B3200 BX2660 SIDE BY SIDE...NOT BETTER....DIFFERENT

[JOHNTHOMAS]

The decision between a B and BX seems to come up really often so another bump.

 

[lutt]

Thanks for bringing this thread up JOHNTHOMAS, I just finished reading it. I am at work now, and cant get online when I want, (Im a engineer on a towboat), service on the lower MS is hard to come by at times. But this is making me lean toward a larger B. Being around larger equipment on the farm when im off, I also dont believe bigger is always better. My wife and I just bought our place where we are now a year ago. All the work weve done cleaning the fencerows back, pushing out thickets, and cleaning up around the pond banks will be lost if I dont get something for up keep. When I get off this time, I believe I will start looking into the B. Thanks everyone for there help. I will probly have more questions later on when I start looking into this further. Thanks Lutt.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Thanks for bringing this thread up JOHNTHOMAS, I just finished reading it. I am at work now, and cant get online when I want, (Im a engineer on a towboat), service on the lower MS is hard to come by at times. But this is making me lean toward a larger B. Being around larger equipment on the farm when im off, I also dont believe bigger is always better. My wife and I just bought our place where we are now a year ago. All the work weve done cleaning the fencerows back, pushing out thickets, and cleaning up around the pond banks will be lost if I dont get something for up keep. When I get off this time, I believe I will start looking into the B. Thanks everyone for there help. I will probly have more questions later on when I start looking into this further. Thanks Lutt.

Your welcome Lutt.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Seeing more requests concerning purchase of B or BX. Guess this question and the what to do at 50 hours are and will continue to be the two biggest or most common questions on the forum.

 

[newdeal]

JohnThomas

Yeah, sure I realized the 'Bota would make a fine mower, but I dealt with that issue in my head at the dealership. Let's see, gorgeous mower deck, with swivel wheels for easy slide in and slide out. What was it $1700 with or without tax? I don't remember.

What I do remember is thinking how close my trees are together and how I intend more trees, and how stinkin' huge that mower deck was!!

Cough! Cough! and the price. In my stupor state of being at a tractor dealership, which the courts have upheld, that no male human should be held accountable for his actions, I had a thought. For $1700 plus or minus, I could buy two crappy mowers from in front of Wally World or somewhere.

As you can tell, my lawn isn't that big a part of the property here and growing grass at the 45.5 parallel is almost impossible, mowing isn't on the top of my list. You may find it hard to believe, but the neighbors and I have cut our "lawns" a grand total of maybe 4 or 5 times in 2009. I doubt that BX will ever be asked to do anything as mundane as mow grass. Well, that's the way it is up here in Beaver Creek

I had a craftsman...at my house it took 4 hours to mow the lawn with it. The bx2360 with 60" deck takes 1 hour 10 minutes...and has a loader, a box scraper and blows snow.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Interesting observation. The BX and B pictured have been gone for quite awhile from my Kubota stable. BP also no longer owns the aforementioned BX in the above quoted reply, he's now a B2320 owner and has been for quite awhile.
I've had some of my wise a.. friends on here bring back some of my earlier posts of me telling that I was done trading since I'd finally found the perfect Kubota or combination of Kubotas then when I traded again the earlier post would appear.:laughing:
I'm convinced the first tractor purchase is the test tractor to determine the ability of a tractor, your uses and needs and then go for the right tractor. So, the first tractor pick isn't that important anyway, it's just the test tractor.:laughing:
In my case I've had several test tractors, guess I'm a bit slow. In partial defense of my past (now over) trading habits, my needs had/have changed as I've progressed on my landscaping tasks.
I've now got the right combination and my trading days are over..........well, two more payments and my F2680 is paid off..............course my needs may change......................

 

[TripleR]

Interesting observation. The BX and B pictured have been gone for quite awhile from my Kubota stable. BP also no longer owns the aforementioned BX in the above quoted reply, he's now a B2320 owner and has been for quite awhile.
I've had some of my wise a.. friends on here bring back some of my earlier posts of me telling that I was done trading since I'd finally found the perfect Kubota or combination of Kubotas then when I traded again the earlier post would appear.:laughing:
I'm convinced the first tractor purchase is the test tractor to determine the ability of a tractor, your uses and needs and then go for the right tractor. So, the first tractor pick isn't that important anyway, it's just the test tractor.:laughing:
In my case I've had several test tractors, guess I'm a bit slow. In partial defense of my past (now over) trading habits, my needs had/have changed as I've progressed on my landscaping tasks.
I've now got the right combination and my trading days are over..........well, two more payments and my F2680 is paid off..............course my needs may change......................

Let me see if I got this right, the first tractor is the "test" tractor to get the "right" tractor; what are the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th...:laughing::laughing:

John, I'll believe you have bought your last tractor if you believe I have.:thumbsup:

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

A long long time ago Kubota built some Tractors and sold them. Only one size. People bought them but complained that it was to big and other people complained that it was to little and other people complained that it was to expensive and others said they'd pay more if it would do more.
Kubota hired a Marketing team to help them decide what size and price tractor to build to fill all needs for all buyers. The Marketing team worked on this problem for years and finally everyone on the team quit because they couldn't agree on the one size and one price tractor to fill the needs/wants of all people.
Kubota kept building their one size tractor but kept hearing complaints that it was the wrong size. Well, one day there were some mix ups in the machine that made the tractor frame and some bigger frames started coming out and some engines Kubota had been making for some other companies for their diesel engine needs had went unsold. A new employee didn't know that these were mistakes and put them together and out came a bigger and more powerful tractor. Everyone was fired and a new batch of employees were hired and the "bad" bigger tractors were shipped to America because they will buy anything with an engine and 4 wheels. They sold immediately and hundreds of people started coming to Kubota wanting to custom order tractors to meet their specific demands just like people in America would go to their car dealer and order a Chevy, Ford, etc with specific options. Kubota said they didn't do that, they didn't have an options sheet so they continued building the regular tractor with the tiny seat for Japanese butts but the big butted Americans complained about that. Word started circulating around the Kubota factory that Americans were just complainers and wanted everything to meet their every whim and desire.
Kubota management had several meetings to decide if they just wanted to quit selling tractors to Americans or maybe build more to suit the American market. The decision was that they were a world wide company and would build what was selling the best/most and then add a few different sizes and seat sizes and stuff for the American market and see what happened. Well those picky American started buying more and continued to complain more so the Company decided to build a few different sizes and go forward.
Years later the Americans complained that the engine needed to be bigger and some complained that it needed to be smaller so the Company decided to build some of the same sized tractors with different sized engines.
Jump to the current day. Now the Americans are complaining that there are to many different tractors with to many different sized engines and options and Kubota should just make one sized engine per one sized tractor frame.
Latest news from Japan!!! The Marketing team has quit again and now Kubota is having to decide what to build to meet all buyers needs. Word is they are just going to stick to their current models until a new Marketing team can be hired.
Guess the decision between buying a BX or B will only end when they quit making one of them.:laughing:

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Looks like the never ending quest to decide which is better, the BX or B is still at full throttle so from days of old here are some points to ponder. And even some pics.

 

[displacedPA]

Looks like the never ending quest to decide which is better, the BX or B is still at full throttle so from days of old here are some points to ponder. And even some pics.

Well john that is a nice b3200 in the first picture. About two years ago I bought my first tractor a b2320 I love it but don't like the art inching valve. I have been thinking of trading for a b3200. Does the 3200 run at a lower rpm for pro speed than the b2x20 series? I was thinking of email Brady as a matter of fact