Kubota SVL65-2 compared to a SVL75-2. 

You know what they say there is a butt for every seat. I kinda feel like they all have their strengths. I actually love the power of a Deere 325G in this class better than anyone else's machine. But the door gets me. And the foot room in the cab. Cab is nice and big. The 75 has pretty good power. The door really gets me though. I used to have a mini skid all the time to load stuff and to move stuff around the shop mostly. Being able to get out of the door when the boom is up saves me from having to have that extra piece of equipment.

Until all the manufacturers learn how build a door that rolls up versus swing out ill always choose a takeuchi or kubota. It just boils down to the door for me 🤷‍♂️

I had a Bobcat for shearing cedar on our ranch…out there for hours, by myself in the brush…miles from rescue, etc. I had concerns about a stalled machine that wouldn’t restart, me trapped inside, with a big nasty cedar tree in my shear or grapple that was blocking the door from opening. Yeah, I know, I could unzip back window (the emergency exit) and crawl out over the seat back and try to fit through the small window to safety. How needs that scenario in the back of

…WHO needs that dreaded scenario in the back of their mind constantly? The overhead door trumped everything for me!

I have all 3, love my cats

Incorrect sir. The SVL 65 and 95 have similar drive systems the Kubota calls a Hybrid Drive system. The 75 does not have the same drive system.

I liked mine better than my 75-2. I have a fence guy I know and he is the same way. He has both and he may trade the 75 off for another new 65-2

Thats a hard decision. Yes I've had both. I do like the door. But the Deere has more power for pushing if that's important. The Deere may also pick up a little more.

@@skidco thanks for the reply. I’m waiting until October to make my final decision. Since I don’t need the machine right now I’m hoping the 65 gets similar updates seen in the 75-3. September or October is when my dealer would know if such an update is happening. Yeah I need the smallest machine dimensionally that can lift the most and push the hardest. As my work is moving pallet material on my personal property. A skid of advantec is 3800lbs plus the forks. The 65 can move that…carefully same for the 317 but the extra 6-700lbs(with counter weights) and deeres over kill loader hydraulics make it more of a sure bet. But it cost what a 75-3 costs…why can’t someone make the perfect machine?!? Haha. Thanks again for the reply at least I have some time to think it over

Oh the majority of its work will be ground dirt work. Grading and driveway construction on my personal property and odd side projects for contractors I’m friends with.

If you pull the fitting out and start the machine you will have flow out of the port. Its not totally shut off like an on and off switch. Its not as high as flow as it is running an attachment but still has flow.

@Skid-Co you may want to have that checked that is not normal operation. I have the same machine a 2021 model and nothing leaks when disconnecting or reconnecting when running or off. I am the only one running the machine so I am never in the cab when connecting and disconnecting lines.

Correct. but take a wrench out there and unscrew the fitting. All machines have parasitic flow to the fittings while running. So if you disconnect with the machine running there is still flow behind the fitting. When you plunge the fitting running you can fell the flow push back on the fitting as its pushed to release the pressure. Not running you will not feel the flow push back. I always release and unhook while the machines is off. Especially in the summer. Heat and cooling builds a little pressure in the attachment.

@Skid-Co never needed to take a wrench to fittings. perhaps they have changed something in newer models but with the aux flow not on and engine running I can push to release pressure just the same as if the machine is off. It takes the same amount of force if the machine is running or turned off on mine. Good vids

Brand is Camso Model of track is SD They do really good. I won’t have another track on my machine anymore.

@@skidcoThank you.

I don't think for a while. I have a source that usually I get all Kubota info from and he hasn't said anything.

It still mows really steep stuff.

Ill get an update video up soon on the 75.

I like the SVL 65-2 better overall. Both I think would do good in a rental situation. They are built really tough. The 65 does just as much as the 75 does in my opinion.

Im actually looking at a TL8R@ right now. Trying to figure out if I want to change machines. I ran the tl8 for about 5 minutes in the lot. There are some benefits I can see straight away of the tl8. Boom is really beefy. But the Kubota SVL 75-3 seems to have all the fixes I would like to see in it. Not sure what to tell you. I haven't had either long enough to get a feel on what it will do. Id say that one depends on which dealer you like and cost. Id say they are pretty comparable machines with the -3 Kubota.

Way to big for me. The 75 does good. The 65 was fine. But if Deere had the door id have a 325G.

No. I had a tint shop in town do it.

@@skidco Thanks. That’s what I thought. I just ordered the SVL 75 and immediately thought I need that glass tinted.