Volfandt
Veteran Member
A smaller comparison but similar.
I rented a small Terramite to dig my pond out a few yrs back and after about 8 hrs on it I was worn out. It had the Kohler air cooled gas engine and between it and the loud whiney HST my hearing was about shot for a day afterwards too.
It worked hard though and I was abl to get what I needed done in a couple days.
I've since bought a Kubota BX23 and had to dig out the same pond this past fall and even though the Terramite's BH had more reach and the FEL carried more, the BX23 still worked just as hard for as long as the Terramite did, getting the job done in about the same amount of time. But the more quiet diesel engine & HST is much less strenuous to operate and the noise level is so much lower they don't even compare.
In other words the BX23 provided a more enjoyable seat time.
Granted that Terramite had alot more hard hrs on it which may account for it's lack of user accomodations and the larger diesel powered units may be quieter, but this is my observations on a couple small end TLB's performing the same basic tasks.
I'd recommend sitting on both and running them upto working rpm and see which one you wouldn't mind listening to for beau-coup hrs at a time....
Volfandt
I rented a small Terramite to dig my pond out a few yrs back and after about 8 hrs on it I was worn out. It had the Kohler air cooled gas engine and between it and the loud whiney HST my hearing was about shot for a day afterwards too.
It worked hard though and I was abl to get what I needed done in a couple days.
I've since bought a Kubota BX23 and had to dig out the same pond this past fall and even though the Terramite's BH had more reach and the FEL carried more, the BX23 still worked just as hard for as long as the Terramite did, getting the job done in about the same amount of time. But the more quiet diesel engine & HST is much less strenuous to operate and the noise level is so much lower they don't even compare.
In other words the BX23 provided a more enjoyable seat time.
Granted that Terramite had alot more hard hrs on it which may account for it's lack of user accomodations and the larger diesel powered units may be quieter, but this is my observations on a couple small end TLB's performing the same basic tasks.
I'd recommend sitting on both and running them upto working rpm and see which one you wouldn't mind listening to for beau-coup hrs at a time....
Volfandt