-Messick's, a helping hand with your land.
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-Neal from Messick's here with the New Kubota M62.
This tractor occupies a unique space in Kubota's lineup.
Let's take a quick walk around here and take a look
at some of the new features.
The M62 falls in the Kubota's compact tractor loader backhoe line
along with the B26, L47, and LM62.
This tractor replaces what would have been the M59.
The M59 was a Tier Four interim machine
and this guy is Tier Four Final.
The big thing that you'll notice in this line
is an extremely overbuilt quality.
These are machines that are really targeted towards landscapers,
construction companies, rental yards, and downright abusive environments.
If you look at the bulk around the loader post
and the subframe back around the backhoe,
there's a lot of extra steel in these machines to put them
into those abusive environments where guys
are just going to beat them.
Kubota is really the only player in this space.
As years have gone by, John Deere used to have a model 110
which they've since discontinued.
They do not play in this space anymore.
Other than some small, crude tractor loader backhoes
that are really targeted towards inexpensive machines
for rental yards there is no other machine like this.
No vendor makes a heavy duty, overbuilt tractor loader backhoe
like these machines.
They really occupy a really unique niche place
in the tractor market.
When we talk about the machine being overbuilt
this is a great example right here.
The size of this tube going back into the housing right here
is easily over a half an inch thick, by my eyes probably about 5/8 or so.
If you go back into here you have really large bolts
bolting the loader to the subframe.
This loader will lift right about 3,000 pounds
and break out over 6,000 with the bucket.
It's the most capable loader we've ever seen
on a compact tractor like this.
That's really geared towards landscapers
who are unloading skids of sod and stuff off of trailers
where they really need that high capacity loader
in order to get those heavy loads off the back of a trailer safely.
Another place this machine took a spec bump
is in the digging depth of the backhoe.
Kubota pretty proudly is pointing up here
that this is a 14-foot hoe where the old one was 12.
That extra two feet will give you not only an extra two feet
of depth digging down but also two feet of reach
which is arguably more valuable.
With that extra reach, you have to reposition less often,
helping you to be more efficient while you're digging.
If you look at the specifications as far as the breakout force
and the actual power of the hoe itself,
it is about the same as what the M59 was
so when they added that extra reach they would have bumped up the size
and capacity of the hydraulic cylinders as well
to keep that backhoe operating about
like the old machine did.
When you order your backhoe you have the option
of either pin-one or a quick coupler buckets.
One of the nice things now is that this quick coupler
is officially compatible back into the range
of excavator quick coupler buckets, so if you have a KXO40, KX121, KX91,
any of them that use the K78 coupler, K78, 74 coupler, these buckets
will couple right into the M62 as well.
That was possible on the M59 as well using an unapproved solution.
There was a coupler that fit the excavators
that would also fit the M59, but in this case,
this is a price book configuration now
that's an off-the-shelf system.
When you look at the breakout forces for these backhoes,
one thing that you want to watch is where the pivot point is
when a quick coupler is put on.
Typically in most manufacturers quick couplers,
the backhoe will be spec'd with a pin-on coupler.
That's because the pin-on coupler it keeps the bucket
as close as possible to the pivot point of the backhoe.
Most of the time when you add a quick coupler
where a pin-on is usually used, that quick coupler
will add some distance between the pivot point
and the bucket itself, reducing your breakout force.
Kubota uses a really unique coupler where the coupler
fits in exactly the same position as what the pin-on buckets do.
In a Kubota spec sheet, your breakout force is the same
if you use a pin-on or a quick coupler bucket
where that is not the case with just about
any other manufacturer you'll find.
This machine has come through without backhoe hydraulics on it
but if you look up here you'll see that there's already points in place
for wet lines to be run out the boom
for a thumb or the rest of the attachments
that exists on the excavator series.
You officially have buckets up to 36 inches as well as
tilt bucket options, grading bucket options
and everything that comes right out of the excavator series.
You'll see our machine here does have piping out the front loader
in order to put front hydraulics on.
We're seeing more and more guys using tractors as tool carriers
much like you would with a skid loader.
