Scooby074
Super Member
I have a bit of a delima.
Last summer i bought a Deere x540 garden tractor. As a lawn mowing machine its preformed above expectations. Comfortable, fast and powerful.
However, im now in my first winter at the new property (hillside) and need to have a more year around machine that can handle more tasks.
This may mean buying a bigger machine such as a BX if finances allow and i wont lose my shirt on trade-in
So today i stopped into the Kubota dealer for a chat. I also plan on stopping by the massey (2300) and deere (2305) dealers as well. Il likely post up question threads in their respective forums after i visit and have questions.
After that background, heres what i need to do.
1. Maintain a 500' gravel drive and about the same in pavement. This includes snowplowing and sanding. Dealer says i need to remove the loader to plow as the loader arms cant take the strain??? If thats the case.. eek/.
Also i will have to use a back blade to reshape and slope the gravel. Does a BX have enough traction to loosen up and grade a compacted gravel drive? this will be annual maintenance from water runnoff.
2. Mowing . approx 3 acres of treed lawn . 1 plot of 1 acre, 2 at another location. Some with soft areas and less than ideal drainage. which leads to
3. installing french drains and uprooting an established lawn. this area will be graded to direct runnoff away from the house. Also a few hundred feet of reditching existing and digging new open drains
4. Annual bushhogging of ~750' road consisting of mostly <1" hardwoods, however id also like to break trail and this would mean mowing over larger material ~2- 2.5", some in "clusters" of 5-10 alders of varying sizes sharing a common root.
The dealer said the Bx couldnt handle over 1-1.5". Is this correct? How has the BX handled "larger" materials in real world situations? Especially "clusters"?
I guess those are my main criteria. The dealer was trying to sway me towards a B2320. I think for the bush hogging and digging this would be a much better machine (heavier with better ground clearance), however it just seems huge for the smallish lawns i need to take care of. Plus it seems to have a higher CG and the lawns i mow are on slopes.
I should say i have experience on a b21 and b26. The dealer warned me not to expect anything close to the performance of those machines from either the BX or the B2630.
Any advise is helpful. I need a jack of all trades and hope to make a better decision and not have to go through this again.
Last summer i bought a Deere x540 garden tractor. As a lawn mowing machine its preformed above expectations. Comfortable, fast and powerful.
However, im now in my first winter at the new property (hillside) and need to have a more year around machine that can handle more tasks.
This may mean buying a bigger machine such as a BX if finances allow and i wont lose my shirt on trade-in
So today i stopped into the Kubota dealer for a chat. I also plan on stopping by the massey (2300) and deere (2305) dealers as well. Il likely post up question threads in their respective forums after i visit and have questions.
After that background, heres what i need to do.
1. Maintain a 500' gravel drive and about the same in pavement. This includes snowplowing and sanding. Dealer says i need to remove the loader to plow as the loader arms cant take the strain??? If thats the case.. eek/.
Also i will have to use a back blade to reshape and slope the gravel. Does a BX have enough traction to loosen up and grade a compacted gravel drive? this will be annual maintenance from water runnoff.
2. Mowing . approx 3 acres of treed lawn . 1 plot of 1 acre, 2 at another location. Some with soft areas and less than ideal drainage. which leads to
3. installing french drains and uprooting an established lawn. this area will be graded to direct runnoff away from the house. Also a few hundred feet of reditching existing and digging new open drains
4. Annual bushhogging of ~750' road consisting of mostly <1" hardwoods, however id also like to break trail and this would mean mowing over larger material ~2- 2.5", some in "clusters" of 5-10 alders of varying sizes sharing a common root.
The dealer said the Bx couldnt handle over 1-1.5". Is this correct? How has the BX handled "larger" materials in real world situations? Especially "clusters"?
I guess those are my main criteria. The dealer was trying to sway me towards a B2320. I think for the bush hogging and digging this would be a much better machine (heavier with better ground clearance), however it just seems huge for the smallish lawns i need to take care of. Plus it seems to have a higher CG and the lawns i mow are on slopes.
I should say i have experience on a b21 and b26. The dealer warned me not to expect anything close to the performance of those machines from either the BX or the B2630.
Any advise is helpful. I need a jack of all trades and hope to make a better decision and not have to go through this again.
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