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Read articles →An owner-operator two-year retrospective at roughly 120 hours of use. The video's real value is the honest real-world task reporting: loader work moving creek gravel and dirt, bush hogging thick neglected acreage including a radiator-clogging overheating issue, land clearing, plowing, and tilling. He explains why he chose the 4540 over Kubota and John Deere (no DEF, higher loader capacity, ~$28K price). Best for shoppers weighing this model against competitors.
An owner-operator sharing hands-on impressions from two years of personal use on their own and others' properties.
No DEF or DPF system to deal with, and the front end loader has substantially more lift capacity than a comparable 40 horsepower Kubota, useful for lifting hay bales.
It handled 20 to 30 acres of dog fennel taller than the operator, bogging down only in the thickest patches, but radiator needed cleaning about every 45 minutes due to overheating.
About 120 hours with the first break-in service done at 50 hours, finding metal shavings in the transmission and hydraulic fluid filter, considered normal during break-in.
The gear shifter can be hard to get into gear and occasionally grinds a little, though he expects it to improve with time and likes that it is easier to fix.
