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Figured I would ask here as it is likely to get more traction then in the vintage section...... What size finish mower would a HEALTHY (as in just rebuilt) 8N be able to handle? Thanks guys. and just for fun...here is the wife using the brush hog doing the front yard.

Back on my feet....still going a little slow. I am off all my restrictions, but the neurosurgeon told me not to go crazy....like swing a hammer or anything.....well what does that mean? I have been on the tractor a little, but the bumps just kill me....wonder if they have a tractor with a...

Now that could go two ways....super cool or look real stupid. Me being never afraid of looking stupid as that is my natural state I might just give that a go. Any ideas on the foot peg? Thinking of chain + tree + pull = who knows lol. Yes I am a bit loopy....but very sad....something got to...

I don't wear jewelry.....not even my wedding ring, and I have been married 29 years Nov 8. (right around the corner) What do you guys think of this...too "feminine" And Jewelry and machines usually do not mix real well.....general thoughts on that. I am also going to have something around...

Never give up....no matter how painfull

I think at the beginning of this thread I would give all the good, bad and ugly on the little BX-25D. Well this past weekend I found a real big ugly....A real design short coming IMHO. This thing does not like mud. Not normal mud, but mud and grass mixed together. While spending the 3 hours...

First off let me say if this is the wrong area just move it to where you feel best. I have posted up a few videos I have shot from my multirotor and have gotten quite a few comments on them that I figured there might be enough interest in these flying machines to start a thread....if not it...

Yesterday I noticed that my loader joystick has lost some of its stiff-ness. It would just flop back and forth it was not acting the way it usually did. I have had other people playing with my tractor lately and they had also had their hands on my joystick.....even the neighbor girl commented...

Question....a few weeks ago I spend the day digging up trees. On the few times I took a rest that backhoe cylinder was pretty darn hot.....hot to where it would not burn me, but I did not want to leave my un gloved hand there for a long time. Is this causing damage....I think that the heat...

You have to remember that the shelters are full of animals that deserve good homes. They can not replace a lost friend but they can lessen the pain. I was a total wreck for months...then my wife drug myself out of the house to a shelter and I came home with Remington. He is a puppy and a full...

The original Capri was a great car....I was so close to racing one back in the day, but went with Opels....I need another head exam.

Back story?(hay it is me you know the email has to be wordy) Wife is brush hogging about a month ago. In an area of our property we are trying to take back from nature. In some about calf high grass she hits a nest. At least 2 eggs are destroyed by the mower, 4 survive. She then runs to the...

Great looking dog. I lost mine not too long ago :( It took me about 6 months to even think about getting another, finally my wife said you NEED a new dog. I really did not want one again, but got one anyway. He is a pound puppy and still a little small for doing much outside, too many coyote...

I forgot to add in here I am working on getting my old Ford lawn mower working again. I used the little Kubota to drag it out of the barn and I started to mess with it. I now have it running smooth as glass, It will start right up no problem...pretty happy I have it running again. All I need...

I am only really thinking about this because I am working in areas with black locust trees. And those thorns. I think those thorns have armor penetrating ability. Anyway. I know it will make the tractor more heavy. This machine is also used for mowing. Now I mow a field, and have a...

My bad. On the new Holland site they have them called Compact tractors and not Sub compact tractors, John Deere calls them Sub compact utility tractors...guess that is what tossed me....so if we want to get all technical New Holland does not have a "real sub-compact" It also looks like NH...

I have used mine quite a bit so far. For the type of ground work I am doing I like the Ratchet rake better...I can see where the grapple would have a place, and I have tried to pull roots with it with mixed results. As far as lifting I have been more limited by the size of the grapple then the...

That is a fantastic garden spot you have there. Nice catch on the wife too....you should make her "pay" to get out of the fence ;) Anyway I moved the RR ties around tonight and try as I might I could not get 4 in the grapple again....best I could manage is 3. I am guessing they must have...

We have decided to stop bailing our property and now it is really going to be one big yard. The only real bad part of this (aside from fuel costs to keep it nice) is the land is VERY BUMPY. It was a pasture at one time, but now it has been my front and back "yard" for about 20 years....but you...

Not really sure how to ask this, in front of my shop, my barn, and the driveway we get grass/weeds that grow up in there. I have tried everything I can think of from Roundup to burning, and it always always comes back. This is one thing that just drives me bonkers...pet peeve of mine, I love...

Well yesterday I mowed with the little thing for the first time, hope do to an update in the day in the life thread later today.....and took everything off the tractor for the first time, well I have had the deck off for a while, but the loader and backhoe came off for the first time....I will...

Trying to figure out a place to put a tool box on this little thing. I just can't seem to find a spot, or box for that matter that seems to work. I generally use old ammo cans for boxes on tractors, they are easy to get into, have a good seal on them and come in different sizes. Any...

How about a prop

Short update, currently at 31 and change. Really an excuse to drive the machine.....I used it to take out the trash....I also picked up some of the brush and compacted the burn piles a little more. Going to be out of town for 2 weeks and the inlaws will be at the house...I doubt the FIL will...

At one time I did my own service on...well everything. At one count that was over 20 things with an engine in them. One being a race car with quite a few 1-off parts...and let me tell you guys something, that puts parts prices into a real perspective....$4,000 crank, $3,300 in roller rockers...

Neighbor has one of their driveway smoothing things....I really don't think it does anything....he does not use it anymore. I have a REAL BAD BACK and I can manage this thing....I can't do a hand held string trimmer any longer, but this thing is pretty easy to push and not TOO hard on me. I...

