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Neil from Messick's here with the Kubota B50 series.
There are two chassis sizes in the B series,
this is the larger of the frames
that are offered in this size.
Let's take a quick walk around here,
we'll take a look at these models and see if this
is a tractor that may be right for you.
Kubota offers several different configurations
of these tractors depending on exactly what
your needs are.
They are all built on essentially the same chassis
with the same rear end, the same front axles,
but you'll find some striking differences between them
depending on what your application may be.
They offer two different engines on this size machine,
either a 26 horse engine, which is right over here
in this cab tractor, you'll notice that there's
no hood scoop here on the front,
or a larger 33 horsepower engine
that is over the requirement
for diesel particulate filter and engine emissions
requirements and so you'll see a hood scoop
up here on the top.
They also have a cab option available here as well,
that can be had on either the 26 or 33 horse model.
The cab is a really nice factory cab that includes
either heat or air conditioning, as well as a lot of glass
all around it to make it easy to see.
There is one oddball configuration here that's not
very common at our dealership,
but is represented right here in this tractor,
is a B3350SU and years have gone by,
Kubota's offer deluxe and standard models,
this is the standard model in this class.
This machine includes a little bit larger rear tire
and no mid PTO, which would be features
that are offered on the other tractors in this class.
Not having a mid PTO prevents you from using
a mid mount mower or front attachments,
but it is a costly piece to have underneath the tractor,
so there are some cost savings in this machine
that can price this much lower than what
some of the other configurations can be.
With so many options to choose from in different models
in Kubota's product range, it can be difficult
to know exactly what tractor is right for you.
As we work up from the smallest tractors in the BX series,
to a small frame B Series tractor
and now this series here, the B50's,
which are large, frame B Series tractors.
As you go up into a larger tractor,
you'll use larger implements.
You're not going to necessarily find that there's one
thing that one tractor will do that another one won't,
but you'll do things more quickly.
When we're into this chassis size,
we're into typically 60-inch implements
for mowers and snow blowers and those sort of things,
or 72 inch implements for things that would angle,
like landscape rakes, and rear blades,
and front snow plows and those sorts of things.
You would need right about 56 inches or so
in order to cover the width of this tractor,
and we're always looking to size our implements
in order to cover the width of the machine.
If you didn't need to go quite this large
for your implements, moving down into the smaller
B series tractor would give you a little bit
smaller implement or up into the L series
would give you a larger sized implement.
I'm sitting here in the factory cab
which is a really nice option for the guys that need
to blow snow in the winter time or out working
in sweltering heat in the summer.
Kubota has gone through a couple of iterations now
of the small factory cab on these little tractors
and this one has taken a big step forward
from the older series.
It's now isolated from the tractor itself which
makes it a lot quieter, you'll notice
a several DB reduction in noise from the older series
that we're offered on these machines,
or a dramatic difference from taking a cab
from an aftermarket company and adding
it onto an existing tractor.
They've also added things like air conditioner
controls up here in the headliner and radios,
just to make it a nice, finished, polished cab.
It's a wonderful machine to work with.
We'll step quickly here through all the controls
on the tractor, just to give you an idea of exactly
how this machine works
and some of the different features that it has.
Over here on our left hand side we have orange levers.
Any of the orange levers that are in tractors
are movement levers.
Right here we have a three range
transmission for the rear end.
Typically, we refer to these as low, medium,
high or loader, mower and highway,
that's what I’d like to say.
It is nice to have a three range transmission
in this size tractor, because the low gears
really can give you a lot of pull that you don't get
and when you simply have had a two range transmission
in these in the past.
Our yellow levers right here are always for our PTO
and so we have two PTOs on this tractor,
either a rear, a mid, or both.
The time that we would run both is pretty few
and far between but most likely it's usually
for the bagger, a powered bagger,
where you have a fan to run along with
your mower deck at the same time.
The next lever forward right here is the lever
to engage your PTO, simply by sliding this
forward here, it will turn the PTO on.
On our right hand side over here we have
another movement lever, again an orange handle.
When you move this guy forward here
you engage the different speeds that are available
for the cruise control.
