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My last purchase one year old BX18xx now has 25 hours so may need to read my old post to see how to service it when time comes. Spent last few days at Barlows trying to spend money and alas I did. Only $2600 for a tiller, paid for but not delivered and considered a z turn but right shoulder...

One of my best posts and viewed and appreciated by many. Still many BX owners out there doing their own fluid and filter service, very simple job for the slightly agile.

I finally just went ahead and poured in the bottle of John D red dye before selling the tractor.

Finished mowing season on that tank of fuel and bought a potato plow to dig up more front yard to double size of flower bed and back yard for next years garden. Topped off fuel tank with about 4 gallons of fuel. Sold most implements except box blade, 6' Woods finish mower, stump bucket and rock...

Ha Ha Ha. It could have been me but alas isn't. :) Sold the MX5400 to a buddy (The one that I sold the single bottom moldboard plow you traded to me and he's lost it to a borrower) and sold some implements and some left to sell. Yeah, still kicking and back to another BX. I've mowed 7 hours with...

:) :) Not a typing error. I've bought over 200 personal use cars and trucks since 1964 so there are guys like me that like to "Trade" hunting for that perfect machine or just like trading and guys like you that get what you like and keep it. :) Guess we both keep the manufacturing industry in...

WIW! You guys are going way back, that was my 2nd of 32 Kubotas and it was a parts manual, not a shop manual. It was also about 4 computers ago and I no longer know how to locate it Sorry.

Moved from large lot to a small lot in town. I just used it for large home lot landscaping and maintaining a old logging road on my 25 acre mountain behind my house.

John Thomas (Me) has a MX5400 HST he bought new a couple of years ago and now has 130 hours on it for sale for $31,500 ready for immediate pick up in Somerset, Ky.

ZG gone and Barlow done sold it. It ran out of gas on me again!!! BX1880 now on property with full tank of fuel which should get me thru most of the mowing season. Reduced price to $31500 for the MX5400 before taking it to the Farm Equipment Auction in June.

I posted on local Facebook marketplace and still no buyer. Couple interested talkers.

Haven't rec'd the BX yet. Have had to mow with the ZG 3 times and it is now sitting in my back yard dead, ran out of gas!!! Must not have been full when I got it or gas hog. Will get a gallon today to finish yard this 3rd mowing and get after my dealer about that delivery. I happen to have 5...

Had a gas one and it was cool but don't think it comes in diesel or with a 3ph hydraulics.

Well, I'm having to eat my words, again. My #31 gas ZG is a problem with my limited range now with my shoulders sooooo back to Barlows today to get one with a steering wheel and looks like it will be a BX1880 after talking with Steve Barlow and a quick drop in look Saturday. I did my first and...

Me to George. As Mark Twain once said "I believe the announcement of my death has been greatly exaggerated" and I do appreciate those who are glad I'm not dead. :)

Wondered if I'd get caught on that one. if any "old" readers of past posts would remember how many times I've said that. :) :) Probably, well maybe true this time. :) :) :)

I did for a fact. Had forgot my hat and told Steve I needed a hat if he had any new styles I didn't already have. He had been giving me as many as I wanted some purchases ago, I'd go to hat storage room and pick the ones I wanted, and I finally told him I only wanted any new styles he had so...

John Thomas is alive and well or as well as a 74 year old can be. I've moved from my mountain to a subdivision lot/home and have a 2 year old MX5400 HST with 125 hours for sale for $32,500 listed in this forums for sale section and lots of implements, LOTS, not listed anywhere (Will take to Ford...

Thanks. Finally bought my last one (Kubota) from Barlows last week, #31. Sold him my ZD1211 72" and bought a new ZG422 54" (Guy in front of me bought the last 42" on hand which I would have preferred with my new small yard, I think. :) with mulching kit to keep the blowing grass off me.

Moved off mountain to subdivision so selling all but RTV AND Yard MOWERS. MX5400HST 125 hours about 2 years old, maybe 3. Come see, come drive, come buy. Somerset, Ky 606-679-4514 with questions. Also 1957 Ford F100 on Dodge Dakota running gear for $17,000.

Was at Barlows in Somerset, Ky yesterday getting a part and Steve Barlow said he has BXs in stock but short on other inventory as he left the building to go bushhog. Saw a BX23 in his showroom ready to sell.

You guys are just to helpful and generous, with my spending :) :). Someone needs to grab my neighbors BX and store it in their own garage, maintain it and pay for it. :)

I sold my rental property 5 years ago so now I don't drive by Barlows so often. Have to drive about 5 miles to get to his lot. All my Kubotas have changed since this was originally posted and my land sales and aquisitions have also changed. I have bought 6 lots across the street and the 25 acre...

B2650 to L3901 to MX5400. Go for the MX which was a big step up for me with weight/traction (Knock down power), stability and lifting power.