Well a few days have gone by and I have been lazy about updating....so several days in one post. Machine now has 24'ish hours on it and all is well so far. Had to put new tires on the kids Firebird so the bug pan had to come out of the shop. Having a little tractor to go into my shop hook...

The same reason we now have a Porsche SUV, BMW SUV and so on. The reason Lincoln and Caddy made the trucks is to cash in on the whats hot right now just like you said. They sold to people that are more interested in the look and the name on the back then what the vehicle really is. These same...

Most of you guys know I am new at this.....so forgive me if this is a silly or stupid question. On the front loader on my machine you can make it push down hard enough to lift up the nose of the tractor. I just got this ratchet rake thingy (see day in the life thread, driveway maint. in...

I also wanted to put in another post with a few photos showing the old girl the orange one replaced. She is old and has some problems, but she still wants to work hard. Going to try to take care of some of her issues. (the tractor not the wife)

Another nice day....another day of play. As of now it has 19'ish hours on the machine and I am still having huge fun....if my wife is reading this...work...this is real hard work. I hope I did not violate tractor rule #1...always tell your wife a day on the tractor is hard work...but she is...

All I really did tonight was run out and take the pics...I did not feel like screwing with moving the buggy and everything so I just crawled under it again with a better light....the photos are much better this time. Yea I am a bit lazy....and too much crap to move

Is that on a BX-25 or a BX25D. On my new D there is a large metal "pan" that is right under the fan. On this photo I outlined the pan in yellow, and I am thinking that the long "tube" sections you have I did in red. Now you have me real interested....I am going to climb under the thing again...

Here is a photo of the fan with the mower deck removed. It looked like it was tucked up in there, but so many people say it gets busted all the time so it just must be a magnet. Kinda a bad photo, but hopefully you can get the idea. I could tell that if you did get the fan busted it would be...

A day in the life....and how days change....yesterday it was nice and 73f outside....last night...rain, falling temps, freezing rain and then....SNOW....it is currently 28F. First let me say....Mother nature you are a real (female dog) We pulled out some more stumps and root systems yesterday...

And on a brand new tractor you stupid noob.....jeez. Well if it was a car I would be livid....but with a new tractor I just don't know. If you don't know the history here is the cliff notes version (I doubt kids know what that is) Just bought a tractor, today is really the first time I looked...

Short update, digging up stumps/roots close to the surface a bit last night...so far machine has 14.change hours on it. Most of these trees are about the size of your wrist perhaps a tad larger. Pulling up roots is a bit of a pain, it will bust in one place then you have to get off the machine...

Another day in the life of Kubota....I still don't have a name for her....she is getting upset about that. Yesterday nice and outside in a t-shirt 70+F outside....last night snow, and thunderstorms....(yes both) this morning 33f. Gotta love Missouri....do I really have to? I dug up some roots...

1972 Opel GT....and I did have it done up in gulf colors. This is the only net pic I can find, this was during the build. Started as a total rust bucket....as in total, if you opened up both doors you could not close them again as the car would sag in the middle. Then it was a SCCA Improved...

What wife... ;) I am kidding....any woman that would climb under a 40 year old race car just to help me out is a keeper.

I saw the feet that 4shorts made, but I don't have the ability to bend metal that thick. I do have some metal working tools but mainly for car bodies....currently I am doing a 1963 VW Bug....I think he used a large flat stock and made the bends on the edges of the feet then welded the eye on...

Well I have had the little machine a grand total of 4 days, Machine arrived with 3.8 hours on it and now (IIRC) has 9.6. So far it has been a source of great fun and has done things I would have never been able to do by hand. We dug up a stump that had been near my shop that the wind had taken...

I am going to do this short, as I plan on doing a large on going thread on its adventures. As of today it has 9.6 hours on it. We removed a stump that was just driving me crazy. It did take a bit of time and I am sure a larger machine could have done it faster. But you know I am good with...

Longish post...sorry. First off let me say that I can 100% suggest that if anyone needs anything Kubota related and you happen to live in the KC area check out Romans in Louisberg KS. A better and more helpful group of guys I have not talked to and trust me I talked to EVERY tractor dealer...

That I bought a BX25D. Hope it to deliver next week. Well I can't say it is all his fault....some others had a hand in it. I see the work that he has done with the machine, and the work of others (one guy with a YOUTUBE id of kubotabx25d) really swayed me. That and I really do like the idea...

Thanks for the tips. I will try to get out and snap some other photos of some of the area I am working on. This is an older photo I actually took from the 650....it shows a small bit of the overgrown fence row...It is a little hard to tell, but the fence is an old barbed wire fence that is...

In the market for one of these two machines....it will be one of these two. I would like a grapple on it and really like the looks of the Land Pride SGC05. Moving brush, picking up RR ties will be a big ongoing job for this machine....whatever it ends up being. In looking over the Land Pride...

I admit I am kinda a noob at this tractor thing.....I have lived in the country for 16 years, own ~13ac that is a mix of pasture terraced, pretty heavy wooded areas, swampy areas that do not drain well, and some steep hills in the back part of the property....a little bit of everything. I...

Yea, yea, yea....how many of these do we have to have.....well I don't have one yet so here ya go :laughing: Looking for a (what I have learned to be) SCUT....before we called these things little tractors. My good ole JD650 has given all it can give, over heating issues, PTO gone to the happy...