BX1500 Strike THREE - it is OUT

[automech]

My 1500 is great for plowing snow, so you are not correct about that. It plows better than my neighbor's 2wd green garden tractor that has 7 more hp. I get most of my power to the ground, he doesn't. It cuts almost as fast as his, because neither of us can go much more than 4 or 5 mph cause the ground is bumpy. I don't bag, but I think you are right about that, a couple more hp wouldn't hurt. Nothing beats high horsepower for flat out speed mowing of high grass, but I don't do any of that. Would I rather have a 2230? Yeah, but I don't need it. Would I rather have a big green 2wd garden tractor? No, I need the BX1500.

 

[jeffmazz]

I have had the same success as everybody else has had with there bx1500. It does everything I have asked it to do and then some. It's amazing how well it moves snow in 2wd let along 4wd.

Jammer I think you need to trade up to this.

LOL,LOL,LOL,
Hey Eric,
Is there a 60" mmm available for that machine?? It might be a little rough on the turf but I'll bet she'll handle great around all of the yard obstacles. Look out Green AWS machine!!!

 

[leolav1972]

Leo,
Are you implying that I made all of this up just to rattle LB?

Nope..I just can't see how you can draw the ridiculous conclusions you have about the 1500 being a weak machine. It actually kinda funny reading it knowing that mine does these things with relative ease.

 

[LBrown59]

Jammer I think you need to trade up to this.

Naw that wouldn't get er done either.
We all know it takes nothing less than a 2 wheel drive JD AWS.

 

[N80]

WOW!There is some serious brand loyalty here at TBN. I didn't expect to recieve personal attacks from posting my objective experiences and observations.

Well, the truth is, you said some pretty silly things. Not just once and not just with one post, but post after post after post, both here and in the JD forum. You may be new here, but when people here read stuff that makes no sense, they're going to call you on it, regardless of brand loyalty. And they should.

The BX series tractors are advertised as ideal for "Home Mowing, Gardening, Light Material handling, and Towing."

And based on that, you rammed it into a brush pile. And it was your description of that activity that made it sound reckless and as if you were enjoying using the tractor in a reckless way. You even opened this thread saying how you enjoyed abusing the machine. To most of us, abusing someone else's equipment is not only irresponsible, but downright sorry.

Look, you ask for it on this sight and people are going to give it to you. TBN is a great bunch of folks but they don't call manure Shinola.

Kubota Corp. states on their web site, "Start with the strength and versatility of a compact utility tractor. Blend them with the agile handling and feel of a garden tractor. Reinforce the end product with incomparable reliability."

And more than one BX owner has expressed clearly just how their BX's do just that.

I felt it was underpowered. So did my dealer. So did another dealer according to jcpwrsprt.

Underpowered for what? Sometimes my 45hp 4wd L4400 won't push over a 10" pine tree. It would be idiotic for me to suggest that it is underpowered based on that experience. The hp on the BX series is published for all to see.

Dear N80, If you are saying that "I had the expectation that it will do jobs that it was neither designed nor made for and experienced an epiphany when they find that it does not perform well at tasks it was not made for." then please explain why the heck Kubota sells the mowers, grass catcher, and tiller for this tractor if the tractor was not made to handle any of it. It didn't handle or feel like a garden tractor either.

I think the other BX owners have already answered that question for you. A better question would be to ask why you are ignoring them.

a skid-steer ? And a 35HP machine - 35 HP for what? To run a three blade mower deck and collection system at the same time?

I suspect he too was referring to you ramming it inot a brush pile. Etc.

Now dear LBrown59 - you should just cool it before you start posting.

Well, he may have been less than diplomatic, but he just said what most of us thought needed to be said anyway.

That said, LB, I was raised on tractors from the cornfields and farms of OHIO.

First, that's great. We all value a seasoned, wise opinion here. But until we hear good valuable opinions, we have no guarantee that your not a 13 year old girl from Manhatten. Its just like anywhere else in life. If you want your opinion respected, render a respectable opinion in a respectable way. You pretty much shot yourself in the foot describing how you abused someone else's tractor.

The Green AWS Garden Tractor won the pulling contest! Yes, we attached them both with a chain and let it RIP!!!! The Deere WON!

OMG. That pretty much says it all doesn't it? We now know all that we need to know.

Get a Deere. Be happy. Entertain the folks in the JD forum.

And when you get you AWS or whatever that is, lets do a tractor pull. Your Deere against my Kubota...after all, comparisons are good right?

 

[Double 00 Soul]

AMEN N80. I do disagree with you on one point however. I don't believe Jammer is a 13 year old from Manhattan. My first thought (and I'm still leaning that way) is that he's a "green machine dealer" or JD fanatic just trying to have some fun at our expense.

 

[Jammer]

They have allowed me one phone call from my holding cell. I'm being charged with abuse of a tractor, putting an under-sized and under-powered tractor to work plus without the proper papers, blasphemy of the Kubota , praising the Deere in public, conspiricy to commit mayhem with LB , and a Deere operative in disguise, among other charges.
I admit, your honor, that I used the word abuse, and said that I slammed a tractor into a brush pile, not once but repeatedly. But I swear, I didn't mean abuse, maybe that was the wrong word. And when I said slam, maybe I should have used a different adjective. But I'll admit to sufficient facts. The report from authorities is that the little tractor is in stable condition, no apparent damage. But could be emotionally scarred for life.
A witness for the prosecution, Tractor Psychologist, was quoted on the stand as saying " In my professional opinion, he was posting the merits of the garden tractor, and the Deere in particular, while at the same time berating a sub-compact Kubota, to ellicit a certain well known member of the forum to continue his repetitive debate on the subject, just for fun."
Sympathizers outside the courthouse were quoted as saying, "Kubota makes some great products, some better than others, but Deere makes great products too. A fully equipped AWS Deere garden tractor is a very capable and outstanding machine, and many people out there just don't want to hear that." Others were quoted as saying, " I hear he was trying to push over a pine tree with the little thing, I just think that is sick!" Protesters outside were quoted as saying " That poor tractor has a PTO shaft just like every other tractor. It's not the size that matters you know.", and " There are many little 1500s out there that are fully funcional tractors of our society. They deserve protection. Thats why we have special placarded parking spots next to the shed for them"

 

[Adam23]

Now that was funny... I give you that. BTW: N80 is correct, I was referring to you ramming into the brush pile.

 

[N80]

AMEN N80. I do disagree with you on one point however. I don't believe Jammer is a 13 year old from Manhattan.

Well, that's just my standard phrase when someone on the internet starts laying out their credentials to prove that they know something. Such credentials are meaningless. And before anyone gets their feelings hurt (again) I usually use the phrase to remind people that I am the one who might be a 13 year old girl from Manhatten.

 

[beersngars]

Glad I found this thread. I've not learned a thing, but it is getting real funny.