Need some quick opinions....Help!
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MILS153 said:Dyer,
How did you know about the broken marker light? Yup have that and a new seat on order.
I am betting that you aren't kidding about the marker light, ha! I joke about it, but I really don't remember if the guy from Hammond Tractor had even gotten out of my driveway the day of delivery, before I had backed up and managed to hit the end of my fence post at exactly the precise level of my amber marker light! I broke the lens out and felt like crying. Of course, the dealer had to order a new one and that took a week to get here. I managed to superglue the old lens back in some shape to get by and from 10 feet away no one would have noticed, but I had just, as you mentioned, dumped a pile of hard earned money down for this thing and sure hated to see the blemish on it that quick!
I had to get used to the HST at first and realized that the tractor will stop a lot faster than you expect with very little back pressure on the pedal. The dealer described it this way, and I agree with him now, "After a short practice period, you'll find that you really just think about where you want the tractor to go and how fast and it will go there." The brain must translate that all down to the right foot, because I can back that thing up quickly, slow down, and drop the blade about 1/4 inch from the house before moving forward again. I've had more fun with my BX than any machine I've ever owned and expect that I'll own it for the rest of my life, if I don't get the upgrade disease. (In the sailboat world they call it the "4 foot disease.) You buy a 24' sailboat, then upgrade to a 28', then 32', and so on. I wondered if Tractors would follow some sort of 4 horsepower disease symptomology, but so far, I'm very happy with the 18 horse. Best to all. Dyer, retired
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Dents and scratches and faded paint on a tractor just mean that it is used to a good hard days work...
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MILS153 said:
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Soundguy said:
My brother bought a Kubota L-30 a couple of years ago for his business, but mostly to clear a 1/2 mile driveway into his house. I was, of course very envious and he let me drive it on the day it was delivered.....very brave I thought. He is in the process of selling his house, so he didn't want to build a garage for it, but already had one of those canvas Portable garages for lawnmowers, gas cans, etc. The only problem was that it wasn't tall enough to fit the new tractor, so he set some cinderblocks under each pole point and anchored the canvas to each block, which gave it just the right rise and viola, the Kubota is under cover! He's on a tidal flow of Muscongus Bay and an Easterly blow, with gusts at 45 mph, came through about weeks into this new ownership, lifted the garage one corner and promptly deposited a cinder block on the hood of the L-30 before dropping almost precisely back to it's original anchor spot! Needless to say, nice big dent in the center of the hood, a nice scrape mark through the paint, and that empty feeling that goes with it. Well, empty feeling for me because my brother truly does look at pickups, tractors, tools, etc. as instruments that allow him to do things better and he's not so concerned about cosmetics. He wouldn't notify his insurance company for fear of them raising his rates over something that he was not that concerned over. I'm getting depressed telling this story, but I am always offering to make the repair, repaint, buff, make pretty the L-30 for him and he won't let me, so someday I'll buy that from him and do it anyway. His attitude makes the point exactly as you stated and he keeps these things in far better perspective than I'd be able to, but says that he's glad he got the dent out of the way early and that was all that happened to it.
That's all I've got, I feel like I have to go out and talk to my BX 1800 now and reassure it that it's got a better home than at my brother's, ha! Dyer, retired
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MILS153 said:
MILS153,
You've made the right decision on putting the tractor in the garage and it's not nuts at all. I've done it since 2003 for a couple of reasons. 1. My garage is attached to the house with a separate entry to the basement from the inner garage, so I can go out and work on it anytime I want, get tools from the basement, or just go out and sit on it (suspect you'll do that for a week or two...it's o.k. no psychiatric help needed, it's perfectly normal!) Probably should seek assistance if you don't go out a couple of times a night during the first couple of weeks. You'll find something in the manuals that doesn't make sense until you go out and actually look at it, etc. 2. The other reason it sits in the garage is that I have more money invested in the tractor and it works harder for me than my pickup truck.
Something else about the garage. I didn't experience this with the tractor because it's always been inside, but when I had the Troy Bilt walk behind at my camp, where I couldn't put it inside, the augers and impellers would have to be thoroughly cleaned after each use because they would freeze up with any residue snow left over, the engine would almost always have to be started with the electric starter, etc., etc., etc. The first year I had this house, we noticed right away that the garage will heat up just enough from the sun coming through the windows that the blower would melt down to bare metal in a day or two, no matter how much snow you left on it and, of course, the tractor will do the same. You can keep a maintenance system on the battery if you think you need to because it's in the garage, gas it up out of the wind, and so on.
Sounds like you're happy with the purchase, once you got by the remorse part, ha! and if you paid what you said they were asking, with the low hours you quoted, you made a great deal. Have fun. Dyer, retired.
Hey here's a question Dyer - yes whilst sitting on it last night and again this morning we noticed a slot where a leaver should/would be but nothing there? Since I don't know what I'm talking about will try do describe the best I can. Right side of tractor and the diagram near the slot looked like the piece in the pic (hopefully attached). Was hoping it had something do to with a quick connect for the mid PTO snowblower soon to have attachment and that we are actually not missing something we should have.
Also do you happen to have a log splitter in your arsenal of attachments and if so it work well?
okay....pic attached???
Also do you happen to have a log splitter in your arsenal of attachments and if so it work well?
okay....pic attached???
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Yor orange arrow looks to be pointing to a toplink. This is a standard 'on shelf' item at virtually all farm stores and tractor dealers. They come in cat0, cat1, and cat 2 at most palces.. sometimes you can get 'long or short' in those cat sizes depending on the dealer stock.. etc.
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mikim
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the hubby is already calling it his "starter tractor" HA we only have 5 acres hes adicted allready
oh my gosh! 5 acres and just a little bx1800.....he's right ....Y'all are gonna need a bigger tractor ...maybe even sooner than you think! ....and a lot more implements too! ....(tell him he can send a check).....
oh my gosh! 5 acres and just a little bx1800.....he's right ....Y'all are gonna need a bigger tractor ...maybe even sooner than you think! ....and a lot more implements too! ....(tell him he can send a check)
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