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.
1.08 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
The CT2040 is a Kioti CK4020 under Bobcat paint, and owners buy it the way they buy the CT2025 — for the dealer and the price rather than for the badge. It is most often the tractor people step up to. One owner ran a CT1025 for two years on two acres, found the front lift and rear PTO both short of what he wanted, and had his dealer broker a private sale of the old machine so he could move straight into a CT2040. Another upgraded from a CT2025 for the same two reasons. A third is already trading his 65-hour CT2040 for a CT4058. The advice they all repeat afterwards is to order every hydraulic option at the start — third function up front for a grapple, extra remotes at the rear — because retrofitting is what the upgraders say they got wrong the first time.
Where owners draw its line is implement size. At around 32 hp at the PTO a 5-foot rotary cutter is the comfortable fit and owners running 60-inch cutters still report bogging in heavy material, with 72 inches considered a size too far for the series. The same limit shows in snow: one owner's machine bogs a little when pushing a heavy pile and lifting it up onto the bank, though another pushes a 70-inch angle plow through eight inches of light prairie snow open-station with no ballast at all, just rear chains. It is also longer than its horsepower suggests — with a loader and a post hole auger fitted, one owner's barely fit lengthwise on an 18-foot car hauler.
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
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
Bobcat
The 4000 platform is where Bobcat's tractors finally get a turbocharger, 16.5 gpm of hydraulics and a 2,716 lb hitch - a real jump in capability rather than another engine swap into the same frame. Base hydrostatic build starts at $34,400.
Spec sheet & owner notes