3 years of ownership bx 25 is now Dead!!!

LeitchesCreekbx25 · May 1, 2012

After owning my bx 25 for so long I thought I would give a small review of what I love/hate about the tractor and yes after hitting a rock with the rear trasfercase she is officially **** up.What I have accomlished with this machine is nothing short of amazement I cleared almost 2 acres moving brush rock and leveling the land. I ran into the hst fan issue first and replaced that along with some homemade skid plate.I then ran into alot of issues with all the saftey limits that I have since all bipassed.I have a 4 foot box blade that works amazing and have just recently added a homemade thumb to the backhoe that really works well for moving heavy brush and stumps.
Now looking back I should have bought into a bigger machine made for woods work per say.The machine will do it but if you have my luck then your going to break things trust me spend the extra do and upgrade that is my biggest adivce I mean if your going to just mow your lawn plow some snow great but when ya get into lumbering your going to want ground clearance.
I just learned this the hard way and I was being very careful I never abuse the machine but def push it to its limits.
Right now I`m looking a huge spilit rear dif and no JB weld won `t work and I`m thinking of trying to find a good welder but aluminum can be tricky to weld.The other option is replace the part for 1000 not too mention labour seals miscellanies stuff so I would say if I could get the rear hst unit out myself I might get a bill for 2000 but leave it all too them and I d say Im looking at a 3000 bill.
I still love the tractor but save yourself alot of headaches really go bigger if ya can at the time when I bought the machine I couldn`t afford the extra 10 15 gs for what I should have bought.

cdaigle430 · May 1, 2012

Its definatly worth the 3k to fix it-get if fixed and look into some shields. If you had a bigger tractor and did the same thing it would cost you alot more.

Its not dead-just injured

AStanton · May 1, 2012

Creek,
Don't beat yourself up. Look at what you would of spent if you hired someone to do all that work the bx did.
I've learned to be thankful for the mistakes I've made that time and money can always fix--it's a simple fix.

sea2summit · May 1, 2012

I'm a little confused. You say love hate but what a read about your hate is: 1) you bought a tractor that you say was to small 2) you had to bypass a lot of safety limits 3) you pushed the limits of the tractor too far 4) you have 2-3K of maintenance you need to do on your tractor.

But you got 2 acres cleared plus whatever else you did with your tractor for 3 years.

I'm missing something.

MessickFarmEqu · May 1, 2012

sea2summit said:
I'm a little confused. You say love hate but what a read about your hate is: 1) you bought a tractor that you say was to small 2) you had to bypass a lot of safety limits 3) you pushed the limits of the tractor too far 4) you have 2-3K of maintenance you need to do on your tractor.

But you got 2 acres cleared plus whatever else you did with your tractor for 3 years.

I'm missing something.

maybe I read that different than you, but he seems to say that despite the punishment that he put it though its still a great tractor. At least the guy is open to the fact that he beat it. Most people, after doing damage like that would insist that grandma was the only one who drove it.

Gods Country · May 1, 2012

3k is still cheaper than a new tractor.

Did you hit the rock or drive up over something and come down onto the rock?

LeitchesCreekbx25 · May 1, 2012

I love this website it has given me so much valuable information over the years with all my probs .I left it open to yer opinion but I ll never say anything bad about the bx just make sure u define yer expectations and work yer thinking about taking on as u buy yer machine. I m going take it to a welding shop and they ll tig her up and I m gonna skid plate her out a little better.thanks again to all for the timely advice.
Frankenstein shalll rise again!!!!
Not sure but I think a rock got driven onto the pan as I live basically in a rock quarry and am working off a slope.

sea2summit · May 1, 2012

LeitchesCreekbx25 said:
I love this website it has given me so much valuable information over the years with all my probs .I left it open to yer opinion but I ll never say anything bad about the bx just make sure u define yer expectations and work yer thinking about taking on as u buy yer machine. I m going take it to a welding shop and they ll tig her up and I m gonna skid plate her out a little better.thanks again to all for the timely advice.
Frankenstein shalll rise again!!!!

:thumbsup:
my bad

BotaBigot · May 1, 2012

A good welder can likely fix reasonably...unless there's internal damage to critical areas...

Lots of us with BXes faced your size issue...for me it was 50% mowing that kept me from going bigger...and, even with its shortcomings, like you I'm still a fan...:thumbsup:

crazyal · May 2, 2012

I think the larger Kubotas don't use aluminum. One of the things the BX are designed to do is mow lawns so I think they use aluminum to keep the weight down. It's not something talked about much here when people ask if they should buy a B or a BX.

I have a friend who broke his PTO case when the dealership didn't cut the PTO shaft short enough and when he backed (too hard) into a solid snow bank with his blower the case was the weakest link.