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While at TSC today I was checking out the oil & fluids offerings and noticed that there was Mystik brand, I think it was labled J5 (or similar) that indicated that it was Kubota SUDT capatible. Anybody know anything about this brand? 2 gals = $32.00 Also noticed that the Traveller brand had a...

So, how are the Kohler Courage engines holding up? Are the singles better/worse than the V-twins? Early on when they were 1st released, I recall they were touted to be easier to service due to easy to get at access panels and to be more quiet due to the plastic (can't think of the official...

My daughters Vista PC worked fine on my home DSL network. Been working fine for months. It is setup to use a network printer off of another PC on my home lan but theres no file sharing going on, just internet access and printing to a shared network printer. This evening, I carried it over to...

With the lack of any meaningful seat time coupled to a chance find of a long lost and serviceable AM/FM/CD radio out in the shop, the BX23 has yet again provided me with brief respite from the doldrums of cabin fever and I'll get to be jamm'n w/the tunes come the warmer days. :D The...

Fall takes a literal connotation around my humble abode. And it doesn't take long for my still green lawn to get totally covered in Maple, Oak, Dogwood and varous other leaves. It makes for a colorful Holloween display but tain't very good for the grass so getting them picked up and deposited...

Seems many here have more than one tractor and have outfitted these different machines for different tasks. This is not meant to be a "my tractor is better than yours" endless debate, I'm more curious as to what folks have and how they use it. Here's mine, 1) 2004 Kubota BX23 w/60" MMM. This is...

How to get the best cut possible out of ones machine is a major topic in many threads now, so I thought I'd share mine mowing w/a BX23 and 60" MMM. Theres several keys to obtaining a great finish cut. A well tuned tractor, a properly balanced mower and good properly sharpened blades. These...

Just purchased a 1966 L&G tractor w/an HST and I'm going to be changeing out all the fluids & filter soon. The owners/service manual calls for Type A automobile transmission fluid for the HST and to my knowledge I don't believe this is available anymore. What would be the modern...

Thought I was going to get to play in the snow like you folks up in the colder northern clime's but all it did was coat the roof tops with a pretty white blanket. Oh well, the day was still nice so I continued on my unrelenting quest to clean out my fence rows. Worked about 100' on one side and...

One neat thing about microsoft money( or any similar software) is that you can easily track just about any expenditure with just a few clicks of the mouse. In my case I just built a "favorite" report on my BX23's fuel and maintenance costs and it tain't bad for this yr. It does help that I...

I've got several bad spots where the asphalt has busted and these are pretty big spots. Too big for a cold patch type filler. I've tried those cold patch fillers and have never been happy with them. I'm just in the "cypher'n" stage now and thought I'd elicit suggestions from the board. I've...

It only took one time for a large vine to make it's way up into my HST fan that I decided to add somekind of protection to my BX's vitals. Luckily the fan wasn't damaged and since I have already put the MMM up for the winter, I had to come up with something that would be easy on/off and use the...

Mowing the back field always tends to get me to pondering things. The constant sounds of the machinery working away coupled with very few distractions is the perfect conditions to cause this and I always look forward to whatever topic enters my brain housing group during these times :D Today I...

"Andy Green broke the supercharged diesel streamliner world record by more than 90 mph by reaching an average land speed Tuesday of 328.767 mph. The old record was 235.756 mph, set by Virgil Snyder on the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1973." "Green drove a vehicle powered by two diesel engines that...

Had a storm blow though last night and altho it only lasted 15 minutes or so it left a big mess in it's wake. Down power lines etc. I didn't loose power but a tree in my front yard lost a pretty good size limb. It snapped off clean and was just standing beside the trunk. If it wasn't for the...

Thought I'd share my successful foray into making my old PIII 550 emonster more faster w/new features and yet still maintaining access to my older DOS and 16bit apps and databases. I mainly use the machine as more of a database storge server than anything else but when we're all 3 home and...

All I wanted to do is use on-line bill pay and after 4 nights of tweaking this and that, deleting and reinstalling I've finally made 3 on-line bill transactions tonight! I've been using MS Money since it came preloaded on my very 1st Win 3.1 PC back in 1990 and not only has it made keeping...

Had to get a stove from point A to point B in a hurry and I was by myself. Unloading wouldn't be a problem and it ends up loading wouldn't be either

It\'s Feb., and I\'m outside in shirt sleeves pressure washing a house! I don't know how high the temps hit but I got soaking wet and wasn't cold..... I'd guess mid 60's. Saw some clumps of new grass growth too. Oh, and they're calling for rain with a chance for a light dusting of snow...

