All hail the Corvine Triad!!
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I seem to have poinked on a soft spot.
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Nope. I’ve never said that. However, I’m flattered that you think I give you so much thought.
What I have said is that the BX excels at mowing, especially finish mowing, although that’s not the only thing that it does well. I think that I’ve stated that if someone is looking for something that is much more than a GT, then the BX is one of the first things that s/he should look at. It’s a darn good small tractor too.
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Hardly. However, you do seem to carry your emotions on your shirt sleave.
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I have no difficulty with your opinions. Heck, everybody has one. The
B7500 is not the only tractor that I’ve had experience with either, but it’s the only one I currently own. I actually have had experience on a range of tractors from GT up through some serious-duty AG tractors. Growing up in Midwest farm country created many opportunities for me drive many tractors. I do get a bit weary of your shrillness from time to time.
Furthermore, I think you’ve made my point, by buying two tractors. If you had gotten a
B7500, you might have gotten by with one. I think the
B7500 does most of what your one slightly smaller plus one slightly larger do, and only costs half as much. I’m not dismissing your decision, just making an observation. It’s amusing to me to have watched the exalted BX Grand Pooh Bah for many months, suddenly transformed into the BX/
B2410 Pooh Bah. To read your opinions (and you should), you get the impression that if it isn’t a BX or a
B2410, then it ain’t (expletive deleted).
Question: Does that mean if it is a BX or a B2410 that it is (expletive deleted?). /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif (that’s a joke son, but I digress)
My point is that if you are going to buy
one tractor , then you need to evaluate what you are going to use it for, and buy accordingly. This is not the mantra of “bigger is better”; it’s the mantra of “buying what you need”. I believe that’s what you claim for yourself, although your rhetoric indicates otherwise.
I’m not going to repeat the charts and graphs, as I feel I’ve already showed the difference between all three of these tractors is relatively small. When I did post them, I was trying to illustrate that the manufacturers typically “size” a tractor by horsepower, yet the (HP) numbers they use don’t necessarily tell the true story. Case in point is that the
BX2200 is “rated” at 22 HP, yet it’s continuously available HP at 3000 RPM is only 17.2. The
B7500 and
B2410 have 21 and 22 continuously available HP respectively at 2800 RPM (by way of comparison). The observation is that the three tractors are
advertised as having 22, 21, and 24 HP respectively, yet the HP curves show a different story. All that said, using horsepower as a comparison between tractors is not particularly useful. I think you would agree with that statement.
It is much more accurate to rate the power of a tractor by the displacement (as a rough measure), and by the torque as a more accurate measure. Here the three tractors line up as one would expect (30, 34, and 38 ft-lbs respectively (at PTO RPM, which isn’t the same for all three)). This is very close (relatively) to the displacement they have (0.9L, 1.0L, and 1.1L respectively). In fact, if you do the math on those numbers, it’s interesting to note that the useable torque is relatively consistent on a ft-lb/liter basis.
Bottom line is that these three tractors are each suited to slightly different work, and have different considerations in terms of maneuverability and utility.
