Maybe you need a tractor with a reverser.
Sure glad my main loader tractor has one, I can go back and forth without the clutch and it eases into it just as good as my foot can.

 

We don't normally bring in as much hay as we have this year. It's dry out here, the pastures are dead right now. The only thing green is the weeds, and most of them are brown now too.

We are done irrigating corn and the water got taken from the one pivot and put into another two, one with cane and another on a pasture, and you don't realize how brown it is til you see things turning green under them.

A hydraulic reverser would be nice, but I found moving the seat back on both the 4020 and in the daycab really helped the knees out a lot.

 

I bought a Kubota L3400 new in 2010. Its a good little tractor.

For what it's worth, the Kubota manual says plainly "CJ rated oils are not to be used in this tractor". That pretty well eliminates any of the new stuff you get at Walmart. I will agree with them though that CJ rated doesn't compare with CI and CI4+ rated oils.

I ended up buying Kubota's own oil as it is CI rated. The cost is right in line with Rotella and I got a discount for buying 12 qt. I ended up using it in my Polaris Ranger Diesel as they had the same requirements for oil.

Kubotas hydraulic/transmission fluid is now super udt2. I'd read a review on it a while back on bob is the oil guy and the tests came back very good.

Check out http://www.colemanequip.com I've bought from them before for the Kubota. Their site is great, locate your equipment on the side and it'll show all the filters, oil and fluids you need.

 

This turned out to be a fun thread to read! Thanks for all the stories, tips, and suggestions!

I decided to give the thing a once-over before I start using it.

I'm sorry but I have to rant:

Why don't people fix things right?! This tractor looks like it was fixed in the field repeatedly and then never brought into the barn for proper repair! Not big stuff, but the sheer volume of little stuff (dont get me started on how they wired the headlights either..) For me it has not just been this tractor, but both houses I have lived in and every single used car/truck/tractor/etc.. I buy is all half-assed repaired!

Ok, Sorry, glad I got that out.


Anyway, I went to Wix filters website to find all the filter numbers, and bought them from a local parts store. Changed all the fluids. There was some damage to the sheet metal, they told me they dropped a hay bale on the hood; so I took that all apart and straightened it out as best as I could. it was rubbing on the radiator hose and radiator fairly heavy and i was not comfortable using the tractor (I like to fix it before it breaks..) in this condition.

Attached is a picture of it now. Hopefully I will paint it tomorrow. After that I just need to replace all the broken grease fittings and hit everything with grease and she's ready to work!

 

Usual when people break down with a tractor, they're using it to make money. The faster they can repair the tractor, the faster they can get back to work. I try to fix it right, but sometimes you just have to do a quick fix to get back in the field and then wait until a rainy day to fix it right.

It seems every used tractor you buy, someone before you has rigged up the lights and makes it a pain to fix. If the lights are working and don't run down your battery or the wires don't get hot, I wouldn't worry about it. I once rewired (new wire harness) my cousin's 5020. John Deere only had the updated wiring harness so I had to splice and rewire most of the new wiring harness. I told him next time to find someone else to do it.