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Assess Practical Performance

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Don't BUY this KUBOTA!!!

What happens here

Corey, an experienced dealership representative who actively uses the equipment he sells, shares his practical insights on the R540 and R640. He explains that for demanding tasks like snow plowing large parking lots (moving snow long distances) and lifting pallets, he has observed no significant difference in performance between the R540 and the R640. Despite the R640 having higher horsepower (64.3 HP vs 50.9 HP) and greater weight (11563 lbs vs 10285 lbs), both machines achieve the same speed, and the additional power/weight does not translate into a noticeable performance advantage for these specific applications. He recounts a personal experience of inadvertently using the R640 for an entire night, thinking it was the R540, and realizing he experienced no performance difference.

Goal: Determine if the higher specifications of the R640 translate into tangible performance benefits for common tasks.

Tools and materials

  • Kubota R540 Wheel Loader Kubota — Comparing its performance for snow plowing and lifting
  • Kubota R640 Wheel Loader Kubota — Comparing its performance for snow plowing and lifting
  • Pallet Forks — Simulating real-world lifting tasks (implied)
  • Snow Plow Attachment — Simulating real-world snow removal tasks

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seven years um and when you and I first originally talked about a loader tractor y I pushed you towards the 530 the the K now this is a kab 540 which is just the updated version of yours there's a a few things that are allowing it to be able to have more visually seen things but these two are very identical as far as the model sizes that they are 540 640 lower horsepower higher horsepower little more weight less weight um but we can't tell the difference okay what do you mean you can't tell the difference so what we did this year is we've always plowed with a 540 yeah um same as you you've got that 530 like I said there's no difference in how those two two operate it's just difference of and we love the 530 yep I just I'm going to go on the record saying the 530 will out plow and keep up with our much higher horsepower sdlg the Sledge which is a 74 horsepower machine and this is what 50 minus a 50 some horsepower machine same thing now the K cabota R it's like a 63 or something like that but there's no benefit to that machine so I I cannot notice a benefit with when we're plowing snow I can't notice a benefit between the two why is it made then I don't know I love it when we can actually get a rep that will tell you the 100% straight truth right from the horse's mouth from someone that runs both of them now if you guys run a have had the opportunity to run a k cabota r540 or r530 and then the higher one are we want to hear from you but what did you what are you seeing what's what are the basic differences between these machines it's it's weight and power those are your basic difference there's a little bit taller of a tire height um but there's no difference in speed um and and truthfully what we're doing is going to be a lot of this Pusher work we're pushing long distances this is a huge parking lot and all of our snows we try to pile at the far end and when we push that pile at the end I can't tell the difference which which machine I'm in okay so the r540 weighs do you know what the specs on this thing you're roughly at like that 10,000 lb and then I think you're roughly at like that 11,000 lb on that machine base weight um kind of like what we did with yours fluid fill in these tires fluid fill in those tires um we wanted to have a really comparable option because when I when I talked to customers this year while I was plowing y I flat out told them I said guys I'm all for you if you want to spend extra money but if you want to take my opinion on a…

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