Some questions about how these come out. I've lost several over the years and believe one way is branches are springing up and grabbing the ring, just guessing but tree limbs have created havoc for me in several different ways. Some are stiff as metal and some are springy and seem unbreakable...

I was a RD only buyer for some years after many years of SD experience. Now after many years experience of RD and SD I'm a convert to SD with mulching kit. I've got a ZD1211 and F2690 now with SD with mulching kit and it is my new way to go. I just blow the slight cut grass accumulation off the...

It does happen. I still some times bump a tree but I figure it should get out of my way. :)

The steering wheel requires much less input/movement/adjusting than the sticks on open somewhat rough ground. The steering wheel seems to stay true to the course but sticks require almost constant corrections and that comes from experience with both from me and others that I had helping mow some...

Read the last few pages of this TBN forum post and see what owner/users think of the Kubota small Z https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/zero-turn-mowers-expensive.430937/page-15#post-6001679

Wow! What a difference 2 and a half years make. I think I have reached the 30 mark and have traded/sold all the Kubotas I had when this remark/post was made. I'm surprised, I thought I was done trading like I'm thinking now that I'm done again.

Not according to people that actually have bought and use/used them. The original one I purchased is still running perfect with never a repair and currently is mowing a 21 unit residential multiply acres and storage units location. Between me and where it is currently being used my niece and...

I think it works for what it is made for but just don't extend the FEL cylinder arms to far like I did on B2650 when I stood the arm almost straight up so I could see better and had the cylinders all the way extended and bent them. Keeping tractor FEL arms down and extending the bucket and...

I did sell that front Backhoe for around $1300. Later bought a L3901 and bought another one and since traded the L3901 to a MX5400 and still have the front backhoe but have not mounted it to MX5400 yet to test performance. I had some fitment issues with the "New" front backhoe popping off one...

I currently have both now and believe the hanging deck may have some advantages. The front wheels of the F sometimes act like they are digging into the yard in front of them when you come up to a steep accent and a slight bump up on the lift corrects it and let drop back down when going up the...

I've been so impressed with this post and others input that I ordered another one of these pumps for my barn to fuel Kubotas with it instead of hefting 5 gallon canisters up to the hood of my MX.

I guess no one thing works on every possibly conceivable machine made by mankind over the past 200 years in every country and even individually manufactured machines.:cry::cry::cry:But there are some accessories that will work great or good or fair on some of the thousands of different machines...

A recommend for those that want to change their own oil but can't get back up after crawling under the car/tractor to loosen the oil pan bolt. I've used this on 4 wheelers, or my grandson has and used it on the VW Beetle yesterday and it works fine. Can pay for itself after one use instead of...

I'm not doing so great with stumps, maybe trying to remove without making a big enough hole. Used mine yesterday for digging some planting holes then digging up some shrub/bushes and planting them in the hole and tamping them with the stump bucket. Dug up some dirt and filled some previously dug...

I've bought many BXs and they arrive at my home with front axle near full. After 2 weeks use the front axle is almost always low. Someone should have told you this and it has been covered, mentioned and talked about here many times a year, it seems. Sure you filled it with fluid and how much...

WOW!!! Never seen a Jeep Wrangler that could MOW!!!!! Mine won't but my F and Z will.

I will not treat the same oil again but when I change fluid and filters I figure I'll need to treat the new introduced untreated almost clear oil to be able to see it. I also have had some hyd hoses bust/break on other tractors over the years and have lost lots of fluid and replaced with more...

I filled an eye dropper type device a couple of times about half full. Should get about 8 to 10 treatments out of a bottle. Next time I'll just do one half full eye dropper.

Installed JD red dye and tried to get pics yesterday. Sun was in front of tractor and not sure I got pics. Posting and looking myself......I can't find it in theone pic but can in one due to red spot and light blue magic marker around it in the other pic.

Knowing where the sight glass is I still have to look all around the general area where it is located to find it. That is going to end......I'm going to paint a colored circle around it!!!!

I just did mine and would not be able to sleep if I had paid someone to do it. 2 hyd filters and one engine oil filter sticking out the sides of the tractor. Refill engine oil and HST fluid with a long funnel. 2 bolts on the bottom of engine to drain engine oil without jacking up the tractor...

Uncrated the stump bucket yesterday for a quick test. Got it attached, has a fairly small upper lip for tractor attachment feet to connect under but got it done when both bucket and tractor were on level ground. Bucket fit good and tight, unlike the front how I bought from them which had one...

Will do.

Rec'd my Heavy Duty V2 Stump Bucket today. Ordered it and they charged me for it about a month ago. I feel it's been a horrible experience with them and no contact with me other than saying it was shipped several weeks ago with tracking number showing no response. According to shipping Company...

It is not hard to turn around trees with an F mower says me with over 14 years experience using them and several years using the zero turn mowers. Yes, the Zs are a fraction easier/quicker unless it is a larger tree and then no quicker or easier than the F which will circle the tree cutting...

