Usin' & Abusin' the BX

[BXmark]

Usin\' & Abusin\' the BX

You BXers would not have believed what I did with mine the other day:
The County is building a new bridge right down the road and there amongst the excavation was a beautiful pink and purple granite boulder. Well, I was not about to let a wonderful landscaping stone get buried so I ran down there with the BX. I was able to flip it up on end with the loader then pushed it over and into the bucket. Height wise it fit the bucket but it did hang out past the front about a foot. The FEL was able to lift it about a foot off the gound so I figured whatever the weight I had it made. It just wasn't quite centered in the bucket so I got off and went up front to see if I could budge it over a bit. That's when I saw the rearend of the tractor come off the ground! As soon as I jumped back on the rear came back down. I got out of the mud and back on the road heading up to the house so I took it out of 4WD. I go nowhere- the rear tires just sit there spinning on the pavement. I had to keep it in 4 wheel all the way. But the BX came through again and I got my beautiful landscaping stone. Wife thinks I'm crazy.

 

[JeffRey30747]

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I guess you don't have to worry about driveline windup if the rear wheels aren't on the ground!/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

 

[rdln]

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pink quartz boulders are nice and run about $.25 a pound in mich, if you dont have loader/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Charliebrn]

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What, no pics???? /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Wal]

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I love it!!! Great story, great ending!!!

 

[paccorti]

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Wow, great story! What do you think that stone weighed?

Peter

 

[TresCrows]

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BXmark, you need something on the rear to help the balance, the BX can definitly pick up enough weight with the FEL that the rear wheels will become light or even tump the tractor over to the front, ask me how I know--well--maybe not.
I am curious what motorists thought of the process, did you get some strange stares, like an ant with a juicy morsel 10 times it's body weight gamely carriyng it to the hive, you and your BX? It appears to me and from my own experience I beleive it is true, the BX can lift quite a bit more than the specs indicate--for whatever reason. --- Hey mom look at that funny man on that little orange tractor with that giant rock --- little do they know, just another day in the life and times of the MityBX.
J

 

[rodman]

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I was able to lift 680Lbs of salt to within 1' of the max height with my BX. It is definitely rated low. I lowered the loader and drove that load down the hill to my barn without incident. I love my BX!!! The big job this summer is going to be building a hill along the road. That will be the toughest thing the BX will do. The hill is to be 12'x35'x300'.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

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My little BX continues to impress on me how stout it really is, today while clearing the snow off the drive I was thinking back on some of the other equipment I owned and used to use for the same job and how these other machines at some point always seemed to struggle with the task, especially in wet, heavy snow. The BX never seems to even wimper, I seldom even use it at full power, mostly at half to three quarter throttle and it still outperforms my previous machines one of which was a larger L245DT. I must admit when battling old man winter I tend to get pretty aggresive with my equipment and push it to the limits. Today things were getting pretty mild and softening up so it was getting time to do a little more clean up and push back some snow banks at my drive entrance to the highway, I always plow with the rear blade rather than use the blower near the road due to all the gravel mixed in with the snow coming off the highway. I thought of putting on the loader for the task but first tried with the rear blade. To my surprise it punched right through and rolled right back another 10 feet, so I just kept hammering away about a half a blade width at a swipe until everything was opened up, I'd say the snowbanks were about 3 feet high, nothing huge but quite solid. As I was cleaning off the tractor to put it away, much to my dismay I see again have over stressed my 5 foot Landpride blade, I have had to weld up the hitch frame twice now and I see the hole where the angle lock pin goes has torn out. I'm now wishing I had bought the RB1560 with cat1 rather than the RB0560 w/cat0. The BX is just too heavy of a machine for the blade but at the time the dealer I purchased the blade from said this was the blade they were selling with the BX since the narrower cat0 set up was easier to hitch up on the BX. On the other hand, it's just as well the blade is the weak link here, it's a heck of a lot cheaper to replace than the tractor. lol

 

[JimMorrissey]

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Wow, that's big hill you plan to build! Is that supposed to be some kind of berm to plant trees on and keep the sound down around your property?