My BX24 is a solid workhorse for the little fuel it burns. Love it.
I searched at least 8 TN Kubota dealers to buy their GCK bagger, but none could offer a solid delivery. Finally found a used one on trade in about two hr away from a good dealer near Knoxville.
Turns out, Kubota engineering changed the BX mounting design twice after the original and the boot that came w it would not fit my mulching “P” deck. No real detail on the net. Kubota could do better on docs.
Fortunately, I was able to get some really good help in unpacking all that history/diagrams from Jared at Messicks.com.
After about 3 days of chasing details, the correct mounts, boot and misc hdwe added about $550 over the $1700 I paid for the used PTO bagger. Buying individual parts was pricey, but it got the job done when others were just shrugging. I probably can get $300-400 out of the other mower deck boot on eBay so there’s that.
The bagger is heavy, but well under a rear tiller. PTO runs solid, but I still haven’t got the wife’s nasty cat close enough for Byrd’s cat hair sucking test.
Key is not mowing too fast as the 54” deck can produce more grass than even the big centrifugal blower can handle.
Best time to bag is just before the grass becomes fully dry. Too wet it clogs, too dry it fluffs up. A tad of moisture drops the grass out of the stream and packs it in the bags nicely.
The 30-35# / bags are a good size to handle in garden rows. Making 1-2 hr taps over several days took care of our entire 40x60 victory garden.
I picked up four heavy duty casters off eBay to make a 4’x2’ lowboy roll about. That’s makes it super easy to position the bagger for 3 point hitching and rolling around for storage. Otherwise it’s a two person job.
Idea came from John Vickers at YTube. His idea works great.
Cheers!
Bruce