Well this is different............USA made BX vs BX231 in the UK

[sixdogs]

Off on a side track but ... you said "and looked like a high school kid did the work in shop class." Hey sixdogs, what you talkin bout !? I might resemble those remarks...

I built a hay wagon when I was in 9th grade shop. Tied up the shop floor for months. Took a whole semester. It was made using two junk yard '48 Ford front axles, one for steering and one welded solid to not turn for the rear. The 3" pipe tongue got bent under heavy use and too sharp a turns. The two 16 foot oak 3x10 frame pieces were solid but I had not included a way for the frame to ride the up and down on uneven ruts, flex over obstacles, etc. so one wheel lifted off the ground fairly often. The larger 4" pipe welded between axles had no give to it either. The deck was solid oak unplaned and about 1.25 inch thick & hard as a rock. Never was able to pound a nail through it without predrilling the hole. I hauled 120 square bales of hay on it many times. Sold it after I was about 70 some years old 10 or 12 years ago. Got over 50 years use out of it. Sad to see it go but it was still quite functional. Pulled it in the early years with a 1954 MH Pacer tractor with the governor defeated to let the motor rev higher for me. Put out enough power to tow 120 bales on that wagon up a steep hill, arriving at the top with the clutch smoking. Gawd knows what I would have done if it did not make it up the hill. Jumped I guess. The old mechanical brakes were essentially worthless and no way I could have held it against that hill.

I am leaning on that Pacer in the avatar to your far upper left.

Yeah, you were one of the smart kids that had things figured out. I think that group, and I was one, went on to a life of building and engineering things even if only an avocation.

My shop class from decades ago was forced into a complex lathe project. We made a screwdriver with replaceable blades with handmade tips that stored in the hollowed out handle that and had inside threads and an outside threaded cap. It was knurled, came with extra blades with universal sockets for the tips we also made and blades that were friction held in place by a cap that went over the blade and screwed into the handle. I sure wish I had mine today.

In contrast, shop projects recently were simple folded steel dust pans. Whoopee on dumbing things down.

 

[5030]

Just out of curiosity, these "air ride" seats that's being discussed, are they? Or is it just a spring suspension seat.
An air ride seat that I'm familiar with requires compressed air, air lines and a valve for adjustment.

Most air ride seats are totally self contained, that is the compressor is in the seat base.

Kubota certainly makes different models for Europe than domestic. If you have the Kubota shop manuals (I do), they state that in there as well as supply the European variant specs in them.

One thing I always do is I obtain the shop manuals for the tractors I own as the owners manual basically calls out very little.

I do have one advantage working at a Kubota dealer part time is I have access to not only their shop manuals but the parts online.

You most of the rime, download the complete shop manuals online as well at Manuals.Lib (I think that is it) or Kubotabooks.com