Kubota FEL - B series vs BX series

[fishman]

Whatever FEL you decide to get along with the associated tractor, installing a toothbar will make it work like a much larger machine.

 

[fishman]

Re: foodplots and ground breaking. A box blade angled forward and the rippers deployed at depth is a formidable ground breaker with a b-series tractor. Not suitable for large food plots but perfectly acceptable if your goal is to break up some soil and plant some 50x50 plots. I run it one way, then at a 90, aiming for when the soil isn't too dry or too wet. In my soil anyway, it makes a reasonable seedbed and I don't have to buy a disc.

 

[Steve sauve]

Over looked It is updated

 

[Henro]

I will throw my hat in...

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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 think you may have to attend an anger management session! :laughing:

Are you prone to exaggeration? I live in Pittsburgh too, by the way...

At minimum you claim to have moved over 12,000 full tri axle loads of miscellaneous debris. Somehow I can not fathom this. I was questioned by someone recently when I mentioned I moved 16 tri axle loads of fill in one day with my B2910. I did but it was not far.

Lets see 12,000 divided by 16 would be 781 days of work with out a day off. How long have you owned that tractor...How many hours on it? 781 days at 8 hours per day would say your tractor should have over 6000 hours on it.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I love my BX for what it is...

 

[rkidd]

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

Now that is really funny right there!!! I remember following this, him doing things with his tractor that it really isnt designed for and saying it didnt have enough power!!

 

[Carl_NH]

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B26 handy as a pocket on a shirt.

Yep couldn't agree more - really like your setup! Wish I had the QA setup on my B21. They are rugged machines that do a lot.

 

[Code54]

Overall I think you will be better served with a B. I owned one in the past and it was a good machine and a good performer for its size. I currently own a BX and an MX. The BX is a great small machine but not the best at ground engaging but can still do a lot. Have you thought about a BX and just put a small tiller behind it? Could be an option. If you will be mowing your yard and such also, the BX is great. They also dig just fine in my opinion. I have used the small front loader bucket to ditch a ¼ mile of road and even prefer it over my MX for such work. The small size and great maneuverability comes in very handy. I also use the BX for a lot of jobs where the MX or even the excavator would cause too much ground damage. It is all about using the right machine for the right purpose.

 

[Steve sauve]

Overall I think you will be better served with a B. I owned one in the past and it was a good machine and a good performer for its size. I currently own a BX and an MX. The BX is a great small machine but not the best at ground engaging but can still do a lot. Have you thought about a BX and just put a small tiller behind it? Could be an option. If you will be mowing your yard and such also, the BX is great. They also dig just fine in my opinion. I have used the small front loader bucket to ditch a ｼ mile of road and even prefer it over my MX for such work. The small size and great maneuverability comes in very handy. I also use the BX for a lot of jobs where the MX or even the excavator would cause too much ground damage. It is all about using the right machine for the right purpose.

want to thank everyone for there replies. Looks like I will be looking for a b series

 

[Rock Crawler]

I think you may have to attend an anger management session! :laughing:

Are you prone to exaggeration? I live in Pittsburgh too, by the way...

At minimum you claim to have moved over 12,000 full tri axle loads of miscellaneous debris. Somehow I can not fathom this. I was questioned by someone recently when I mentioned I moved 16 tri axle loads of fill in one day with my B2910. I did but it was not far.

Lets see 12,000 divided by 16 would be 781 days of work with out a day off. How long have you owned that tractor...How many hours on it? 781 days at 8 hours per day would say your tractor should have over 6000 hours on it.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I love my BX for what it is...

We have had to call in my buddies New Holland C232 to back us up, and we've had weeks were we also had 3 union operators here with 2 track machines when they are running a train of triaxles. We've pulled in a record of 108 triaxles in a week with the union guys on their machines and us with the B2650 all working together. We've taken an outstanding and amazing amount of material in 2 years. Oh, and we passed 400 hours on the B2650 at around the 18 month point. I would guess a little more hours than a typical home owner puts on a machine per year.

 

[MossRoad]

2 is a couple
3, 4 or 5 is a few
6 is half a dozen
Many hundreds of thousands of tons is what?

100,000 tons = 8333 - 12 ton tri-axle truck loads.

If your best week was 108 loads, it would have taken 77 weeks to move just 1 of those many hundreds of thousands of tons, but that's with 3 machines. It would have taken 231 weeks with one machine, if they all were equally capable.

While I don't doubt that you moved a stinking lot of material, and that is to be admired, even I, a known purveyor of large stories, can't fathom moving many hundreds of thousands of tons with a B2650 in that amount of time....

Now if you had a Power Trac PT425, I'd be more inclined to agree with the numbers.... :laughing: