RTV 900 Best Year

I'm glad for you Moshenfreke! BCZoom is right. I do stay on the RTV alot. It saves me and the pups many steps.. The cows just start going where they're suppose to when they see it and hear the yip of the collies.The pups are disappointed because they can't herd the cows when this happens. I do all the work on my machine with the exception of some help I got with the rear ujoints. I think I could do them myself if I had to again. As I had said on another thread, the shop manual is handy but if you decide not to get one ,I am sure one of us could provide any info you might need. Check out the threads for BCZOOM's airplane console, I mean headliner. It is something. Two Guns has souped up their machine too. .. There are a bunch of good folks here and so here's a welcome to another one. Bordercollie<br _moz_editor_bogus_node="TRUE" /></p>
 
Thanks. I am in opposite corner of state. Think I am about 260 miles from you. I don't have it yet and plan on picking it up next week. When I get this thing home and size it up, I will know what I need to do with the plow. I know that it is manual angle and powers up and down with the warn winch. Looks to me like it would be best if used only on pavement. I have experience with truck mounted plows and have a new Meyer with ability to rotate in horizontal and vertical planes. It is also very heavy duty. I build a custom shoe system for use on my long farm shale drive way and my gravel surface self storage lots and this heavy Meyer is head and shoulders above all other snow plows I have ever had. It doesn't jump around nearly as much. The plow on this RTV is a light weight design and I would not recommend modifying it for use on a non paved surface. It will transfer too much shock and abuse to the machine not to mention the driver who will feel the shocks as well. Looking at the factory plows for these in pictures, they appear to be way above the one on this machine in ruggedness. This plow is about $800 new and I understand the factory plows are around $3000, so they ought to be heavier. There have been five or six good RTVs on Ebay over last few weeks. This was one of two I targeted. There is a lot of interest in these, but sellers are giving up a lot if they bought new. At over 5000 less than a new one and with 320 hours of easy use, this one has experienced too much depreciation in my opinion. Yes it is a 2005, but as many of you have pointed out, is not much different than current models. Fellow I bought from was second owner so he probably didn't take much of the hit.</p>
 
Well, I'm thinking you're probably best taking the plow home with you. You probably have a better market up there.</p>


My driveway is concrete (weird shape but figure 550' of 8' wide). If I did put a plow on my RTV, my tractor will be forever pissed at me as it'll then be relegated to pretty much loader use only. Don't laugh, but I also plow my yard (in places). I have places I HAVE TO go get to in the winter so I plow trails in the yard to get there. That's another 6-700 feet minimum but it is over a turfed surface. I gripe when I do get down to grass/dirt and tear it up (be it the plow or just tire damage).</p>


As you noted, bang-for-the-buck would be for me to put a plow on my truck, if I were to move the plowing duties from my tractor. Actually, I wouldn't buy a plow itself, I'd buy a truck that already has a plow. I have a partner in one business that also has a plowing company. He's just decided to get out of the plowing business (lack of capable drivers at night, when it needs done) so he's selling off the fleet. I could get a truck with plow pretty cheap.</p>


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About an hour ago I bought a 2005 with about 320 easy hours from a fellow in Ohio off Ebay. </p>


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Welcome to the forum. Glad you picked us to help you spend your money !!!! We are ALL good at that ...........</p>


Being you saved so much, that means you can purchase all the extras that Kubota has to offer. You will find out these folks here are some of the best friends you will ever have. They love your machine as much as you do. And also, remember, the more you run the RTV, the better it runs..... </p>


Wish I could help you with the snow on the ground thing, but we don't really get that down here. Down here in our swamps the best we can do is get muddy. We use ours much, and always surprised on how well this machine is ..... Need anything , just let us know, we are never to far away !!!!</p>


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Well I got my RTV home from near Columbus, OHIO. Trip was 432 miles and I took a lot of heat from the family and got a lot of laughs on the way back. Had this thing in the bed of my 97 Dodge Cummins. Was a snug as a bug in a rug kind of fit and looked crazy high. I wasn't concerned about height because all the beef on this is no more than 24 inches above the tire contact patch. Truck handled like a dream with this on. Only bad part was that I got a bad dose of water in fuel for first time on this trip. Ended up getting helped by a real great fellow in Lodi, Ohio (Frankw landscaping supplies) who took my dead Cummins inside his heated truck garage and put a salamander up against the fuel tank. Then he gave me a quart of air brake alchohol which he uses to get ice and water problems out of his diesel dumps. Wouldn't take a dime. Anyway, I got going four hours late out of Sunbury, Ohio and got home at 10 pm last night. Trip whipped me with the fight tuesday morning to get my Cummins going. Today I unloaded the 900 off the back of my Dodge and started getting familiar. By sunset, I had made a new friend for life. This is the most practical go anywhere controllable little vehicle I have ever run accross. I already love the Kubota. Took two grandsons and my son for three or four rides and by the end oif the day was loading up materials that I needed to transport. Dissassembled a squirrel cage fan I have been storing and got some parts off it working in the dump bed and took the rest to the scrap steel pile. Hauled the Cycle Country plow that I got with it to my storage barn and went with my son to a future gas well site on the back forty. This is just an amazing, totally practical little work horse. I already predict that it will be the most practical and helpful tool I have ever owned. Its like having a hired man around that always does exactly what you want, never needs a break and sips diesel once a week instead of meals three times a day. You folks have another convert. What an amazing machine.</p>


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[quote user="Moshenfreke"]This is just an amazing, totally practical little work horse. I already predict that it will be the most practical and helpful tool I have ever owned. Its like having a hired man around that always does exactly what you want, never needs a break and sips diesel once a week instead of meals three times a day. You folks have another convert. What an amazing machine.</p>


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Welcome to the club!!! For some reason it seems like it's a secret but for those that have tried it, it's more like... ummmm, a cult?</p>


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Like Like Moshenfreke, I am also a very excited and pleased new RTV900
owner--and it does feel a little like joining a cult, I have to
confess! But in all seriousness, the commitment and wisdom and
generosity expressed through this forum went a long way towards helping
me conclude that the RTV900 was the vehicle I needed. Having picked it
up on Monday and spent all day today (finally!) putting it through its
paces with the snowblower that I also bought to go along with it, I can only echo Moshenfreke's sentiments about it being just the ticket. I will post a picture and say more in a separate thread about my experience today with the snowblower--but it was totally awesome. </p>


Anyway, my own welcome to Moshenfreke--this is a fantastic forum and I think we have both found the perfect machine for our needs.</p>
 
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