I have owned a couple of the ZD3xx's and currently own a ZD1211 and F2690. I've also owned several Fs and they are the tops and winners in all areas. Why are you not considering a F2690 4wd? I bought the ZD1211 last year and it's OK but told dealer if he gets another F trade in that I want to...

https://www.hartvilletool.com/product/9836/john-deere-parts-lubricants...

Thanks for pics and Yep, i found all the filters, they are in about the same locations as my former L3901. I also went out yesterday and as hard as Kubota tried to hide the sight glass I found it :)!!! With help here and rereading owners manual I determined the location but had to get down close...

Thanks to all who replied. I looked at my owners manual yesterday and now makes more sense with all your input. I believe I can now find it. I was looking way higher up on the machine looking in relation to the fill hole believing it would be higher up. Just about to turn over my first 50hours...

I and a friend looked all around my MX5400 trying to find the sightglass to see the level of HST fluid in my tractor yesterday. Couldn't find it. Have owners manual which hasn't answered my question and know owners of a MX5400 will know where it is and tell me. Will be going to dealer in a few...

What's funny on my end is one boy likes the zero turn, and the other likes the F. Go figure. That's good so they want be fighting over which one gets to drive the one they prefer. I have a 16 year old in Dec Grandson who helps me mow for a fee (My choice so he'll earn spending money). He also...

I added a couple more hours to my new MX5400 yesterday. I attached the LP Quick Hitch and then picked up the Grader blade and leveled aan area where I plan parking my 12' trailer. I compacted my big brush pile and pressed down on it with bucket and tractor weight. I attacked a grown up area...

Did my first service on my F2690 yesterday. Changed engine oil and engine and hyd filter. Used the same strap wrench that gets tighter on filters as you turn one way or the other and it kept slipping. I had purchased a filter removal wrench some months ago for removing filters on Polaris ATV...

:D:D I had a F 2wd mower for several years and almost got it stuck in a back wet corner of my rental property where the rain water drained to. I then got a F 4wd and ended up mowing in that rear corner and only about the second time I had used it and got it stuck!!!!! It just loaded up mud on...

Many years ago the front wheel on my mowing deck on my F came off and never noticed it but returned over mowed area and found it. Put it back on. Later it came off and I ran over it, cut the rim and wheel. Apparently the force of my rough mowing and then ditches broke lock ring or pulled the pin...

This farm is next door to Barlows which could cut down on delivery time and testing of equipment and quick visits to discuss trading and even learning about new Kubota/Landpride Equipment and even great used trade in and using no gas in my truck/car. Just hop the fence or cut a hole in fence and...

I bought my first RatchetRake many years ago, about the first year they started selling them online only. I loved it and usually had it mounted on my tractor bucket 95% of the time but it did restrict bucket pick up and front bucket digging. I actually bought about three of them over the years...

If you decide you want to shop close, Somerset, and want to save lots of money, like about $8000 dollars, then I have a near new RTV500 with under 90 hours for $8350 and I'll even help you negotiate it down to $8000. I bought it for Grandson when he's here and then bought him a 4 wheeler and...

Hooked my Hoe up today and tried it. It stayed on which is what I was after. I have two countersunk bolts holding the plate on. I had tightened them hand tight and checked after using and they were a bit loose ss will get allen wrench and tighten them down. Knowing where they are located I can...

Cheapest doors I can find for my RTV500 is a bit over $300. Has anyone made their own? I believe I can buy two Lexan sheets and hinges for less than that or make lower wood and upper Lexan half for much less than that. ANYONE?????

I traded a F3080 to Barlows and today Steve Barlow told me he now has three (3) used low hour Fs for sale!!!! One is my F3080 trade in and one is a Kubota demo display F3080 and one is a F2690 4wd he took back from a gvmnt entity sale since they expressed a preference for a Z for their property...

I sold my brother who lives next door my 50 hour BX2370-1 and bought a used 99 hours Z724X from Barlows. I was testing the Z on some steep hillsides behind and beside my brothers house and was crossing a steep hill when my Z rear wheels got in a water run off gully/10" ditch that was wet. Got...

Nearing 300 hours on my F3080 and hit a rock and bent a blade and it clicks when it taps the deck and front wheel on deck is wobbling again so I asked Steve Barlow about taking it and fixing it and bringing me a new one. He agreed to do that and has a 60" side discharge deck on hand but the...

I traded my RTV1140CPX yesterday to Barlows for a RTV900XT and the physical trade should be completed this week. paper work done. I bought this RTV1140CPX new and maintained it per owners manual since new. It has a top and obviously is camo. Here are some pics and it's also in my profile pic. I...

Had to go to Barlows yesterday to pick up a new battery under warranty for my BX2370-1. Saw this black RTV in the showroom and thought I'd visit with Steve Barlow for a bit if he had time. He took time in between drop ins and calls to trade me a RTV900XT for my Camo RTV1140CPX with about 200...