Unfortunately, you still don't have quite enough hydraulic flow
in order to run implements that need hydraulic motors
like snow blowers and that kind of stuff,
but really commonly anymore we're putting on grapples,
we're putting on hydraulic angle snow blades
and having that coupler system out the front here
makes it really easy to do that.
The only thing you have to do yet is take these caps off
and put your quick couplers on here and hydraulic angle snow plows
and all those things will snap right onto the front of the tractor.
The operator's platform of an M62 is almost exactly the same
as what the older M59 was.
You really only have the addition of the power up button
over here on the loader stick to raise your engine RPMs
when you push into a pile of dirt and some small changes
of the creeper control down here on the side
to move the tractor front and back.
While this is a construction oriented machine,
well over half of them are actually sold
into residential applications and a large part for that reason
is the fact that this is a swivel seat backhoe.
On most other compact tractors where we add
the backhoe to the machine, you have to get off the tractor
and then get back on to a seat back on the backhoe.
On the M62 and the other tractors in the TLB line,
you can swivel the seat around and move to the backhoe position
without getting off the machine and remounting again.
When you want to go from working forward
to working in reverse and repositioning the tractor,
it's a lot more convenient just to swivel the seat around
and go back to your working position.
The backhoe for the M62 is unique in compact backhoes.
On any compact tractor generally, when you add a backhoe to the machine
you're feeding that backhoe with one hydraulic line.
The M47 and the M62 backhoe is fed by two separate hydraulic pumps.
Each of the sticks here on the backhoe is fed
by its own pump.
Your repetitive motion of swinging the backhoe to the side
and taking the bucket in and out to dump your spoils
is not fed by the same pump.
Generally, with a single pump system, those two functions that you do
over and over will fight for flow and so because you have
a single flow coming in being run two different directions,
it's going to slow down when you start having
that extra demand for oil.
On the M62 and L47, you have two feed lines down here
and one return.
Each of those feed lines are driven by a separate pump
each going to its own stick to keep the backhoe
functioning effectively when it has those multiple demands,
making it a more productive backhoe.
I'm going to show here exactly why that matters.
When you take your bucket and you swing
to the left or the right, you're using the left-hand stick here
in order to accomplish that.
As you're taking the spoils out of your trench,
you're going over to the side, you're swinging your boom out
and curling your bucket out in order to dump.
Now these two functions right here, curling the bucket back and forth
and taking the dipper in and out are all fed off
of the right-hand stick, while swinging the backhoe here
is fed off of the left-hand stick.
This repetitive function of going out to the side
and swinging out to dump your spoils are fed
by two separate hydraulic circuits.
You can see the backhoe speed of me taking this dipper in and out
doesn't change when I swing to the side.
My performance is exactly the same, making the backhoe
a lot more predictable and productive.
A common question that often comes up with this tractor is
who is the customer and why do people choose to buy it?
When you go and you look at the price point for this machine
it is not an inexpensive piece of equipment.
You've got a backhoe costing several thousand dollars,
a unique machine with not a huge sales volume.
It is not a cheap tractor.
It is encroaching really upon the price points
of almost a big, full-sized construction TLB
like a Case 580 or some JCB TLBs.
There is still a really important customer niche
for this machine though.
You're getting nearly the capacity of those machines
but at a much lower trailering weight.
Machine like a Case 580 weighs around 17,000 pounds.
This guy right here will have a spec weight
on the spec sheet of around 8,800 or so,
reality till you have buckets and fluids and that kind of stuff
when you're up in the 9,500 pounds but still several thousand pounds
less than what a full-sized TLB is.
In a landscape application where you don't want that weight
to be trailering it around or we don't want that weight
tracking up people's turf, this is a great,
very high capacity machine but in a weight
that's actually manageable in a landscape application.
One thing that is sadly missing from this tractor is right here.
All of us in the Northeast have been asking for a cab
for this machine, just like we have for many other tractors
for years and years and years.
A proper cab with heat and air conditioning.
While you can go to companies like Curtis
or other aftermarket vendors to get enclosures for these machines,
they just do not match to the quality of a good factory cab.
Please Kubota, if you're watching this video,
give us the cab that we've been asking for
for so long.
If you can see an application for a machine like this for yourself.
Give us a call here at Messick's.
We're available at 800-222-3373 or online at Messicks.com.
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