New MX 6 on the ground!

[bilrus61]

Dealer just delivered my MX 6. Not used it yet but I wanted to comment on the paint job. It looks great! It has a undercoat and appears very think. I can see where the green paint should cost more!:thumbsup: I looked at a new Rhino 172 dealer's lot that had blisters all over it and rust everywhere. The paint looked like Mrs. Johnson's 2nd grade class had did it with watercolor paint.

On the downside the gearbox is made in China like all the other cutters,Landpride,Rhino,Bushhog ect, ect,. I had checked over a MX 5 three years ago and one of the things I had liked was that the gearbox was made in Spain BY Deere.

I've read several posts here about the output shaft bending on the MX series of mowers and I wondered if those are the Euro gearboxes or the Chinese gearboxes that are doing that? Maybe Deere went with a heavier duty Chinese gearbox to solve that issue. Since I'll be just cutting weeds I figured the gearbox will be strong enough but still one of the things that tipped the scales to the MX over the Landpride was the Spainish made gearbox.

I'll get a mowing report as soon as my Kubota L5040 is delivered.....

 

[ham]

Well just two weeks ago I took delivery of my MX6 and hooked her up to my new 4520...very nice mower. I mowed next to where my wife had used the deluxe push mower where we have a flower island etc located across the road and you can't tell where the push mower left off and the MX6 mowed. Chews right through the tough stuff. This mower is about 5 times better built than my former Landpride which rusted, and vibrated apart

All I know is my gearbox has John Deere on it and is about twice as big and hefty compared to the 6' and 7' Frontier model...and John Deere has to back it up.

Also it has been stressed to me that John Deere uses the same quality control specs in all categories in all places of manufacture and indeed the same quality control supervisors travel to all manufacturing sites and do the quality reviews. No slack is shown to any of their manufaturing facilities.

Yes I like American made, hence I run a 4520, but only buying only American soil made is not often possible and not even always advisable.

 

[sweettractors]

Well just two weeks ago I took delivery of my MX6 and hooked her up to my new 4520...very nice mower. I mowed next to where my wife had used the deluxe push mower where we have a flower island etc located across the road and you can't tell where the push mower left off and the MX6 mowed. Chews right through the tough stuff. This mower is about 5 times better built than my former Landpride which rusted, and vibrated apart

All I know is my gearbox has John Deere on it and is about twice as big and hefty compared to the 6' and 7' Frontier model...and John Deere has to back it up.

Also it has been stressed to me that John Deere uses the same quality control specs in all categories in all places of manufacture and indeed the same quality control supervisors travel to all manufacturing sites and do the quality reviews. No slack is shown to any of their manufaturing facilities.

Yes I like American made, hence I run a 4520, but only buying only American soil made is not often possible and not even always advisable.

Have you checked this thread? Ken Sweet
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/179056-bent-output-shaft-mx5-cutter.html

 

[ham]

Yes Ken I read that that thread. Good points made. But if you smack a rock as big as Kansas something is going to give. Thought the cost of replacing that part shouldn't be so rediculous.

In other words I am sure if that shaft was made in New Jersey it would have never bent

 

[nmu98]

Have you checked this thread? Ken Sweet
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/179056-bent-output-shaft-mx5-cutter.html

Ken,
I really think you jumped in this thread to flame the Deere stuff and try to push your stuff in a feeble marketing attempt. The other thread has you telling people what you sell and at what cost.

I am all for you advertising here, but not at the cost of peoples excitement on their new purchase. This guy just bought an MX6 and you are here posting about a bent output shaft and the thread you link just happens to tell the brand you sell and a percentage of cost of the deere... Come on...

I have had an MX5 for 5 years. That thing was beat on the bottom from crap people threw on our ditch banks. I have backed over many large rocks not knowing a laborer threw it there and nothing, no issues. I watched my cutter bounce on a metal mail box post and I thought it was going to tip the tractor over before it stopped.... Nothing but dents on the bottom.

I now bought an MX6 and I can see where they made some changes to the design, and I think it will make it even more durable.

Things happen with any machinery and stuff breaks, no matter the make or model. In the case that you posted, I bet there would be little left of a king cutter, and in fact there could have been flying parts, simply due to the lack of quality metal used on the build. Yes Deere is expensive, but in 99 percent of the cases, they have and use high quality parts.

 

[Spudland_Dave]

Things happen with any machinery and stuff breaks, no matter the make or model.

I know some guys that could demolish a 3 pt mounted Anvil... :laughing:
REGARDLESS of Brand/Color/Model/Country of Origin...

