My little tractor that could.....
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I once lifted and moved an 8x12 fully insulated double walled shed with it (no pictures). The forks didn't reach far enough in to balance it so I had to strap it on.
The lift ratings on loader tractors are colour coded like stop lights. Red for stop, amber/orange for caution, and green for go.
When I was shopping for a machine, there were only three dealers on the area, Kubota and JD in Green or JD in yellow.
JD green had only a couple of machines on the lot and basically nothing that I was interested in as I wanted the TLB, tractor, loader, backhoe and they had no backhoes. Ideally I needed a Mini X, a front end loader and a rough terrain forklift, but that was three expensive machines, and I was scratching the finance barrel to even get one.
Massey Ferguson was the same way with almost no stock, and they are part of the Kubota dealership, just on a different lot.
Kubota had the best range of machines, with the most stock, so I went that way.
JD yellow in the industrial machines were way more expensive, and overall much larger in size.
After I had the Kubota, I found out about Kioti and also found that Bob Cat had come out with a line of tractors, which are Kioti's painted white
A buddy of mine that has an excavation business just ditched his JD yellow excavator and got a Kubota of the same size, told me that the Kubota digs circles around the JD and was one of his best decisions.
