Used Kubota Tractors
The Kubota Corporation
I think anyone who has heard or seen a tractor will know and recognize the name Kubota. I personally will remember the name from a serious accident I suffered back in 1988 in Suffolk, England. The little Kubota I was driving caught the side of a ditch and turned over. There was no cab or roll bar for safety because it was the smallest Kubota tractor which the company I worked for used for carrying sprayer tanks for the application to the base of horticultural trees and shrubs.
Anyhow, the tractor turned over and I was thrown to the bottom of the ditch which was about 30 feet deep. The tractor landed on top of me – on my back, almost crippling me. It took 6 men to lift the tractor off my spine. Strangely enough, I cycled home that night – I was 21 years old and only found out years later that this accident had caused spondylosis, which is slippage and semi-dysfunction of the lower spinal discs.
Honestly, I’m very surprised that when the tractor landed on my back I was not crippled for the rest of my life! Anyways, sorry, that was me talking (or rather, writing) too much. Hardly relevant to the topic of used kubota tractors, I know.
Kubota was established as far back as 1890. The company is a tractor and heavy goods equipment manufacturer which is based in Osaka in Japan.
Among its product range are the following:
- tractors and agricultural equipment
- construction equipment
- valves and piping
- cast metals
- pumps
- engines
Not until 1969 did Kubota begin exporting any of its products. The first was a 21 horsepower (16kW) L200 compact tractor which became very popular in the American market. Thereafter, the Kubota Tractor Corporation came to be in 1972, in Compton, California. Kubota has a number of other trading companies in various countries which include the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Australia, Canada to name a few.
Later, in 1988, Kubota opened up its first manufacturing facility in Gainesville, GA, United States. This facility manufactured backhoe implements and front end loaders for Kubota tractors. The facility went into producing a number of other parts and tractors as its successes and popularity grew in time. In 2006 the Gainesville plant was transferred to Jefferson GA.
A subsidiary to Kubota Corporation, Osaka was formed in 1999 in Lincolnshire, Chicago. This was named Kubota Engine America.
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