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No experience with this deck but the last photo appears to show an adjustment screw with jam nuts next to the slotted end of that rod. Wouldn't that be for adjusting the length?

Additional things to check on a BX2230: There is a fuse block just above the battery and near the instrument cluster. The wiring harness/fuse block feeds most everything on the BX. While you may have to stand on your head to see it, this should be checked for bad connections, fuses and wires...

Ken was referring to the small knob with a black triangular head beneath and in front of the large handle with the yellow plastic top in one of your previous pictures. You can loosen the black knob and slide it up the slot and re-tighten it so it will only allow the lever with the yellow handle...

What Ken said. Draft control is used by farmers when plowing the ground to keep the plowing depth even. Don't know of any other uses for it. Position control is used with many rear attachments to set the working height. I did that with my scraper blade, box blade, rotary tiller and rotary...

By the way, JBeech, welcome! There are some very knowledgeable Kubota experts here who know pretty much everything there is to know about the orange tractors. Then there are ordinary, average folks like me that may offer a helpful comment occasionally.

Took "which my L3010 doesn't have" to mean there is no loader, but yes - maybe it means he can't find the FEL float.

When you adjust the height of the 3 point hitch at the back of your L3010, the 3 point will drop down to the level you set with the control, but the attachment mounted on the 3 point arms is free to ride up or down as the tractor goes across uneven ground. It will not drop below the level set...

Maybe it's my own limited experience showing, but every side offset mower I have ever seen was mounted on a 50- 100 hp utility tractor, mostly, I guess, for hydraulic flow and the rear axle being heavy enough to take the side loads. Only the largest "compact tractors" might be suited for that...

As two other posts have noted, cleaning the rad fins with compressed air doesn't always get the job done. Dust can harden up on the fins and must be washed off. If the coolant was neglected there is a good chance nobody ever washed the radiator either. Easy and worthwhile maintenance item.

Sounds like some creative "up selling" to me. You are buying a premium brand product. You should expect it to be "fit for purpose" in ordinary use and not have to buy the heavy duty version so parts won't wear out prematurely

The term "landscape rake" was misleading, at least for my use. The one I had was closer to a blade than a rake in what it did to soil, gravel, grass or whatever else you ran it over. Actually a useful implement but it was very aggressive and not something that will gently rake up leaves and...

3 point on/off gets easier with practice and a bit of imagination for how to simplify, especially with BX size attachments. It can be just about as easy to remove an implement as it would be to prop it up on the tractor. Besides, if it's parked somewhere else while you mow, it can't restyle...

Nice work! Enjoy the 5030, really nice tractors.

When the grass is very tall and thick, raise the mowing height. Grass will be healthier if you don't cut so much of each stalk and you will have less clippings piling up. If you are still getting clumping and windrowing, make one or more additional passes over the windowed area. With each...

That's what I'm talkin' about! Very impressive! Enjoy!