1Pack 1.5 inch Rubber Cushioned Stainless Steel Cable Clamp, Hose Clamp Pipe/Wire Cord Installation Clamp - - Amazon.com There's 4 pics will try more. I made my own two piece windshield for my RTV500 with sloping windshield posts. I wanted two piece so I can remove or tilt the bottom piece...

Back to 5 and finished. Should be my last Kubota purchase. Done. Finished. Over. No more. Service and parts will be my future at Barlows or just to stop by and say Hi and I'm still alive.......I hired a helper and added 8' width and 48' to the side of my barn to the right of the walk in door...

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Have made several tries but trying again to post these pics......OK.....trying again

My Grandson wanted a dirt bike which I won't help with so we (He and I) moved to a 4 wheeler which are on record as being so dangerous and injury reports so bad around here so I chose not to got that route. My RTV1140 is so big and my Grandson has been driving it since I bought it 8 years ago...

Have a charge contract being paid off this month (One more payment) with Kubota for a small Z I bought 4 years ago. That has me down to only owing for two Kubotas............ well until yesterday.:D:laughing::D

I bought one of the early produced RatchetRakes about 12 years ago. Hard choice since almost no one had bought one to give owner report. I sold that 1st one since it was for a big bucket and traded tractors for a smaller bucket. I've kept and been using the 2nd one for many years and it stayed...

Down to only 4 Kubotas now. Sold rental property and bought additional 28 adjoining acres to home property last year and this is my current herd.

A warning to those with mowing decks with gear drive, like the front deck 72" on my F3080. Yesterday when I would engage the deck it would kill the engine immediately. I first checked nothing wrapped around blades. I checked fluid in gear box and it was low or empty. I added fluid and it powered...

Using my front hoe on my L3901 and sometimes when pressure is applied to the digging bucket to pick up a rock using the bucket and thumb or digging a hole with bucket and the left side top attachment plate comes out of the slot. I'm considering having someone weld a piece of metal to make the...

I bought my, then 12 year old, grandson a BX2370-1 with MMM with mulching kit last year so he could help me mow. I have my tiller mounted on it now so my Grandson used my F to mow with a few days ago. He has a broken wrist and I knew he could use the F with one hand and easy steering. He was...

Good news bad news. Good news: Daughter has a contract on a home. Bad news: small level lot so they don't need the BX1500 MMM and do need the money sooooo the BX1500 MMM with around 800 hours basement stored is going on Craigs list for $6500.:anyone: He has been so proud of this mighty mower...

Hope these load. They are taken from the same spot pre JDUNN Grapple work.

OK, only 3 more.

One of the brush piles :)

Keeps uploading previus pics and then brings up the ones I tried to upload. Will just go forth till they're uploaded.

The original pics from page one or two (Have added them to this page on a later post.show dense trees and only the end of the camper could be seen before. Also woods was to dense to drive a tractor past the edge. This is after 2 to 3 hours rough tearing down and moving and when the tear down is...

Worked for about 15 minutes. Center picture which looked like right and left pic before working plus stack of removed trees, stumps.

Installed

I'M IN LOVE, I'M IN LOVE, I'M IN LOVE!!!!! It's off truck, on tractor and has been used!!! I'm in love, I'm in love I'm in love!:cool2::cool2::cool2:i

My thumb.

Thanks to Robertm's input/information/recommendation on this TBN thread http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/164144-best-way-tool-remove-small.html ....... I just spent a bundle of money and very excited about it. I recently bought 25 adjoining hillside acres that has...

Yesterday loaded my near new L3901 with grapple attached to front to take to Barlows for blowing front hydraulics fuse problem. Mechanic looked at it on trailer but asked me to leave it till they could get it in shop and find the short that kept blowing the fuse. Should be fixed today for pick...

More pics.

Bought a BX2370-1 this week so I'm seeing another self made sunshade with maybe a few more refinements in the my near future. Sun is shining bright in Ky. :D:cool2:

Steve Barlow delivered the new BX2370-1 a couple days ago. My wife and Grandson used it first :D which is why I bought it. Some help with mowing!:cool2: She told me later that it sure rode rough. I did an hour on it and came in and ordered the spring assist seat from the company in Indiana so...

Here you go. It's a Kubota OEM thumb off a new BX25 and I never used it but one time to see how it worked. It has everything needed for easy owner install. Knock one pin out of bucket, install thumb with attached pin and the pin from the bucket, and it's installed and ready to use your back hoe...

I have a few Kubotas with sunshades which cost around $400 apiece. I recently was diagnosed with a probably sun related cancer on my nose so sun avoidance is important to me along with light sensitivity vision issues. I let a family member keep the sunshade on the small Z mower I sold them so...

Now to see if it's a able to download pics on TBN day.

