Tractor Sizing B2320 FEL

[JOHNTHOMAS]

I've had several BX's and still have one. I've had a B7800, L3240HST Grand, B3200 and just bought a B2320. It's still at Barlows, they've been playing with it today and filling the tires. Only using it for pulling implements, no FEL have one of those on my BX2350.
I obviously chose to not pay the extra money for the higher HP B.
From what I paid and what you say you were quoted, you need to contact Barlows. They deliver all over the country.
I you plan on doing a lot of FEL heavy lifting then get the highest capacity loader on the model you get. My BX25 will lift a full bucket but when digging into a high wall of dirt it loses steam which is more the loader lifting strength and not necessarily the HP of the tractor but usually high HP has higher lifting capacity/strength.
Here are some pictures I took a couple of days ago.

 

[displacedPA]

So I went on Kubota's motor site here are my findings.

this is the motor found on the B2320
Kubota Engine America - Compact Diesel Engines
23.5


here is the motor on the 26
Kubota Engine America - Compact Diesel Engines
HP=24.8

so there really is not a ton of difference number wise just wonder how it is in the real world?

either way still cant go wrong.

 

[bp fick]

The smaller tractor makers cannot and do not build 80 models with these microscopic differences between models. But Deere and Kubota can afford to do this and market them accordingly. Back in the day, Farmall, Ford and the other small tractor builders did not offer anywhere near the mind numbing number of models.

While you'd quickly notice the power of an L3800 if you're accustomed to using a B--20, but in our work-a-day world, we rarely notices a tick of 2 or 3 horsepower more or less for 99% of our chores.

This can easily become minutia.

 

[TripleR]

I have often wished for more horsepower, never less.

 

[bigbull338]

you can never have to much hp,i dont care what size tractor you have.

 

[bp fick]

you can never have to much hp,i dont care what size tractor you have.

Never? To each his own, but at 23,26 and 29 hp, Kubota has put just about powered these 20 series to their useful limit. Given a choice, some buyers gravitate toward the biggest hp offered in a given series. Thanks fine.

I understand the sentiment expressed above, but frankly, to me? Just me? Features, traction, weight to hp balance, and on and on, in keeping with the price points, is far more important. There is a point, and I don't know where that is, but just saying, where even more and more hp becomes unimportant.

Again, bigbull, completely understand the sentiment, good buddy, but I suspect 29 hp on these little Bs is not going to leave anyone asking for more. If they do, they might do well to start looking up at an L series perhaps. Best regards,

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

If it's all the same price take the most HP available.:thumbsup: I support that with no reservations. An absolute.
Not considering storage space size, ground clearance, transport equipment, etc.
If the additional HP costs extra money then one has to move past the simplicity of "can't have to much HP" to how much do you need to do the job and at what cost.
I think most of us have a limit to how much we can spend and try to get the most bang for the buck. If we spend all of our money for HP and have no money left for implements then I think that's a bit unwise.
So, moving past "I wish" land into the realities of our modern day world of each horse costing extra money then how many horses do we need to get our garden plowed? Or how many horses do we need to till a garden? Not how many horses do we need to move a house which we don't ever see doing in our lifetime.
The basic question that always/should come up here on TBN is "What jobs do you see now and in the near future needing to be done" then some here can tell you which tractor or size tractor to buy. I think that question is key, past, present and future. :thumbsup:

 

[displacedPA]

Hello all,
I have seriously been looking at the B2320 and 2620. I was quoted 14,460 for a B2320 FEL HST. I think before tax. Is this quote resonable? That quote was via phone so I feel like I could maybe get a better quote if i went in and sat down with the guy.
Thanks for any input any of you tractor pros have.

I agree with you statment BP Fick in regards to HP.

What does everyone think is a fair price for a B2320 FEL HST? See quote above. I was going to ask Bartlow for a quote on the 2620 and the 2320 configured in the same maner.

 

[TripleR]

If it's all the same price take the most HP available.:thumbsup: I support that with no reservations. An absolute.
Not considering storage space size, ground clearance, transport equipment, etc.
If the additional HP costs extra money then one has to move past the simplicity of "can't have to much HP" to how much do you need to do the job and at what cost.
I think most of us have a limit to how much we can spend and try to get the most bang for the buck. If we spend all of our money for HP and have no money left for implements then I think that's a bit unwise.
So, moving past "I wish" land into the realities of our modern day world of each horse costing extra money then how many horses do we need to get our garden plowed? Or how many horses do we need to till a garden? Not how many horses do we need to move a house which we don't ever see doing in our lifetime.
The basic question that always/should come up here on TBN is "What jobs do you see now and in the near future needing to be done" then some here can tell you which tractor or size tractor to buy. I think that question is key, past, present and future. :thumbsup:

Exactly and therein lies the rub. The OP has one set of needs now, but indicated he will be getting additional property. We are not telling BP Fick what he needs as it appears he already knows that as through your experience so do you as do others. Those with some experience and unchanging tasks/land size are much easier to advise and need less of it.

I certainly don't need to tell you that money is a variable. I have actually lost money trying to save money by having to buy twice. I have chronicled the times my father in law had to trade for new, bigger tractors after a month or two. It is the unknowns that will get you.

I have learned some almost "universal truths" in my 64 years and two of which are build a bigger shed than you think you need and get the most horsepower you can afford in a tractor.

Now keep in mind these don't necessarily apply to you or I as "having" to buy another tractor is not something we view as a bad thing.:laughing:

 

[bp fick]

My guidance is this, and it isn't worth much.

Buy the series first. If you need a 30 series B, then you do so. If you want a 20 series B, then there ya go. That is where the BIG differences lie. The differences within a series is a whole of marketing and minutia, with some reality and you got sort it out, but not go berserk over it.:laughing:

Next, you start with what kind of deal with dealer X and Y make on one from that series?

It happens more often than you think that if a dealer has B2620 in stock and had the FEL out back, from two price hikes past, he can sell you the package cheaper than if he's got to run go find you a B2320. That influences my purchase greatly!!! If my dealer had had a 26 that he wanted to sell badly? You know I'd have been on it. Turns out, my dealer had a smoking deal on what he did sell me, a B2320. He'd had the loader and sold it bundled in, for way below normal. I wouldn't have cared a tin nickel which one he sold me.

displacedPA- I pm'ed you.