Kubota BX-2350D Grill / Brush Guard in Germany

[Kubotachen]

I'm new to the forum, and am writing this from Frankfurt Germany.

My relatively new Kubota BX-2350D came without a brush guard, which made me a bit nervous whence working with the front loader as well as the mulcher (flail mower / hammer knife).

I looked here and on dealer sites all across Europe, and none would ship me the units one sees on US websites (including the original Kubota part BX2334 http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...6-santa-bring-any-tractor-presents-woohoo.jpg , nor K2591-21250 http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...d-bx1800-2200-314586-bxbrushguard-medium-.jpg .


So, I set my local dealer to work Schomann Motorgeräte e.K. in Gelnhausen /Roth bei Frankfurt am Main , and he came up with this: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/asset.php?fid=342325&uid=243957&d=1393608461 At first I was puzzled as to why he fabricated it as he did, but then realized it was genius as it doesn't interfere with the headlights and it has sufficient clearance that the hood fully opens. Plus I can wrap bungees, ropes and chains around it, and it serves as an auxiliary rollbar as well as the originally-intended front protection. Now I'll wait for the bill.

What do you think ... it is the ugliest thing you've ever seen, or a great example of German engineering as applied to a Japanese tractor built in Georgia, USA?

 

[GolfAddict]

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What do you think ... it is the ugliest thing you've ever seen, or a great example of German engineering as applied to a Japanese tractor built in Georgia, USA?

I'm not sure... but, I kind of like it!

 

[amaxwell]

Looks like it will serve it's purpose well. I like the height on it, better than most ,which are too short to prevent hood damage.

 

[timster2]

Kubota Panzerwagen!

 

[Kubotachen]

Whence I'm not mowing our horse meadows or using the front loader to move manure and sand around in our paddock, I use it as a power equipment and firewood hauler up in the fruit orchard. Towards Fall, we end up with some scrub saplings and thistles that the flail mower can handle with great aplomb, but the first run I made with the brand-new Kubota involved a lot of wincing on my part as they scraped across the front hood ... and once or twice I contacted the manure pile whilst dumping a shovel load up on the tippy top. I'm pretty certain this will give me much better peace of mind.

The more I look at it, the more I think it aesthetically balances out the rear OEM roll bar, especially as it's painted the same factory color as it and the tractor frame. My kids call it a "kangaroo bar".

P.S. to Timster2 ... "panzer" literally means "armor", so you're exactly right Englisch - Deutsch Wörterbuch - leo.org: Startseite . Even though colloquial German for tractor is "Schlepper" Schlepper - Englisch-?bersetzung – Linguee W?terbuch , we can use the more modern term kommunaltraktor - Englisch-?bersetzung – Linguee W?terbuch and make up a new German compound word for the bar: Kubotakommunaltraktorschutzgitter. Try saying that 10 times fast!

P.P.S. Here's a machine-translated website for our broader operation http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.platzenberg.de&sl=de&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8 . Photos here http://www.flickr.com/photos/7622187@N06/ .

 

[timster2]

Panzerschlepper? :thumbsup:

 

[Kubotachen]

That's a bit bigger! http://cdn.pressebox.de/a/a5fe572ff5b87c91/attachments/0451076.attachment/filename/HX+81.jpg

P.S. Are compact tractor people in the US as maniacal about Porsche Diesels as people are over here? https://www.google.de/search?q=pors...geNhoHoCQ&sqi=2&ved=0CF8QsAQ&biw=1920&bih=934

 

[Kubotachen]

I finally took the tractor out for four hours of manure pile consolidation and moving around sand for the riding ring, and I think the grille guard paid for itself the first day. I'm so much more confident now that I can just mush against the piles and really get the materials up there.

Also, a rookie question related to the loader: There's a sticker that says to grease the nipples every 10 hours. The tractor has about 20 hours on it now, but a lot of the time is just driving around shovels full of sand. Am I okay greasing every 20 hours of clock time on the tractor?

 

[sid79]

hmm Kubotakommunaltraktorfrontschutzgitter

I managed to make the word even longer

 

[Egon]

Nice guard. Think about filling in the holes with expanded metal.