Compact track loader and forestry mulcher

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Just curious why not the swing open front door?

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Don’t know OPs reasoning but we had a buddy get trapped in one the summer when the machine broke down on him in the middle of the woods.

So the head or a tree jammed the door?

Keep a hammer in there with you.

Doesn’t the back glass pop out?

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Bleeding purple

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Whoa! When was the last time you were on the OB?!?


You still got that pic of me with that "huge" boar?

Bobcat (as well as the others) have emergency bleed off valves to let the loader all the way down for exit. They're the big orange levers and knobs scattered all about the inside of the cab. I'd recommend learning all of them before you head off into the woods. It's nearly impossible to get "trapped" as long as you're upright.

A far more common concern for you should be rolling it and not being able to exit through the side/rear windows.

If you get the Kubota 75 hp make sure it has the hydraulic manifold with the high flow option, as it's optional last I checked. That said, I wouldn't plan on doing any serious amount of forestry mulching with a 75 horse. Kubotas are priced well and are well made machines, but they're loud, uncomfortable, no frills rattle boxes. If you're not going to be in one all day, every day, it'd be fine. When you're working in one for 8 to 10 hours a day, I assure you ergonomics and comfortability matters as much as specs.

Biggest thing, especially with a track loader and forestry mulcher is dealer proximity and ability to make service calls in the field. You will tear shite up, especially just getting started, and oftentimes it will be so torn up that it will have to be fixed in place. Any time you cross into that wood line with a piece of equipment you've entered the land of unforgivable where every offense is magnified, and merely getting to the machine to get it unfricked can mean using other machines to do it.

Go over your local dealership with a fine tooth comb, and as far as Kubota goes, they've gotten a lot more capable over the years at servicing and dealing with calls on their track loaders and other non tractor equipment, but just because a Kubota dealership has top notch tractor service doesn't mean they'll have the same for other machinery. I've seen Kubota dealerships with great tractor servicing departments have less than optimal abilities and infrastructure to deal with machinery. I'm sure being Kubota they've probably got most locales up to speed, but I'd make damn sure because like I said, when you hang a mulcher on the front and head into the woods you're going to tear stuff up. It's inevitable.

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Lots of reasons but if arm is elevated door can't open. On a fully enclosed with metal screen the only in and out is door and breaking the door to get out is a $$$ proposition.

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10-4 would still have hammer.

I have a buddy who runs one on a Takeuchi and he likes it a lot. I believe it has a “roll” up door that you can open with the loader in any position.

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Bobcat (as well as the others) have emergency bleed off valves to let the loader all the way down for exit. They're the big orange levers and knobs scattered all about the inside of the cab. I'd recommend learning all of them before you head off into the woods. It's nearly impossible to get "trapped" as long as you're upright.

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Yeah
Sad part is it was a rental. He called the company and they couldn’t tell him how to bleed hydraulics! He ended up breaking something and getting out