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Kubota L3940

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Kubota L3940 Reviews



Overall Rating:
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Build Quality
rating
4.7
Features
rating
4.6
Performance
rating
4.5
Value
rating
4.7
Reliability
rating
4.7
(4.6 stars, 34 reviews)
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Specifications

Height 97.4 (247 cm)

Length 121.5 (308 cm)

Weight 3

Wheelbase 74.6 (189 cm)

Width (in.) 66.5 (168 cm)

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Great Machine - Grand L 3940 HSTC Model
rating
3.8
Posted 10/02/2018
by Bruce Siefers
Model year: 2010 Date Purchased: 2010-10-15 Number of Hours: 1150

"I bought this with the reverse till tiller and loader. I can't get the brake indicator to work all the time. It has a bad connection in the front left flasher. The left front hub leaked at 300 hours and then the right one at 500 hours. I think that they now have an improved seal. The mid power take-off indicator doesn't come on unless the handle is held up. I added rear work lights and should have gotten the rear wiper. It has an awesome turning radius and can turn on a dime. A great upgrade from my old L245DT. I have a Woods T310, 10-foot 3-point backhoe that I run on it. The loader attaches and detaches easily which is nice. The tractor fits into small spots."

REVIEWER'S ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Pros: Awesome turning radius, just big enough for big jobs and small enough for yard work Cons: Front axle leaks and problems with some indicators Type of User: Homeowner 1-10 Acres Location: USA OH I also considered buying:
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Workhorse
rating
4.2
Posted 11/26/2016
by Jim
Model year: 2008 Date Purchased: 2016-11-26 Number of Hours: 1285

"This is an amazing tractor. It has never let me down. It has a brush hog, snow blower, box blade, and an auger that I have used for over 200 posts. I've pulled stumps and moved tons and tons of gravel. It handles everything flawlessly. I've recently added a Z724 zero turn and RTV900 to my orange collection. I love this tractor!"

REVIEWER'S ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Pros: Very reliable Cons: None that come to mind Type of User: Homeowner 10-50 Acres Location: USA WA I also considered buying:
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Too Big And Too Little
rating
3.8
Posted 06/30/2015
by Alex
Model year: 2007 Date Purchased: 2015-03-01 Number of Hours: 620

"For my uses the tractor is too big and too little. Mine has a cab and with that it's too big to get in the tight spots for my mowing and I can't get through all my trails in the woods. And I've already wished the tractor was a little bigger when using the loader/grapple to move downed trees etc. All in all, it's a really nice tractor. The roof to the cab seems like it's a cheap plastic that will crack or break easily. It's already faded to a different color than the body. The auto throttle and HST+ are really handy features."

REVIEWER'S ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Pros: Very comfortable cab Cons: Could use more power Type of User: Homeowner 10-50 Acres Location: USA MO I also considered buying:
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Kubota L3940 HST
rating
4.0
Posted 06/28/2015
by Charles Perkins
Model year: 2009 Date Purchased: 2015-01-01 Number of Hours: 425

"I was given this tractor in a will by a dear friend who passed away. He was a generous man and gave to others to his own hurt sometimes. I just have a small home with less than an acre, but the church I pastor has an eight acre tract of land of which I bush hog four. It has been a great tractor. It is very well built. I was helping one of the people in my church with some bush hogging when it just stopped and gave me a code N error 20. I am waiting from a dealer for parts. Other than this, it has been a great tractor."

REVIEWER'S ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Pros: Sturdy and well made Cons: So far none Type of User: Homeowner 1-10 Acres Location: USA VA I also considered buying:
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Hard Worker
rating
4.2
Posted 05/31/2015
by R Donly
Model year: 2007 Date Purchased: 2007-04-01 Number of Hours: 350

"This tractor is the best investment I've ever made. It is perfect for my property, as it is small enough to work in tight spots through and around all the trees, but the power it has is amazing. I skid very large trees to my process area, and it does this effortlessly as long as you use the proper gear range. It is very fuel efficient as an added bonus."

