Turbocharging carries the NS range to its limit here: 57.7 hp, 48.3 at the PTO, Cat 2 hitch with draft control. The synchro shuttle is the $40,403 base; hydrostatic runs $43,190 and the cab $48,543, and the PTO figure is the reason to take the shuttle.
1.2 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 buy the NS6010 by walking out of a Kubota or Deere quote, and they say so plainly. One who had developed 50 acres and built a house with a 40 hp Kubota found it weak, upgraded to an NS6010, and reports it was $20,000 cheaper than a new Kubota while lifting roughly twice as much on the loader. Another priced it at about $60,000 out the door against a Kubota in the mid-seventies. What they get is a tractor owners describe as rock solid — 125 acres of road maintenance, bush hogging and food plots in Alabama with no complaints, and several owners who simply say they love it — and a cab they rate above Kubota's for layout, ergonomics, ground-level fuelling and a flat floor. One buyer with tinnitus measured about 75.5 dB in the cab at 2,200 rpm, marginally quieter than the Kubota he was comparing it with, though he found the three-cylinder's tone sharper.
Two things come up often enough to plan around. The loader arms sit unevenly on more than one machine straight from the dealer: two separate owners report one side visibly higher than the other, one confirming it on level pavement with a level against the grill guard, the other finding it impossible to get an offset cutter to sit flat because of it. And the loader valve does not feather like a Kubota's — three owners independently say that lifting while curling or dumping is where it falls down, which matters most to anyone doing repetitive bucket work. The other trap is the hitch: the lower telescoping arms are Cat 2 while the top link is Cat 1, so the Cat 1 quick hitch most owners already have will not fit the lower arms, and two of them arrived at that discovery only after buying one.
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
Kioti
The biggest NX and the only one Kioti builds as hydrostatic only: 57.7 hp, 48.3 at the PTO, and 17.9 gpm rather than the 16.5 the rest of the series gets. At $40,839 it is the most expensive Kioti under 60 hp, and the cab takes it to $49,480.
Spec sheet & owner notes
Kioti
73 hp and 63 at the PTO from the same 2,435 cc four-cylinder as the RX6620, for $1,883 more - the cheapest 60-plus PTO horsepower in this catalog. The oddity is the hitch: Kioti rates it 2,716 lb where the smaller RX6620 reads 3,594 lb.
Spec sheet & owner notes
Kioti
Turbocharged 50.3 hp on Kioti's 4,027 lb NS frame, three-range hydrostatic, with a 2,940 lb hitch and a 2,621 lb loader at the pin. It sits one step above the NS4710 already in this catalog and gets its power from a turbo rather than more displacement.
Spec sheet & owner notes