Would You Buy Another BX?

[Carl_NH]

I've been mulling over 54" vs 60" deck. My concern is my lawn is about half hillside and I have some tight spots with my 48" deck. I'm also mulling over tires in lawn areas, turf vs R14.

I've read your reply and thanks for your input. I'd be very interested to know what you're using as your leaf vac and how well you like it. I have an older tow behind powered vacuum for my JD 265 Garden Tractor. It works great on level ground but mowing and turn on slopes, it's limited and it's long. I'm likely going to buy either a BX 2380 or 2680, still pondering that option. As someone suggested, I've pretty much decided to go with a 60 inch instead of the 54 inch mid
deck. One important option I will defiantly be researching is leaf removal with the BX. I move a whole bunch of leaves to pick in the fall and the BX Bagger is small for my needs.

Your JD265 is a 50 or 54" deck? The vac system may need to be upgraded for the BX larger deck. I have a Cub 1811 with 48" deck and when I upgraded to a Ferris 52" zero turn, the Trac Vac 580 couldn't keep up with the additional volume of air and blade speed. I upgraded it with a 7" intake hose, and same 6" output. Much better pickup now, but still could use a bigger vac turbine/impeller but overall happy with it. I use Gator blades and mulch the leaves down first then vac them up.