bp fick
Super Member
Be careful what attachments you buy for your BX. The 3pt. hitch is smaller in every way than a normal cat1 3 pt. See my tyraid above. Talk to your dealer and ask him detailed questions about the length, width and height of your tractors 3pt. If you are looking to buy a KK landscape rake, then buy the XB series. They were specifically designed for SCUT with cat1 pins and catO spacing for the 3pt. (Which is a direct quote off their sales brouchure)
When I bought my BX, my dealer was very upfront about the limitations of the 3 pt on the tractor. He referred to it as essentially a Cat 0 with Cat 1 pins. I was not the least bit offended by his description of it, and now 28 hours of hard work later, frankly agree with the thought behind his comment. I am 58 years old and don't have a blessed macho bone left to rattle in my body, so I smile when I read over and over on here about the big, mean, and nasty implements that guys are using on their BXs. That's fine. It's their money, their tractors and they are big boys.
The "problem" with most XB marketed implements is that they are as expensive as their larger counterparts, but usually not as well made. The second issue, and boy, this will open a can of worms, but Kubota isn't much help on this issue. They call the BX a Cat 1. No asterisk. Period.
Plus, they keep upping the horse power, playing that marketing game. Again, I have my flak jacket and asbestos suit on, but this aggravates things somewhat as well. How? By having more and more power on the same 3 pt geometry. A guy now has 26 hp so he "thinks" bigger implements and frankly, might just tear up the light weight stuff they pass off as XB implements too much of time. Perhaps you see the issue?
Finally, judging by what I read here on the forum, my friend, you may have preached a good sermon on this Sunday morning, and I say, AMEN, but I suspect you are tilting at windmills.
Best wishes