Don't a lot of folks, like Paul Short, for example, really like their
BX25D's?? Surely the roll-on is something many learn to live with...
Most people will learn to live with the defective
BX25D-1 that has the non dynamic braking that you have and had with both of your HST machines. Kubota knows that and that's why they will never admit it is wrong but will fix it and never tell that it has been fixed and never do a recall to fix sold machines. They did the same with the BXxx50 series which they turned into the BXxx60 series in a few short years with never a mention of the abrupt stop in reverse being "fixed".
The great features of the
BX25D-1 will satisfy most buyers and is a very usable machine. Most buyers don't know it's not supposed to keep rolling a bit when the go pedal is released because most BX buyers have only bought one Kubota tractor in their life. You've owned two different Kubota HSTs and if your second one has a defect in it's operation you'll know it where other new Kubota buyers won't.
I used my
BX25D-1 last week to level a 24'x48' spot for a new building and this week I'll have a truck load or two of gravel hauled in and will level it out and the
BX25D-1 will work 100% right for this job.........except when I try not to knock down my corner stakes in the ground I may not stop exactly an inch before rolling over them. If I didn't know it was supposed to stop when the pedal is released like yours HST does and if I hadn't owned so many with the brake on the right side and now on the left, it would be a no problem machine.
I bought one geared Kubota out of the around 20. Almost loved it except.......it kept going when I let off the go pedal and dawned on me it had a clutch which many cars and my current MINI has so I pushed in the clutch and it kept rolling just like my MINI Cooper will do but I wasn't expecting that from the tractor which was my stupidity. I had to let off pedal, push in clutch AND mash the brake pedal to get it to stop which is exactly the way it's made to operate but I had used so many HSTs that I had problems adjusting from one machine after getting off of the other one. Sold BX2320 geared real quick and declared it was my one and only gear drive Kubota and now my HST does near the same thing.
I will continue driving and using the
BX25D-1 I have until I find a better deal and then I'll trade it. Hope that better deal is Orange but doesn't have to be.