REVIEWER'S ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Pros: Reliable, powerful puller Cons: None Type of User: Homeowner 10-50 Acres Location: USA CA I also considered buying:
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Kubota L3940 Is A Workhorse
rating
3.8
Posted 09/21/2014
by Nate
Model year: 2011 Date Purchased: 2011-11-27 Number of Hours: 450

"Tractor does everything asked of it and continues to amaze me. This is my first utility tractor. Before I bought it, I read a lot of forums about how many projects owners find for their tractors beyond the ones for which the tractor was originally purchased. That has been the case with me as well. Looking back to the time before I had the tractor, I sometimes wonder how we managed without. There are many things that we would never have been able to undertake by ourselves without the tractor. But there are just as many or more things that we got by without, but are able to complete much faster and with less effort and aches and pains now that the tractor performs the bull work. Even my wife, who was initially uncertain about the tractor ever being able to justify its expense has come up with a long list of projects that are now possibilities with the tractor's muscle. There are a lot of bells and whistles that I don't really need, but that do come in awfully handy with this tractor. One of the recurring recommendations from other owners that I took to heart when buying this tractor was to get the most tractor I could afford. I was originally looking at a Ford T2220, a John Deere 3520, and the Grand L3940. Going into the research, the Ford was the front runner, but I gravitated toward the John Deere, looking at the Kubota as the overkill Cadillac of the group. Ultimately, it was the hydraulic thumb that clinched the deal for me. The John Deere dealer was very accommodating and was ready to install a Woods after market hydraulic thumb on the backhoe for me. But the Kubota was the only one of the three tractors that offered a hydraulic thumb from the factory. So that's the way I went. And since then, I've been very pleased and am pretty sure I have the heaviest duty tractor of the group I had under consideration. In addition to the tractor, I have the LA724 loader, the BH92 backhoe w/ a hydraulic thumb, and the L2195 72 inch snowblower. The loader has worked beautifully to date and saved me a lot of time hauling anything from mulch to gravel to top soil. I've even used it to haul some tree stumps, some requiring log chains to hold the stumps in place for the ride. The backhoe is the most useful thing about the tractor, and the hydraulic thumb increases its usefulness 10 times over. If you can afford a hydraulic thumb, get one. You won't regret it. We use the backhoe to do some trenching work, but mostly to pick up trees, logs, rocks, and just about anything else that needs to be manipulated. It took a little practice, but after a while it becomes like an extension of your body. The snowblower was probably the toughest expense to justify. But I clear off a lot of driveway and we've put the snowblower to great use every winter since we've had it. It's probably faster to just plow the snow off with a quad when less than 4 inches fall. But over 4 inches, the snowblower is a sight to behold. And it proved to be about the only machine for miles around that was able to handle the heavy snowfall from two huge blizzards that we've seen, one of them dumping almost three feet of snow on us. I was asked for help from neighbors who's contractors could not make it through snow that accumulated as fast as it did in Winter Storm Nemo. With plows, there comes a limiting point where you can move the snow if there's no where to push it. The snowblower solves that problem by picking it up and tossing it - a long ways. Depending on the consistency of the snow, we've probably seen the snowblower throw the snow in excess of 50 feet, not counting what wind can do if you're lucky enough to get it working with you."

