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I was talking to a guy today who has a 56 hp kubota 4x4 with loader and cab, he said he felt it was tippy on a slight slope? He says he thought my 4610 ford was more stable even though he never drive it, I baled hay once in my ex father in laws tractor on a flat hay field it seemed fine to me, I drove another cab tractor on a little hill and I felt like it could be tippy, is that just a feeling you get being in the cab? Are they more top heavy ect?
 
You have cab corner posts that give you a sense of horizontal and vertical movement in your line of vision. When driving those corner posts are similar to looking through a camera viewer and moving it a bit.
Yes cabs do raise the center of gravity a bit, but not much, but modern ones are ROPS and far safer than an open station tractor,
Loren
 
Yes, that's a good way to put it, you see those corner posts moving and it feels akward!
 
Like Bruce said, wheel spacing plays a huge roll in the feel of the tractor. We have one that we set at 30? rows for planting and than move the wheels out for baling. It is surprising how much difference the 16-20? makes.
 
Radial rears or bias? After I switched one of my cab tractors from bias to radials I was afraid to take it wide open down the road till I got used to the side to side sway.
 
I don't really know, he said they are loaded, the
tractor can't be more than 4-5 years old. I don't
remember the model number, but it's a hydro drive.
 
(quoted from post at 18:56:32 04/04/19) I don't really know, he said they are loaded, the
tractor can't be more than 4-5 years old. I don't
remember the model number, but it's a hydro drive.
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It's a narrower compact tractor.

No where near the weight or wheel base / stance / wheel & tire size of a utility.
 
I used to notice the difference between our compact and my 850 ford as I would run both in one day when working with the horses at our place to the north. Similar size, but night and day on stability and just the overall feel of the older tractor. We had a 3600 up there as well, and I preferred it for many tasks. We have a new compact NH and a 2000 model year 80 HP NH there now. The bigger NH is a pretty stable tractor, but I still, hands down, prefer my newest tractor, Ford/NH 4630 with front wheel drive, that tractor is just perfect for most anything I need to do, wish I had a pair of them LOL !
 
I have had a couple of newer compacts (one 35hp and now one 45hp) and both of them feel way tippier than my old tractors. Aside from being narrower (although not narrower than my Super A Farmall) a lot of it has to do with the short wheel base and long front end loader. Any weight on the loader and the rear gets light in a hurry and when they start to tip they go quickly (and yes, as a rule I?m using rear counterweight and loaded rears). For side hill work give me a nice narrow front Farmall any day over the newer compacts. Sam
 
It may be the combination of the cab causing a higher center of gravity, a narrower and shorter wheelbase, and weight in loader can lead to instability.
 
Kubota are built light in the first place and that doesn?t help the tippy feeling I used one a little bit and even 105 horsepower with four wheel drive and loaded tires felt like driving a go kart . I wouldn?t want one to any kind of actual work with
 
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