Recent content by jonpbarker

We have had tons of rain on the Texas gulf coast. We have to fight the army worms in our Jiggs fields. I took this pic with a drone on Saturday and if you look at the far field you can see tire marks where my guy was spraying SEVIN to kill the army worms.

Thanks....try to keep them on good grass. Also noticed this one is taller that the older one. The Kubota roof puts another inch and a half on it...and barely fits in my trailer which I special ordered to be 7 feet on the inside.

I traded off my Rtv1140...2010 model with about 1700 hours and picked up the new rtvx1140. We use these to check cattle mainly. After two days of ownership...and about 40 miles we sure are surprised how much better the ride is compared to the old one. In rough pastures that old one would make...

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Moejoe, I mounted a winch and led lights on the front and back. I didn't mount a switch (for the winch) on the dash because my friend put a switch on dash, and while his grandkids were riding on it....they would play with the switch and broke his book off the cable twice. I also figured if I...

Dairybota, I had the same power issue and it was a return line on the transmission...there is a service bulletin on this...the return lines break down inside and will not let the fluid flow. Jon

My belt was looking like it was going to fall apart so I picked up one from my dealer. After taking it out of the Kubota package and doing a Google search....looks like my $33 dollar repackaged belt can be bought for $5 or so. Here is the number is anyone needs it.

Richard, It will dump anything you can put in it....we have abused our 1140 to the max in the long bed version ..and could never make it not dump. Jon

Richard, She is a pretty good driver...but doesn't like driving the larger tractors we have...claims it is too hard to see and doesn't turn sharp enough. We have two of these nine bale trailers that you load from the back....when you get to the last bale...and have to slide 8 bales...that...

I'm certain that Richard is correct...because we have a new MX5800 HST tractor (pictured with my lovely wife running it) and it has a lo/med/high range. You set the throttle where you want it...then just push the "foot peddle" how ever fast you want to go while the rpm's stay wherever you left...

Another point y'all haven't touched on is...the ladies flock to the kubota's....and even try to kiss you... Jon

Richard, Never heard of the new alternating lights but that is a good idea. I don't know when I get much older if I will embrace the technology or not...but here is a pic of my 89 year old grandpa checking the weather on his iPhone while sorting cattle.

Mark, Looking at your tractor...I remember loading thousands of round bales with the old multi-handle front end loader. I was really good at it. Now days it is one joystick that is 1" tall and you can speed up and slow down the hydraulics. Took me a while to adapt to the small joystick.

Collie, I remember my grandma quit checking cattle in the truck (a international scout flatbed) in the early eighties after running over several calves in tall grass. After that she went to atv's then utv's. She would not approve of me always checking cattle in the trucks...but my cattle are...

Richard, That is one heck of a load...we had some high winds and rain the last several weeks..and had some big trees fall on fences. I pulled a huge tree with the rtv yesterday. Had to back up and get a running start..but got it going and pulled it to a big pile. Let my brother get the rest...