One of my blades is loose again. Tightened two of them with air impact wrench before last 5 hours mowing and todya after airing up the one flat tire AGAIN I was mowing and noticed not getting a full 72" cut. Outer blade was not cutting AGAIN. I've replaced the two washers, one bowed in the...

Need a sunshade for my L3901. Planned to use mostly in woods but looks like most work has been out in open sun and have recently discovered skin condition not conducive to sunshine. I've bought several of the heavy fiberglas ones from Barlows but would like one a bit less money and easier to...

I have many 5 gal plastic fuel containers. They all suck. I have a bit higher priced siphon I bought from Amazon, takes forever to move fuel. While on vacation last week I saw a couple of blue 5 gal plastic containers at a Thrift Store for $6.99 with a turn valve. I decided I'd buy one and try...

L3901HST FEL Front Hydraulics Loaded Tires 60" Landpride Grapple and 72" Landpride Rotary Mower Final Trade :laughing: Delivered and trade ins picked up. I'll try for posting pics.

Picked up my B2650 yesterday at Barlows with my new HD25 Landpride posthole digger and 12" auger installed. Have to keep the bucket high to move around! I augered it into the ground and had other things I had to do so not much time with it and it's wet, wet, wet here. The concern....It mounts...

Looks like info from people that have never used sonething only dreamed about them or researched thme online. I do a lot of that myself but I also buy a lot of "stuff" and try it and post my actual experience with the "item". I bought the front "hoe" for my SS after watching one being used on a...

I have a B2650 Kubota and have decided I want, different than need, a grapple. Have been researching for a couple weeks and talked with my Kubota dealer a couple times about getting one. If I use it I will be doing some brush pick up, no big trees or stumps. I also have many rocks in the 24" to...

Here you go. http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/attachments/489908d1480521876-what-about-skidsteer-backhoe-tractor-dscf3300-jpg

I had bought this backhoe for a skid steer last year. Sold SS and kept for my B2650 Kubota with front hydraulics added. Had offered to sell it for $1500 but mostly decided to keep it. I have one, used it and like it which is my input from actual experience but there are some cautions.

Oops! I have a B2650 not B2350. Finally got the Skid Steer hydraulic hoses changed on front mount backhoe to hyd lines to fit my B2650 tractor. After much ado I got it mounted on my tractor and dug my first trench to bury electric wire to barn. If I were coordinated a bit better it would have...

I've replaced the front tires and rims on my F decks a few times over the years and different Fs. Learned the bolts holding the rod holding the tire rim on to the deck would break and replaced them with hardened steel bolts. After wheel falling off and running over tire/rim. Had a tire deflate...

After tilling for tenants.

Couple more pics.

Assembled blade yesterday and attached wench I've had in a box for several years. The snow blade will work on my RTV1140CPX and Gehl 3640e Skid Steer. Looks like TBN is back to uploading pics.

Anyone have actual hands on experience with a DR Redi Plow Plus snow plow for UTV?

My skid steer isn't much on hill side snow removal. Believe my RTV1140 will be better for much less money. Anyone got some advise concerning plows (model and brand identifying) and prices (Dollars cost) and mistakes to avoid. I know more expensive is usually better but I won't use the plow but...

Traded Kubota tractors to GEHL3640e SS. Have 16" to 24" plus drifts on the ground. SS now stuck off drive in yard. Been stuck twice when I get off level drive, slides sideways or gets at angle (not level ground and I live on a hillside) and gets stuck. Also now remember why I moved from BX to B...

I have a new Gehl 3640e with bucket and non swivel backhoe. I have hook over bucket forks and a RatchetRake and believe both will fit on my bucket but haven't tried them yet. Would like to get some other attachments but not at high prices. My SS is just for home landscaping and most of that has...

I know I posted this on my other first SS thread but know some people don't read threads that may not interest them but will read one that they have an answer to. My Gehl 3640e arrived yesterday with BH attachment on it and bucket slide over into my yard. :thumbsup::D Tried to pick bucket up...

I've bought my first skid steer. Delivery soon

I had a 24' x 48' metal building built for me last month which uses the pole barn method of posts dug in the ground with framing and then metal added. Wife, me and neighbors think it looks good. Gravel floor and can add wood, concrete or combination of both later and probably will.

I'm back at Lake Tansi, Crossville, Tn where the golf course maintainers are doing their course maintenance early every morning with me on my deck drinking coffee watching them. The last time I was here was July 2008. While drinking my coffee outside I saw this man drive by and back and forth...

The property I mow with these is mostly level 4 acres of rental property with multiple structures and some open field areas. I've used the F2680e for 6 years and the ZD326 for 2 1/2 hours. Will take less time next time. The Z is quicker/more manuverable between units but slower in open areas...

