Bx25 split breaks?

[Carl Bert]

Each individual make and model may need it's own thread, but I can tell you that the set up on the Kubota B26 MAKES NO SENSE at all. If you have never driven one, please don't try and tell me different. In my travels, I have been to many Kubota dealers, and I always try to remember to ask the salesman the same question. I say "can you please tell me how to use the split break system on a 2010 B26?" Most of them just put their hands up, turn their heads, and say " I honestly have no idea".

I like Kubota, and have yet to need to use the split braking system, but please don't try and tell me things like, "you need to use both feet on the right side", or "you need to use the break and hydo pedal with the same foot" that's just plain silly. I have a size 13 foot and I cant do it. The split brake on the B26 is as useless a system as I have ever seen. You can make up as many reasons as you want, to explain how it can be utilized, but it can't. I honestly don't care how many tractors you have owned or how much experience you have, this system on the B26 DOES NOT WORK.

 

[TripleR]

I'm adding split brakes to my increasing list of topics to avoid.

 

[milkman]

I'm adding split brakes to my increasing list of topics to avoid.

Another good one to avoid is the ones about those dangerous side by side hydro pedals.

 

[case245]

i use mine daily plowing discing grading roads ditchs

 

[RobertN]

Discussion in the past was that it was left over from gear gear tractors, and cheaper to have one brake setup across both gear and HST tractors. Until recently, even most HST tractors have had clutches... So you have HST pedal, clutch pedal, and brakes. Where do you put them all...

What is the purpose of having split breaks on the same side as the go pedal? It sure isn't safe to have both legs on one side.

As for the bx's, that brake is considered and called a parking break in the owners manual.

 

[Notforhire]

Discussion in the past was that it was left over from gear gear tractors, and cheaper to have one brake setup across both gear and HST tractors.

I think you have hit the nail on the head.:thumbsup:
I used to own a NH TC40D myself. It had split brakes on the left and the hydro on the right. There is no clutch pedal. The system worked fine. If I remember correctly NH also made hydro tractors with brakes and hydro both on the right side and nothing on the left. IMHO that was just a bad design. Maybe they did save money by using the brake setup for a gear tractor on the hydro.???

Bill