Wow, old man winter whooped us here in the northest The BX23s is an animal!

[BX23S-1]

We got at least 15 inches and some huge drifts;7,000 lbs and a heated cab made short work of it.I plow a couple neighbors and the road going to my business.Tonight is suppose to be the last of the real cold for a while.Mine sits out-doors but put my battery tender on and plug in the block heater.

Awwwwwwwww heated cab, i hate youuuuu....lol, wish i had one ;(
Cab just wasn`t in the budget at the time when i bought the lil pipsqueak.

 

[BX23S-1]

Thank you BX!

Gotta love the lil tractors... they make life alot easier. Dont know what i`d do without my lil KaylaKubota.

 

[BX23S-1]

Well the BX did not fail me! Purred like a kitten during the plowing. Sub zero with -20 wind chills and glad I had good mittens with a couple of hand warmers tucked inside. Feet got cold but I finished and getting warmed up now. Wind is howling out there but the wood stove is cranked! Life is good!

Life is even better without winter...hahaha!

 

[BX23S-1]

10" of snow, sleet, and snow pellets fell here in the hills of western MA. All the weather models are being really challenged by this Season's split global jet stream pattern and amped up Pacific, and this storm itself was very uncommon as to the dynamics; a low pressure system following a front over running dammed cold air while being overrun itself by a significant plume of Gulf and Atlantic moisture.

Hey easy nowww, dont get all technical on us... lol

 

[oosik]

Same here in NE WA state. The difference - most all our moisture has come as rain, so far. It must be really piling up, up in the mountains. Actually, we have had 3 1/2" of snow. It all melted, long ago.

 

[JWR]

Hello there Mowbizz...
I`m in the finger lakes region, close to the watkins glen race track here in NY. (near the big seneca lake)

I haven't only had one time last winter where my fuel filter was all jelly... i dont think the amount on the bottle of power service fuel treatment was enough. This year i doubled the amount of power service winter fuel treatment and i had no problem starting the tractor this time... and it was alot colder today than it was last year when it jelled up on me. So i guess doubling up the amount of PowerService in the fuel tank this time saved me a whole lotta trouble.

As for the air block... there is a handy little pull out screen that sits in front of the radiator that came with the tractor from the factory... i thought about fab`ing a new one in the exact same size to slip in its place with maybe half the radiator covered with a piece of thin sheet metal. I dont think its healthy for these diesels to be running at such a low engine operating temperature in the cold like it was here today.

Papow-- A couple of quick comments. 1) At 6 degrees you will need anti-gel of some kind. The additive might work, certainly will help some. If that kind of cold is persistent or gets even colder I strongly recommend mixing your fuel up to 50/50 kerosene (which is #1 fuel as opposed to normal #2.) That is what ALL heavy equip operators in the northern tier do. Dozer operators in northern VT, etc. That will guarantee you have no gel issues. And it will not hurt anything whatsoever. 2) The block heaters or better yet in-line radiator hose heaters do a great job of getting the engine warm and easy starting. However that does NOTHING for the gel issue once you are out working it.

3) Then about the engine indicated temp issue: I have contended for a long time that the small 3cyl Kubotas have too small a water pump for best cooling system operation. In hot summer weather MANY of us have had them run right on the edge of the red zone just mowing grass. These are NOT due to restrictions in the radiator air flow, dirt in anything, plugged coolant paths, etc. Unless you have a thermostat stuck open, I would ignore the fact that the coolant is running much colder than you are used to. No reason to block the radiator air flow as the thermostat will take care of that and radiator air flow will not matter while the thermostat is closed. I do not know exactly where the sensor is located in the coolant flow path. Unless it is in the engine, the sensor will run very cold indications while the thermostat is closed and not letting hot water out into the radiator. I personally would ignore all that unless you see other problems.

 

[sandyc]

When kubota upgraded my 3350, part of the equipment was a winter front held in place by magnets and covering the front and side vents of the hood. There is a decal that says to only use this below 32 degrees. In the summer the temp is three bars and when I was plowing and blowing a few days ago in zero degrees it read three bars. This running at 2100 rpms. I’m guessing that a winter cover won’t hurt and may in fact help.

 

[nybirdman]

Talk about crazy weather;it has gone from -27F to +33F in one day!Suppose to go to +40F and rain.

 

[diesel85]

Yeah, and the ground is an ice skating ring in my neck of the woods...

No wonder people are catching the colds and flus...

 

[HillStreet]

Thank you BX!

Hey Mowbizz, do you have tire change on that BX? I have a B2650 with rear blower and wasn稚 sure if it would push 2 feet of wet snow.