Sub-compact tractor

[Thomas]

Just plain a great picture!! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Thomas]

Talk to my dealer couple times w/out showing any interest toward the B7800 /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif..ya right.
Lewis,
The B7800 w/FEL won't arrive much before the first of Febuary,and he has 5 on order.

I do plan on setting down w/my dealer after mud season or shorty afterwards,once I start reading some feed back here on TBN on the new B7800,also trying B7800 out at home.

About what the going price for B7800 w/fel & turf tires?

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

JWE,

You may want to consider the BX1500 for your 1 acre. Could save some $$ over the BX2200 and have all the nice stuff of a subcompact with for less $$$. Smaller maybe better!... did I really say that???...LOL
Tom

 

[grainger12002]

Great pic here John, real nice to see it,must bring back some good memories. They were a good tractor,never owned one but did work on oe for a neighbor.

Lloyd from COLD CT.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Yes, I will be very sad to see the Power King go. It has roamed this same patch of land for more than 45 years. It’s never failed me and it is still a reliable workhorse. I also have a 1988 Wheel Horse 310-8 that I use mainly for mowing and it’s out of the same mold as the PK. I’ll be sad to see it go also.

I thought about restoring the PK but I don't have the time to work on it and I need the space in my garage.

John

 

[TresCrows]

JWE, is that your dad on that Powerthing? Sure you don't want to keep her stored away. I know you will regret selling it later. I also know a modern subcompact vs the Powerking will be like comparing a BMW to a clapboard wagon but still you might want to have the old wagon around. Hey, you could do what some of these guys do, buy the tractor first and then shop for a suitable homestead/property to justify it and maybe there would be room to keep your Powerking too. Don't sell it out of the family. You will be sorry. J

 

[Anonymous Poster]

TresCrows... That is my late Uncle driving the tractor.

I have mixed emotions about selling the PK but I think it will just sit in the corner and collect dust if I don't sell it. Plus, I will need the space to store my new toys.

I also have a chipper/shredder, power washer, snow blower, walk behind mower, Mantis tiller, drawbar monted tiller, dozer blade, bottom plow, weed wacker, chain saw and on and on, all competeing for the same space.

John

 

[Anonymous Poster]

We have a bx2200, the little tractor is great. Looked at the green ones at the time could only go bigger or small and they were not dealing at all, then looked at the NH and I really liked the boomers. At the time the best all around deal was the kubota. All of my local dealers are good people so selecting a dealer wasn't the problem just figuring out what I wanted was! Fortunatly for us we have orange,green,blue and red within 5-10 minutes of our house. Next summer for me is re-landscape my mothers yard 80x200, finish the cottage 70x400 its getting the yard lifted approx 1.5ft so alot of leveling for the little toy. If your worried about the FEL, well my wife now uses it as her wheelbarrow for everything might as well throw that one wheeled thing out! If you can get the 60inch deck as the guys said above uncut turning radious is better and it is also thicker steel.
If your the only one driving it you should be comfortable on it otherwise make sure you take the wife. My wife is getting me the tiller as my xmas present but somehow I don't think I'll get to use it....Just get to hook it up.

have fun picking out the new toy..I mean tractor

Tony

 

[Rick Jay]

John,

I wouldn't be so quick to let the older units go. If they're still functional, keep 'em...at least one of them.

I have a small Honda lawn tractor I use for mowing and light snow plowing. There have been several times it has been quite handy to have my 17 cu. ft. dump cart connected to it when excavating with the B2910. Using either the loader or the backhoe, it's often convenient to have the cart handy to dump dirt into.

It was also handy when doing some concrete work. I had the sand in the cart, the gravel in the B2910 loader bucket and a bag of portland cement in the cart with the sand. Add my electric mixer and a water hose and I was in business. I could easily move the gravel and sand to whereever I needed fairly easily.


~Rick

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Well I did it. I bought a Kubota BX2200 with a 60 inch mower and a FEL. The dealer offered to sell me a Bevco tiller for $1400... looked heavy duty. His regular price is $1600. Is $1400 a good deal?

John

THANKS FOR ALL OF THE GOOD ADVICE!