BX - Buyer's Remorse? Loader remorse, anyway.

   / BX - Buyer's Remorse? Loader remorse, anyway. #121  
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I thought you BX's were just overly sensitive, but now I'm voting for crazy. Letting a six year old operate a backhoe, lawn tractor or not, is lunacy. Riding on your lap while filling in around a culvert isn't very smart either. You won't see those two photos on the cover of the Kubota catalog in the near future. I'm sure his mother would LOVE to see that video, parents being divorced and all.....

Maybe my age is showing... I was much younger than 6 when it was my job to steer the tractor down the windrows so the hay could be manually loaded...

There was no way I could have helped loading... too small.
 
   / BX - Buyer's Remorse? Loader remorse, anyway. #122  
So anyway, loader inadequacies aside, I bought my BX specifically to mow. I does do a nice enough job mowing, but begs the question...why? As far as I can tell, the main performance problems with the BX are brought about mostly by the little wheels - they make the ride rough and decrease relative traction. Given that a similarly powered B isn't really much bigger, is actually slightly lighter, and is about the same price, BUT has bigger wheels and better implement capabilities, I have to wonder why they make BXs at all. What IS the utility and/or advantage of the little wheels?
I work in and around and between buildings, fences, and on a steep slope on my property. In my case at least, the B won't get into the tight fixes I get in. The CG on the B is a fair amount higher too and I am already scaring myself on my slope with wheel spacers installed. I do wish the front wheels were bigger... this is about my only complaint other than onboard storage with my BX25D as I have it outfitted with a few mods now. Need to build a tool/chain box.
 
   / BX - Buyer's Remorse? Loader remorse, anyway. #124  
So you are the reason we have backup cameras in all cars now and lawn mowers that will not mow in reverse. I may be a crazy lunatic but at least I am not ******* stupid.

You see you can actually do stuff like this and be very safe about it....you know doing the same things we all did (well perhaps not you) back in the 60's 70's and even early 80's before people like you decided we needed to be protected from our own self. And you know what, we all did not die in horrible disfiguring accidents, we actually had some fun, sitting on our dads lap (if you had one I made due with an uncle and grandpa) and learned to drive a stick shift at 6...and on the highway no less....it however was Denver in the 1960 so it was not too much traffic as I remember....but I do remember that VW square back, I would love to have one today for that only reason....in blue.

Want another shocker, my son was mowing the yard John Deere 300, hydro control was up on the dash, riding a motorcycle (not minibike) with a clutch and gears, doing his own laundry, making his own bed and cooking real food, hamburgers, chili, pork chops....at age 6....and he is still alive. He is also independent and can do anything on his own, and figure out problems arriving at workable solutions on his own, not calling daddy for every flat tire, or driving into a ditch, (he is 17, and suffers from normal teen idiocy) I raised an adult not a child as most people do in this day and age.

The boy next door is the same, but he is on a small zero turn....I don't know about the rest of the stuff.

So quick to judge, and as usual has no idea on what he talks about.

So you agree with the consensus you are a crazy lunatic and we just need to determine if you are ******* stupid.

Well let's see....you posted on a public forum your son was cooking complete meals at the age of six. Not something simple, but pork chops mind you. What age did you introduce this lad to the stove?

You posted on the Internet that you broke every warning in any manual about letting children near/on/or operate machinery ever printed. Oh and with a boy who's parents obviously don't get along. Think about what would happen to the father of the boy if an accident would have happened. Worse yet, what about momma?

No sir, it's people like YOU is the reason we are hindered by useless regulations, back up cameras and lawn mowers that won't go in reverse. You are just not smart enough to realize it.
 
   / BX - Buyer's Remorse? Loader remorse, anyway. #125  
So anyway, loader inadequacies aside, I bought my BX specifically to mow. I does do a nice enough job mowing, but begs the question...why? As far as I can tell, the main performance problems with the BX are brought about mostly by the little wheels - they make the ride rough and decrease relative traction. Given that a similarly powered B isn't really much bigger, is actually slightly lighter, and is about the same price, BUT has bigger wheels and better implement capabilities, I have to wonder why they make BXs at all. What IS the utility and/or advantage of the little wheels?

I work in and around and between buildings, fences, and on a steep slope on my property. In my case at least, the B won't get into the tight fixes I get in. The CG on the B is a fair amount higher too and I am already scaring myself on my slope with wheel spacers installed. I do wish the front wheels were bigger... this is about my only complaint other than onboard storage with my BX25D as I have it outfitted with a few mods now. Need to build a tool/chain box.

In 2008, I was so convinced I need a B2920 to replace my 2003 BX2200 after five years of use and months of researching that I actually sold my BX2200. When my wife and I went to buy the B2920, we began to have second thoughts, went home measured everything again then bought a BX2660. Three years later I got my BX2200 back intending to sell it, but my wife and son decided "we" needed to keep it.:laughing:

I guess some will always wonder why people would buy a BX when for just a bit more money you can get a bigger tractor and some will wonder why anyone would buy anything bigger as the BX meets their needs. JOHNTHOMAS and bp fick have some good posts on this and I am attaching just one. In it John concluded he preferred the B over a BX, but last I heard from him he wishes he had kept his BX25 and bp fick went from a BX to a B and now back to a BX.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/147841-bx-just-isnt-b-you.html?highlight=
 
   / BX - Buyer's Remorse? Loader remorse, anyway.
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It did not happen without pictures !!!! :)

I do have a few kicking around from days gone past...this weekend's mess will be documented eventually.

"No comment" to our local jaw-punching heavy-equipment pro-operator troll with his magic BX that can outperform the space shuttle.
 

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   / BX - Buyer's Remorse? Loader remorse, anyway. #127  
So you agree with the consensus you are a crazy lunatic and we just need to determine if you are ******* stupid.

Well let's see....you posted on a public forum your son was cooking complete meals at the age of six. Not something simple, but pork chops mind you. What age did you introduce this lad to the stove?

You posted on the Internet that you broke every warning in any manual about letting children near/on/or operate machinery ever printed. Oh and with a boy who's parents obviously don't get along. Think about what would happen to the father of the boy if an accident would have happened. Worse yet, what about momma?

No sir, it's people like YOU is the reason we are hindered by useless regulations, back up cameras and lawn mowers that won't go in reverse. You are just not smart enough to realize it.


In his defense the 6 year old was probably a better a operator so it made sense to let the kid do all the work.
 
   / BX - Buyer's Remorse? Loader remorse, anyway. #128  
Letting a six year old operate a backhoe, lawn tractor or not, is lunacy.

Well, call me a lunatic too then. I was doing primary tillage at 6 with our "big" tractor (a Case 730). My dad would sit along side me for 3 full rounds and offer coaching during those rounds. Then he would get off and let me finish the field while he went back and started planting. Other than turning too close to a fence one time and hooking the barbed wire, no incidents.

My son wasn't ready for even a riding lawn mower at 6 so I waited to teach him. I'm not a farmer so never did get much bigger than that.
 
   / BX - Buyer's Remorse? Loader remorse, anyway. #129  
Jay that is a very nice place you have. I don't even remember being 6.
 
   / BX - Buyer's Remorse? Loader remorse, anyway. #130  
That is nuthin'. I was driving a whole fleet of JDs before I was 1 year old.
 

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