Landscaping tasks, looking at a BX24, will it be enough? Pictures included!

[Av8r3400]

... you ...

 

[Av8r3400]

... mean by that?

 

[LBrown59]

I do my entire grass cutting with a cub cadet.
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I do about 90% with the BX23 60'' MMM and the rest with The CC 54'' mowing deck.
When I want to ger er done in a hurry or am pressed for time my wife and I both use the CC and the BX23.
Let me tell U that 9 and one half foot swath knocks the job off in a hurry!

 

[LBrown59]

I don't need another machine to finish mow my property.
2*In 10 minutes or less I can lighten my BX23 by 1000lbs which is easier on the turf and
3*fit in places where there's no way it could w/the FEL and BH mounted....
4*Simple economics, I can finish mow w/one machine and you apparently can't,
hense you have to have a riding mower to finish the job...
Volfandt

>>> >>> >>>> >>>>
1*Nope I just haven't had any reason to do that. I guess I just have better things to do than play musical implements.
2*And while you're doing that I can be mowing or doing other stuff with one or both tractors at the same time.
3* I would still have places I couldn't mow with the BX 23 tractor alone.
4*EXACTLY ~~ What works best for you and what works best for me are 2 different things.
We both seem to be happy with our arrangements so I'd say we're doing well so give us both a pat on the back.

 

[LBrown59]

LBrown...

My garden tractor is a Cub Cadet Series 2000 (2160 to be exact) with a 48" deck and 40" snow blower attachments. Has 700 flawless hours on it with the 16 horse B&S Vanguard engine.

1*This thing has done more work than I could have believed .
2*A kubota belly mower is probably more expensive than my whole unit!
3*Don't know what the Kubota tillers go for but they can't be much more

Attachments can get pretty expensive for it. The hydraulic tiller I wanted to get for it was over $3500.00 !!! and are probably a lot more bigger/beefier!

>>> >>> 1*In that case a BX23 or 24 would blow your mind.
2*I paid $1300 for the 60'' MMM when I bought my BX23. Figuring inflation I'd guess somewhere around $1800 to $2000 dollars today.
3*I priced a tiller for $1450 for a BX1500 several months ago.>>>> >>>>

 

[LBrown59]

OK .... LB... you have me stumped on this one. What's a "tiller front blade"?? I have never heard of such a thing, but I guess that you must have researched this fully before purchasing it. Can you post a picture of it? Do they make them to fit the BX?
Dusty

I believe the Question should be.
What's a tiller, front blade?
Sorry my punctuation wasn't to your liking.
Most folks would never have noticed the missing commas and would have known what I was talking about.
That being the case your comments came across to me as your putting me down or being sarcastic so I responded in kind.
In any event you're making to much out of what was simply a grammar thing.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.

 

[Singlecoil]

...moving right along...

I was thinking all this time that I had a 42" auger on my BX-24, but I've been using a 48". I was at the dealer the other day looking at larger diameter bits and he was telling me the land pride won't work on a BX because it can't lift a 48" bit high enough. That seemed strange to me since the Land Pride looked about the same as the Rankin I had. On closer examination, it appears that the boom on mine is longer, meaning I can get it higher. I think the yoke has a shallower arch as well. I can lift a 48" bit about 3 inches or so off the ground, maybe 5". Anyway, the little tractors can still use the larger stuff, but apparently not any old brand. I think the actual geometry of the implement may matter more than whether it is limited Cat 1, Cat 1, etc.

 

[Dusty]

There are exceptions to all rules, and yours might just be one of them. I don't know, and possibly someone here can tell me, is the 3 point hitch on the BX 24 identical in all ways as the 3 point hitch in the earlier BX production tractors? That might be the reason that yours works, or it could be like you say, the manufacturer.
Dusty

 

[kwolfe]

The hitches on the BX23 and BX24 has an improved goemetry over the older models. It allows them to have greater ground clearance with standard Cat1 implements. In most cases, fitting standard Cat1 to any bx is not a problem. The only time you may run into a problem is with a PHD, subsoiler, or large box blade. However, most manufacturers (KK, Woods, Lanpride) have solutions.

 

[fishpick]

OK - since this is opinionation time - here's my contribution...
My confusion about what tractor to buy was the same as what I have seen here - and here's some of the useful advice that pushed me to the BX24 over anything else.
1 - Buy the tractor for what it is you will be using it for most of the time - not the "edge" cases
2 - Buy the tractor that "fits" the space you will be doing most of the work in

Everything shared here was the feedback I gathered when I made my decision early summer... and I'm glad I chose the BX24.

As for the back hoe - sure - I lived my life without out and could have pressed on as my forefathers lived without one... but having one - that $6000 price tag on it really does pay for itself... a drainage ditch, pipe and gravel along the drive way, part of the in-ground pool tear out, salvaging shrubs, and more...

I love the BX24 - having been around tractors of all sizes my life - sure, tractors are a tool and you want the right tool for the right job... but this BX24 really does become more of a "tool box" and is flexible enough to tackle just about any job - simply stated - the bigger the job the longer it will take.

Now - a larger tractor would have let me move the 10 - 10 wheeler loads of top soil faster... but it would not have let me get my little BH into tight spaces to dig (as in trees around 5' apart)...