tk tom
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It is by no means a commercial unit. It's a large glorified homeowner's tractor. It doesn't have the weight or the build of it's bigger brother - the L series. I used dad's BX23 for nearly a decade before picking up the B2650 early last summer. Question is - am I not working this thing hard enough or is it just that impressive? Am I underrating this homeowner tractor?
The lift capacity with the 60" bucket is great. It's the perfect size because you can fit so many garden type tools in it without them hanging out - whereas the 54" bucket would leave them all angled with the handles out the side. It hauls a full bucket of dirt pretty easily. It pushes a 78" loader mounted plow through 2 feet of snow like it was designed for it. It lifts 600lb riding mower crates (weight not exactly on the pins bear in mind - center of gravity on these is pushed out minimum 24" usually further) and double stacks them with the pallet forks. It runs a 58" tiller while barely losing a few RPM in virgin soil. It pulls a loaded 60" box scraper with shanks down up a hill driveway (box scraper was the latest addition).
I don't feel like I'm stressing this machine while it's working. The only time I don't really care for it's performance is high range going down the road but in 210 hours over the last year it has spent maybe 45 minutes on the road, no big deal. The salesman says it will run the HD 60" bush hog no problem. I don't really need one, but was looking at them when I picked up the box. The bush hog looks massive, heavy, overbuilt - and too much for the B. He says otherwise.
Does anyone else have the same outlook towards these machines? I'm not saying it's some super tractor but it has completely surpassed what I thought it would be capable of. Or did I just underrate this machine and this is pretty normal for a tractor in this size?
The lift capacity with the 60" bucket is great. It's the perfect size because you can fit so many garden type tools in it without them hanging out - whereas the 54" bucket would leave them all angled with the handles out the side. It hauls a full bucket of dirt pretty easily. It pushes a 78" loader mounted plow through 2 feet of snow like it was designed for it. It lifts 600lb riding mower crates (weight not exactly on the pins bear in mind - center of gravity on these is pushed out minimum 24" usually further) and double stacks them with the pallet forks. It runs a 58" tiller while barely losing a few RPM in virgin soil. It pulls a loaded 60" box scraper with shanks down up a hill driveway (box scraper was the latest addition).
I don't feel like I'm stressing this machine while it's working. The only time I don't really care for it's performance is high range going down the road but in 210 hours over the last year it has spent maybe 45 minutes on the road, no big deal. The salesman says it will run the HD 60" bush hog no problem. I don't really need one, but was looking at them when I picked up the box. The bush hog looks massive, heavy, overbuilt - and too much for the B. He says otherwise.
Does anyone else have the same outlook towards these machines? I'm not saying it's some super tractor but it has completely surpassed what I thought it would be capable of. Or did I just underrate this machine and this is pretty normal for a tractor in this size?