Recent content by PaulL

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...

I bought an old BX without a loader. Then added a loader. I think I was $2K for the tractor, $8K for hte loader. But a 15 year old tractor with a 1 year old loader is still a 15 year old tractor. The loader devalued by $6K the day I put it on the tractor. It was fine for me, I got a bargain on...

It is low hours. If legit, potentially a steal. One thing to watch out for on low hours machines that are older is that some people only do the hours based service intervals. Arguably that tractor might have had only one service in its entire life (or even none). The services are supposed to be...

If you're definitely needing a backhoe, and not needing to mow, then a B26 would also be a good machine to look at. It's the commercial/rental version. The loader isn't removable, but it's heavier duty.

Position control is the 3pt hitch. The BX, and the older B, had quarter inching. You move the lever up, the 3pt goes up. You let it go, it stops going up. The newer Bs and most larger tractors have position control. There are markings from 1-10 on the slide. You set it to 4, it goes to height...

The B2601 looks to be a like for like replacement of the B2620. Same weight, same engine. My B2601 goes well. If you're looking for the same thing as your B2620, same weight, same capability, just newer, then yes that is 100% what you need.