How would you feel?

rbarker · Apr 7, 2004

( tres crows i never asked to wait 8 weeks for a sendr, witch on my hills the tank leaked like a sive even half full. kubota oders on filters and wait for them . the kubota was breaking ****! )

Too bad you had such poor luck with your BX. Sounds like a bit of a dealer problem as well, because my dealer in Southern NH had the unit in stock, as well as the filters and everything else I've asked for (add on parts such as high output alternator etc.).

Hope things work out better for you with your MF!

Gatorboy · Apr 7, 2004

Gone,

In the future you may want to run the spell-checker. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Inspector507 · Apr 7, 2004

Depends on the size of the dealer, the size of his warehouse, and the actual parts he "sells". Maybe there are certain parts he needs to stock in certain quantities per the manufacturer, but he isn't going to stock a certain part if he has only sold 2 or 3 in the last year. But should it take 6-8 weeks for a part? Not in my mind, unless it was a part that has a history of breakage and the vendor can't keep up with the demand.

Oh yeah gone..............and Junkman hasn't been here "for a few years". He's been here less than 2 years /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

gone · Apr 7, 2004

Ya i can't type, any way the bx was a nice tractor to mow with i liked it. I just had such a problem with it and parts. i know kubotas are a good tractor, I just won't have another i don't see the problem with that, im not comparing just stating my experence. I realy like jd but the prices are out to lunch. sorry guys for my hot head, my blood presure is droping now! inspector i wasn't refering to junk man, and i would expect them to have filters no matter what dealer

SteveH_CT · Apr 7, 2004

I'd like to add two things Junkman -
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* - Whose hood is sloped more
* - Which Brand has better placed headlights... you know - for all that nighttime FEL work. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Junkman · Apr 7, 2004

( Oh yeah gone..............and Junkman hasn't been here "for a few years". He's been here less than 2 years /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

Inspector..... I have to come clean on how long I have actually been around here. I have been here for 1425 days, or 203 weeks and 4 days, or if you wish to put that differently, 3 years, 47 weeks, and 1 day. My original membership name was/is Dusty. I was away from the site for a while and when I came back I had a new computer and thinking about a new tractor. I had forgotten my old name and password. I remembered it later on, but had already established myself here as Junkman, so my wife reads and occasionally will post as "Dusty". Just want to keep the record straight. That membership is recorded as having started on 5/13/00. I agree with you 100% on all the rest and I think that Gone is just spewing sour grapes. If everyone liked the same thing then there would be only one flavor ice cream....... Chocolate.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

AndyMA · Apr 7, 2004

( I'm not feeling real positive about my dealer right now. How would you feel and would this bother you? )

It wouldn't bother me one bit if they used my tractor to cut a shaft. It would be quite different if they had loaned it out. It seems you had the option of your tractor staying there for 6 weeks or getting it back right away. It was your choice so I don't feel it reflects on the dealer.

Andy

bxbuster · Apr 8, 2004

Wow, after reading all of the responses on this subject I think I need to re-evaluate my self and my natural reactions to something like this. I'm suspecting it's a simple difference of perspective on the tractor. To many, this is a tractor, a piece of machinery, a tool. To others, well me anyway, this thing is a BMW. As crazy as it sounds, I would never leave it in the rain. For one, I don't think it was designed to be "waterproof" so likely water will find its way into places it shouldn't. Just the fact that everything will rust is another. I can honestly say that over the last 12 months I have washed and waxed that tractor more than the vehicles I own. I know it's not going to stay perfect forever but I'm sure not going to let a dealer have it set in repeated rain etc. The least I would expect is some type of awning. Hmm, prototyping with my tractor? Not hardly. He doesn't want to use his stock for an implement sale for fear of damage but he pulled yours in???? c'mon people, what am I missing here?

Inspector507 · Apr 8, 2004

Mine sat outside for who knows how long before I got it. I'm sure washing it will get water in more places than a little rain will. It's inside right now, but if I needed to leave it out, don't really bother me.

GerardC · Apr 8, 2004

I see it as a four wheeled motorcycle. If you leave it out, I think that over time it will corrode in vital areas as motorcycles do. Mine is kept sheltered. My opinion.

riptides · Apr 9, 2004

I don't think your missing anything.

IMHO, I spent a lot of money of my tractor and I will take care of it. To ME, that means keeping it out of the elements.

I go through my life in a simple way, if you need something from me just ask, all I can say is no, maybe, yes, or it depends. But just don't assume you can do, use, borrow something without asking. That is just not polite, IMHO.