When traveling between jobs today, my route took me past a large Kubota dealership and since I was in the neighborhood I decided to make a quick stop to see if they had one on the lot and sure enough, there was one just freshly rolled out from prep and sitting right next to a BX23. A couple...

I've just got back inside after going outside in the cold an dark to start the ole work van and it dawned on me just how easy it was. Just turn the key and all that computer controlled fuel & timing adjustments take over. After a turn or two the engine starts right on up, I throw the selector to...

I have a Carrier dual fuel Weathermaker Puron 38YXA Heat Pump with a Weathermaker 9200 58MXA Gas furnace and I'd like to "coon tune" this setup to run alittle longer in heatpump mode before it switches over to the gas furnace. I was told by the installation/servicing dealer that it couldn't be...

100 Hr maintenance, piece O\' cake... Nice autumn evening, HS game of the week playing on the tube and everything I needed was on hand so I decided to do the 100hr and knocked it out in a couple easy enjoyable hrs I decided to stay with Kubota branded parts and the oil filter, 1 Gal of 10W30...

After checking out Junkmans thread "Is there such a thing as" and studying the pics of european market Kubota's, I'm determined to try and get me one of those deep-dish steering wheels that come on the BX2200/BX2200D tractors. Now it ain't because of it's styling, no sir, it's because I...

Greetings, Sitting here looking at the aftermath of a pretty serious storm, I can't help but notice all the leaves that are now covering the driveway. This of course leads me to think of the upcoming fall season, which is aptly named btw., and what I plan to do about leaf pickup. Last yr I had...

Digg\'n out my small pond... Greetings, We haven't much of any rain to speak about over the last month and ole snapper pond has just about dried up. This ole pond sit's over a wet weather spring and it's been in this same spot in different sizes for well over 70 years. In the 16 yrs I've been...

How often do you grease your mandrels & pulley on your MMM? I squeaze about 5-10 pumps ea., every 5th mowing. Which is about every 8.5 - 9.5 hrs. Volfandt

Greetings, When I was leaving a service call today I had to circle around behind the building inorder leave and as I was making the last turn I saw this beauty sitting in the back seemingly rusting away. Since I had my little digital camera with me I got out, checked it over and took a few...

Mow\'n with my BX Greetings, Thought I'd share a few pics of the lawn after the BX23 gave me an all too short but enjoyable Saturday morning. The back lawn used to be a garden, have a pig sty down at the small pond, a chicken coop behind the shop and home to a couple head of cattle but I've...

Super Cub\'s..... Whilst out and about the other day, I noticed a couple of super-sized Cubs on a Cub/Kioti tractor dealers lot and decided to stop & check them out. One was a 6284 & the other was a 7532. Biggest Cubs I've ever seen.... I liked the feel of the 6284 best even tho it is a...

Just bought my daughter a new Civic w/the 1668cc VTec engine and it calls for 5W20 oil through the entire temp range. Thats a new weight for me. Since it makes mention of synthetic oil being acceptable and not voiding the warranty, I'm gonna assume that the std Honda oil is 5W20 dino. Also, the...

Greetings, back in Dec I took delivery of a new BX23 and part of the deal was I had to remodel the kitchen for the Mrs. Well a simple remodel job morphed into a major undertaking right before my very eyes and I'm still trying to figure out how I got talked into it But all in all, we're...

BX23 60\" MMM that doesn\'t rub Greetings, I've noticed a few posts lately that indicate where the 60" MMM either rubs the rear tires in transport position or can't be raised to full height due to the MMM hitting the tires so I wanted to post some pics of a MMM mounted on a BX23 that doesn't...

Been keeping the FEL dismounted quite abit lately but noticed the last couple times I've mounted then dismounted it that the right side boom cylinder actuates way before the left side does. I noticed this once I hooked the lines back up to remount the FEL. The right side moved a good couple...

Mow\'n w/the BX23 Just checking in and reporting on my seldom used machine's performance. Gotta say the BX23 is one outstanding mowing machine. It fits around the humble abode just right. Any taller and the hills & dales would become perilous. Any heavier and the grass may not spring back up...

