BX23S 3 Point Linkage options?

[MarshallH]

Howdy,
I'm new to the world of actual tractors and have a BX23S. I'm looking to add a box scraper for maintaining my gravel driveway and some dirt work. So drop the backhoe and add 3 point linkage that I have yet to acquire. Searches show kits ranging from like $150 to $300, none that I can find have telescoping stabilizers as the part of the kit. So I'm wondering would the telescoping stabilizers or perhaps even adding some hydraulics for a top link be worth it for occasional use? I haven't come across individual parts in my searches.
So if I go for one of the kits, any recommendations on one that I won't regret and can upgrade later as I get sick of turnbuckle style adjustments?
Thanks and I hope to spend a fair bit of time here.
-M

 

[ejb11235]

As soon as I decided to acquire my first 3PH implement, I immediately bought:

Messick's telescopic stabilizer kit immediately https://www.messicks.com/parts/k2561-38300fr

Kubota 3PH kit https://www.colemanequip.com/parts/details/KubotaParts/3-Point-Hitch-Kit-for-Kubota-BX-TLB-s/BX2506/

I never used the turnbuckle style even once.

FYI -- I bought a 4' box blade and a 5' landscape rake and am happy with the sizing on both of them. I don't think the BX could pull more than that.

I desperately want to add hydraulic top n tilt. Summit makes a kit but it's plumbed off the loader. Since the BX23S has the backhoe hydraulic lines available when the backhoe is off, I'd like to connect into those instead, since I'd only be using the rear remotes when the backhoe is off.

The BX 3PH doesn't quite lift as high as I'd like, so hydraulic top link would help get the landscape rake higher for better clearance.

 

[DustyRusty]

Possibly if enough BX23S owners ask Summit will make one for our tractor?

 

[ejb11235]

Possibly if enough BX23S owners ask Summit will make one for our tractor?

It's worth asking them, so I just posted on their vendor thread here ... https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/threads/summit-hydraulics.66251/post-733574

 

[MarshallH]

It's worth asking them, so I just posted on their vendor thread here ... https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/threads/summit-hydraulics.66251/post-733574

a specific kit would be nice, but it seems like you could get one of these https://summit-hydraulics.com/produ...eeve-for-p40g-series-summit-monoblock-valves/ and a couple hoses to use the new valves with or without the backhoe.

 

[ejb11235]

a specific kit would be nice, but it seems like you could get one of these https://summit-hydraulics.com/produ...eeve-for-p40g-series-summit-monoblock-valves/ and a couple hoses to use the new valves with or without the backhoe.

Absolutely and what I'll probably end up doing. The nice thing about get a kit is that I don't have to do any measuring or thinking.

 

[DustyRusty]

QUOTE="ejb11235, post: 733809, member: 51107"]
Absolutely and what I'll probably end up doing. The nice thing about get a kit is that I don't have to do any measuring or thinking.
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That is the thinking of many of our members. Not all of us have a hydraulic background, but can read and understand the instructions to completing the task. I have lots of mechanical experience, however, I haven't done any hydraulic work in over 50 years, and what little that I did understand about hydraulics is long ago forgotten. At one time I could tear down a complete engine and rebuild it without looking at what goes where, but today I would only be fooling myself to try to replicate what I was once able to do with confidence.
I am working to restore my 1979 Ford truck, and as I do varied tasks on it, it comes back to memory what to do in what order. If it were a 2019 Ford truck, I wouldn't have any idea where to start. I doubt that in 40 years anyone would even consider restoring a 2019 Ford truck.

 

[GreensvilleJay]

In 40 years , that 2019 truck will have been in the scrapyard for 25+ years, if driven in Southern Ontario !