BenRich
New member
Equipment
BX1870D w/FEL, Land Pride FDR1648 Mower, Land Pride RBO560 Scrape Blade
Greetings to all. I am an owner of a new BX1870D which I purchased early this last May; the tractor now has approximately 30 hours on it and I could not be more satisfied with it. We own three and a half acres in the Piedmont area of NC and I bought the 1870 for property maintenance and some future landscaping.
Prior to deciding on the BX1870, I spent several months perusing numerous on-line tractor forums (including this one) and it was my judgement that Kubota tractor owners seemed to be the most content with their tractors and that led me to decide on a Kubota. I needed something small but powerful and highly maneuverable and again, the 1870 seemed to be the most practical for our small acreage. Apart from our house, the acreage is composed of about half woods and half field/small meadow. Most of the hours accumulated thus far on the 1870 have been spent in mowing (a job which used to take me a full long day now takes less than three hours). I have been practicing a bit with the scrape blade and FEL but am still learning my way on those attachments.
Since taking delivery of the BX1870, I have about memorized the owner's manual, I have watched and read everything put out by Service Department Vic (some of his videos I watched several times) and I have spent many hours perusing each of the various categories on the forum. I am in awe as to the knowledge and experience on OTT (especially the fabrications done by Wildfire).
I do plan on performing my own maintenance; I'm retired and while my entire career was behind a desk, my dad (who was an aircraft mechanic) taught me a myriad of useful skills with tools; I enjoy doing both preventive maintenance and repair, as long as it doesn't require an exotic proprietary tool.
I probably won't say much on here unless it is a subject I know something about... and since I am in the learning stage I probably will ask more questions than provide answers.
Ben
Prior to deciding on the BX1870, I spent several months perusing numerous on-line tractor forums (including this one) and it was my judgement that Kubota tractor owners seemed to be the most content with their tractors and that led me to decide on a Kubota. I needed something small but powerful and highly maneuverable and again, the 1870 seemed to be the most practical for our small acreage. Apart from our house, the acreage is composed of about half woods and half field/small meadow. Most of the hours accumulated thus far on the 1870 have been spent in mowing (a job which used to take me a full long day now takes less than three hours). I have been practicing a bit with the scrape blade and FEL but am still learning my way on those attachments.
Since taking delivery of the BX1870, I have about memorized the owner's manual, I have watched and read everything put out by Service Department Vic (some of his videos I watched several times) and I have spent many hours perusing each of the various categories on the forum. I am in awe as to the knowledge and experience on OTT (especially the fabrications done by Wildfire).
I do plan on performing my own maintenance; I'm retired and while my entire career was behind a desk, my dad (who was an aircraft mechanic) taught me a myriad of useful skills with tools; I enjoy doing both preventive maintenance and repair, as long as it doesn't require an exotic proprietary tool.
I probably won't say much on here unless it is a subject I know something about... and since I am in the learning stage I probably will ask more questions than provide answers.
Ben
and after spending sever hours in the ER getting it put back to how it was suppose to be, I took to carrying a folding saw with me. If a branch hit the ROPS or ME that sucker came off. 
