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Hey TBN, I've gotten busy for the summer, but I wanted to check in and let you all see the new machine. Forgot how nice they look when new. Good delivery guy named Don, what a trooper...3 consecutive days 95 and humid and his AC isn't working! Tested the mower...very nice...took me 15 minutes...

My manual came in a plastic bag hooked on a brass bar under the seat, which is a dumb, totally useless place to store the manual. It wouldn't have lasted a week in that spot, given rain, dust and the constant reversing of the seat for backhoe use. The bigger issue is that it is lame in the...

Been watching a bit of a leak down around the transmission housing sides and bottom. I'm hoping I just overfilled with SUDT a bit. Must be losing it only when the engine is running, as I clean it off and don't see any the next morning. Hard to tell exactly where it's coming from, but appears to...

Hope this isn't too stupid or simple or obvious. Maybe it might help someone else. My post from a few days ago about popping out of 4 wheel drive while operating...http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/171294-why-am-i-always-popping.html Turns out it had nothing to do...

When you don't have much level land you have to make your own. Just finished this little turnaround along my tractor driveway in a formerly overgrown wooded hillside I've been working to reclaim and terrace. It will also make a nice area to split firewood, which I store in the adjacent shed...

I don't use the 4 wheel drive on my BX25 all that much, but ever since I've had it ( 1.5 years, 125 hours) it regularly pops out of 4 wheel drive into 2 wheel as I'm driving. Seems to happen whenever I have an especially heavy load in the front bucket and even more so if I get going full speed...

I always thought the MAXIMUM INFLATION rating stamped on a tire meant what it said. My whole life I've treated it as gospel. Now, my BX25 manual says to inflate the front tires to 22 psi, but 25.4 psi with the front loader attached, even though the max rating on the tire itself says 22. My...

Rainout yesterday so I installed the Bro-Tek 2" wheel spacers on the BX25. If I win the lottery someday I will buy a pair just to use for paperweights because they are just plain beautiful to look at. What precision machining, what a gorgeous hunk of metal! Also started installing the Bro-Tek...

When you grease your tractor is more really better? I figure that I must be "flushing" the old grease out, but is this really true? Maybe it's good enough when you first see just a bit oozing out? Sometimes it comes out only one side at first, so I keep pumping till it's coming out both...

Hey bxowner, if you've got the room, I can recommend this 12 X 20 (they've also some smaller ones, 10 X 10 etc.) storage shed by Shelter Logic very highly: ShelterLogic 12Ft.W Peak Style Garage-in-a-Box 20ft.L x 12ft.W x 8ft.H, Model# 62790 | House Style | Northern Tool + Equipment I've had...

Wow, kind of like those 8,000 terra cotta warriors they dug up over in China. Ok, maybe not exactly like that...

Cool stuff! 10 and 20 miles from here there were two mastodon skeletons discovered not too long ago during some digging. The first one, in Avon, NY was found while excavating for a golf course: "...a nearly complete skeleton of a Mastodon was unearthed. This is one of the most complete...

After my post a couple days ago about finding a long forgotten, overgrown pile of top soil: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/169216-struck-black-gold-morning-while.html I thought it might be fun to hear what kind of stuff some of you have come across while plowing or...

I'm clearing out a section of woods up near my tractor shed, and for a while now I've been noticing a large mound, covered with scrub growth and leaves. I figured it was some fill left by the town years ago when they were working on the road, which is right next to this area. Anyway, I dug...

John Thomas seems to have one on his BX25. Is this the case for all BX or any other models? My BX25 was purchased in 11/2008, and it definitely doesn't have one. Can anyone comment on differences between the factory skid plates and the Bro-Tek? I've been thinking about going Bro-Tek, but...

A new 2009 BX1860, turf tires and 54" mower, 0 down and 60 payments of maybe $180/month for 60 months...~$10,800 total. ----OR---- 2002 BX1800, 205 hours, used only for suburban mowing, looks like new, with turf tires and 54" mower for $5700 (I can pay cash)...

The BX25 has been working out great over the past year. I use it all the time for everything around my 12 acres, but I still have to mow the 3/4 acre lawn around the house by hand. With the R4 tires and hillside the 25 really chews up the grass. So I've been looking for a second, smaller, used...

Well, I'm a little over 40 hours on the new machine, basically one work week. Some of you may remember my post a couple weeks ago about putting up a Shelter Logic tractor shed: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/132793-my-first-project-bx25.html I needed good access...

Ok, so I've got to buy a 3 point hitch for the BX25, because, as you all know, it is not included with the tractor any more. I'd like to save $100 and get an aftermarket one, seeing how the only thing I plan to use it for is a carryall now and then. Even if just on principle, I think I should...

You can see the sad blue tarp I've been using to cover my new baby...that had to change. First I cleared and leveled an area about 16 x 24 on a slope above my yard. Soil here is dense clay, stone and shale, so I had to dig quite a bit with the backhoe at first before turning to the loader...

Hi everyone, I've got a guy who's going to weld the steel blocks that come with the Markham toothbar on to the front end bucket of my BX25 tomorrow morning. I want to take the bucket off and drive it over to his shop in the back of my truck because I don't own a trailer. Manual shows how to...

Sorry for all the questions...hopefully I can contribute here soon, after I gain a bit of experience. So to haul a firewood trailer with my BX25 I have to take off the backhoe and buy a 3 point hitch. Should I just have the dealer order one from Kubota? They're like $300. Is there an...

I know this is bass ackwards as the BX25 is being delivered tomorrow..but I've got some trails through the woods here, and I wonder if any of you can tell me if I will be able to haul cut logs for firewood on a small trailer. Total weight of the trailer and wood in the 600-700 # range, I would...

Ha ha, ok...dumb commercial. But Kubota's 0% financing is what made the difference between me deciding to get a new BX25 instead of a used BXxx. There are lots of great used machines out there, but I found they really hold their value, cause they don't come cheap (which is a good thing). I...

Getting some hooks welded on the front end bucket on the BX25 this Monday, prior to delivery Tuesday. I told the salesman I wanted 3 hooks (cause I saw someone's photo here done that way), but he "strongly recommended" 2, at each corner and none in the middle, for reasons I really didn't quite...

Thanks for all the helpful info on my post about the weight and towing of the 24. I reconsidered, though, and now I've got a BX25 coming this Tuesday. I had gotten two different prices locally of 17,500 and 17,250, so I decided to get a 24 from out of state in PA...15,400 with the tires I...

Hi all, I've been reading here for a while and decided to sign up as I'm close to pulling the trigger on a BX24. The thread on weight from a few months ago seemed to toggle back and forth between about 2300# and 2800# for the tractor, loader and backhoe. I tended to lean toward those who said...