Kubota MX6000

The question owners actually argue about is not whether this is a good tractor but why you would buy it instead of the MX5400 parked next to it. People who have been through that decision describe the two as one machine in two engine tunes on a shared frame, and report the real price gap between them at something like $1,500 to $2,000 rather than anything dramatic. What settles it for most is implement paperwork: owners running a three-point stump grinder or planning a PTO snowblower point out that an implement calling for 50 PTO hp puts the smaller tune in warranty grey area, while this one clears the bar. A Kubota technician who works on them says they very seldom come in for major failures, and a 2020 cab example used hard for manure spreading, snow, brush hogging and stationary PTO work is described by its owner as having broken nothing that was not his own fault.

Ballast is the recurring theme, and it is not optional. Several owners describe the machine picking its own rear wheels off the ground at maximum loader lift before the loader itself runs out. The fix is staged rather than single: loaded rear tires help but are not enough, and one owner went on to a ballast box with 800 to 900 lb of concrete before he could finally reach the loader's relief. Even fully ballasted, owners carrying real weight - one describes 1,500 to 1,800 lb of split firewood on pallet forks with filled tires and an 800 lb implement behind - still call it tippy if you turn or travel too fast. Loader capacity, not engine power, is the ceiling owners report hitting in daily work: one farm using a cab model across manure, snow and brush is now thinking about a skid steer for the heavy end. From the other direction, owners of the L4802 and L4060 say they wish they had bought this instead, citing loader capacity and hydraulics specifically.

Drive choice and cab quality are where opinion divides. Owners doing loader work are emphatic that hydrostatic is the right pick and would not run a gear box near anything they care about damaging, and they report it still pulling an eight-foot rotary cutter without complaint. Owners doing long tillage days say a gear machine suits that better, and one shopper who started on a cab MX6000 ended up on a used M60-series gear tractor instead because he wanted more ground-engagement gears. In high range owners report running short of grunt rather than traction - a manure spreader can be stalled from full throttle, and snow work runs out of power in the middle range - while in low it is traction that gives up first. The cab is widely called worth the money for heat, air conditioning and pollen season, but owners who have sat in a Grand L cab describe this one as basic, and it arrives without side mirrors, an armrest or a radio head unit.