Big tractor syndrome

[ultrarunner]

That's pretty cool for a first job...

 

[Cherokee140]

That's pretty cool for a first job...

Yea...who would have figured that little machine that can't do anything could pull out that pickup truck AND the trailer. It was a big surprise to me...thinking heh this little machine moving all that weight.

 

[DK35vince]

Yea...who would have figured that little machine that can't do anything could pull out that pickup truck AND the trailer. It was a big surprise to me...thinking heh this little machine moving all that weight.

I don't recall anyone saying the BX can't do anything. They are a nice little machine.
Many just felt it was a bit small for 13 acres. Personally I still do.

 

[Cherokee140]

I guess I don't understand what the size of the land has to do with the size of the machine.....still don't, and was one reason I started this thread. Who knows perhaps now that I have this machine I will understand and it might be too small...at this point I really don't know...but at this point I still have a feeling that so much of this is a mine is bigger then yours type of thing. As of now the wife has driven it more then I have at this point.

But to reply to your statement, not flat out in so many words....but in reading between the lines in the public comments, and some of the comments in PM's and on other boards a great many people look at them as toys....and not a "real" tractor....whatever that is, that is another reason for starting this thread.....it seemed to me in my looking that people wanted to push as big of a machine on you as they could...I have x things I want to do, I saw videos showing x (type) things being done....I bought that machine. Now I guess I will see if it will really do that stuff. I hope to get off work early today....might have some updates this weekend.

 

[ultrarunner]

Looking forward to the updates...

The BX will impress for sure.

 

[GManBart]

it seemed to me in my looking that people wanted to push as big of a machine on you as they could...I have x things I want to do, I saw videos showing x (type) things being done....I bought that machine. Now I guess I will see if it will really do that stuff. I hope to get off work early today....might have some updates this weekend.

Obviously that's an impression, but it certainly didn't appear that anybody was posting anything like that here. Sure, the machine will do the things you saw in the videos, it's just that in some cases, a bigger machine would do a faster/better job of it.

You can put a small bolt in a big vise, but not the other way around. There are even people in this thread that bragged about the machine they had doing everything they needed it to do, and now are starting to say "oh, I have my eyes on an X" which is one or two sizes larger than the machine that "would do it all". I certainly often wish I had at least one size larger tractor. I'd also like to have something the size of a BX for smaller tasks, because it would be handy, so I'm not against any size machine.

 

[k0ua]

Cherokee, I am sure you will be happy with your new machine. It may do everything you want it to do. It would not do everything I would want to do on my 7 acres. However it would do some things that my 2 to 3 times the size tractor will not do. Almost all of us come up against tasks with our tractors that we wish we had a larger one. I have many times. (darn, I sure would like to lift that rock!) Or "leveling out this terrace is taking me 3 days, I sure wish I could get it done today".. But we make do with what we have, and either forget about some projects because we just can't do them or we rent something, or call a neighbor for help or we take all week to do it with a smaller machine. Ideally we would own at least 3 tractors. One the size of yours, one the size of mine, and an undefined "larger one" that will do the things mine won't" It is all relative, to what we want done, the time we have to do it in, and the ingenious work-around's or other solutions we can come up with. They say "brute force and ignorance will prevail", but sometimes there are smarter solutions to a given problem too. Good luck and happy tractoring.:thumbsup:

 

[TripleR]

You asked our opinion and I believe for the most part we answered as honestly and devoid of ego or as you put it, "mine is bigger". As I mentioned, we have three SCUTS and love them; don't view them as toys and agree they will do a lot of work.

You have mentioned your age and physical condition several times, so when I factor that in with distances traveled on thirteen acres, hours in the seat and my own experience with tractors, my calculator just doesn't put a BX at the top of the list. If you go back far enough, you will find posts in which I touted the virtues of he BX, all it would do and all I needed. I used a BX as my primary tractor for years, but got tired of being beaten to death and worn out at the end of the day.

It can be a great companion tractor, but with that much land, it would never be my only tractor.

I hope it works out for you, but if it doesn't just use the JOHNTHOMAS method and trade it in before you lose too much money.

 

[grm61]

I am so far real happy....I plan on putting updates in the Kubota section.

Strange enough its first job was to pull the truck and trailer that delivered it out of the mud.

Forgive the bad video quality, I really need to tell the wife to shoot video with the sun BEHIND her.

Ya know the funny thing is...I don't see any mud, or mud on the tires, or anything that a 4x4 pickup would struggle with.:confused3:

 

[TomSeller]

I am so far real happy....I plan on putting updates in the Kubota section.

Strange enough its first job was to pull the truck and trailer that delivered it out of the mud.

Forgive the bad video quality, I really need to tell the wife to shoot video with the sun BEHIND her.

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbZrXktQTXU

Nice. Nobody told the BX that it wasn't a big tractor.