If you're going to go out and mow four acres and acres
it allows you to remove your foot from the pedal
and simply drive the tractor without having to keep
your foot on the hydrostat pedal.
Right on the inside of that is the height control
for the three-point hitch, this is at position control,
one through eight.
If you know that you're going to be using a box blade,
for instance, in grading at position number four,
you can simply pull to four to set
the three-point to a position, go the whole way up
when you're at the end of your row, and then go back
to position number four again, makes it nice
and easy to do three-point work with the tractor.
On this particular machine, Kubota also has
the loader valve right here at your armrest,
we'll run over the loader here in another video,
but you have your normal up/down left/right functions
that we would have on any Kubota loader along
with speed dumps and float positions as well.
At the end of our video here you'll be able to click
one of the videos up here in the corners
in order to take you to that loader video.
Down here on the floor is our hydrostat pedal.
Kubota uses a treadle pedal in these tractors.
In this case it's a forward here with your toe
and reverse back here with your heel.
For the guys that have larger boots you can also
straddle the pedal here and keep your foot on top
and rock both directions.
People have varying thoughts when it
comes to the tredle pedal.
I am really a guy who really likes it a lot
because I do sell some dual pedal tractors as well
and find it really unnatural to press
a pedal forward to go backwards,
but you'll find guys with varying opinions on that too,
by and large you can get used to whatever you're driving.
As you move through the Kubota product line,
this is the first tractor with a wheelbase
long enough to justify steering brakes.
You'll notice right here that you have two brake pedals
or the option to lock both brake pedals together.
If you've come from the old school road of tractors
it used to be really common in order to lock
or break your inside tire
to help your tractor steer more tightly.
That's not so necessary anymore in the world
of tight steering compact tractors,
but it does become an option here
on the bigger B Series machines,
where if you want to make a tight, tight turn,
you can steer your tractor and then brake
your inside tire to help you maneuver
more quickly through that turn.
Also down here on the floor is a diff lock,
if you ever find yourself hung up in the mud,
you could press that down to lock your differential to
stop one tire from spinning
while the other one sits still,
that'll lock them together and it
can be really effective in getting you unstuck
from the mud.
Down here as well as our lever for our four-wheel drive,
just a simple engage and disengage lever.
Again, an orange cover colored lever
because it's related to movement.
This open and closed knob here in the middle
is typically the most confusing function
on the tractor for many people.
A three-point hitch on a tractor does not have down force,
it only lifts up, and because of that when you're
lowering your implements down,
there's a restriction valve that's
there to control their drop.
This valve right here changes how quickly
an implement drops to the ground.
It needs to be adjusted depending on the weights
of the implements that you have on the back of the tractor.
If you're lowering your three-point control down
and you find your implements not moving,
you simply need to reach down here and open up
the valve a little bit to allow it to drop to the ground.
This tractor has mechanical parking brakes
which you simply press down on the brake pedal
and let this latch right up here
to hold the brake pedal in place,
and that will lock that guy right there.
As I move up here to my seat, this is a more deluxe,
more suspended seat that with on a lot
of tractors this size,
you have a lever right here to move front and back,
and another lever right in here that helps
to some of your suspension adjustments.
I also have armrests as well, and plenty of space
to still get my hands down here onto the controls.
One of the things we run into it at a lot of small tractors
is that the arm rests often overlap the controls
and you have to move them up out of the way
to get to your levers.
On this tractor there's enough room down here
that you can easily reach the armrest
or reach the levers from the armrest so that's nice as well.
The dash here on this tractor is one of the most deluxe
dashes that Kubota has had on this series' tractor so far.
You'll notice a lot of intelligence
up here in the dash itself.
We have digital gauges for our fuel, for our temperature,
for the hours that are on here.
We start the tractor,
we have a digital gauge for the number of engine RPMs
that we're currently running at,
I'll reach down here and engage our PTO,
press this button, and we can show our PTO RPMs as well.
Typically you run your rear PTO at 540 RPMs,
you see there that I can actually over rev
the PTO with this tractor.
Generally, they have these things set up so that
540 is right at the peak torque of the engine.
Generally you just pull that throttle back to your C540
and that's where you want to run
even though you can get a little bit more
speed out of the PTO than what your implements
may be designed for.
