Kubota BX25DLB

[ning]

I'm consider a 2013 BX25DLB that's at auction. 921 hours. From the pics, at least (haven't been there to see it yet) it looks pretty good - buckets (FEL & BH) look good from here, tires look like they've still got a good amount on them (though one front looks like it may be missing a valve stem, so there could be tire & wheel damage).

Doesn't look beat up but being a 2013 w/ 921 hours, that's ~184 hours/year which seems higher than normal for a normal home owner, but lower than a rental; my guess is maybe a contractor or a home owner who had some specific larger tasks to do on it (hard to say - I'm working on 120h/yr on my tractor now and that's just doing this and that, no "I'm gonna excavate a basement for a house" kind of thing).

Anyone care to speculate a west-coast USA value?

Also I'm curious as to why the range & pto shifters seem to have a bar rivetted to block their access - kinda makes me think it was a yard machine or contractor and whoever had it wanted to make sure nobody shifted those at all, ever, which means it didn't belong to the only operator.

 

[XSKIER]

Could you please share a link to the auction listing so that we can see it?

 

[dragoneggs]

Seems this guy put about double the hours I did on my 2013 BX25D as mostly a weekend warrior. So he got some good work out of it but it should be in decent shape if he maintained it. Detail Pictures please. Maintenance records? Zerks greased?

 

[ning]

I'll put up a link in the morning, just got in after a three and a half hour drive... I strongly doubt that there's any records at all.

 

[Rock Crawler]

I'm at 240 hours in 9 months on my new Kubota as a home owner, this is brush hogging, some dirt work building a level camp fire area, maybe 15 dump truck loads of mulch, some root ball dig outs with the backhoe and some trail maintenance... and 6 days a week of taking concrete and asphalt fill. I would guess that we are using ours more than average, but the point is that depending on a home owners projects, it is very possible to but a few hundred hours on the machine in a year.

Like suggested above, visually check the pins for soft grease, make sure they are not dry or showing old dried out grease that would indicate that the owner was lazy about pulling it to the garage and maintaining it every couple weeks. I keep mine pretty sloppy with grease. Grease is cheap compared to getting pins and pin bosses replaced from wear.

Pull the dipstick on the HST and look at the fluid on a white rag or paper towel, it should be clear or dang near clear.

Make sure that the HST filter under the machine is not the factory grey painted on, the replacement Kubota filter will be white with green printing stamped on it. The factory filter was sprayed grey when the machine frame and all was painted. If the filter is still the factory, I would not expect that the fluid was ever changed and I would expect that the internal screen was never removed and cleaned out. I would walk away at that point.

Look underneath at the rear driveshaft where it connects to the rear axle, there is a white plastic fan there. Make sure that the fan is intact and all blades are there. This is a common item to break and it will overheat the transmission HST fluid and shorten service life.