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Hello all --
After watching the board for the past year and buying a couple other machines, I finally pulled the trigger on a new BX1850 with 48" mower and the LA203 front end loader equipped with a mean black tooth bar protruding from that pretty orange bucket. After owning it for the past seven days, I can truly say that I am happy with my purchase and grow more satisfied daily.
A little background here: We built a nice house eighteen months ago on a .66 acre lot and had the minimum landscaping done along with the lawn installation. Three years, four degenerative lumbar discs, and a side of arthritis ago, I would have built the house, seeded the lawn and done the landscaping myself, but that was obviously not in the hand I was dealt; needless to say - I paid to have the work done. Granted, it was kind of nice, but it killed me all along knowing I could have done much of that work myself. So after all of that, I was not about to let ANYONE cut the lawn I paid to have installed and there was NO way i was going to push mow this lawn. Say Hello to Cub Cadet 3000 series - great mower with all power, awesome snow plowing capabiltiy and a sturdy farm-grade build; way overkill for my needs. But having worked (and played) in the equipment rental business back in '95 after college, that inate fascination with all things mechanical, and Kubota's 0% financing deal, I ended up buying my BX1850. This thing is great!
I have already moved firewood from a truck with the bucket, mowed the lawn, removed & reinstalled the loader in less than five minutes, and taught my buddy how to use the bucket to dig and move material. I can't wait to clear out the brush that I purchased the tooth bar for, and have already started looking for a suitable trailer to haul it around locally to find more "seat time." Until then, it waits patiently inside the garage...
After watching the board for the past year and buying a couple other machines, I finally pulled the trigger on a new BX1850 with 48" mower and the LA203 front end loader equipped with a mean black tooth bar protruding from that pretty orange bucket. After owning it for the past seven days, I can truly say that I am happy with my purchase and grow more satisfied daily.
A little background here: We built a nice house eighteen months ago on a .66 acre lot and had the minimum landscaping done along with the lawn installation. Three years, four degenerative lumbar discs, and a side of arthritis ago, I would have built the house, seeded the lawn and done the landscaping myself, but that was obviously not in the hand I was dealt; needless to say - I paid to have the work done. Granted, it was kind of nice, but it killed me all along knowing I could have done much of that work myself. So after all of that, I was not about to let ANYONE cut the lawn I paid to have installed and there was NO way i was going to push mow this lawn. Say Hello to Cub Cadet 3000 series - great mower with all power, awesome snow plowing capabiltiy and a sturdy farm-grade build; way overkill for my needs. But having worked (and played) in the equipment rental business back in '95 after college, that inate fascination with all things mechanical, and Kubota's 0% financing deal, I ended up buying my BX1850. This thing is great!
I have already moved firewood from a truck with the bucket, mowed the lawn, removed & reinstalled the loader in less than five minutes, and taught my buddy how to use the bucket to dig and move material. I can't wait to clear out the brush that I purchased the tooth bar for, and have already started looking for a suitable trailer to haul it around locally to find more "seat time." Until then, it waits patiently inside the garage...
