Buying Advice Kubota BX-25 with backhoe and FEL
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Price and Hrs means a lot. Great machines, newer ones have a few more features but are generally the same basic machine over the years.
If you search around the forum you will find TONS of info on them as they are extremely popular.
If you search around the forum you will find TONS of info on them as they are extremely popular.
What do you want to use it for? They're excellent machines, they're the smallest tractor Kubota make, they're strong enough to do anything they have power to do. That also means that (I guess like any tractor) if people try to do things they don't have power to do then they might break them - so check it's in good working order.
The backhoe gets very polarised reviews. Some people love it - it means they don't have to get in their truck, drive to the hire place, hire an excavator, bring it home, dig out one stump or dig one trench, then reverse to return it all. Most people in that situation just get out a shovel, and nobody likes digging by hand. Other people think they're only marginally more useful than said shovel, and believe that if you're going to dig a hole you should get the right machine for the job. At the right price I'd definitely want one.
Check if it has the 3pt kit (lifting arms, turnbuckles, top link). I can't recall, but some models maybe didn't come with it because they came with the backhoe. But when you take the backhoe off you'll want to lift things. You can get them from the dealer, but they're not cheap.
Are you planning to mow? Mowers aren't that easy to come by second hand.
The backhoe gets very polarised reviews. Some people love it - it means they don't have to get in their truck, drive to the hire place, hire an excavator, bring it home, dig out one stump or dig one trench, then reverse to return it all. Most people in that situation just get out a shovel, and nobody likes digging by hand. Other people think they're only marginally more useful than said shovel, and believe that if you're going to dig a hole you should get the right machine for the job. At the right price I'd definitely want one.
Check if it has the 3pt kit (lifting arms, turnbuckles, top link). I can't recall, but some models maybe didn't come with it because they came with the backhoe. But when you take the backhoe off you'll want to lift things. You can get them from the dealer, but they're not cheap.
Are you planning to mow? Mowers aren't that easy to come by second hand.
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Buy it! Great machine. I have the same year. Just make sure it is the right size for you.
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At what price?
$11,000 with 150 hours on it.
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It is a great machine for what it is designed for and then some. Value will depend on condition and the price. With the $0/0 purchase deals the SCUTS are not holding their price like they used to. Why save $2-3K on a used one. Buy a new one with 6 year warranty at $300 +/- a month for 6 years and use your cash for something else. Try to finance a used SCUT, lots of luck.
Edit: Didn't get to the post on price. New they are around $18K +/- plus maybe sales tax. This is the breaking point. I would still buy new and save the cash. I like to wear the newness off things I will have for a long time. Why take a chance on what the last guy did or did not do. maybe it has had more than one owner being that old.
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I have a different view.
It is going to be around $19,000 with tax for a new one. New ones are hardly changed from older BX-25 versions aside from the loader removal and the clamp style backhoe mount. Capability is same/same.
So he is at private purchase $11,000, or around $8,000 in hand cheaper. No tax on that private deal, cash and carry.
He saves $8,000 on a machine that has literally had 1 oil change so far. It is essentially new.
He calls KTAC and gets KTAC insurance so that if he flips it, crashes a rock from the loader to the hood, bends the backhoe outrigger legs or does any other damage to it.... it is covered with a small cash deductible.
Warranty is not so important as long as you add KTAC to cover it.
The financing issue is still real if you can not come up with the $11,000, but at $11,000 your getting into the prive range that a lot of people could find a way to buy it cash in hand.
If I were in the market again for a BX, I would jump on that $11K deal like a fly on doodoo. I would even try to make a deal for $10K cash tonight... tell the seller your ready to get this done and you have $10K in hand right now.... You never know.