REVIEWER'S ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Pros: The Kubota is a solid, extremely useful tractor. I think any compact utility tractor will increase the list of potential projects that can be tackled. But the Kubota seems more rugged than some of the other tractors I've used and of the bunch I was considering at the time to buy. It's an amazingly easy tractor to use and its controls are all well laid out. It's got power to spare for all but the largest tree stumps I've tried to dig up and has been able to pick rocks out of the ground that I would never have believed a machine this size would be able to manage. What it can't pick up, it can usually lift enough to get out of a hole and push around. Cons: I don't have many complaints about the tractor. I'll go into detail about them here, but in all reality, they were minor nuisances. I had to replace a fuel filter instead of cleaning it per the preventative maintenance instructions. But that might have a function of some bad fuel than a flaw with the tractor design. In any event, it was starving for power and the engine just about stalled when trying to drive over the road in high gear. It was totally lacking in power and was pretty clearly a fuel line issue. When repeated venting didn't solve the problem, I just replaced the filter elemet, which otherwise looked fine. Since then, we've had no problems. The glow plug relay quit working at about 250 hours. The tractor wouldn't start or would start very hard after a lot of cranking with lots of white smoke. The relay indicator light on the console timed out as expected, and I could hear the relay drop out. But I guess it wasn't actually powering the glow plugs. I was surprised that glow plugs are necessary in temperatures well above freezing. But it was an easy fix under warranty, and has since not given me any trouble. One of the hydraulic quick disconnects on the loader has some kind of problem that made it almost impossible to get off and re-connect without some gentle tapping with a hammer and screwdriver. A replacement connector solved that problem. The snow blower is not something that is just swapped in quickly. So that's a chore I put off until just before a major snow fall and then plan to leave on until winter is over. It requires dropping the loader, which takes me about 10 minutes. The brush guard comes off and an adaptor plate goes on in its place. I'll only make this mistake once, but if you put that adaptor plate on backwards, the subframe pins obviously don't align and are cause for some head scratching and profanity. I then have to install a subframe that can be used to operate front-mounted snowblowers, brooms, and bull dozer blades. Because I store the subframe on a dirt shed floor (for now) getting the alignment right for the pins can be a little tricky. Some pry bars help coax everything into place. A proficient operator on a concrete floor could probably install that in 20 minutes. It takes me closer to 45 minutes with some choice words to help get things lined up. The snowblower then mounts to the front of the subframe. That's pretty straight forward, but the front PTO connection is tough to get at and is probably the hardest part of that hook-up, which takes about 15 minutes. The hydraulic hoses to lift the snow blower up and down got pinched between the front axle and the tractor frame while rolling over some uneven terrain and resulted in a blown line. I was surprised that could happen since the hoses were all routed as they're supposed to be. Simple solution was to tie wrap the hose bundle to prevent that from happening again. The only other complaint I have is that the hydraulics drift badly when the tractor is off. Maybe that's normal for all compact tractors, but I've used larger machines and that's not something I was used to seeing on them. Type of User: Homeowner 1-10 Acres Location: USA CT I also considered buying: John Deere 3520, Ford 2120
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No Regrets
rating
4.0
Posted 12/23/2013
by Guermeister
Model year: 2011 Date Purchased: 2010-10-01 Number of Hours: 220

"We studied and shopped different brands, different Kubota models, and finally different configurations of the L3940. No regrets on the choice, thanks in part to many posts on TractorsByNet. We considered a smaller model to conserve money, but trusted the admonition that when considering two tractors, one smaller and/or less powerful, go with the larger, more powerful model. After using the hydro-static, we can't imagine having bought anything else. I suspect that most who question whether it's worth the additional cost just haven't had it. We also upgraded to the 724 loader and bucket, then had heavy duty teeth added to the bucket. Ours is open, no cab or top, and so have had no desire to retrofit. We use the tractor on about 90 acres of primarily timberland with heavy-duty 60" rotary cutter, harrow, chisel plow, tiller, rake, sprayer, spreader, and finish mower. We use it to its capacity--not abusing, but pushing to its limits--including unearthing and moving very large rocks (boulders?). So far, it's been bullet proof. Our only complaint is that the alternate operator weighs only about a hundred pounds and even with the seat loosened to its extent, she usually doesn't hold it down securely enough to keep it from shutting off, especially if trying to use the PTO. I'll make a workaround, but for now she puts chain or some such weight in the seat with her."

