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Kubota KX080-4 Demo Experience

Canuck Digger

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Mission, BC, Canada
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Business Owner, Equipment Operator, Fishing Guide
Today took a 2015 Kubota 8 ton machine I'm thinking of buying for a demo ride. It's got about 1,400 hours on it w/o running any attachments. It' still pretty tight with fairly minimal wear on the pins and the main housing. Overall it seems like a pretty solid machine and definitely feels and acts bigger than my 6 ton hitachi, which is the whole point of looking at an 8 ton machine for me.
This is my first Kubota experience as I'm more of a Yanmar power fan, but I'm sure the Kubotas are equally as good.
One odd thing that I encountered while testing the machine was as follows:
once having pressed the goofy AUX button to activate the thumb, and using the switch on the RH joy stick to either open or close the thumb, the swing speed would slow right down to painfully slow. As soon as I'd release the thumb switch/stop thumb movement, the machine would get right back up to full swing speed. It was like clock work, not an intermitent pump issue. Felt more like a setting in the AUX flow where it took too much off the main circuit and into the AUX. From my understanding these things are supposed to be one of the better ones in running AUX as you can select flow rates from within the cab. Wondering if this is just how they run or was the setting off? Any thoughts/ideas?
 

90plow

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The kx080 is a good machine and haven’t heard anyone complain about them. Like all small machines they’re a single pump. Hydraulic system. So doing anything with multiple functions such as traveling and using a mower head is not going to be efficient. My kx057 is the same way and unless your maxing out the hydraulics on the thumb it shouldn’t be too bad. So if you have something picked up and you squeeze against the bucket use the thumb and then release your finger so the flow stops but the thumb will remain clamped. Great thing about kubota compared to most other brands is they use their own engines.
 

Canuck Digger

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Deeretachi 75/85 and Yanmar Vio-80 are all multi-pump machines.
I have 4 other minies all with thumbs and none of them do it. One of my good friends as a kubota 35 and his also doesn't do it. Anyway, ended up buying the machine as the rest of it was solid/lots of power. Was thinking it may just be a setting or something.
 
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