Your Thoughts on Me Ditching My B7510 for a BX2350.

[easygo]

Do you by any chance leave the ballast on the rear while mowing? If so. That makes the front end VERY light especially if you take the loader off. (I never tried that combo, but sounds like a bad idea.)

I get the sliding sideways front wheels, when I make a very sharp turn on loose ground with 500lbs of ballast on the 3ph and nothing in the loader.

Just wondering out loud here.

Edit: Just to cover all bases. Check if the rear differential lock is released. If it's stuck that wants to make the tractor go straight. Then the rear wheels would make some mark too in the turns.

 

[Bob_Young]

Robert, you say the turf damage is done by the tractor tires and not the mower. Yet, on the B, the weight of the deck is riding on the mower wheels and not being carried by the tractor. On the somewhat (but not alot) lighter BX2350, the weight of the deck is carried by the tractor. This might make the weight on the BX tractor tires about the same as on your B.

I'd say, unless you're planning to go all the way down to the BX1500/1850, you might not gain a thing. Best do what you suggested and get your dealer to let you demo the model you're considering and see what it does to the turf before spending the $. There may be other issues here.

I mow around a lot of trees with the B7610. I get the turf tearing in a few locations...fast, tight turns where I'm turning uphill or on the side of a tree trunk mound. Just have to plan those differently to avoid it. In my case, I think the solution is to dig up the turf around the trees and put wood chips down close to the trunks. The place would look better and I wouldn't need tight turns.
Bob

 

[don716]

I have a B7500 with R-4's and haven't had any problem with turning or tearing up my yard.As far as the circles left when turning I did have some of those until I figured out to set my deck wheels down a notch.Now when I turn the wheels keep the deck from digging into the ground.My father has a BX 2350 and I mowed his yard a few weeks ago and I like mine better.It seems to handle better.,especially when your backing up and let off the pedal.I would stay with the 7510 myself but that's my opinion.If the dealer will let you try something else I would do that and then make your decision.

Donny

 

[CHDinCT]

I like mine better.It seems to handle better.,especially when your backing up and let off the pedal.

Donny

Bingo - If you go the BX route, get the 2360. The 50 series jerks you to a stop coming out of reverse. Kubota fixed that on the 60 series. Also, I get tire wear from my lighter wheel horse in places in my yard where the grass is thin - e.g., under/around trees. If you track the tires in the same place every mowing session, you'll get tire wear marks where the grass is thin with any tractor short of a light LT.

 

[robertm]

Well, I'm done with the BX thing for a while... probably another year. I am going to look for a descent used rider witha 48" deck over time so my son can mow in a few years, but for now, I think I will do some "yard planning" in the spring, which may include some seeding and mulch beds that change my mowing.

I have 8 foot diameter circles around my big trees and OUTSIDE of that is where I get the cuts from the front tire. I have no ballast attached. I never mow with the FEL attached. I never mow in 4WD. I am thinking about trying different tire pressures, but my manual does not list pressures for the bar turf tires or the front tires I have. The front tire sidewall reads MAX 25PSI. I have them at 24 just because of loader work. I may try 18-20PSI and see, but I'm guessing it will be worse. I never have problems with the rears.

My dealer called this moring, and although I am thinking, his $4,250 trade difference probably won't work for me. I see the B and BX weigh about the same. while the MMM is the difference. I can make my MMM a suspended type with check chains, but I have no issues with my mower... it's the tires. Now I am second guessing that I should have the standard tuf tires, but the $1,000 to go back to them seems steep for a "maybe", and my B7500 that had them tore up the lawn just as much, but I never considered tire pressure then. If I knew I could sell these bar-turfs for a resonable price, I would but turfs again. After all, I'd have nothing to lose, but everything to gain.

Lastly, I am thinking maybe my lawn has changed. Any of you recall my posts several years ago with pictures of my striped lawn? I just came across them, and the lawn looked picture perfect. Why have things changed now? I'm thinking that maybe som lawn attention in spring may help the situation, and reseeding under the trees with something hearty could help.

Thnaks again for all the input.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

I don't do snow so I have no opinion on that. 4 Years ago I started my tractoring with a BX2200 FEL MMM. A year later I traded it to a new B7800 FEL and 6' RFM due to ground clearance and "more power". I also bought a BX1500 MMM at that time for my wife to help me mow. Later I bought a Kubota Gas mower for a mobile home park I mow. This year I sold the gas mower and bought a F2880E 6' rear discharge front deck mower for the mobile home park. I traded the BX1500 for a BX2350 for my mowing at home on 3 acres of hilly, rocky, treed and gullied land. Traded the B7800 for a L3240HST. I still have the 6' RFM Landpride deck but I don't use it any more. I just mow with the BX2350 at home. The L3240 is just for bucket and box blade use. I have a Ferguson over seeder which I use on the BX2350. If your mowing and FELing the BX will do about anything the B will do if you don't need the higher ground clearance. Seems no one has mentioned adding a RFM to your B but that may be the answer. Don't know but just a thought. As you can see I have traded up and down. For my needs the B7800 was the best all around machine for me. My L3240 will one day be traded for a B3030, I believe. With the BX2350 on hand I don't have to hurry and trade because it is such a good workhorse mower which is what I do mostly now. No, as a mower it is not as good as the F2880 but that's a $14000 mower, only.