Sub-compact tractor

NY_Yankees_Fan · Dec 4, 2002

John,

I paid $79 for shipping from Sweet Tractor from KY to NJ, for a First Choice Tiller, I believe the cost went up and maybe close to $125 now. The tractor trailer had a lift gate and it took 3 days to get from KY to NJ. I just loaded the FEL with the tiller on the pallet and off I went. Down side you will have to cut the PTO shaft, not hard to do. The tiller was greased and oiled ready for work.

Tom

Anonymous Poster · Dec 4, 2002

I thought the shipping would be a lot more.

I live on a dead-end street at the top of a steep hill. Tractor trailers have a hard time getting to my place. To make matters worse, there is nowhere they can turn around so they have to back down to a main road.

What do you mean py cutting the PTO shaft?

John

NY_Yankees_Fan · Dec 4, 2002

John,

Well perhaps you can meet them at the bottom of the hill? If not, delivery via a truck may not be worth it, unless you can pick it up at the trucking terminal.

The PTO shaft from the attachment to the tractor for any 3 pt attachment that is PTO driven will need to be cut. Measure twice and cut once certainly applies here. Search TBN again a lot of info on cutting a PTO shaft.

Tom

hazmat · Dec 4, 2002

Do you have a pickup truck? If so, you can arrange to get it at the local terminal. Also, for additional $$ ($30) they will send a small truck to your house w/ a lift gate.

Don't know if $1,400 is a good price for the Befco (which is a fine product), but first choice & King Kutter (also decent machines) should be about $1K.

Congrats on your tractor purchase, you're going to love it (Especially the FEL).

Anonymous Poster · Dec 4, 2002

I have access to a pickup, I could make arrangements to pick up the tiller at the truckers loading dock.

John

FamilyFarm · Dec 4, 2002

John,

I paid a little under 1400 for a Land Pride 42" tiller. I'm not sure how the two units compare.
Enjoy the BX!

Terry

TresCrows · Dec 5, 2002

The BX has a location below the PTO that is designed to accept a trailer ball or clevis for pulling such things. You can also use a bar between the lower arms to attach things too. Several guys have "invented" several such clever items. The B2410 has a drawbar that can slide in and out, the BX "draw bar" is fixed but works well.
Hey, good luck with the BX, glad you got the FEL, you are going to love it. J

Anonymous Poster · Dec 5, 2002

Great to hear you bought the BX.Check out Carvers link on this site they show $1250+ship for a first choice tiller and it would fit right up(if a kubota dealer is selling it to you you should not have to do anything more than attach it and go, if not I would not deal with them. I do not wish to "make it fit" unless they are practically giving it to me.)
Our local Kubota dealer was at $1300+tax for the Kubota tiller and it was slightly cheaper for a Land Pride.
If you want to use a draw bar to tow something there is no go buy it solution that I have found, I made mine, most of the ones that have shown up on this site the owners have come up with their own version to do what they need. Do a search on "hitch stuff" for my version, and I like the one triangular one that posted up out of angle iron nice and simple.
One thing to look at on tillers I looked at a "bargan brand"one that had the tines that are one piece that you had to take the shaft apart to replace one of them. Not saying your going to replace a blade but...you probably will be replacing a blade or two sometime.

Have fun

Tony

Anonymous Poster · Dec 5, 2002

I talked to Carver this morning. The RT04 tiller is $905 plus shipping. I plan to order one soon after they deliver my tractor.

John

Moon · Dec 5, 2002

Congrats on your new tractor. Your gonna love it.
Good thread. Funny to see all us who worked our way up the compact chain so to speak. I was hoping for a 2410, tried it out but also tried the 2710 and loved it. ...and the 2910 was just a little more and had a few extras ... then i find out the L3010 taint but a wee little more, and it has all that extra weight etc. Last April I became the proud owner of a Grand L 3010. Since I was already streching my budget, I also considered doing without the FEL for the 1st year or two. With help from fellow TBN'ers, I saw the flaw to that logic. I got the FEL with the tractor and am so glad I did.
Welcome to the Kubota / TBN family!
Moon

Anonymous Poster · Dec 5, 2002

Moon... I can relate to your story. A couple of days ago I planned to buy the tractor, MMM and a front blade. I logged onto TBN and one day later I bought a tractor, MMM, FEL and shortly I will buy a box scraper and tiller. If you had asked me a week ago whether I would ever own a FEL I would have told you "no way".

This is a powerful group, a lot of knowledge and experience. I'm glad I consulted with this group before I made my purchase. Even though I spent more money than I planned, I know that I will be much happier with the equipment and will get more use out of it.

Guess who is thinking up uses for the FEL??? My wife!

Thanks to all

John

babybober · Dec 5, 2002

Use # 101 for a loader. If your wife will drive the tractor, just hop in the bucket and use it instead of a step ladder to put up the christmas lights outside. Works Great. It cut my time in half!

cpicton1 · Dec 5, 2002

I've seen my wifes driving, don't think I'll be getting in a loader bucket with her at the wheel. No thanks. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif

NY_Yankees_Fan · Dec 6, 2002

Guess having the wife at the controls after a fight is not a good thing either????, just guessing here......

TresCrows · Dec 6, 2002

Midget tossing, husband tossing----hmmmmmmmm! J

babybober · Dec 6, 2002

Hey, no short jokes!

Steven · Dec 6, 2002

to be politically correct : no vertically challenged jokes /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Tazbota · Dec 11, 2002

JWE,
Congrats on your new purchase. I bought a BX 2200 in early August 02 and every time I use it I can't get over how well and easily it does what I ask of it. Just last week we got our first snow fall this year (8") and I was eager to try out my new "babybota". I plowed the driveway (3/8 mile) without tire chains (wish now I hadn't bought the chains). This morning we had an ice storm and a car slide off the road into the snow bank far enough that the front wheels were not contacting the ground and the rear wheels were about 18" into the snowbank. At first I was hesitant to try to pull it out with the BX (didn't want to hurt her) but then I thought it'll be a good test of it's ability. After hooking up a 20FT chain (to allow me to get onto the wet not icy pavement) I put her in low range just under full throtlle and hoped that I wouldn't look too foolish is it wouldn't budge the car. To my suprise, when I got all of the slack out of the chain, it pulled the car back onto the road as if I wasn't even hooked up to anything. I COULD NOT have imagined it would have done it so easily, I honestly would not have known when the salck was out of the chain if I had not been looking.
One thing I would suggest for your new BX is to have the rear tires loaded(filled), this gives it a lower center of gravity, adds traction for all task and acts as extra ballast weight if your carrying something heavy in the FEL.
I hope you'll be as impressed with your BX as I have been with mine.

Good Luck ,
Tazbota