Got my BX23 (pics)

[Berniep]

Well the dealer brought my BX23 saturday morning.
I didn't waste any time getting it in the dirt. Boy do I have a lot to learn about operating a backhoe. here is a pic with my daughter on the seat and me behind her. You can see that I had to buy a kubota to go with her hair /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Bernie

 

[Berniep]

Here is another picture of her on the BX.

 

[Berniep]

I din't waste any time doing some mods to my new tractor.
I looked in several place but could not come up with bucket hooks so I modified a standard hook. That's chevy engine orange btw.

 

[Berniep]

Saturday while driving through the field I got some weeds wrapped around the power shaft that goes from the engine to the trans. That along with the stories about busted cases and broken fans made me decide to make a skid plate. It goes from the front of the mower deck lift arms underneath the trans case and under the two front nuts for the hitch.

Thanks everyone for all the great information. With all your help I think I made the right decision.
Bernie

 

[Mike_C]

Welcome to the Kubota club! I'm sure you will enjoy it. I know I do mine. I like the idea of the skid plate, but then I would have
trouble putting on the mid mount mower if I did. Be careful about letting your wife learn to drive the tractor; she may want to take it away from you. Better to tell her that it's much too complicated to explain, dear!

 

[Volfandt]

Look'n good. I like that skid plate.
Since I use mine primarily for finish mowing I haven't had the need for a skid plate but one never knows what the future holds /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I've been seriously considering a career change which would be involving the BX23 /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

A nice shiney BX23 & a pretty daughter, again look'n good /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Volfandt

 

[iris49truck]

Wow, nice lawn! You actually let the tractor touch it? Congratulations on the new BX. You will really enjoy it.

Terry

 

[at_obuk]

RED HEADS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!! So do orange BX23 tractors!!!!!!!
If you leave her in the seat to long you're goin' have to go out and buy another BX for yourself.
Have orange fun!!

Eric P.

 

[escavader]

BERNIE,
I got 2 daughters,one about her age,im guessing 7? I let the 7 year old set on my lap,and run the hoe,she loves it!T MY 9 year old i let drive the tractor a little moving snow with the felwith me walking along side [low gear,low throttle]with the controls at hands reach.shes rather good at it.Both girls ride adult atvs and adult snow mobiles also on their own,under close supervision.Sure their arefolks out there who say this is awful,and they will surely get hurt,and the sky is falling and so on and so on.MY kids have been taught from day 1 to respect machines and the dos and donts and are closely supervised.I was driving hay trucks at 10,running chainsaws and working steers in the woods at 15.We didnt have seat belts in cars or carseats,we either rode on dads lap while driving,or took turns riding in the rear window of the car or in the back of the truck.
my point of all this,teach her not to come near the rig while your running it,but let her use it a little..they gotta start sometime,but use close supervision of course.NICE TRACTOR,CUTE KID
ESCAVADER

 

[TroyR57]

Nice, but where did you find the mud, don't look like to much in that nice yard. If its like mine, that must me the front yard, and the muds in the back.

I got my new BX 23 on Saturday also, 5 hrs and counting the days till I get back home. On the road again for two more weeks. Any way, the rain held off until around 4pm where I live, and even after raining all night, still played a little after church, just a few minutes, and found the ground only wet down to 3 to 4 inches, dry after that, as I dug a six foot hole just for the fun of it. Seams we had been in kinda of a dry spell for three or four weeks, of course the weekend I get home to my new tractor, I bring the much needed rain, everybody thank me now /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif. Any way enjoy, and keep it safe. An just think our tractors have the same delivery date. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Troy,