kubota R520S

TreelineNH · Jan 18, 2016

Gorman said:
I didn't know you can get wheel spacers. Does your have the turf tires?

-I'm running the wide floating industrial tires. They work awesome. They only leave marks if its really soft, and I think you would be battling that even with turf tires.

-Im running the Extreme Duty 66" grapple from construction attachments. Its have a 43" opening which is nice for when I do big white pines. I have had it to its limits more than once. Even then it weighs it at 900lbs, I still haven't run into much that I cant move. I picked it because its made in the USA, and has a ton of steel. Also has a larger opening then most. The individual grapples have a arch which fits a long perfect if you grab them from the butt. This allows you to load a chip truck from the rear, or skid out logs through tight areas. A lot of times Ill push the whole tree over then just grab it from the butt and pull the whole tree out of the woods, or to the chipper.
http://constructionattachmentsinc.com/xtreme-duty-root-grapple-attachment.html

-I had the spacers custom made www.motorsport-tech.com . Ask for Lenny. Gehl was no help. They couldn't even tell me the stud spacing/ or stud size. I had to measure them myself. See attached.

They sent me this one to test fit. Fits like a glove. Waiting on them to machine the remaining 3.

Jackjcc · Jan 18, 2016

Oh wow, that's a lot to go through for some extra width. What did that cost to have made?

TreelineNH · Jan 18, 2016

Jackjcc said:
Oh wow, that's a lot to go through for some extra width. What did that cost to have made?

I think about 900$. To me its cheap insurance as opposed to rolling a 55k dollar rig. Its really tippy especially on hills. I hope they will help.

Gorman · Jan 18, 2016

Yeah. Real tippy on hills. I don't even bother going anyway but up and down them. Sideways is a death move.

Jackjcc · Jan 18, 2016

TreelineNH said:
I think about 900$. To me its cheap insurance as opposed to rolling a 55k dollar rig. Its really tippy especially on hills. I hope they will help.

Ours has rolled twice now...so we kinda want to get this.

AmericanArborist · Jan 20, 2016

ditto

Jackjcc said:
The stance is the worst part of the gehl, my only real complaint with it. Would you mind posting a part number and where you got the spacers? I need to show my mechanic, maybe get a set.

Merle Nelson · Jan 20, 2016

Jeff said:
Well, I had nicely formatted that table but it sure didn't post that way. I've tried to edit it but to no avail: It looks great in the edit box, all spaced out and lined up, but once posted it's all bunched up to the left. Sorry fellas, anyone know the secret?

Ha, I was just appreciating all of the info being listed right there for me. Didn't realize what you were referring to till my second read through this thread.

Good looking machine.