Same Standard L frame as the L2501 with 37.5 hp behind it, which is where that frame starts to earn its keep - 1,985 lb at the hitch against the L2501's 1,389. Now superseded by the L3902, and absent from Kubota's current lineup.
As published by the maker
On the price: Neither this maker nor any dealer reachable from here publishes a bare-tractor price for this model — every listing found either says “call for price” or bundles a loader. That is how this brand sells, so expect to get a number by asking a dealer rather than by looking it up.
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 are unusually clear about what the extra horsepower is for, and it is not the loader. The framing that recurs is that the whole L2501-to-L3901 range is one tractor with different engines, so the only reason to move up is PTO work — and the owner who did it says exactly that: he went to the 39 because he wanted a wood chipper and a snowblower, and advises picking the implement first and letting it choose the horsepower. The corollary is the machine's most consistent frustration. Owners clearing trees report fighting the loader's limits for days at a time, an owner on five acres wishes he had gone a size up because round bales are a struggle, and an owner who also runs an older Grand L points out that his fifteen-year-old machine's loader lifts roughly double what this one does.
The regen question divides owners cleanly and usefully. Several report it being a non-event handled by raising the revs and carrying on for ten to fifteen minutes; one with 250 hours says he was apprehensive and has had no trouble at all. Another says flatly that it sucks and he would have bought an older model had he known. The most actionable voice sits in between: an owner at 680 hours reports fifteen to eighteen hours between regens in winter and mid-to-upper twenties in summer, and another says dealer advice to stop babying it and simply run at PTO speed all day gave him better fuel economy and far fewer regens.
The rest of what owners raise is practical and worth knowing before you buy. The highest-rated thing anyone has said about this tractor is an explanation that the small pedal is the rear differential lock rather than four-wheel drive, that it engages with heel pressure and needs to be held down, and that most owners' friends had no idea it existed. First-time owners describe everything feeling sketchy off the flat until they loaded the tires and slowed down. Owners of this generation complain about the brake and hydrostatic pedal sharing one side, which the next model fixed. And the fuel gauge's shape catches people out with a consequence: two owners running below half through winter found ice crystals forming around the fuel filler neck.
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
Kubota
Deliberately rated at 24.8 hp to sit under the 25 hp emissions line, so it carries no DPF and never stops to regenerate. Kubota replaced it with the L2502 and no longer lists or prices it; the no-DPF trick is the reason used ones still move.
Spec sheet & owner notes
Kubota
Built as the answer to Deere's 2025R: mid-PTO for a belly mower, a full-size operator station and more loader than a B-series, for a few thousand more. The LX2620 replaced it and Kubota no longer publishes a price for it.
Spec sheet & owner notes
Kubota
Stepping off the BX frame buys a real Category I hitch and a 1,411 lb three-point, roughly double what a BX lifts at the rear. At $20,017 it sits between the BX80 range and the L02 compacts, and it is the smallest Kubota that takes full-size rear implements.
Spec sheet & owner notes