Work my way across the dash here,
this is a common Kubota multifunction light control
that you'll find on most of our tractors.
With left and right turn signals, headlights,
four way switch, which is over here on my other side,
a button for a horn,
work lights, which I have up on top of my cab.
On this cab model I also have windshield wipers
and wiper controls, Defoggers,
power sockets for my cell phone.
On the less deluxe SU version of the tractor that
we have over here, some of these are missing.
It doesn't have things like work lights
and 12 volt outlets and those kinds of things.
This tractor also has adjustable tilt steering.
If I step down here on the floor,
I can adjust the steering wheel up and down
to a comfortable operating position.
They leave this little pocket up here as well,
that I suspect is probably intended
to lay your cell phone or any other devices
that you have with you when you're out
operating your tractor.
The B series uses a sealed DPF filter,
which is the canister right here on the top.
Again, this is something that you only find
on the 33 horsepower engine that's in this series.
This canister captures the soot
that comes out of the engine
and does not need to be serviced until the tractor
reaches about 3,000 hours.
Given what we normally see guys put on these machines.
Generally, 100, 150, 200 sometimes 300 hours a year.
You are talking, at the minimum,
10 years down the road before anyone should
really need to be looking to replace these things.
At this point, they are not terribly expensive
pieces to work on but it is a maintenance item
that does need to be addressed as your tractors age.
Something to keep in mind.
Again, if we need an application where we
need the horsepower, don't be scared of it,
but if you have an application where you
don't necessarily 33 horse,
you can avoid some expenses and complexity
in your engine selection.
In the models that are in the B50 series,
all but the SU model is considered a deluxe tractor.
We have a good deluxe three point hitch.
You will notice here at the end you have extendable ends.
If you press down on this release mechanism,
it allows you about two inches of adjustment,
making it easier to hook up your
three point hitch on your attachments.
You also have pins here to attach
the sway of your implement,
and a ratchet up here in order to
adjust the level of your implement.
All these are tool list designs that
don't take a whole lot of banging and fussing around with
as opposed to our standard
three point hitch which is over here.
This is the 3350 SU.
It has a standard three point hitch.
It costs less money to build your components this way.
You can see that just by looking at it.
No extendable ends, threaded turnbuckles back here
for your sway bar,
and a threaded adjustment up here as well
to do your leveling.
While these are very common on a lot of other tractors,
the adjustable versions that are on the deluxe tractor
are easier to work with.
When you're putting these arms onto an implement,
it's not unusual to have line these up
and kick them on with your boot in order to get them
to slide over, or as these turnbuckles rust, and wear,
and get dirty, having to put screwdrivers in here
in order to break these pieces loose.
If you are looking for implements that you don't have
to manhandle and bang around or you're going to be
taking things on and off
the three point hitch frequently,
the more deluxe tractors
are a lot nicer to work with on the rear end.
You'll notice here this tractor is equipped
with industrial tires, which are by far
the most common option for us on these tractors.
There's also an option for a turf tire as well that's not
quite as aggressive,
or an AG tread tire with much deeper Vs
that are a lot more aggressive.
If you look at the wheel base here of the tractor,
we are getting a little bit longer than
we are in a lot of the smaller tractors.
The wheel base of the BX and the B series
are quite bit shorter, making them more maneuverable.
Since we are getting into a larger tractor
with more loader capacity and longer frame,
you can expect a little bit larger turning radius now
that we are getting a bigger machine.
While these guys can be fitted with VIN mount mowers
and many people do choose to buy them,
do expect them to not be quite as maneuverable
as what their smaller counterparts may be.
That's the Kubota B50 series.
If you can see yourself with one of these tractors,
give us a call at Messicks's, at 800-223-3773
or online at messicks.com.
Click up here to visit our website
or click right over here in order to see a video
showing the features of the loader
and how to remove it from the tractor.
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That's the Kubota 3 series.
If you can see yourself in
This factory cab is also offered on this series as well.
If you are going to be doing any kind of work
in the sweltering heat or out blowing snow
or anything in the summer,
this is a wonderful option to have.
Did I just say blowing snow in the summer?
Yes I did. I did and that is ridiculous.