New JD subcompact

[SethO]

The 4010 does not make the BX look like a garden tractor, how can the 2210 which is smaller do that?

Seth

 

[DaveNH]

Seth,

Paypal me $7 bucks and I'll go back up tomorrow
and take a ton of pictures for you! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

So far all I've seen on the 2210 was pictures.
Seeing it in person, I was impressed.
One quick look at the back end tells you that
it's a beefier machine./w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

Maybe Hazmat or Marko will remember to bring
a camera and then post.

 

[Gunfighter]

Re: New JD subcompact at Deerefield Fair, NH

Did you notice if the hood an fenders were plastic or steel I've seen picture of both the MF GC2300 & JD 2210 but can't tell what they're made of...

Also interested in the transaxles, are they cast iron or have they also gone to aluminium alloy???

The last BX I looked at appears to have all steel body but unfortunately the transaxle is aluminium. The new Cub Cadet garden/compact has a cast iron transaxle but all plastic body. It just seem that they can't get it all together on one tractor...

 

[SethO]

You need to go back and study what you saw again. The 4010, 4110 and 4115 from JD are similar in size to the BX, and have less structural integrity (Note that JD does not rate these machines for BH or PHD). I therefore will doubt whether a "smaller" machine is going to be beefier and still retail cheaper! What was on display was probably something else. Note that JD makes no reference to this new vaportractor on their site. It is reasonable to believe that one such tractor is on its way, I doubt that what you saw that impressed you so much was it.

Spare the 7 bucks, go back, post pictures.

Seth

 

[TresCrows]

Seth, don't let it bother you. There will always be new models and unless you trade and buy a new model every year someone is going to one up you. The competition has had more than two years now to target the BX, first denying the subcompact niche was viable and then scrambling to fill it. If the new JD and MF and Cub Cadet subcompacts truely are bigger or better (subjective) then how long do you think that it will be before Kubota offers a new improved unit, a BX2400?
You realize that it is only a matter of time. There probably already exist the drawings and even engineering test mules plying around Kubotas top secret 'bota test site. My fear is that as each company builds a bigger and better subcompact the "subcompact" nature will dissappear and we will just be right back were we started--large heavy, too big tractors--some company will reintroduce a neat little tractor and whamo--it will start over again. If there was a final solution there would be only one size-type-brand of tractor.
When Kubota offers the BX2400 I may trade my 2410 in for it--no wait--the BX2200--no wait, do I really want a new B3100 or that cool looking L3410--no--maybe that nice green Iseki whatchamacallit . Don't fret so, all is well in tractordom. J

 

[Marko]

Folks ,

Going to the Deerfield fair tommorow 9/28/02. Do not worry , I will not forget my camera and if the JD or anyone elses "NEW" models are there , I'll take PIC's and POST.

Stay Tuned

Mark

 

[hazmat]

Marko,

Glad you are going to take some pics for us. I can't make it myself as I have to get my lawn renovation project done. If weather delays that, the wife wants the basement cleaned.

 

[Marko]

Hazmat ,

I hope to find a good deal on a 3PH receiver for my 4110. Do you have one ?? If so where did you get it. I wonder if the JD iMatch has the buildt in receiver hitch in it ???

Mark

 

[hazmat]

Mark,

Nope, no receiver hitch. I do use a drawbar with a 1 7/8" ball screwed on it to move my boat around the driveway. It cost about $40 including the bracket to keep it from rotating.

 

[cowboydoc]

Dave drives a kubota and was at the show and says that he saw a 2210. He gave an accurate description of it based on owning a kubota and comparing the two. I believe he saw what he saw and gave an accurate description. Just because you doubt it doesn't mean anything. You haven't even seen it so how can you say anything? You bash everything JD anyway.