Several of "us" have dropped stuff in the fuel tank over the years. Usually a cap, lid, spout, ring or something from our fuel can. Some threads in the past. The best method to retrieve the "stuff" is to turn the tractor upside down and shake it till the item comes out :D but most of us aren't...

Never to old to learn something new and a better way. I have a leaf blower and had never used it except this past year to blow snow off my upper porch during our historic snow fall days. Used the blower yesterday to blow off the underside and deck of the...

Ordered and on it's way. 6-3-15 expected arrival day I bought a small Kubota Z a couple of weeks ago for home help from wife and she's claimed it. I'm thinking the ZD326 RP 60" may be a bit faster trimming around all the rental units than the F2680e 72" deck and more maneuverable being so much...

Bought a used 600+ hours BX1500 a couple of weeks ago. When I checked it the oil was way below the dip stick in the front. Told Steve Barlow about it after I had the mechanic fill it. Mechanic said he had filled it before setting it out. Also the battery was dead and a new battery was installed...

Another, finally.

Got one to upload. Another one!!

Got until June 30th to buy a new Kubota and get $500 off along with any other rebates or discounts. Maybe a B2320 HST would be nice. Non transferable certificate. To bad.

My wife took her daughter and our 3 Grands up in the woods in the RTV1140 on an old logging trail I keep mowed with my F3080. There is one steep rutted slick after rain hill. It's been raining. 12" Tree fell down across trail and no getting back up super slick deep rutted hill. Thank God for...

Called Barlows and ordered a Z122 or 121 or whatever it was Saturday morning, went by later to make copy of drivers lic. Saw a used BX1500 MMM at about the same money, except one 0% financing and the other not. (Yeah, a first for me, cash instead of financing with Kubotas money) Barlows was...

SILs lawn mower is pouring oil out the bottom which will kill his grass and since he lives on a hillside with a road at the bottom of his yard he'll hit the oil and slide down the hill and get killed. So, he has a new Kubota to pick up Monday and I'll have someone to start using my F2680e to mow...

After reading here about fuel addatives a few years ago I started adding power service in the white bottle regularly. Recent reading indicated only for really cold weather. I quit using it......until it got history breaking -15 degrees here. RTV1140 would start but not rev up and die when put in...

Seems to be happening on several BX25Ds per other owners here. I don't like it :thumbdown:and have informed my dealer to discuss it with the Kubota regional rep and express my discontent with it. I moved a lot of gravel last week then dug up a bunch of dirt to cover the gravel and it wasn't a...

Will came down yesterday to pick up plow. Used the BX25D to get it out of my storage building the plow was behind a 4' high stack of 3'x3' carpet squares. I lifted it with a tie down strap and got it out. Let it hang in front so Will would be sure he was at the right location. He did OK for a...

It's gone crazy, keeps adding the same pics as I add different ones.!!!!!!!!:eek:

Not loading pics. Will keep trying.

I bought my first Kubota for myself 8-04-2003, a BX2200 FEL MMM. Bought my Grandson Elijah his first one Dec 3, 2004 a BX22 which comes with a FEL and BH and paid $29.50 for his. The BX 23, then the BX24 then the BX 25 and now the BX25D replaced the BX22 over the years. I had a BX25 for a couple...

You bought some to.:cool2: $71 with tax for both. Around $32 each. My Grands will love them for Christmas along with their Kubota hats that came with the BX25D purchase.:thumbsup:

When I bought my new Kubota BX25D I ordered a new just out electric powered Kubota Tractor FEL BH and the new electric powered Kubota RTV. They arrived and I picked them up a couple days ago. Want to see pics?

:) Grandson rode my new old car yesterday. Wanted to see top down, it was a nice day. So, after figuring out how to do it, pull emergency brake and pull button back I put the top down. Had asked him a couple of times earlier in the day if he still wanted the truck or the car and he stuck with...

Does this say 200 or 2.00? My 200s are gone and my new one that I just drove into the garage has 2.30 Barlows and factory put those on it.:D

OK, looks like I've hit an open window for pic uploading after several trys.

Marvin picked up B2620 HST FEL BH 3ph arms/upper link 73 hours yesterday which Barlows has for sale now for $18000. He dropped off my new BX25D. Don't like the brake on the left or have to get used to brake on left. The BX motor just purrs compared to the B motors. Got new styles of hats when I...

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Trying more pics. My BX25D just after unloaded from truck last week. Oops! :D Can't find pics of my new unloaded BX25D but found these copied photos of a car like mine and the same color. Let me look again for BX25 photos. No, that's not the new BX25, that's the old one doing oil and filters...

It is and thanks. Stopped by Barlows on the way to rental property 2 miles past Barlows on West Hwy 80 and told them I wanted hook on top of the bucket. Looks like Steve wants to deliver it tomorrow and guess I'll let him.:D I usually just go out for a few hours every other day and got off my...

