Kubota FEL - B series vs BX series

[jeff9366]

Can a B or BX handle a disk and if so what size. I want to use it for small food plots. 1 acre plot is my largest

The lightest Tandem Disc Harrow which is effective creating food plots has pans 20" in diameter.

Such a Disc Harrow requires a 4-WD drive tractor with a bare tractor weight of 3,300 pounds and moist soil conditions. Any Disc Harrow lighter requires six to ten passes over new ground to scuffle the surface enough for seeding medium and large seeds most common in fall/winter food plot mixes, such as winter wheat and oats.

A Disc Harrow must be pulled at a brisk pace in order to mix and level soil. Two (2) range HST equipped tractors are impossibly handicapped.


Disc Harrows and PTO-powered roto-tillers are both soil mixers. A 1,500 pound Kubota BX or B weight tractor with minimum 23-horsepower can effectively handle a forward rotation roto-tiller somewhat wider than the rear tires mixing moist soil. I recommend a roto-tiller for mixing soil with a 1,500 - 3,000 pound bare weight tractor.

MORE: disc harrow vs rototiller site:tractorbynet.com - Google Search


Multiple reasons owner/operators trade up from Subcompact Tractors:

More tractor weight.

More FEL lift capacity.

Three-range (3) HST (Lower LOW, Higher, HIGH) ~~ rather than two-range (2) HST.

More ground clearance.

Larger wheels and tires have a larger tire/tread "patch" in contact with the soil. Larger wheels and tires bridge small holes, ruts and tree debris maintaining traction, which stall subcompact tractors. As a result, larger wheels/tires yield more tractive power pulling ground contact implements and logs, pushing a loader bucket into dirt and pushing snow. Larger wheels and tires decrease operator perturbation operating over rough ground.

 

[BX23S-1]

Can a B or BX handle a disk and if so what size. I want to use it for small food plots. 1 acre plot is my largest

If you can afford the "B" series tractor, go with that. The BX is a great small tractor, but it is limited compared to what the B can do.

 

[jeff9366]

Can a B or BX handle a disk and if so what size. I want to use it for small food plots.

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[Zick]

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Give it a rest with a badgering of people's location. :thumbdown:

 

[Smokeydog]

B26 handy as a pocket on a shirt.

 

[BX23S-1]

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B26 handy as a pocket on a shirt.

OHHHHH NOOOOOOOOO.... IT`S JAWWWWWWWWWW`S :laughing:

Heyyyyy... do you leave that unattended anywhere...??? Thats a REALLY nice tractor, i`d like to hide that in my garage for the next 20yrs... lol lol lol

 

[BX23S-1]

Give it a rest with a badgering of people's location. :thumbdown:

yeahhhh, i never really understood why some people are so **** about that. Who cares where people live. Probably just more nosy than anything i guess, i dunno...lol

 

[Rock Crawler]

I will throw my hat in...

I've had a BX25D and a B2650.

I bought the BX25D, used it, hated it, cranked the hydraulics as far as I dare, still hated the god forsaken piece of crap that was so weak I honestly despised it and those who created such a loathing junk pile.... sold it within months.

Bought the B2650 with the light material bucket (larger bucket), added around 800# of 3-point ballast and 700+# of fluid in the rear tires, cranked the pressure before I played with it, moved literal mountains and many hundreds of thousands of tons of dirt, clay, concrete, asphalt, block, brick and more.... love the thing almost as much as my dog.

Would not recommend a BX to anyone unless they were my enemy and I just wanted to screw with them for my sadistic fun.... or the person lives on a half acre, has no use for a tractor and just wants to buy one to drive around in circles in there little yard.

Can you tell I hate the BX/SCUT? Yep. True hatred.

 

[MossRoad]

I will throw my hat in...

I've had a BX25D and a B2650.

I bought the BX25D, used it, hated it, cranked the hydraulics as far as I dare, still hated the god forsaken piece of crap that was so weak I honestly despised it and those who created such a loathing junk pile.... sold it within months.

Bought the B2650 with the light material bucket (larger bucket), added around 800# of 3-point ballast and 700+# of fluid in the rear tires, cranked the pressure before I played with it, moved literal mountains and many hundreds of thousands of tons of dirt, clay, concrete, asphalt, block, brick and more.... love the thing almost as much as my dog.

Would not recommend a BX to anyone unless they were my enemy and I just wanted to screw with them for my sadistic fun.... or the person lives on a half acre, has no use for a tractor and just wants to buy one to drive around in circles in there little yard.

Can you tell I hate the BX/SCUT? Yep. True hatred.

I thought you didn't have enough power to drive that B2650 up a hill with the mower running??? What changed??

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums...ing/394621-kubota-b2650-not-enough-power.html

 

[Rock Crawler]

I thought you didn't have enough power to drive that B2650 up a hill with the mower running??? What changed??

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums...ing/394621-kubota-b2650-not-enough-power.html

Obviously it was not the tractors fault that I put to much mower behind it.... And that HD 72" mower issue on hills steep enough that you can't drive a side by side or ATV on in the wet season has thas less than nothing at all to do with the OP's question about digging with and working with the front loader.... A situation that the BX is flat out miserable at while the B2650 does an admirable job at it.