I think I threw they key in the burn pile!!

[Ang]

I used the tractor today to clean up some limbs that came down when Ivan came through. I've checked everywhere but I think I threw the key in the burn pile. Are the keys the same for all of the BX2200's? I see some replacement keys on the tractorsmart web page. Will those work or do I need to see my local dealer to get them? Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[slowzuki]

Dealer told me quietly all keys are the same for all Kubota's. He told me to grab any key off the peg board when we were test driving, it fit all the L-series I was on. I think the key said it was for an M6800?

 

[DannyD]

They are the same. My dealer has told me to just leave the tractor in the parking lot. I asked where to put the key, he told me any one would work so no need to leave it.

Now my tractor sitting in an open lot with someone having a key to it does not sit well, but what are you gonna do.

 

[Junkman]

All construction equipment have single key ignition switches. I don't know the reasoning behind this, but that is the way it has been for just about forever. I toyed with the though of putting a separate key switch on my tractor to disable it, but then realized that it will just be one more problem to deal with in the future. If someone wants to steal it, the key is the least of the problems. All BX keys are alike..

 

[tillerkiller]

I don't know if your key will be any good after the burn, but I do know that if you run over your tractor key with the mower it will make the strangest LOUD 'tink ping tink tink' sound you ever heard. You will even stop mowing when you hear it to see what you ran over, which also just happens to be when you will say to yourself "where did my ignition key go?" /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif


Don't worry though, the part that is left over will still start your tractor! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[David_G]

Why worry about a key. I drove over my mobile phone.
Did not work after that. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[sneaky_pete]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Dealer told me quietly all keys are the same for all Kubota's. )</font>

I have two Kubotas (albeit one is a garden tractor) and the keys look very different - never tried to use the "wrong" one in the other machine though.

 

[Henro]

I don't think the key in my B2910 will work in my BX2200.

I am pretty sure I tried them in the past and they were different. I'll take another look and report back if they are the same, but I would bet they are different as I sit here now... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Been wrong more than once before though... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Bob_Skurka]

And another fun fact, the key for a New Holland will work in a Kubota, and visa versa.

Near as I can all tractors use the same key?!?

 

[Bird]

Bob, a few years ago, my rancher neighbor went out of state on vacation and left his old Oliver hidden in the woods on Corp of Engineers land he had leased. There were some areas a mile or so back through the woods where we had been cutting hay. Anyway, I drove by there one day and saw the tractor up by the gate, so went to check on it. Someone had driven it all the way to the gate and had rammed the gate with it, but the gate and chains held, so they abandoned the tractor. I didn't have the key, but found that was not a problem; my nail clipper worked just fine /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif, and fortunately, the tractor wasn't damaged and I drove it away.

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

I understood that most L keys fit most L tractors and most B keys fit most B tractors, etc. If so, you probably just need a BX key. If the price is cheap enough, it's worth a try.

Steve

 

[frank_f15]

BASICALY. they are all the same, nothing but an on and off switch. don't that make you feel secure? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[RobertN]

There are only a few key variations out there. The Kubota key will work in other tractors too, and vica versa. Not all Kubota keys work on all models(again, there are a few variations), but most will.

If you do have to leave your tractor, start pulling fuses, block it with locked trailer, ect.

 

[daedong]

<font color="blue"> I drove over my mobile phone</font>

Did the ring sound flat afterwards /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[David_G]

Nope.
1 hit with the bx23 and it remained quiet....permenantly...

 

[longway5]

I've only seen two different kubota keys: one that works in the smaller tractors (like the BX) and one that works in the larger ones (like the L). It actually works out well, since we have an L2850 and an L3250 at work, so instead of finding the right key, we just need a kubota key.
As a side note, the John Deere equipment we have have three key types, with the older quipment having one type (which I think may be the same key for some of Deere's heavy equipment), the newer equipment having another, and the 1050 tractor having a key I have seen on other JD tractors. I can start the 1050 with a house key though, but I found a masterlock key works better.
All the Toro equipment has the same key, from a snow blower to the $60,000 wide area rotery mower

 

[slowrev]

I can order about 12 different keysl that will enable me to operate virtually any tractor. Really secure. btw, I changed my ignition switch to a universal type that has an individual key after finding this out.

Had a friend who needed to use my tractor for a little job, I said "here, let me give you the key" He quickly said he had one and drove off before I could say anything, Came back later and sheepishly asked for the key /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Hmm wonder if I can get an insurence discount ?

 

[botalvr]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Nope.
1 hit with the bx23 and it remained quiet....permenantly... )</font>

That's the way ALL mobile phones should be - forever silenced!
I'd love to chop a pile of those things and send 'em all to hell!