Kubota B2150HSX found in the Woods

[HiTechTed]

I found a rusted 5 gallon bucket on my property. How I wish I could stumble across something like what you found. Crap, I'd be happy to find just the flail mower!

I wonder why people abandon things like that? It doesn't make much sense to me. If it were mine, I'd would have at least sold it for parts or something, anything other than just parking it in the woods and leaving it there!

 

[yooper1]

hmm....I wonder if the bracken killed the tractor?

 

[Travelover]

I found a rusted 5 gallon bucket on my property. How I wish I could stumble across something like what you found. Crap, I'd be happy to find just the flail mower!

I wonder why people abandon things like that? It doesn't make much sense to me. If it were mine, I'd would have at least sold it for parts or something, anything other than just parking it in the woods and leaving it there!

Probably hiding it from the wife. :laughing:

 

[Johndeere3720]

Nice find. :thumbsup: And :welcome: to TBN! a find like that is certainly a good one, congrats to you! :thumbsup: Plus with the flail mower, you can maintain the property. :thumbsup:

 

[nickel plate]

This happens so much over here so it must also happen in France. The tractor and flail mower may be hot (stolen) and abandoned. Before you pour alot of pounds and euros into it, perhaps a serial number check would be in order. Hope it is just abandoned!

 

[atobuk]

Thanks for all the good advice:

Forgeblast:
what ground cover did you put down and how successful was it?


nickel plate:
I will check the serial number but I dont have any worries there Im sure. The property is a half finished restoration project with a house and a couple of barns in France. Its off the beaten track so probably not been visited for a long time.

I bought the property as part of a deceased estate, which took forever (several years) to go through probate and all the other legal niceties that have to take place before being sold in one country for the benefit of his family in another country. You get the complicated picture dont you!

I know one of the beneficiaries of the estate and basically when the owner died (an Englishman) none of the family wanted to even go to France and see the place so they had no idea what was there which accounts for the stuff being left .

Other items I found, but of no interest to TBN forum members, were a truck, diesel generators, a triple cut mower, an old Mayfield Allen scythe (probably for the bracken) etc etc. These were all dry in the Barns so nice and easy to get them working (for my cousin).
It just looks like the tractor finished mowing one day was parked there never to be used again until we found it. Still, its an Ill wind that blows NOBODY any good.

The link Yooper1 sent me is a parts list (really useful) but not an owners manual, which is what I need. If anyone knows of a manual for the KUBOTA
B2150HST I would be pleased to hear of it. Even a copy would be a great help

Thanks all

 

[yooper1]

Sorry about that.

I assumed it was what you needed.

I should have read thru it more.

I did find these on eBay:

Kubota B2150HST Tractor Operator's Owner's Manual book - eBay (item 150491876860 end time Nov-09-10 16:00:16 PST)

Kubota B2150 HST tractor owners manual - eBay (item 350392620678 end time Nov-08-10 08:08:48 PST)

Also Messicks has them here, at 1/2 that price

http://www.messicks.com/dept56/Kubota/Manuals.aspx

 

[yooper1]

If any of them will not ship to you in the UK.....I could buy it and ship it to you for whatever the actual postage is.

That is of course after setting up some way or agreement to get me the funds from you.

There is always PayPal

 

[atobuk]

Thanks for info and the links yooper1.
I'll mail the sellers and see if they will post to UK.

 

[forgeblast]

I actually used a no till clover to get the white tail deer (not that they dont eat everything anyway) closer to where i was putting my archery stand. I put it down in october when it was cooler and then by next spring it was up and doing fine. I did have to throw some lime down. It was by the white tail institute....it is a mix of a bunch of different clovers some small some larger. It was either that or just grass seed that i was going to put down.