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

rdam · Apr 9, 2004

( I never thought much of you and now im telling you stait out! )

Mmmm....I like tractors. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

TresCrows · Apr 9, 2004

( tres crows i never asked to wait 8 weeks for a sendr, witch on my hills the tank leaked like a sive even half full. and the parts i got for the massey were ad ons like valves for rear. caps and hoses fillters they had in stock like they should. kubota oders on filters and wait for them . the kubota was breaking ****! Ive been on and around tractors all my life and thats the worst ive seen for parts on a new machine so i gess it is skin of you back if you feel im lieng say it strait. so balony my ****. its not gone for nothing! i lost money on that piece of crap. i didn't trade for the color,im glad you love yours but i didnT so accept it,and go play with a plane. And by the way if you read my post i know where there made and by who the in tention was the compony was american long before the imports. massey dealer was in bussness for 40 yrs. kubota showed up in the 70s,i remember the massey guy when i was a kid. I also read your post for a few years and you realy think a lot of the bx no one needs anything bigger,a farmer may as well plow a 1000 acers with it in your oppinon. I never thought much of you and now im telling you stait out! )

Oh, baloney. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif. J

MadDog · Apr 9, 2004

JM: BAGROFLMAO /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

BTW, your bookie makes good book; the odds would be sufficiently justified on the grounds that trescrows is more concise and types better. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

TWINKLE_TOES · Apr 10, 2004

Shame on you.

TresCrows · Apr 10, 2004

Junkman, you are cooking up trouble /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif.

Well, I know that people are not routinely having to order oil filters or general filters for a Kubota and then waiting 8 weeks /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif. If in that event should ever happen I think I might just go get a NAPA/WIX filter HUH? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
I guess with the leaking bladder tank/sender recall I was just lucky that mine did not fail until parts where available, about the time I learned of the recall here on TBN--with no call or complaint from me---my dealer showed up at my house with a new bladder tank and then a few weeks latter as I recall the sender. I can imagine that those who might have had a leak on their new tractor and then found out the bladder tank or sender --because they were a new design due to the recall--had to wait for stock to be available were upset /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif. Bad things happen sometimes to good people and apparently to good tractors because a BX is not a "piece of crap"--end quote. I also suspect if that caused an irratated new owner to trade their new tractor for another brand they would loose some money on such a trade and the worst thing of it will be that there is no guarantee that they won't have a similar recall or such on that unit--what you gonna do then--trade again? Sometimes you gotta know when to keep a cool head and maintain perspective. I do hope--assuming the story is not just a story--that said person has much better luck with the new unit. No reason that he should not /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif and no reason that he would not have had similar luck with the BX had he stuck it out /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
There is another current thread--" How Rough is to Rough"--- and a feller is using his tractor "like a tractor" and the new tractor has been scraped and had a few "things knocked around underneath" and "if it breaks well so be it", well, guess what, you can count on it breaking, anything can be broken, working something as it was intended is one thing, abusing it is another, tractors like all machines can be abused and when they are they will break, it will be expensive and guaranteed the new owner is going to be upset /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif. That is the way of things. J

Junkman · Apr 10, 2004

( Shame on you. )

This is the final straw that breaks the Junkman's back. I am going to my friendly John Deere dealer this after noon and trading in this piece of junk Kubota BX22 and purchasing a JD tractor in beautiful YELLOW & GREEN and I am going to move over the the JD forum where the people there have a sense of humor and know how to take a joke. Good by to all you cruel and nasty ORANGE Kubota people. You will see if you will have me around here to kick around any longer. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

BIGUN · Apr 10, 2004

I would not like anyone helping themselves to my equipment to use for any purpose without my permission. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

I haven’t had much experience with parts service from Kubota since I have only needed one part, seems like it took a week or two to come in. I think six weeks in totally unacceptable for any part that would keep you from being able to use your tractor. That’s almost half a summers worth of mowing. I found out with my Ariens mower that the long wait for parts was sometime due to my dealer “sitting on” an order for a couple of weeks until he had several items to order at one time. He kept blaming the factory, so I called them only to find out the parts had never even been ordered. If its good parts service you want, read the following.

I have never owned a JD and have not had experience with them lately, but I used to buy parts for my Ariens from them when possible since they were a third the price of Ariens parts. When they didn’t have the part in stock they would order it.
Delivery time? Overnight from the Dallas warehouse, no extra charge!
I was amazed. I got to wondering why they had such fast service when other brands like Ariens would take days or weeks to get a minor part. When you consider they sell $100,000 tractors to farmers depending on them to get thousands of dollars worth of crops planted or harvested, you can see where having such a machine broke down and out of service for weeks, or even days, for lack of a simple part would be very unacceptable. I guess the little lawn tractors get a free ride on a system designed to support equipment where the stakes are much higher. I remember the local dealer even having an emergency phone number on the door to call for nights and weekends parts.

TresCrows · Apr 10, 2004

Junkman, I am pretty sure he was kidding /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif. Please don't go to the JD forum and buy one of those yellow and green things. This is terrible, you getting a green tractor /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif. J