What a day! Temps hit the low 70's and the sun was just a-shineing away. A slight cool breeze hid the fact from me that I actually got alittle sunburn going on too With all this going on along with the grass starting to get out of hand left me with no choice but to dismount the FEL & BH...

OUTSIDE seat time! Took the week off to get some work done on the kitchen remodel (a deal I hadda work to get the BX23 but thats another story) and when I went out on this fine AM to breath in the morning fragance's I knew right off that the kitchen'll have to wait till after lunch. weren't...

Weathermen been calling for snow and rain we get low 60's and plenty of sunshine. Course it could still hit later but today belonged to me Since buying the BX23 in Dec I haven't had the chance to use it for it's primary purpose of mowing and other than what I've read, I really didn't know...

Seems I find uses for it all the time. Last nght decided to dismount the FEL, basically just for GP. I dropped it on a dolly and a couple of those little super dollies and just rolled it away over into a corner. Well, it didn't take very long today when I found out I needed the FEL for a...

Adj\'ing the 60\" MMM on a BX... Greetings. Just spent the better part of the last couple of hrs mounting and adj'ing the RCK60B-22BX MMM to my BX23 and I think I just may have it adj'ed up to where it's level but it sure took alot of adj'ing! So much so that it got me to wondering if anyone...

During the Daytona 500. Just caught the tail end so I didn't see the particular name(s) on the oil containers but the ad was about 3 new Mobile auto oil products rated at 5000, 7500 & 15000 mile oil change intervals. Wonder if it is the Mobile1 brand w/additional additives and if so, what could...

Greetings, I finally got around to dismounting the BH and trying out the 3PH for the 1st time today. It took alittle while to cipher out the proceedure but now it's as easy to do as advertised. I'm impressed in that I can dismount the BH & install the 3PH all without any tools. Pretty good...

Greetings, as all BX owners know, probably the only shortcoming of the BX series (well, to me anyway) is the lack of a toolbox. I guess when Kubota set out to make the 1st ever subCUT, they wanted to squeeze as much into as small a space as possible. This is a good thing in most all respects...

Greetings. Discovered one evening that the stock headlites on the BX23 were just about useless w/a loaded FEL. Not to mention I had no lighting at all should I ever feel the need to do any digging or rear implement tote'n/working at night so faced with these delimna's I was faced with no other...

BX 60\" MMM mulch plug project When my shop decided to throw out some very outdated hardware, i.e circuit card cabinets & brackets many of my co-workers laughed as I "scarfed" up some of the flat sheet metal parts. Among the discard was some fairly flat sheet metal of approx 1/16" thick of...

Greetings, after running the BX23 approx 12 hrs since delivery, I thought I'd post my assessment of it thus far. Altho it will be somewhat biased I'll try to keep it subjective. Prelude. My property is a tale of differing terrains. Approx an acre of flat lawn out front is for appearance while...

Greetings, Finally took delivery of the 60" MMM. I didn't want to wait until next year for delivery so I went & picked it up during lunch today. The crate took up all of 45" of the available 48" between the wheelwells of my F150 but it did fit. After getting it home, I remembered I had sold my...

Greetings and Merry Christmas to all. I've always used the "break it in like your going to use it" philosophy but according to the BX's operators manual that I've been enjoyably digesting, this quote caught the ole eye, "Do not operate the tractor at full speed for the 1st 50 hours" Hummmm, I...

continues to be my favorite color! Went to the Kubota dealer today fully intending to go for either the marked down BX2230 w/60" MMM & FEL or the B7510 w/60" MMM, FEL & R4's but ended up pluck'n the $$$'s down on a BX23 w/54" MMM! Every time I visited this dealer or the other Kubota dealer...

New tractor, look\'n like it\'s gonna happen..... Greetings, I've been bombarding the forum w/ questions and the like re. Kubota CUT's & SCUT's lately and it looks like 3/4's of the purchase of the new tractor puzzle has been matched. Can't count the times I've stopped by to sit on, drive and...

54\" economy deck for the B series.... Greetings, I've pretty much decided to go with either a 7510 or 7610 (even tho the BX2230 still interests me due to the MMM setup) and in checking out the MMM's on the Kubota site I noticed this description on the 3 available MMM's for the B series...

Greetings, I'm a newby to this forum and have been reading up on some very good info regarding several brands of tractors here and I have a few questions re. the Kubota BX2230 & B7510HSD. Doing some serious cipher'n on replacing my 48 TE20 & '04 L130 w/a single CUT w/a loader & 3PH and I've...