Tractor Sizing BX25D ... Is it the machine I need?

[dragoneggs]

Brother is friends with a winery owner in Washington that has been in the business for 30 years... he says every year just keeps getting better!

My guess is the cab is a popular option for winter snow work.

Funny you should mention wine grapes (which winery?)... I just returned home yesterday after doing some business at Bonneville Power at the Dalles. I detoured through the columbia valley and stopped at a few wineries. Wow the grapes are already purple! Earliest I have ever seen them to this point.

 

[ultrarunner]

Funny you should mention wine grapes (which winery?)... I just returned home yesterday after doing some business at Bonneville Power at the Dalles. I detoured through the columbia valley and stopped at a few wineries. Wow the grapes are already purple! Earliest I have ever seen them to this point.

I know one is Barnard Griffin - Home


"Against the advice of his professors at U.C. Davis, who determined that Washington had too cool a climate to sustain wine grapes, Rob Griffin came to Washington in April 1977 to become Preston Winery's first winemaker. He quickly established himself as an accomplished artist by winning the first Best of Show at the Seattle Enological society's Northwest Wine Festival with his 1977 Chardonnay."


Climate change has winners and losers to cut to the chase... parts of England in Roman times were known for grapes... then the climate cooled.

All that I heard when going to school was the coming Ice Age and how food production would plummet and there was nothing we could do... go figure.

Hard for me to imagine 100 degree Olympia Washington weather... then again... a few days I can deal with.

Lots of Kubota Dealers in Western WA... some move a lot of smaller estate type tractors... even Home Depot rents BX25 in Lacey last I checked... it's a good way to get some seat time in contemplation of purchase...

My place in Olympia is he only place I have ever lived/owned with A/C... never had it in California... the Olympia home came with it and has a Heat Pump... when Mom visited... she let it me known she is not a fan of heat pumps... she likes to feel the heat come on... always complained of a draft with the heat pump... yet the air temp was exactly as set...

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

I know one is Barnard Griffin - Home



My place in Olympia is he only place I have ever lived/owned with A/C... never had it in California... the Olympia home came with it and has a Heat Pump... when Mom visited... she let it me known she is not a fan of heat pumps... she likes to feel the heat come on... always complained of a draft with the heat pump... yet the air temp was exactly as set...

We have heat pumps in Ky. Most women complain about the heat coming out of the register, unless the emergency strip heater has kicked in, since the temperature is way below the temperature of the body so it feels "cold". Most other blowing heaters (electric/natural gas/propane gas/ coal) put out temps much higher than body temp thus feeling and actually being warm to hot.
I had a friend years ago told me his heat pump would heat up the house a lot quicker and feel hot if he rolled the temp way up or flipped the lever over to 80 degrees. Not knowing much about heat pumps 41 years ago I told him it was all in his mind that as all heaters worked the thermostat was an on or off switch and it was either on or off and putting out heat or not. Well, one day I tried it and he was right :shocked::confused3:. I then noticed a light had came on at the thermostat when I flipped the lever way over. I started asking about this phenomenon till I found someone who knew something about heat pumps. Most HPs have an electric strip heater in the blower unit which kicks on the high priced electric heat to supplement the HP process if it can't keep up or turning the thermostat way up or a few degrees over room temp kicks in the strip heater until the room temp is closer to the thermostat called for temp and this heat coming out will be warm/hot to the feel. I had an early HP in one home and a severe winter and the red/blue light stayed on all the time and the heat never kicked off and the temp would get lower by a few degrees every day intil I put in a wood burning fireplace insert with wood inside of it burning. That was over 30 years ago and HPs have come a long way since plus they usually have bigger emergency strip heaters in them now.
When your Mom visits now roll the thermostat way up and then when it gets warm enough roll it back down or keep her away from the vents where the below body temp air is blowing out.:cool2:

 

[ultrarunner]

Yes... I did do this... had to go to emergency heat for her to feel comfortable... I never tried to actually heat it several degrees higher say 74 all day.

Thing is she would never let us turn the thermostat above 68 growing up... most of the time it was off except when family came to stay during the Christmas... my brother said it was the only time the house ever got warm!

Mom loves emergency heat when visiting Olympia... told me now the furnace is working... what are you going to do?

I'm kind of the opposite... if I'm working outside all day and come in and the house is 68 it feels too warm!