steveinyuma
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This is my first post out of Buying-Pricing and in owning, operating. My BX25 was delivered at noon today. Some of you may have seen my posts in various forums about the pricing and finding product frustration I've had. Took a year, but I'm done with that. Made my choice and paid my dollar.
Here's what I found in the first afternoon:
1. Tractor backhoe combo fits straight in fully assembled (tightly angled hoe, loader edge down) in my barely 13' shed, a major purchase criteria. (No use price checking if you have to buy a $5000 home for the equipment!)
2. Tractor (minus the backhoe) is within towing capacity of my Ford Ranger and old GMC van if that becomes necessary. (See 1. and substitute "bigger truck" for "$5000 home".)
3. Sub 4' width allowed me to get through the spots I wanted to. (between the boulders, narrow is good)
4. Stayed under $20000 OTD (Not easy with new TLB SCUTS in Arizona)
Okay, what did I notice?
1. Had to loosen bolts and grind holes a tiny bit to get ROPS pins in and out for easy storage.
2. Likes to rev. Big power difference between 2700 RPM and 3200RPM. Quite noticeable with hydraulics. (Other SCUTS bragged about lower RPM power)
3. Feels very stable with loader low on very dry and hilly 4 acres. Rear tires are loaded.
4. Mentioning tires because of other threads... all 4 are "Traction Master"?, have "Rim guard" rubber. (time will tell)
5. This is my biggy. Not having ever been an arcade or computer gamer, I had a lot of trouble with the loader joystick.
It worked perfectly. I was simply unable to keep the up, down, and left, right for bucket straight. I'm hoping this will become better with time. I was never very coordinated, so I hope athletic hand eye dexterity is not a major requirement for amateur work and I will get used to it. I think I actually did better with the backhoe, maybe because there is 1 lever for each hand and I didn't have to think about steering and my right foot too! Am I doomed to reciting a checklist out loud between scooping the load and dumping it in my trailer? I'd hate to have to revert back to a shovel because I'm too klutzy to run this thing.
Anyone else have a lot of trouble with this? Are there any tricks or is it just "Practice, practice, practice"?
For now, I definitely can't operate where anyone can see me.
"If I only had a brain" (Scarecrow)
Here's what I found in the first afternoon:
1. Tractor backhoe combo fits straight in fully assembled (tightly angled hoe, loader edge down) in my barely 13' shed, a major purchase criteria. (No use price checking if you have to buy a $5000 home for the equipment!)
2. Tractor (minus the backhoe) is within towing capacity of my Ford Ranger and old GMC van if that becomes necessary. (See 1. and substitute "bigger truck" for "$5000 home".)
3. Sub 4' width allowed me to get through the spots I wanted to. (between the boulders, narrow is good)
4. Stayed under $20000 OTD (Not easy with new TLB SCUTS in Arizona)
Okay, what did I notice?
1. Had to loosen bolts and grind holes a tiny bit to get ROPS pins in and out for easy storage.
2. Likes to rev. Big power difference between 2700 RPM and 3200RPM. Quite noticeable with hydraulics. (Other SCUTS bragged about lower RPM power)
3. Feels very stable with loader low on very dry and hilly 4 acres. Rear tires are loaded.
4. Mentioning tires because of other threads... all 4 are "Traction Master"?, have "Rim guard" rubber. (time will tell)
5. This is my biggy. Not having ever been an arcade or computer gamer, I had a lot of trouble with the loader joystick.
It worked perfectly. I was simply unable to keep the up, down, and left, right for bucket straight. I'm hoping this will become better with time. I was never very coordinated, so I hope athletic hand eye dexterity is not a major requirement for amateur work and I will get used to it. I think I actually did better with the backhoe, maybe because there is 1 lever for each hand and I didn't have to think about steering and my right foot too! Am I doomed to reciting a checklist out loud between scooping the load and dumping it in my trailer? I'd hate to have to revert back to a shovel because I'm too klutzy to run this thing.
Anyone else have a lot of trouble with this? Are there any tricks or is it just "Practice, practice, practice"?
For now, I definitely can't operate where anyone can see me.
"If I only had a brain" (Scarecrow)
