Buying Advice close to pulling the trigger on a BX2360

[cpb]

I am close to pulling a trigger on buying a BX2360 with a FEL, 60" MMM and the front end snow blower.

Is anyone familiar with the tooth bars that you can attach to the bucket? How easy are they to install and how effective are they? Will they be helpful with doing a little light grading and clearing of brush?

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

I am close to pulling a trigger on buying a BX2360 with a FEL, 60" MMM and the front end snow blower.

Is anyone familiar with the tooth bars that you can attach to the bucket? How easy are they to install and how effective are they? Will they be helpful with doing a little light grading and clearing of brush?

I am familiar with a toothbar. I bought one for my first tractor. Didn't do anything for me. Sold it to my neighbor. He never used it and I bought it back from him last week for $50 and sold it last week to milkmans brother along with my Pat's. Milkman bought a boxblade or traded me a single bottom plow for it. I bought a RatchetRake for a B3200, sold the B3200 and then sold the RatchetRake that fit the B3200. Have since bought another RatchetRake that fits my BX's. In my opinion, having owned both, the RatchetRake and Boxblade is more effective. The boxblade is one of the most versatile of all implements. It is for light grading and ditch digging and leveling and adding weight to the rear of the tractor and also can dig up the ground prior to tilling. The RatchetRake is also promoted as being for clearing brush tool, The RatchetRake then comes along and finish grades the ground for throwing the seed down. Bad news is the RatchetRake is going to be a bit hard to obtain for a few months.
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[oldnslo]

I am close to pulling a trigger on buying a BX2360 with a FEL, 60" MMM and the front end snow blower.

Is anyone familiar with the tooth bars that you can attach to the bucket? How easy are they to install and how effective are they? Will they be helpful with doing a little light grading and clearing of brush?

Tooth bAr helps you dig with the FEL. They usually make leveling more difficult since on most models the teeth extend below the bottom of the bucket. I use mine for digging holes, moving piles of dirt and tehn will take it off or use the Box Blade for finish grading.

How helpful they will be depends on your soil type and what you want to do.

Roy

 

[LBrown59]

I am close to pulling a trigger on buying a BX2360 with a FEL, 60" MMM and the front end snow blower.

Is anyone familiar with the tooth bars that you can attach to the bucket? How easy are they to install and how effective are they? Will they be helpful with doing a little light grading and clearing of brush?

They say they are helpful.
I don't have any need for 1 as Have a BH and a 48'' tiller that I use to break up the soil with .

 

[shrekbelly]

cpb
i own a bx2360. i am very happy with it except for a leaking front rim and the fact that the typical kubota weightbox will not attach without major modification to a land pride quick hitch qh-15. we did the mods on the box and it is still disapointingly not right . . . enough on that/for now.
the bx2360 is a light tractor and i would suggest you will need the ballastbox for loader and snowblower work, for stability and increased traction.
i also have a ratchet rake and a toothbar. i bought the rr to help me in an area of about 8,000/renovation. the ratchet rake was about half the price of a landscape rake. it was a good buying decision. ultimately i will sell the least useful (if i allow myself to describe them that way/no!) one. a toothbar will increase the utility of your loader (marham & w.r. long, get good press here).
you might even consider a bucket wearbar.
lastly, to protect the underside, i bought the bro-tek skid plates.
it's a great tractor- pull the trigger- shrekbelly

 

[KeithInSpace]

I don't have a toothbar and don't think I've missed it.

Pre-backhoe, there were a handful of times that it MAY have been helpful. Post-backhoe, I really have zero need for one as my "digging" is not done with the FEL.

The way I use my FEL, even not considering the backhoe, perhaps 5% of my tasks (and that's being generous) would be easier WITH a toothbar. However, I'd prefer to REMOVE a toothbar to complete fully 70% of the tasks I perform with the FEL. That leaves perhaps 25% of the tasks that I'd have no preference whatsoever on whether there is a toothbar present or not.

IMHO, the money is better spent elsewhere.

 

[wawajake]

I don't have a backhoe , so do all my digging with the FEL and toothbar on my BX2660. I would not do without a toohbar now and was under $200 if I remember right.
If you have clay and don't have a backhoe, then you will want/need it .
One other advantage is that the extended 8 inches of teeth now allows you to pickup and carry a log or pipes/culvert, or even dimensional wood, sometimes without even getting out of your seat. I also use it in winter because it allows bucket to hold slightly more and it scrppes the ice better.
And when you do need smooth finish of a bucket it only takes three minutes to take the two bolts off.

jake

 

[dodge man]

So far I haven't seen the need for a toothbar and I've dug in some pretty hard clay. I'm sure they help though.

 

[TripleR]

I don't have a backhoe , so do all my digging with the FEL and toothbar on my BX2660. I would not do without a toohbar now and was under $200 if I remember right.
If you have clay and don't have a backhoe, then you will want/need it .
One other advantage is that the extended 8 inches of teeth now allows you to pickup and carry a log or pipes/culvert, or even dimensional wood, sometimes without even getting out of your seat. I also use it in winter because it allows bucket to hold slightly more and it scrppes the ice better.
And when you do need smooth finish of a bucket it only takes three minutes to take the two bolts off.

jake

What kind of tooth bar do you have, I am thinking about getting one or a ratchet rake, just don't know which one I would use most?

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

I don't have a backhoe , so do all my digging with the FEL and toothbar on my BX2660. I would not do without a toohbar now and was under $200 if I remember right.
If you have clay and don't have a backhoe, then you will want/need it .
One other advantage is that the extended 8 inches of teeth now allows you to pickup and carry a log or pipes/culvert, or even dimensional wood, sometimes without even getting out of your seat. I also use it in winter because it allows bucket to hold slightly more and it scrppes the ice better.
And when you do need smooth finish of a bucket it only takes three minutes to take the two bolts off.

jake

Forks would do most of those jobs easier or better. I have clay, had a toothbar and sold it. Bought it back one day and sold it the next day.