Moving up to the 2000 platform more than doubles the loader rating - 1,369 lb at max height against the 1000 platform's 608 - on a 1.65 L Daedong three-cylinder that is still under 25 hp. The 9x3 manual build starts at $20,760, the three-range hydrostatic at $22,524.
1.07 PTO hp per $1,000 of list price
As published by the maker
On the price: The maker's own published starting figure for the base build. A dealer adds a loader, a deck and freight on top.
Lift figures are the maker's and are quoted at whichever point the maker chose; the about page explains why two loaders with the same number do not lift the same pallet.
Comes with
From owner discussion and long-term write-ups
Gathered from owner reports
Owners know exactly what they bought: a Kioti CK2610 in white paint, usually for about $2,000 less than the Kioti it is based on. That is said matter-of-factly rather than as a complaint, and it shapes how people shop it — one buyer's three quotes for a 25 hp tractor with loader and third function came back at $27,650 for a Kubota L2502, $27,100 for a Kioti CK2620 and $26,000 for the Bobcat. Leftover stock goes much lower, with owners reporting $14,500 cash for a new one with a loader and $15,900 for a 4WD hydrostatic with loader on run-out model years, and 0% terms over 72 or 84 months are the standard structure. What people do with it is not small: a three-year owner's list runs from plowing a quarter mile of driveway and spreading 100 tons of gravel to pulling a stuck Deere 35G mini excavator out and disposing of an entire dilapidated mobile home in pieces.
The loader is where the argument is. Bobcat publishes its lift at maximum height, and one owner who moved from a CT2025 to a Yanmar with the same rated capacity insists the Yanmar out-lifts it — he buys 1,500 lb bulk feed bags, and the Bobcat could only get one a few inches off the ground hanging bare off the quick-attach bar with the backhoe extended as ballast, while the Yanmar picks the same bag off a pallet in a truck bed. Another owner with a backhoe on the back says his lifts 1,600 lb without complaint and only the curl feels underwhelming. What both agree on is that the curl is the weak link, and two owners have bent the curl cylinders — one after backing up with the bucket fully curled down and a grapple hooked on a wire fence he had not seen, then straightening them in a press rather than paying for replacements. A third owner warns against raising the hydraulic pressure for exactly that reason.
Ballast is the other thing owners mention changing the machine. One reports living in four-wheel drive before he filled the rear tires and simply driving afterwards. Reliability reports at real hours are good and the failures are small: an o-ring on the fuel filter water separator at 200 hours that no generic part would fit, ROPS blinkers broken twice on low branches, a sticking brake pedal, and one machine that takes a minute of cranking to start in a garage that never drops below freezing. The thread running through nearly every positive account is the dealer rather than the tractor — owners describe getting pickup and redelivery written into the deal, a dealer trailering the tractor to an elderly relative's house to clear snow at no charge, and Bobcat's own parts site pulling up any part by VIN and delivering in under a week.
Summarised from public owner discussion, not from testing. Nothing here was measured by this site, and a report that recurs is not the same as a defect rate.
Cross-shopped against
Same brand or same size, nearest in price
Bobcat
A 34.9 hp Daedong three-cylinder dropped into the same 2000-platform chassis as the CT2025, which means ten more engine horsepower and almost no change in what the loader or hitch can lift. $28,653 in open station; the CT2535 adds a heated, air-conditioned cab at $41,173.
Spec sheet & owner notes
Bobcat
At 39.6 hp it tops the 2000 platform for only $762 more than the 34.9 hp CT2035 beneath it - the cheapest way to nearly 40 hp that Bobcat publishes. Every loader, hitch and hydraulic figure is shared with the smaller models in the platform.
Spec sheet & owner notes
Bobcat
50.3 hp and 45.6 PTO hp for a published $32,608 - less than the 44.9 hp CT4045 costs, because this one is sold with the 8x8 synchro shuttle as its base build rather than a hydrostatic. It is the most PTO power per dollar Bobcat lists.
Spec sheet & owner notes