I agree with you that you pay for paint with a John Deere but Kubota's are not Chineese junk. I have used a Kubota M6800 a lot. The one that we have has over 1000 hours on it and it is still going strong. We have round baled, square baled, loaded countless loads of manure, pulled two bottom plows, and 9ft wide haybines. We have pulled seed drills, bush hogged the side of steep mountains, and just about anything else you could imagine with it. I have seen my dad dig a hole with the loader that was big enough to bury the tractor. And all of this was done on a mountain farm, not flat land where everything is easier to pull. I dont know if any of you are familiar with haylage but it is round bales of hay that Is baled wet and wrapped in plastic and pickles like corn silage. We have used a Kubota 6800 to feed 4x4 rolls of haylage, and if you think that a dry bale is heavy, haylage weighs around 2x more. The 4 wheel drive Kubota's (like ours) have bevel cut gears in the front that allows it to turn extremely tight, about as tight as a 2 wheel drive tractor unlike John deere, new holland and IH who all use universals and cant turn anywhere near as tight. Our neighbor has used it and likes it better than his john deere. I would take it over just about any other tractor on the market. And KUBOTA is from JAPAN NOT CHINA
