Bx auto connect deck

[BXman98]

Yes it would be nice to have a drive over MMM for the BX but it is easy enough to connect it and disconnect it the way it is now, if you take it off and the wheels are holding it up off of the ground it is almost effort less to take it off. My dad is 52 years old and he can take it off and pull it out with no problem.

 

[Stargazer]

Did The article on driveover deck get published. Pointers to it?

 

[BXman98]

I'm not sure

 

[Stargazer]

Gee BXman98 stop being so wishy washy! You either know or you don't. Lotta help. Was hoping mohammad (sp) admin would chime in.

 

[MessickFarmEqu]

I would not trade mine for a new tractor with the auto connect deck. It takes me about ten mins to unmount.. a little more to re connect the 60 MMM.

my thought too. nice to have it in the catalog, but never thought it really necessary. Its never as easy as it looks on the demo's, and the manual process is very predictable.

 

[David_Kb7uns]

John Deere and the auto connect nonsense, they are trying to develop demand for a feature that they have that makes their ok tractor try to look better than a BX.
If I had to blow snow the deck would come off twice a year right now it is once a year to clean, sharpen, and grease.

David Kb7uns

 

[CHDinCT]

Not that I'll be trading up to get one, but would love to see how this works. A video would be great. Anybody find one on the net somewhere?

 

[tk tom]

I could see drive over being nice, not so much the autoconnect. Same with the 200cx loader on my neighbors JD. I thought that was pretty neat but I think in 100 hours of use I've taken the loader off 3 times, and it was mostly for novelty purposes (1 just to do it and know how, 2 just to gain better access for 50hr service, and 3 for easy access running wires for aux lights).

There are times when somethings get overengineered - this may be one of them.

 

[oldballs]

I can see that if one is just "mowin' or blowin'", it's not much of an issue. But if one is changing operations frequently, as I am, the FEL, MMM and other attachments are going on and off frequently. Ideally, if I had lots of money and storage space, I'd own a dedicated mower. But my "all purpose" machine needs to be as convenient as possible. As to the current 60" MMM, I'm happy with the way it mounts and dismounts and don't even use its current drive over design.
Cheers,
Mike

 

[rcio7684]

I posted in another thread, but here is duplicate:

I was at a Kubota dealer a couple of days ago test driving the Bx2370. The salesman told me the new Bx's will have an optional drive over MMM this spring.

He told me he was just at a regional meeting and had a brochure regarding the drive over decks, which he made me a copy of. The model numbers of the decks are:

RCK60D-26BX
RCK54D-26BX

He said they option will cost approximately $500 more than the regular MMM and that he ordered several of the Bx series with drive over decks for this coming spring.

Here is the brochure: