guessing that the mower, is of the same era. The photo is not my mower, but looks identical, except for the Kubota logo, which is missing on mine. I need to get new blades, but, everyone wants to know brand and model of the mower. I'm fairly sure that it's a Kubota, but not completely certain. My mower is in pieces right now, or I'd take photos of it.
Can anyone help me identify this mower? The blades were so badly bent and worn, that I can't get a good measurement, except to say that it has a 3/4" center hole.




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It looks like in your picture where it says "KUBOTA", there is label just below that on the top of the deck.
 
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Can't help with the mower, but a B7100D is a US model, not a grey model.
 
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SharkmanDan said:
I know that. But if I called it a B7001, I figured most folks would have thought I typo'd it. It does say B7100 on the cowl, but the frame number is 7001, making it a gray market.
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It is NOT a grey market tractor.....ALL early B7100 are labeled B7001......as are B5100 and B6100..... ;):)
 
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but the frame number is 7001, making it a gray market.
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Early B7100s all start with the 7001 number. Yep, pretty weird, I know.
 
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SharkmanDan said:
I know that. But if I called it a B7001, I figured most folks would have thought I typo'd it. It does say B7100 on the cowl, but the frame number is 7001, making it a gray market.
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Negative!
Most is not all B7100 have B7001 on the frame in front of the serial #.
If it has English writing anywhere on it most likely it's not a grey.
Besides the b7001's say that on the cowl not b7100. ;)
 
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Agrisupply, or a Google search after measuring lengh, width, and hole diameter. I found a set of Gators blades for a coroni finish mower, will fit the shaft on mine China brand finish mower. Only issue was the blades were 1 1/2" too long. Probably gonna redo the bottom of mine at some point to fit the Gator Blades :D
 
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Diydave said:
If you take a blade off, and measure all dimensions, including the hole size and blade thickness, Agrisupply might be able to match it up, give them a call. The skid, I have no idea about...:D:D



http://www.agrisupply.com/searchcenter.aspx?keyword=kubota mower blades
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I've got that. I am pretty sure that I have the correct size. But, it still doesn't help me to buy other parts needed. I really need to know the model number.

And thanks to everyone telling me it's not, or may not be, a gray market. I've already been through all of this before. After a lengthy discussion with Kubota, (both here and in Japan) we KNOW that it IS a gray market tractor. That was determined by serial number, markings in Japanese, and certain dimensions, of key parts. We know this. Where the tractor was made and for what market, is irrelevant to this discussion.
There is a chance of the mower being gray market, also. But, not likely. I just need a model number for the mower, so that I can buy parts to get it working correctly.
 
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Here, I dug out some photos of mine, before I tore it apart.


And, please, don't get me wrong. I appreciate the information. But, I had great difficulty getting some parts for the tractor, before, and that's when I went on this great search, to figure out what my tractor actually was, and found that it is, indeed, a gray market tractor. One that someone went to great lengths to cover up, it's being so. But, I've been down that road before, and Kubota wanted to know 3 things. VIN, hub size and what the markings on the engine were (Japanese, or western characters). They were able to tell, definitively, that it IS a tractor built for the Japanese market.
 
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It looks like a KUBOTA K-348-7 ROTARY MOWER. The operator's and parts manual part # is 70000-70076. Try MESSICKS or Ebay. Hope this helps. GOD BLESS
 
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Thanks, Pipewelder. That's hopefully the right one. Kubota is trying to order blades, today for it, but, they aren't certain that they will be left turning blades. Maybe this information, will help them find the right ones.
Thank you very much.


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Mine, is a left discharge, with LH turning blades.not a rear discharge. Messick's referred me to Beverage Tractor, in Virginia, as they think it's likely that both the mower AND B7100 are both "gray market". The parts man at Messick's said that he believes all American market Kubota mowers, were right side, or rear discharge mowers.


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