Small kubota update

Went back and looked at that little kubota that i thought was high priced, it is a model B7300. Paint is faded on it, 3000 hrs, mower deck, three point without any attachments, and a little loader. Price is $7500.00 I dont know anything about em, but it seems a little high to me!!

Buying a used tractor is always a gamble, that said, you can't go wrong with a Kabota.

If that is the one I think it is and it is around 16HP that price unless real new is about 3 or 4 times to high. A friend has one and he traded for it. He had bass boat that he payed $2000 or so for and made a trade even up for his tractor. Funny thing was the guy he got it from said he payed $500 for it because it didn't run but all it took was a few hours work and a new battery

According to Tractor Data, it's was built from 1997 to 1999 and had a 16hp engine. No original price given.

That is more thsn I would pay, but hard to find the little fellas with a loader, so you pay a bit for the rareness.

$3000 for the tractor, $2000 for the loader, $1000 for the mower should be more than enough these days?

--->Paul

if you're close to ohio, i have a 25 hp. with loader, 4x4

I will tell you right now that 16 HP is Nothing. (unless all you are going to do with it is cut grass) I have a new John deere 24 HP diesel and it works okay for most stuff. But it is 1500 pounds only.

3000 Hours is equal to having 90,000 miles on a car or truck. Brand new that B7300 Kubota was $10,000. (with the loader)

You can get a new Deere 2305 tractor for $10,600, with a bigger motor, more weight, etc. (with a rear blade).

There is a guy 2 miles from me trying to sell a 10 year old Deere, model 4500. This tractor new was $20,000. It has 1750 hours on it, with loader and rear cutter, He is asking $18,750 for it........It has been for sale since the middle of last summer. That tractor is worth maybe $12-13K. Now for $18,000 a guy could buy a New, yes New Deere tractor of the same size, and buy a loader for $3500. Dont buy that Kubota.
My personal opinion without seeing the B7300 is that it is worth $4500....And it better start in zero degree weather for that much coin.

I looked it up on external_link......that Kubota is a 700cc engine.

A .7 liter engine is quite wimpy for any real work, except cutting the grass on a small acreage lot.

I really don't know why people are so up on Kubota. I work on tractors for a living and I hate to see one come through the door. Iv'e got two of the little pieces of crap sitting here now. They have to be the worst tractor there is to work on.One has a front seal or is it a rear seal,leaking. The engine is turned around backwards from anything else. The other has PTO issues. Have to totally dissassemble the thing to get to the problem. I guess they are a good machine to own if all you do is sit in the seat, but if you had to work on them you'd look at another brand.

Here's a craiglist ad for one local to me. B7100, loader, new rear tires, snowblower, cab, 1033 hours, for $3300. It's about 2hp less than the B7300.

$7500 sounds too high for what that tractor is.
cheaper Kubota

28 years KUBOTA experience..Can,t compart the B 7300 to the b 7100 diffrent family of tractors. That being said the tractor even with loader and deck with 3000 hrs is over priced. Do not aggre with the guy on working on them, no harder to work on than any other compact. IF you get the small compact with a loader look for one with power steering. Most KUBOTAS build in the last 10 years that are four wheel drive will have power steering. Go to your dealer and look at a new BX with a loader, several models in the 17 - 20 hp.

...BUT!!!! That B7300 is more tractor than that 2305 will be aith the same age, hours and use!
I love it when you guys that use them around the home know all there is to know in the compact tractor worlsd! Ypu have never been there when the Turf Contractor down the road shows up wanting to trade in his 3 month old JD 4500 on a Kubota because the 3 point hitch arms ripped the pressed steel rear end open and Deere told him the trencher he was using violated the warranty.
....or when the homeowner who fell for the old "remove the loader from the seat pitch" and never disconnected the hoses is in paying to have the hoses replaced because the Deere dealer didn"t mention that you need to disconnect the hoses and didn"t have them in stock and was gonna have us make them up and charge the customer 50% markup!
Like the guy above says...years of experience in the business are what informed opinions and correct information come from.
YanMar makes a nice tractor and puts Deeres pain and name on it (with Deere engineering input), they are VERY popular, have great resale, cost almost exactly the same as a comparable Kubota and if you ask anyone who has worked at a dual line Kubota/Deere dealer sell @ about a 3 Kubota to 1 Deere ratio in the business use campact market: ag, turf, landscape... closer on the homeowner side.
I love my 2 cylinders, but my loyalty ends there...having been in the business for a long time, I would make the folowing ranking if I were going to buy another compact:
1-Kubota
2-Kioti (if there is a well est. dealer close) or...
2-New holland
3-Deere
Also...that wimpy lil" B7300 along with the B6200 are two of the toughest compacts ever made...oh yeah...that lil Deere 655 gets alot of Kudos too