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

[HomeBrew2]

...I dont even have a mower deck!!!!

Nor do I !!! Nor do I ever plan on getting one !!! I have a Bushhog for mowing ... and smashing rocks and brush ... and I never sharpen the dinged up blades. Furthermore, I've never even come close to running my BX at WOT for any operation. A modest mow example is attached.

I can pull a full 4' box (450# TRUE CAT 1) of heavy clay with it rolling out the top all day every day though ... if ya need to do more, feel free to knock yourselves out

 

[Glowplug]

Nor do I !!! Nor do I ever plan on getting one !!! I have a Bushhog for mowing ... and smashing rocks and brush ... and I never sharpen the dinged up blades. Furthermore, I've never even come close to running my BX at WOT for any operation. A modest mow example is attached.

I can pull a full 4' box (450# TRUE CAT 1) of heavy clay with it rolling out the top all day every day though ... if ya need to do more, feel free to knock yourselves out

,

You have a rotary cutter and use it with a BX?!?! Is it 3-pt lift or pull type? You must be putting anabolic steroid-laced diesel in that thing!

 

[Glowplug]

I have been checking out some of the larger tractors just for a point-of-reference as you can tell from my posts above. There was a tractor custom built in 1978. It was the Big Bud 16V-747. It had a 24 liter 16 cylinder diesel engine, 900 hp, 1,000 gallon fuel tank, and weighed 95,000 lbs. dry, 135,000 lbs. wet and ballasted. It cost $300,000.00 (1978 dollars). It is still in use today. It was custom ordered for deep plowing. It's just a shame that the BX-series tractors weren't manufactured then. They could've saved a lot of money and hassle and just used a BX tractor for that job even though it may have taken a little longer.

 

[LBrown59]

Hey everyone;
I posted this in another forum (hope nobody minds) but I think this forum would probably get me more responses, so I'm double dipping so to speak !
I'm at the final stages of choosing a CUT and will be buying one in a few months (spring at the latest). I'm a big fan of the Kubota BX23 or 24 and am looking at it primarily for landscaping capabilities.
Is this too much for the Kubota to handle? What I mean by that is not the time it takes the work to be done (I don't mind the seat time) but physically can the machine be expected to do this type of work without abusing it's capabilties?
Thanks!

>>>> http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-buying-pricing/91087-ok-so-how-much-work-new-post.html >>>>

 

[kwolfe]

I have been checking out some of the larger tractors just for a point-of-reference as you can tell from my posts above. There was a tractor custom built in 1978. It was the Big Bud 16V-747. It had a 24 liter 16 cylinder diesel engine, 900 hp, 1,000 gallon fuel tank, and weighed 95,000 lbs. dry, 135,000 lbs. wet and ballasted. It cost $300,000.00 (1978 dollars). It is still in use today. It was custom ordered for deep plowing. It's just a shame that the BX-series tractors weren't manufactured then. They could've saved a lot of money and hassle and just used a BX tractor for that job even though it may have taken a little longer.

You will have to excuse us BX owners, I think that after having been dismissed as "grass cutter"/"tractor wanna be" onwers, we are getting the little man's complex. However that fact is, that SCUTs ARE real tractors, only smaller (just like a B is smaller than an L). The engineering is the same only scaled down.

Yes, it is true that you can do most things that larger tractors can do only it WILL take longer (duh). There are however things they cannot do. I cannot lift 800lbs in my LA121 loader (only 400lbs).

That said, I believe us BX owners like to share what we can do because we are continually amazed at what our machines can accomplish as well as defend ourselves against people who say that we do not own a "real" tractor (because it simply isn't true).

By the way, sorry to speak for the entire BX owing population. Feel free to disagree with me.

 

[Sully2]

>>>> http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-buying-pricing/91087-ok-so-how-much-work-new-post.html >>>>

Very good link to "quote"..especially when you read it ALL and read the "limitations" that they have as posted by the people that OWN and USE them...not just mere speculation.

The FACT that the lift arms etc was re-designed on the BX24 so that it COULD use full Cat 1 impliments ( previous models supposidly werent able to)...the LIFT limitations of the FEL...which WAS only 400 lbs and was improved to the 500 pound mark on the BX24....etc, etc, etc.

And the posting there from a gentleman that owned a Case DX24 ( similiar to the Kubota BX24 in size and capability) that after 1 years sold it and bought a DX33 ( Kubota B series size) and stated he'd have been money ahead to have bought the larger tractor from the get-go. Interesting indeed!

 

[Sully2]

You will have to excuse us BX owners, I think that after having been dismissed as "grass cutter"/"tractor wanna be" onwers, we are getting the little man's complex. However that fact is, that SCUTs ARE real tractors, only smaller (just like a B is smaller than an L). The engineering is the same only scaled down.

Yes, it is true that you can do most things that larger tractors can do only it WILL take longer (duh). There are however things they cannot do. I cannot lift 800lbs in my LA121 loader (only 400lbs).

That said, I believe us BX owners like to share what we can do because we are continually amazed at what our machines can accomplish as well as defend ourselves against people who say that we do not own a "real" tractor (because it simply isn't true).

By the way, sorry to speak for the entire BX owing population. Feel free to disagree with me.

I wont for sure...I think your 100% dead on target!

 

[Steve]

Hi,
The BX23 or BX24 will do a fine job with the task you have listed as long as you're not in a hurry.
If You want to move along faster with the projects and task the B7610, B7800 would be the next size up that I'd consider.
Good luck and best wishes,
Steve
N.C.

 

[Timber]

Be sure of what you want before you buy, more than likely you will be upgrading what you have so be sure you think long term and not just what is in front of you now

 

[TomKioti]

Be sure of what you want before you buy, more than likely you will be upgrading what you have so be sure you think long term and not just what is in front of you now

Exactly... and well stated Timber.