B3200 BX2660 SIDE BY SIDE...NOT BETTER....DIFFERENT

[john reeder]

I'm reading this thread and laughing my ***** off. I'm 73 and just bought my first ever tractor it should be here in two weeks. A Kubota BX2380 with a fel and box blade. We have 3 acres and have lived here for 17 years and I wish I'd bought the darn thing when we bought this property. Thinking back to all the times I've busted my butt around here with a wheel barrow, man oh man! The deal about you having gone through lots of tractors and the post about how to fool the wife into thinking she approved your most recent tractor purchase is a side buster. I've not been a hoarder with tractors, yet, but surely have with lots of other stuff. "He who dies with the most stuff wins!"

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

I'm reading this thread and laughing my ***** off. I'm 73 and just bought my first ever tractor it should be here in two weeks. A Kubota BX2380 with a fel and box blade. We have 3 acres and have lived here for 17 years and I wish I'd bought the darn thing when we bought this property. Thinking back to all the times I've busted my butt around here with a wheel barrow, man oh man! The deal about you having gone through lots of tractors and the post about how to fool the wife into thinking she approved your most recent tractor purchase is a side buster. I've not been a hoarder with tractors, yet, but surely have with lots of other stuff. "He who dies with the most stuff wins!"

It's never to late to correct ones past mistakes of not buying a tractor sized to ones property. You'll never regret your purchase. My brother next door has finally bit the bullet and kicked his Husqavarna box store riding mower to the curb and bought a used BX1500 MMM from my son in law. Almost 15 years watching me next door with all my Kubotas and pulling him out of bad situations and doing lots of tractor work for him over the years he has finally wised up and released some of that filthy lucre. He has about 1 1/2 acres of hillside lawn and i've been mowing and landscaping about 4 of my yard acres. I bought another 30 acres a couple years ago. Yes, he has a lawn and I have a yard, he's the certified master gardener and I just like to tear it up and refix it and move my big bolders around. He's 73 and slow learner. And he's cheap.

 

[TheMadOne]

One thing to remember is that somewhere there's a person with a BX and 100 acres, there's also a madman with 4 acres and an M. Sizing to your tasks is important. Sizing to what you want is also a factor. If you hate getting on the tractor because it feels small or big to you then it's of no value. You won't like operating it, will barely use it, and may as well sell it and buy what you find comfortable to operate, even if that falls well below or above what others think would be ideal in your situation. They're not in your situation, you are. It's your money and time.

 

[john reeder]

I think the little BX will be just right for me it has an fel and a box blade, and with the rops folded I can park it under my 4 post lift. I bought the qh05 quick hitch for it and will make a receiver hitch to fit it, so will be able to move trailers and cars around with it. Till now I've moved the cars with a ztr mower but had to use the truck to move the car haulers. We need to have quite a bit of dirt hauled in here and by the time I'm half done spreading it I figure I will somewhat know how to do it. I've rented a tractor from the Kubota dealer a couple of times during the past 15 years but never used one enough to really be able to do anything right. I told a neighbor lady about the new tractor yesterday and she said she'd always wanted her husband to get one; she wants the tiller. If he gets one I may offer to split a tiller with them and we could both use it to prep gardens with.

I read my wife the post about talking to your wife when closing on buying something and she got a real kick out of it!

 

[TheMadOne]

I think the little BX will be just right for me it has an fel and a box blade, and with the rops folded I can park it under my 4 post lift. I bought the qh05 quick hitch for it and will make a receiver hitch to fit it, so will be able to move trailers and cars around with it. Till now I've moved the cars with a ztr mower but had to use the truck to move the car haulers. We need to have quite a bit of dirt hauled in here and by the time I'm half done spreading it I figure I will somewhat know how to do it. I've rented a tractor from the Kubota dealer a couple of times during the past 15 years but never used one enough to really be able to do anything right. I told a neighbor lady about the new tractor yesterday and she said she'd always wanted her husband to get one; she wants the tiller. If he gets one I may offer to split a tiller with them and we could both use it to prep gardens with.

I read my wife the post about talking to your wife when closing on buying something and she got a real kick out of it!

Never share equipment. One of the best ways to ruin friendships, much less relationship with a "neighbor lady". If they get a tiller offer to rent it or pay them to do your garden. If you get one, offer to do their garden.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Never share equipment. One of the best ways to ruin friendships, much less relationship with a "neighbor lady". If they get a tiller offer to rent it or pay them to do your garden. If you get one, offer to do their garden.

When I hitch up my tiller I offer to do several of my surrounding neighbors small gardens and they usually accept. Takes me about 20 minutes to do them and I don't mind and actually enjoy doing it for them. I also do that with my front mounted hydraulic post hole digger.
I'd also be a bit hesitant with co owning implements as I think about my brother who lives next door. He can break a steel ball, he's just rough on equipment so he and I just help each other with what we own individually.

 

[WI_Hedgehog]

I have a BX2370 now and it's awesome, what it does for its size is incredible. However I would like more ability from the FEL, both to dig/carry ground and for lifting logs. Rather than overtax the BX by putting in larger lift cylinders (which would do nothing for the curl ability and have the negative effects of making the tractor more tippy and over-loading the front axles) I'm looking at a B. The larger tractor would carry my implements with less effort and allow me to mow my usually damp Wisconsin lawn without damaging it. Without the storage space for two tractors (and not wanting to invest that much in maintenance of another vehicle) a B series seems reasonable.

An LX or Grand L would be more expensive, harder to store, much more costly, and likely trash my hilly lawn (the opposite of why I'm moving ground). Would I like one: Sure, a Grand L would be awesome, but I have other interests along with tractoring (maybe someday, but not today).

Thank you for the contributions, a long-sleeping thread is still useful years later, and within a few years I'll have the time and therefore the need for an upgrade, meanwhile I can continue learning and enjoying the equipment I have (plus upgrades, I love upgrading things).

How hard is the 72" mower to take off/put on compared to a 60" on a BX? Wheels too, I regularly swap between a lawn and woods setup on the BX.