Recent content by Speed25

My mower before the BX had the Kawasaki as well and never missed a beat. Great engines, though my MUCH heavier BX goes a LOT farther on a gallon of fuel, haha.

My BX has arm rests on both sides and I use the heck out of them!

I worked 40-hour weeks in high school and remembered wondering what to do with all my free time after I graduated (still working 60+ hours a week at that point). I'm slowly accumulating projects for when I'm retired so the wife doesn't kill me for being around too much.

Agreed, though you'd need a new bucket as well. Pretty sure the adapter is the BX2410 for $600 or so. Edit:New SSQA buckets don't appear to be available at the dealerships for some reason.

Yup, same frame on both tractors, so it should fit right in. The 344 probably has the flat face hydraulic connector, so you'd probably want to convert those to use your existing hoses. The flat face connector is known to leak and there are a number of threads around here on how to swap out...

Nah, and I've heard on the forum that they're expensive on shipping, hence buying from my local dealer.

Ouch. Messick's has them listed at $153/each (ABXR8712) for mounted wheel and tire, and I know my local dealer has been a bit cheaper than them with no shipping charge. Edit: Go through sales, not the parts department.

This method has worked well for me on hardwoods (no pines near me). The extra leverage of the tall "stump" really helped to free the roots.

Out of curiosity, stock turf tires? Stock pressures? Filled, or just air? Mine are only air-filled, but they're so squishy and bouncy with a loader full. Getting off camber, facing slightly downhill where more load is on the front tires is even worse. I do agree, the turf tires are great on...

I run turfs and R4's on my 25D-1. The turfs just don't have the capacity for any heavy loader work, but I'll run them when moving mulch around the yard and such. The R4's tear up the grass too much to run them all the time though, so I swap sets as needed, but I've intentionally NOT filled my...

While not in the tractor business, we simply charge those customers more to make it worth our time or have them shop elsewhere. We have as much work as we can handle, so losing a crappy customer that'll be replaced with a better customer is a win-win for us, but if you're going to be a...

I had an L2501 and Husqvarna riding mower with a Kawasaki engine, but I'd used the L2501 for all of the large projects on my small parcel, so it was time to downsize. The riding mower was too small for my needs (similar to yours), but the L2501 was too big. I narrowed the options down to a...

Not all mixer drivers are equal either. We had a Loflin driver roll his mixer (fully-loaded) on a job in Kernersville years back. Butch was pissed! :ROFLMAO:

This is in line with what I was thinking, drop the trailer, not raise the boat. Or raise the boat while on the trailer, then cribbage below and drop the trailer to do your work.

BS customer service has been a nightmare, but thankfully the service has been solid for us, so not much interaction needed. Customer service is hard to understand sometimes, but not because they're foreign. They speak so southern/backwoods that having lived my life in NC hasn't prepared me for...