Couldn't get over my old BX25. Miss it so much that I stopped by Barlows today and bought another one. None on the lot but Steve Barlow called last week to factory provided info that Barlows shipment is on the way. Should be in any day. Had to get a boxblade in order to spend $500 which reduced...

Me to but I just push it on over and makes it easier, then pull it back to it's wheels with my pick up truck.

My ROPS is often times catching a tree limb and causing it to smack me in the head but I'd rather have it do that and save me from a crushed head. I always wear seat belts in my cars and trucks and have since 1965. I was sitting still when this happened, pushed down on FEL had my seat belt on...

Brother next door is interested in a Kubota Z700, especially with the $1000 off Kubota is now offering thru 10/31/14. His lot is a bit steep sloped in the back of his house. Any traction issues? Does he need filled tires or tire weights. Any one with Kubota Z hillside experience willing to...

My brother lives next door and has been mowing with Husquavarna riding mowers for several years, he just trades one in for another one every few years. He rec'd a card/letter from Kubota offering $1000 off Z700 thru 10/31/14. He wants me to go to Barlows with him since I've bought...

I cut piece out of a big tractor truck mudflap and screwed it to the top of the discharge chute (area, not really a chute) on my rear discharge 72" deck to see if I could stop the cut grass from covering the bottom of my F. It did reduce it some but not a whole lot and it's leaving visible cut...

The car dealer I purchased my Ford Flex from in London, Ky changes my oil and filter for $19.99 as part of their sales pitch. They use Mastercraft? or something like that. I asked if it was synthetic or just regular oil. Service manager said it is a synthetic blend. What does a synthetic blend...

Finally decided to go out side in the hot humid weather and at least mow the high grass around my house where the dog has to go to do his stuff. Can't turn him loose yet, he takes off after, well, what ever. ShitsuMinpin and he's wild, about year old and we've had him about 3 months. Any way...

Looks like you've found your buying dealership. Being a big or little dealership doesn't in itself make a dealership automatically better or worse/good or bad. There are good/great/bad/horrible dealerships big and little. Size itself, just like a tractor, doesn't mean/make one (is) better or...

Going around today on Facebook. Also going around today on facebook.

They do have limitations and can lay down in under one second.:shocked: Usually real careful with FEL up but this was caused by pushing down with FEL bucket, yes, stuff moved after it was down and still running.

Can happen in a heartbeat or half a heartbeat.

Had a B2320 with no FEL and had to add weights to front end for tiller and rotary mower. It was a gear (my first and last gear drive tractor) and would do wheelies.

Paid the final payment for the F3080 in May that I use to mow here at home and paid the final payment June 9th for the F3080 that I sold last year and used the money to buy back my formerly owned F2680. Two payments I no longer have to pay. Over the years some Jobs Comforters have not...

I had a F3080 and sold it last year. As I was preparing to load it I saw Hyd fluid coming from inside of one of the drive wheels. Had Barlows repair it. Was a 95 cent seal which cost me $200 installed. New owner used for a couple of weeks mowing high grass and hyd fluid started leaking around...

Made one for front of B2320 or BIL welded the receiver (from Harbour Freight) on to the plate.

I live on a hillside. I've got a gauge that has a magnetic base that shows degrees of angle that I bought at Harbour Freight for a few dollars which I've placed on my hood before to test angle. Now come my "issue/concern". Mowed across some of my slopes with a BX1500 MMM and "felt" fairly safe...

You DON"T HAVE TO CRAWL UNDER IT!!!!!!!!!! Easy to access this way, very little bending or stooping.:D

Didn't make the trade. Keeping B2620 FEL BH with 39 hours till someone gives me $19,250 for it. Reason for the $750 discount is because of the Kubota discount coupon I rec'd which I can use so passing the savings along. Did trade my B7100 1090 hours 4wd HST to Barlows. BH thumb and new 16' dual...

Have you ever broken the transmission fan on your BX? No or yes will work. I post a no myself and that's on a BX2200, BX1500, BX2350, BX2660, BX25 there's 5 nos to start with.

Congrats all you guys that have the BX25s. Had one and want another one. On hillsides they are a bit scary and they very well should be. I almost turned mine over one time being a bit careless and went past a bit careless andanother time didi turn/lay it on its side. I was totally shocked and...

Are these really exclusive or did everyone get one?

Re: Do your own Fluids and Filters; SAFETY ISSUE Good advise. Ky is a coal mining state but has more deaths in farming than coal mining. Most of the farming deaths are tractor/equipment related. Be careful around machinery at all times. It only takes a second to mess up.

Made my own for B2320. Sakrete, bent rebar and something to hold Sakrete till it hardens. Can also use weights from weight lifting bars, Thrift stores and yard sales have them cheap.

The BX25 is one of my favorite Kubotas. I've owned several BXs and several Bs and one L. On a hillside the closer to the ground the more stable you feel. Here's a pic of my BX that I've traded in to get a B2620 FEL BH and think I'd rather have a BX25.

