Recent content by PaulL

Did they explain how a hydraulic pump causes slipping? Maybe if the pressure is low something's not held fully engaged, but it doesn't jump out at me as being an obvious explanation.

My B2601 mows plenty fast. I have long straight runs. It rides nicer than a zero turn. My acre and a bit takes a little over 30 minutes. Horses for courses though, if I had shrubs everywhere it would be different.

If all you will use the machine for is mowing, then a BX is overkill really. But it's not much more money, and you _could_ move the loader from the BX25D to it if you wanted to for some reason. Having a 3ph is a bonus, and a BX is more solidly built, for mowing only it'll last forever. Having...

Sounds like you should buy it. It's hard to have too much tractor, and if you get a bargain, you always have the option to get out of it again for pretty much what you paid if it turns out you made a mistake. A tractor isn't an expense, it's an asset - you've just parked money there for a while...

$15K is a lot of money. If it's the same tractor you would buy anyway, just cheaper, and you don't mind used equipment, then I'd go for it. If you're not really hurting for money, and you'd like a machine on which the only broken things are things you personally broke, then hold out for a new...

B26 is the dedicated tractor/loader/backhoe (TLB). It's a commercial/rental machine, and built tough. You can also add a loader and backhoe to the B2601, it's the same size, but not the same loader and backhoe. If your BX is too small, the normal recommendation is to go up two sizes not one...

And we live in paradise. Living on a Rotorua lake in the North Island, we waterskied every morning the last 5 days, mountain biked 3 times last week. About to sell and move to Wanaka in the South Island, which is even more paradise. You should totally come visit.

The length of the handle on my Dewalt cordless is enormous - it's bigger than the handle on my full-size corded Dewalt hammer drill. They clearly think it has enough torque to need it. Yet to find out whether it'll break my wrist when it binds up.

My cheap Stanley compressor is dying. It's a good size and has good power, and I can get parts for it, but it's pretty hard to work on. I spent $300 to buy it (on sale 8 years ago), and the pressure sensor that is currently broken will cost me 50 bucks for a new one, and probably about 3 hours...

Yes, things go missing. But by that logic, nobody should buy anything, it might be stolen. Things going missing is what you have insurance for. It happens infrequently (to any individual person, on average it happens every day to someone), so to me that's a thing you take reasonable precautions...

SSQA really isn't essential, and is a recent feature. What you describe could be done with an older L, surely? I see a few on TractorHouse that look OK enough: https://www.tractorhouse.com/listing/for-sale/246350779/1992-kubota-l2350dt-less-than-40-hp-tractors...

I think the new tractor is for a new location.

I have a B, not an LX. But it's massively better than a BX for taking the deck on and off, and I think the LX is similar. I can get it off in a minute, back on in two. But I had to sit down and think how it works, and work out that Kubota actually made it pretty easy once you work out how they...

Financially, check the values on tractorhouse. Is it a good idea? Nah. I'd keep the excavator and get a used tractor to go along with it. Going to a B2301 with backhoe is a big step backwards from a dedicated excavator. Of course, you didn't tell us what you're using it for. If you need to mow...

The B26 is a heavier duty B2601. One key difference is that the loader is not removable, and I think I recall no mid-PTO so no MMM. Options are: - B26. The backhoe comes off and you can mount a 3pt hitch kit. I don't know how hard this is, but I have a B2601 and nothing about the 3pt linkages...