REVIEWER'S ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Pros: Easy to operate, comfortable, tough, dependable. Cons: None, other than pressure required to depress seat for small operator. Type of User: Homeowner 50-100 Acres Location: USA FL I also considered buying:
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Perfect Tractor for the Rowdy Farmette
rating
4.0
Posted 11/17/2013
by Tracy
Model year: 2008 Date Purchased: 2010-10-20 Number of Hours: 250

"Great tractor and best in class among similar machines, IMO. Always reliable, easy to care for and service myself. Power is easy to harness and use effectively. Mine is HST, diesel and has AWD, rear PTO and front loader. Perfect for people like me who aren't working hundreds of acres, but who need a lot more than a lawn tractor on steroids and who need a machine capable of handling a variety of heavy-duty tasks. A few functional design issues that really bug me, however: access to oil and other key parts of the engine compartment requires dismantling side panels. It's not hard to remove them, but slipping the panel into the right slots in the small space between the front loader arms and body is a pain in the neck and usually takes me several times. Should be more accessible. The second issue is the gas pedal design. The pedal is a large rectangle with a wide, open angle or curve (think of an articulated rocker shape, with rounded ridges at the front and back to cradle the foot). It's designed this way, I presume, to account for the fact that the pedal controls both forward and reverse (press the front part with the front of your foot to go forward, back part with your heel to go backward). I can only assume that Kubota's designers found this to be ergonomically delightful for most of their users---big dudes with big clod-hopping feet. For a woman with very small feet, though, it sucks. When doing a lot of forward-back work (front-end loader stuff, occasional back blade work), I have to constantly lift and readjust my foot placement, which becomes quite fatiguing after a while. And even when simply going forward, I can't rest my foot on the whole pedal because my heel is too close to the center point, so I have to actively push down with my toes the whole time, which is also fatiguing. I wish tractor manufacturers, and tool and equipment manufacturers in general, would recognize that some of their customers are have smaller hands and feet but work themselves and their machines just as hard as men do---grr. Still an awesome tractor - wouldn't trade it for another one (except someday a bigger model, haha)."

REVIEWER'S ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Pros: Reliable, powerful, and well-made. Cons: Somewhat pricey, some issues with functional design. Type of User: Homeowner 10-50 Acres Location: USA MI I also considered buying: John Deere 3040, New Holland T1530
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Kubota L3940
rating
4.2
Posted 11/14/2013
by Colt_Cowboy
Model year: 2008 Date Purchased: 2008-07-01 Number of Hours: 326

"The Kubota Grand L3940 has done everything I have asked of it. I've used it to brush hog 45 acres of hay fields with a 6' brush hog. Took some time but it got the job done. It has been used with a two bottom plow to plow 1 to 2 acres at a time. It also runs a 6 foot roto-tiller without a problem. The biggest issues I have are the radiator screen gets covered quickly causing it to run hot. Once I stop and clean it off all is well. I would also say that the L3940 is marginal with a 2 bottom plow. Some plowing is very slow going if the ground is not absolutely dry."

REVIEWER'S ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Pros: Great features and functionality. Cons: Radiator screen clogs frequently and is marginal with a 2 bottom plow. Type of User: Homeowner 50-100 Acres Location: USA MO I also considered buying: Kioti DK40SE HST, Mahindra 4035 HST
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Grand L3940 HST3
rating
3.2
Posted 11/14/2013
by Fred
Model year: 2012 Date Purchased: 2013-06-01 Number of Hours: 52

"Not happy at all with this tractor, it has little power and will stall with an 8 inch woodchipper if not careful."

REVIEWER'S ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Pros: Nice fit and finish, very reliable, nice heat and A/C. Cons: Powerless, faded paint after 12 months, loader controls twitchy and POORLY engineered, powerless engine I mean REALLY gutless, overly expensive parts prices, filters and 5 gal. of trans fluid 300 bux, powerless. Did I say powerless? Type of User: Commercial Farmer Location: CND CO I also considered buying: John Deere 5045D, Kioti DK40SE HST
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