BX-23 Sell or Mow!

[LBrown59]

Concrete tanks have a tendency to deteriorate and turn crumbly over time.
This is a natural process that has noting to do with quality.
Just to be on the safe side it's best not to drive over an older tank with anything.

 

[RobJ]

The answer is yes, it can mow well and therefore gives you your excuse to keep it past its primary purchase use. These subcompacts do a surprisingly very nice job of mowing - far superior to any of the cheap lawn tractors you find at the big box stores these days.

This summer, I took a look at a neighbor's broken down riding mower, and couldn't believe what a flimsy piece of junk it was. I also towed another neighbor's broken down riding mower out of their front yard and bent its rear hitch assembly just pulling it out of the yard. You'd really miss your BX once you sold it. It would be very difficult to go back to a cheap riding mower after having something more solid like your BX.

Just for sanity reasons you have to keep in prespective there are differences in the big box mowers and a BX. Mainly the price. $1000 vs $10000+. Attached is a beater $999 mower that i got from a guy down the street at the weekend place. A repair shop wanted $500 to fix it so he let it sit in the barn. I put a starter on it($120) and reassembled the varible speed pulley(no cost) and it is still running. My guess is it's about 9-10 years old now. I got it in 2002. I used it just last summer when the only grass that needed mowing was what I was watering.

Point is sometimes you get what you pay for, but with a little care you can get plenty out of a cheap mower and the cost is a lot less. And the cut? well I keep good blades on both, and in my yard they cut pretty much the same. The main difference is one is 38" and the other is 60". But I just can't toss the beater, charge the battery and it'll fire fight up.

 

[Volfandt]

Point is sometimes you get what you pay for, but with a little care you can get plenty out of a cheap mower and the cost is a lot less.

Can't disagree with that but, I too have an old L&G tractor that can finish mow if I want it too. A 1966 Wheel Horse w/a 36" deck. I've had it nearly 22 yrs and it's still running as good today as it did when I got it for around $500 back in the day.
I even refurbished the 36" deck for the "just in case" it's needed for finish mowing. And also because I like to collect OEM implements for it too as they made just about every small implement available for small L&G tractors for this model.
I say "just in case" because given my druthers, I'll use the BX23 to finish mow every time. Theres just no comparison. The BX will give a better cut, do it faster, be 100 times more comfortable and do it useing less fuel

Now don't get me wrong, that ole Wheel Horse is still one of my most favorite machines ever, and being such I still have a most needed use for it. Instead of useing it to finish mow, I've made it into a specialty mower to cut a long bank down thats to steep for any riding machine to mow and to mow around my small pond and any other tight places I encounter. I can do this because I've removed the finish mower and installed a 50" OEM sicklemower on it.
As a specialty mower it can't be beat but as a finish mower the BX23 w/it's 60" MMM, HST and power steering is THE ultimate mow'n machine

To clarify, my BX23 does alot more than just mow but mow'n is it's primary use nowadays. I wouldn't have purchased it if all it was for was to mow. I'd have gone to a ZTR.
But since I've got it and also since it's such a fine mow'n machine, I know that I'd be needing that FEL or that BH for something just as soon as I traded it
I made the mistake in my youth to trade a pickup for a musclescar without having another pickup in reserve and you guessed it. I found out that I needed a pickup for just about everything one can imagine just as soon as I was without one. I decided I wasn't going to make THAT mistake again

 

[kwolfe]

I would be sad to see it go, however I would consider selling the machine. You could buy a nice little ZTR if you were going to do the mowing. I would think that it would get frustrating seeing the FEL and BH ever time you went to mow the lawn (not to mention, they become very expensive spacer takers if the garage).

you hit the nail on the head, YOU NEED MORE LAND!