I bought these on a B2320 and it looked so cool and I hated them because they loped across pavement instead of rolled.

This is how I got mine out!:laughing:

Stopped at Barlows on my way home to size and price a battery for the B7100 tractor I bought a few weeks ago. Sure any buyer I'd find would want to start it so need a new battery. Ended up buying these 2 new Kubota tractors cheap. Cash, no financing needed. Barlows has 2 more on the back of a...

Saturday a man told me he'd sell me his storage building and his B7100 and priced them to me. I said I'd pay his price if he got the B7100 running and moving under it's own power. He has left it sitting out side for the past year and a half and only drove it a couple of times. Today he (he lives...

These are the tires that I want to relocate to another owner. Keep trying to email the pics on different email servers and keeps kicking me off the internet so let's try it this way. Hoping sizes can be read in pic by zooming ut they are on the original F2680e rims.

Traded my F3080 to Barlows (sort of sold it to a great guy in NC). It was the one I used for mowing my flat rental property a mile past Barlows. Still have the F3080 now with 72" rear discharge deck instead of the 72" side discharge deck :cool2: :cool2: :cool2:. for mowing my 5 acres of home...

I dropped the fuel spout off of a plastic fuel can into mine once and it didn't really bother anything but it just nagged at me so I just go so aggravated one day and decided to get it out. I considered taking the time to take the fuel tank off, which I decided later would have been the better...

I've had 2 rear discharge finish mowers on tractors and 2 Kubota F mowers with rear discharge decks and loved them. They spread the grass out evenly over the cut area, no windrows, no wind blowing grass all over me, cut close on either side, no "stuff" shooting out the side and no rows of piled...

Considering trying a Kubota ZD326 or ZD331 with 60" rear discharge deck and was wondering if the cut grass gets under the ZD326 or ZD331. Do you Z owners have issues with cut grass packing under the machine, not the deck, but on/around the undercarriage?

Do you now have or had a 60" or 72" Kubota rear discharge mulching mowing deck? I may be ordering a new F3080 and for sure absolutely positively want a 72" rear discharge deck (non negotiable). Currently have an F3080 with rear discharge deck (my 4th rear discharge deck I've owned and used for...

Couple people asked for this B7800 manual that I hope is attached.

For Joe's viewing pleasure.:D

Stopped by Barlows today. Entered door and on right side was a Kubota RTV with the tailgate dropped and some paper work laying on the tailgate that looked like someone was working there in a office setting and a bench scooted up near the paper work. Hmmm, interesting use of an RTV. Guess one...

First F3080 is now 3 years old. I've noticed that sometimes I'm whipping the steering wheel around and do the go pedal and the F doesn't go the direction that I thought it should with the steering wheel turning that I did. Rear steering wheels are not turning when steering wheel is turned. This...

This is from my front yard that I mow crossways on an F model Kubota. I'm held in with arm rests , seat belt and leaning to keep from falling off. I've owned several BXs, Bs and one L Kubotas. The BX1500 MMM and no FEL might have done it crossways but it didn't with me on it but I doubt any of...

Love it and be careful. Be confident but not careless. I live on a hillside and have learned the value of a Kubota or several Kubotas:D and how much work they can do and save me time and energy, which is starting to recharge slower/less than it did when I was younger.:) I'm going to post a pic...

Consider replacing the pins holding the front wheels on if your doing much rough land mowing. I've had 2 break which I didn't notice and had to replace two front tires over the past year after the mowing blades cut them up and sure not good on the blades and the sound is terrible.:eek...

Be careful on slopes and always go up and down and not crossways when possible. Here is another view of a BX25 if your wondering what it looks like from this side.

Some pics of front deck attached and standing up for blade replacement/sharpening. Not me in the pic, guy helping which I let him do since it was his 30MM socket and my air wrench.:D

Pull 4 spring loaded pins and twist into lock slot, remove handle from top of deck, insert it into a slot and pull or push till the shock is compressed and lock handle into slot on top of deck and finally pull/release another spring loaded lever that will spring forward and lock deck straight up...

Stopped at Barlows today to get some blades for my F3080 72" rear discharge deck and Barlows was having some kind of Super Dealer Sales Event that came with Chili dogs, drinks and chips. Ate and bought my blades and left a winning ticket to be drawn Friday. Will see what I won to see if I'll...

Congratulations on your new Kubota. I have a picture of my old one that you may want to print to study some if your wondering what the bottom looks like. Greatest machine, just be careful or for sure more careful than me.

If you start reading this to learn something about a specific tractor, just go on to another topic. This is is going to be some thoughts to ponder. You drive a B7800 FEL tractor down a fairly steep hill a first time while the grass is wet. You drive fairly slow in order to be careful. The...

DON'T NEED NO STINKIN ROPS, I'M NOT EVEN DRIVING IT. JUST BACKING UP.:cool2: