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[Nate77]

New member here, tractor and I got off to a rocky start when my purchasing dealer dropped Kubota and went Bobcat two weeks after I bought my tractor in May. Then to top it off, it spent the prime summer months of June, July, and August at another dealer getting the backhoe control valve block replaced.

It is back now, I managed to put 50 hours on it even with its extended dealer stay, and just completed my 50 hour service.
BX23S, Kubota 3rd function, backhoe thumb, bucket level indicator, factory cutting edge, LED headlights, Kubota ROPS lights, R14 tires, Rim Guard, 2” spacers, BXpanded skid plate, BXpanded tool box, Land Pride grapple, Land Pride forks, Bushhog tiller, and Wood Maxx flail (still on the pallet, Black Friday free lift gate shipping)

 

[Mark_BX25D]

Welcome!

 

[rjcorazza]

Looks like you have that machine well equipped!

 

[NCL4701]

Looks like quite a bit of thought went into specing out your new orange machine. That’s a really sweet package you put together.

 

[Lil Foot]

Welcome aboard!

 

[bird dogger]

What a nice outfit to start out with!! (despite the troubles, which you'll soon forget!) Congratulations!!

 

[skeets]

Welcome to the Orange

 

[Nate77]

Thanks, I’ve already spread 40 tons of dirt around my pole barn, dug in a new outlet culvert for my pond since the old steel one was rusting out, tilled my garden ( always despised the old walk behind rear tine tiller) dug a few stumps, and rocks, along with removing tons of junk trees.
Stacking brush with the grapple is awesome, and the brush piles burn much easier when compressed with the loader.

Plenty more work planned for next summer

 

[S-G-R]

Welcome to OTT.

 

[19thSF]

Welcome to OTT.

Hello Nate77,

Welcome to the forum! I have found there to be some really knowledgeable people on this forum who can give you good advice, and save you time trouble shooting an issue.

Just keep in mind that opinions are like noses, everyone has one!

Good luck with your new tractor!

Bob

 

[DustyRusty]

Nate, Welcome to the forums. I am jealous of all the accessories that you have acquired. I am wondering why you didn't get a snowblower also. After all, it does snow in Indiana, doesn't it? I have been looking at getting one of the LandPride grapples for my BX23S, but I just can't decide if I really have that much of a need for it.
Did you install the LEDs in the headlights or were they a factory install? If you installed them, what part number did you use? thanks, Dusty

 

[The Evil Twin]

Welcome aboard! That's a nice little Iseki you got there as well!

 

[Dave Ogren]

Congratulations !!! Welcome aboard. I think you can get any questions answered here. These guys are the BEST. Good Luck.
Dave

 

[Rdrcr]

Congrats and welcome!

Mike

 

[fried1765]

Hello Nate77,

Welcome to the forum! I have found there to be some really knowledgeable people on this forum who can give you good advice, and save you time trouble shooting an issue.

Just keep in mind that opinions are like noses, everyone has one!

Good luck with your new tractor!

Bob

"noses" ?????
That is not the reference I have most often heard!

 

[Nate77]

Nate, Welcome to the forums. I am jealous of all the accessories that you have acquired. I am wondering why you didn't get a snowblower also. After all, it does snow in Indiana, doesn't it? I have been looking at getting one of the LandPride grapples for my BX23S, but I just can't decide if I really have that much of a need for it.
Did you install the LEDs in the headlights or were they a factory install? If you installed them, what part number did you use? thanks, Dusty

LED’s we’re from Amazon, cheap easy upgrade, mainly they now match the LED’s on the ROPs. Lol
JDM ASTAR Bright White Max 50W High Power 881 LED Fog Light Bulbs https://a.co/d/iPS8xLg
No snow blower, I might eventually get a snow pusher, once I get my driveway replaced, my current asphalt driveway is in such bad shape, I wouldn’t want to touch it with anything besides a shovel.

 

[Sparky Prep]

Welcome from another new member. A lot of these guys know a lot about these tractors. You are in the right place.

 

[DustyRusty]

LED’s we’re from Amazon, cheap easy upgrade, mainly they now match the LED’s on the ROPs. Lol
JDM ASTAR Bright White Max 50W High Power 881 LED Fog Light Bulbs https://a.co/d/iPS8xLg
No snow blower, I might eventually get a snow pusher, once I get my driveway replaced, my current asphalt driveway is in such bad shape, I wouldn’t want to touch it with anything besides a shovel.

If you don't get a lot of snow, then consider a rotary broom to clean the driveway. Kubota finally figured out how to make a rotary broom that actually works, and it only fits the K Connect system. All the brooms from Kubota in the past were junk because they wouldn't brush smoothly, but kept jumping up unless you were able to fine-tune the adjustments. I had purchased the first version for the BX and I sold it when I realized that it was problematic. I then bought the "new and improved" version, and it wasn't much better. I sold that one with my BX22 when I got the BX23S. Now I am on the hunt for the latest style of broom, but I haven't found one on the used market as of yet.

 

[nbryan]

Way to go with the new machine! If your experience is like mine and many others it seems, with care these tractors will give you little trouble and reliably do TONS of work for years and decades to come.

I noticed your rops led lights are mounted with through bolts drilled through the rops structure, as well as on the exterior of the rops post.

Do you know if the rops led lamp mount bolts are passing through factory-made holes in the rops structure? Or were they drilled through by the time you received the tractor? Or did you mod the rops yourself?

Just concerned about a lot of worrymongering, some here, about liability in case or rops failure after it's been altered in any way. Apparently accroding to some it's a big no-no to drill these units, only clamp around them or use strong magnets. But no holesy drillsy.

And it sounds like you've been bushwhacking a bit with it already, and all looks good still with those rops lights in your pics, but I will strongly recommend they get mounted inside the rops posts rather than the outside where they are now. Looks like a simple switch scenario.

I would take bets on how long until one gets damaged or torn off by a tree or stout branch as you power by in low gear watching important things elsewhere.

Believe me, from experience, stuff attached outside the plane of the rops gets rubbed off in bush work. With bush and trees of any consequence, that is.

 

[Nate77]

The lights use the 80-series pre-drilled holes.
I’ll have to be mindful of the ROPS, and lights, I don’t have much woods on my property, but I did finally break the muffler off my old tractor by repeatedly hitting branches while mowing my pasture edges. HST will be really handy when approaching these overhanging branches, I can just slow down.