We bought an X1100C the first year they came out. Machine is very good for most chores, but half the reason we bought it was to plow snow on our acreage. We had installed a BOSS V plow with hydraulics which cost over $3000. The plow is great, but the Kubota is NOT a good machine for plowing snow.
The problem is the difficulty to shift into reverse after pushing the snow into a bank. If there is a force (snow bank) pushing back on the machine when you stop and try to shift into reverse, the shift lever is very difficult or even impossible to take out of gear and put into reverse.
Kubota has a "hydrostat pressure relief" valve activated by the brake pedal and that helps the situation greatly, but in plowing snow you are constantly shifting back and forth and any impediment to that shifting is a PIA. At times, it is so difficult to get the shift lever out of forward that we have to turn off the engine off to release hydrostatic pressure in order to get the gear shift out of forward. We've had the dealer work on the machine several times to solve the problem and they've made small improvements. We've been plowing snow now for 6 years with this setup but, in our judgement the Kubota is not a good machine to plow snow with because of the difficulty to release torque on the transmission when there is an opposing force on the machine.
The problem is the difficulty to shift into reverse after pushing the snow into a bank. If there is a force (snow bank) pushing back on the machine when you stop and try to shift into reverse, the shift lever is very difficult or even impossible to take out of gear and put into reverse.
Kubota has a "hydrostat pressure relief" valve activated by the brake pedal and that helps the situation greatly, but in plowing snow you are constantly shifting back and forth and any impediment to that shifting is a PIA. At times, it is so difficult to get the shift lever out of forward that we have to turn off the engine off to release hydrostatic pressure in order to get the gear shift out of forward. We've had the dealer work on the machine several times to solve the problem and they've made small improvements. We've been plowing snow now for 6 years with this setup but, in our judgement the Kubota is not a good machine to plow snow with because of the difficulty to release torque on the transmission when there is an opposing force on the machine.
Is the X1100C a good machine to plow snow?
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