Still happy with BX22

Tdog · May 23, 2003

Well, I'm up to 17+ hours on the BX22 - - got it April 25. So far I've mowed approximately 3 acres, some of it quite wooded. Can't say how pleased I am with the 60" MMM - - it is as manuverable as my Sears Kenmore, & cut my mowing time by more than half. And the finished pasture & yard looked great. I haven't taken the MMM off yet, so no report there.

I have now installed & removed the BH & FEL a couple of times, just so I could practice doing it. I photocopied the directions out of the manual & follow them 1-2-3. So far, so good. It will be a while before I do these things by memory.

Using the BH will be a challenge for this 1st time tractor owner. I'm pretty good at finding the ground now. Actually, I've used the BH to dig a 20' trench & also to break up a pile of dirt/clay that had been sitting for years. And I took down one 4" oak tree. I found it was easy to take too large a bite & end up pulling the maching back towards the work area. Gotta be patient! Like a lot of things, I'll learn to use it by using it.

The FEL is a little easier, but I'm sure there's a lot to learn there as well. I have found uses for it that I never would have thought of before I had it.

The Woods 48" box scraper might have been the toughest of my implements to use right away. What I thought would be easy, was anything but. I'd watched an experienced box blade operater at work before, & I was sure I could get the hang of that quickly. Guess again. Getting good use out of the scraper is going to take patience & practice.

Finally, I took advantage of the Kubota 60 month financing deal. My 1st payment is due on the 25th, but I have not heard from them yet. I went ahead & sent them a payment, based on my contract from the dealer. Anyone else find Kubota Credit Corp. is slow to set up your account?

Anonymous Poster · May 23, 2003

My tractor is on order I decited to bite the bullet and go for three years with a larger payment. Hope I will have mine around 2nd week of June. Happy tractoring and keep us posted of your progress learning your bx22. Maby I can learn by your examples thanks /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif David

lpigott · May 23, 2003

Sounds like your having fun! the more seat time you spend the better you will get. I've been driving tractors since I was like 6 years old, you never stop getting better and its always fun /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Best way to get good with an implement is to invent a project if you dont have one waiting and to spend acouple of 10 hour days in the seat. You will be amazed at how far you come so fast. Remember the machine or implement will work you first and in time you will learn how to work the machine. The best tip on the box blade is to be aware that the top link is the key. The box is very sensitive to top link adjustment. Start working with the link extended and the teeth up. Then work slowly down on the link while keeping the teeth up. You will find there is a point where the box will dig down and guickly over load what a bx can pull. You can compensate this by raising the lift but it takes time to master. Better to lengthen the top link some til then. After you have "got the feel" for link adjustment for different conditions then flip those teeth over and play with them some. Same thing applies, start with link extened and slowing shorten until depth you and the BX desire are reached. Another thing that helps on intitial box adjustment is if you have a level cement surface to park on is to start out be lifting the box about an inch and making sure it is level. Then adjust the link until the back blade will touch first as you lower the box. You said you have not removed the MMM but you have box bladed and used the BH? Trust me this is not heathly. Remove that MMM unless you are mowing, you can,t damage it or get stuck by it if it ain't on. Besides you will need practice doing that to get good too. The MMM removal is a pain at first then easy as pie after you master it. Have fun learning and be safe.

lpigott · May 23, 2003

Tdog, what town to you live in or by? I'm from Picayune, MS.

Tdog · May 23, 2003

Town? I'm in rural St. Tammany Parish, about 7-8 miles NE of Folsom. Been here about 10 years.
Thanks for the tips on the box scraper. I need to carve out some time to play with it like I have the FEL & BH.

lpigott · May 23, 2003

Heck we are darn near neighbors!

Anonymous Poster · May 24, 2003

( Finally, I took advantage of the Kubota 60 month financing deal. My 1st payment is due on the 25th, but I have not heard from them yet. I went ahead & sent them a payment, based on my contract from the dealer. Anyone else find Kubota Credit Corp. is slow to set up your account? )

Yes, I had the same situation. I got an introductory payment letter telling me that the book was coming and to make the first payment anyway and then 2 days later I got the book. Both arrived right around the time when the payment was due. I had already sent a payment using the account number on my paperwork from the dealer.

Anonymous Poster · May 24, 2003

I took delivery 2 weeks ago and am still looking for a letter or a payment book. I'm getting nervous.

LOL, Frank

Bird · May 24, 2003

( I had already sent a payment using the account number on my paperwork from the dealer. )

Me, too, apparently that's the way they always do it, and since I was curious as to why they couldn't get the payment books out earlier, I was told they send the information to a printing company to print the payment coupons and it takes that long to get them back.

gsxr1100 · May 24, 2003

I got my BX22 and it took three weeks to get the coupon book etc. Thank god I go online banking. Do not forget you still have 2-weeks after due date to get payment to them.

I have 45 hours and have completed many thing (100+ yards of bank run for inground pool removal, 35 yards mulch + loam, 100+ ft gutter ditch, move trees, removed cement walk ways 6" deep for 110 feet). I love the little sucker! The only problem to date is an internal leak on my backhoe /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif. Fixing it in 2-weeks.

Did the 50 hour service myself. Very easy and I wanted to install synthetic all around. All is easy just get a bucket large enough for rear hyd. I did not /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif, went all over. The metal filter/screen in the rear had some metal flakes. I feel better now that it is clean and running pure synthic fluid. Next is rad fludi with Fleetrite anti-freeze (low silcate). Good diesels are so easy to work on.....