Well, I have another configuration. I can get off the seat no matter what is on or engaged and my motor never dies. I can use my hand to work the HST pedal and move the tractor while standing next to it. I picked up my BX2200 used so it must be the safety switch was disconnected before I got it.
I have one of the last BX22's to be produced before the BX23's came out. I can do anything with my tractor once it is running. On, Off, turn the seat, leave the seat with the mower deck going, etc. nothing shuts the tractor down. The only safety devices that I have found on my tractor is that it won't start if the PTO is engaged or the transmission selector is in gear. I have looked for seat switches, but they were never installed. I don't know what other BX22 owners experiences might be, but those are mine.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Well, I have another configuration. I can get off the seat no matter what is on or engaged and my motor never dies. I can use my hand to work the HST pedal and move the tractor while standing next to it. I picked up my BX2200 used so it must be the safety switch was disconnected before I got it. )</font>
BX2200s don't have that stuff. You just can't crank if PTO is engaged or if tractor isn't in neutral. I think BX2230 does have all of it.
I miss what you're telling me I should have noted in your post or how reading it should have changed my reply? I read your post but was replying to the one from Junkman saying mine worked the same way and I guess the same as yours too? If you were trying to say my post was unnecessary since you had already stated how a BX22 works, then thanks for the feedback. Maybe I missed the point and that's happened before!
My BX1500 has a seat switch that disabled various functions but it croaked a few months ago and i've left it in that blessed state (actually shorted out). This places a little more responsibility on me not to do dumb things but that's the way I like it.
One thing I particularly like is the ability to get off the seat, throttle the engine way down and engage the snow blower PTO. I can then use my retired mustard squeeze bottle to dribble bar oil onto the moving SB chain - you can hear it smile.