 

[sweettractors]

Ken,
I really think you jumped in this thread to flame the Deere stuff and try to push your stuff in a feeble marketing attempt. The other thread has you telling people what you sell and at what cost.

I am all for you advertising here, but not at the cost of peoples excitement on their new purchase. This guy just bought an MX6 and you are here posting about a bent output shaft and the thread you link just happens to tell the brand you sell and a percentage of cost of the deere... Come on...

I have had an MX5 for 5 years. That thing was beat on the bottom from crap people threw on our ditch banks. I have backed over many large rocks not knowing a laborer threw it there and nothing, no issues. I watched my cutter bounce on a metal mail box post and I thought it was going to tip the tractor over before it stopped.... Nothing but dents on the bottom.

I now bought an MX6 and I can see where they made some changes to the design, and I think it will make it even more durable.

Things happen with any machinery and stuff breaks, no matter the make or model. In the case that you posted, I bet there would be little left of a king cutter, and in fact there could have been flying parts, simply due to the lack of quality metal used on the build. Yes Deere is expensive, but in 99 percent of the cases, they have and use high quality parts.

Well. you sure got that assumption wrong. We bought a new MX7 last year and paid $3500 for it for the farm, thinking we were getting a Cadilac machine that could be passed on down to the next generation, Then after reading TBN threads, we look and sure enough our gearbox is made in China also and has a high potential of failure. This burns me up. Everytime we use it now, we feel like we have "baby" it. The final thought on this silly statement, We don't even ship rotary cutters. Ken Sweet

 

[nmu98]

The last 4 posts of the link you posted say it all to me.

I do think that a many people read to much on the net and get fearful when they read something they bought broke. Come on, Deere sells way more of these units that we know about and you have read of how many breaking?

One guys tries to cut a huge rock, it flies up and lands wrong, and these cutters are junk. Come on.

I just don't see this as a productive post in a thread where a gentleman bought a new cutter.

 

[sweettractors]

Quote: Ken,
I really think you jumped in this thread to flame the Deere stuff and try to push your stuff in a feeble marketing attempt. The other thread has you telling people what you sell and at what cost. Quote:


I see this false accusation as out of line as well. Like I said before, we can't even ship a rotary cutter over 48 inches. Why would I be promoting something I can't even sell? Ken Sweet

 

[nmu98]

Maybe we are both wrong. I am not going to argue about this on a forum...

You are an advertiser and if you feel that what you did is appropriate, so be it. Its your reputation.:thumbsup:

 

[beppington]

Dealer just delivered my MX 6...

Can you let me know how much you paid?

 

[bilrus61]

I traded in a Rhino TW 96 simi-mount and $150 for it. The Rhino was 13 years old but barn kept and in good shape. The Rhino was a OUTSTANDING mower but for my situation the MX 6 is now the mower for me. I'm severly disabled and my dad has had a stroke and my mom is 75 and we are trying to hang on and keep the farm up and decent looking. I figure I can attach and take off the MX 6 all by myself but with the TW 96 my mom had to wrestle with the catagory 4 PTO and hook up the hydro hoses. Neither thing I can do. I can however do the MX 6. MX has a cat. 3 PTO shaft that is much easier for me to manage. Dealer allowed me 2500 for my Rhino. I'm not clearing any brush/trees so the durablity of the mower shouldn't come into play. I knew the mower was more fragile than its contemperarys before I got it. The Bush Hog 326 is still the mower I dream about at night.....<sigh>. Cat.5 PTO lets that one out of consideration. I know I could change the PTO shaft but didn't want to do that. I was mostly wanting a nice looking cut with the ability to tackle a downed limb on my trails I mow here on our daylilly farm.

I actually was only going to trade mowers but while the Kubota dealer was looking at my Rhino I asked him how would he trade a new L5040 to my L4200. It was more reasonable than I thought so I did that also! Just never pays to stop by a tractor dealer..........

Ken Sweet is just 40 miles north of me and I'm looking for a 3 point disk so I'll buzz up his way soon and have a look see.

 

[bullbreaker]

I traded in a Rhino TW 96 simi-mount and $150 for it. The Rhino was 13 years old but barn kept and in good shape. The Rhino was a OUTSTANDING mower but for my situation the MX 6 is now the mower for me. I'm severly disabled and my dad has had a stroke and my mom is 75 and we are trying to hang on and keep the farm up and decent looking. I figure I can attach and take off the MX 6 all by myself but with the TW 96 my mom had to wrestle with the catagory 4 PTO and hook up the hydro hoses. Neither thing I can do. I can however do the MX 6. MX has a cat. 3 PTO shaft that is much easier for me to manage. Dealer allowed me 2500 for my Rhino. I'm not clearing any brush/trees so the durablity of the mower shouldn't come into play. I knew the mower was more fragile than its contemperarys before I got it. The Bush Hog 326 is still the mower I dream about at night.....<sigh>. Cat.5 PTO lets that one out of consideration. I know I could change the PTO shaft but didn't want to do that. I was mostly wanting a nice looking cut with the ability to tackle a downed limb on my trails I mow here on our daylilly farm.

I actually was only going to trade mowers but while the Kubota dealer was looking at my Rhino I asked him how would he trade a new L5040 to my L4200. It was more reasonable than I thought so I did that also! Just never pays to stop by a tractor dealer..........

Ken Sweet is just 40 miles north of me and I'm looking for a 3 point disk so I'll buzz up his way soon and have a look see.

Wish you all much"Health"and "Blessings" your way.When possible with no rush sure would like to see some pictures.

"When you visit MR.SWEET up north from you, you might wanna ask him if he'll give you a ride on that rear mounted loader tractor he has before he sells it to the Smithsonian Institute." :thumbsup:
Boone

 

[ham]

Spudland Dave,

I was reviewing this thread and read again what you posted about a 3point Anvil...it reminds me of that Blue Collar Comedian.. "now that there's funny...I don't care who you are"....hilarious. (and true, the best comedy always is

 

[bigbull338]

well i got 1 of them can tear up anything brothers.about 15yrs ago i bought a brand new 10ft mowhawk shredder.an after 10hrs or less use it burned the seals on main gear box,thus burning up the gearbox.had war where i bought it from told dealer he could do 1 of 2 things.1 give me my money back an get that peice of junk.2.he could replace all 3 gear boxes at no cost to me.he said no it was your falt the gearbox blew out.he goes you didnt check oil level,i goes new equipment i dont check nothing it better be ready to work.well another dealer can an drained the gear boxes.round an round an he finally fixed it.an told the driver you make sure he knows theyve all been replaced.well it only shredded 4yrs an blew up completely.10yrs later i had a shop look at it,an they said it would cost $3000 to fix it.an i told them no.been running a bushogg for 10yrs now an no probs.but bottomline is dont put equipment down till it really swarms on you,an then tell what happened to it.

 

[rabcon]

I have a MX5 was mowing a feild and the output shaft broke . It was clearly a foulty casting and John Deere Said go pound salt !!!!! I will never buy Deere again !!! And yeah , I can buy a new gear box for $700 and the new pan for $600 !!!! that is the parts update, Can't buy or replace the broken shaft. Thed new gearbox and pan is the 3/4's the price of the new unit. Like I will get right on that Deere,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,NOT

 

[bilrus61]

Sorry to hear about that shaft Rabcon. Does your gearbox say Made in Spain or Made in China on it? There seems to be issues with the Spainish grearboxes. My MX 6 has a Chinese gearbox on it like almost every other mower in america.

 

[1ID]

I must be lucky. My MX5 mows concrete, metal, and various other things. Only problem I've had is the shear bolt. I even have tore a hole in the side from mowing something. All this damage while doing some commercial work in unknown fields. I'd buy another in a heart beat!!!

 

[Builder]

I own an MX-8. What a sweet mower. I have the hydraulic tailheight adjust and the hydraulic swing on mine. Got it for $3,000 used-looks like a brand new mower. Couldn't be happier.

Dumb question: Why doesn't the slip clutch slip when these nice folks are striking immovable objects and breaking shafts???

I've hit some real nasty rocks with mine and it just merrily chugs along. So far it's my best/favorite attachment. Now I'm gettin "a-scared" about these gearboxes breaking.

 

[jenkinsph]

I own an MX-8. What a sweet mower. I have the hydraulic tailheight adjust and the hydraulic swing on mine. Got it for $3,000 used-looks like a brand new mower. Couldn't be happier.

Dumb question: Why doesn't the slip clutch slip when these nice folks are striking immovable objects and breaking shafts???

I've hit some real nasty rocks with mine and it just merrily chugs along. So far it's my best/favorite attachment. Now I'm gettin "a-scared" about these gearboxes breaking.

Nice looking mower Builder, I am a little concerned looking at the pic though, is that a pink tractor?