jtg3i
New member
Hi,
I'm a newbie soon to be owner of a BX25 TLB with snowblower and possibly mower...therein lies my question, whether to keep my current mowing machine and get the BX without mower, or trade my current mower in and use the BX as an all-in-one machine with mower. I've read that removal /re-attach of the FEL and BH are easy and quick, so I'd plan to remove them while mowing...But the opposite...the mower can be more tricky and time-consuming to remove and re-attach, so...frequent removing and re-attaching of the mower might become a pain in the butt, if I'm doing that whenever i'm using the BX for other than mowing (spring-summer-fall).
I'm on 10 acres of hilly, fairly rugged land with rocks, trees / branches down, stumps, etc. all over the place...which I hope to clean up over time with help from the BX. Would you suggest i'd definitely want the mower removed during any of that activity, to avoid damaging it and to give me clearance to work? If i had a few projects on a weekend, start by removing the mower to do some digging / loading, then re-attach to do some mowing, then remove again to do some more digging / loading...that could be a pain.
A simple but expensive solution is to not trade in my current mowing machine, keep it around just for mowing (will cost me around $3-4k in trade value), which is hard to justify. So if that's not an option, what's your normal practice as far as removing the mower when working in rugged terrain?
Tom
I'm a newbie soon to be owner of a BX25 TLB with snowblower and possibly mower...therein lies my question, whether to keep my current mowing machine and get the BX without mower, or trade my current mower in and use the BX as an all-in-one machine with mower. I've read that removal /re-attach of the FEL and BH are easy and quick, so I'd plan to remove them while mowing...But the opposite...the mower can be more tricky and time-consuming to remove and re-attach, so...frequent removing and re-attaching of the mower might become a pain in the butt, if I'm doing that whenever i'm using the BX for other than mowing (spring-summer-fall).
I'm on 10 acres of hilly, fairly rugged land with rocks, trees / branches down, stumps, etc. all over the place...which I hope to clean up over time with help from the BX. Would you suggest i'd definitely want the mower removed during any of that activity, to avoid damaging it and to give me clearance to work? If i had a few projects on a weekend, start by removing the mower to do some digging / loading, then re-attach to do some mowing, then remove again to do some more digging / loading...that could be a pain.
A simple but expensive solution is to not trade in my current mowing machine, keep it around just for mowing (will cost me around $3-4k in trade value), which is hard to justify. So if that's not an option, what's your normal practice as far as removing the mower when working in rugged terrain?
Tom