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Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, sir. And a Happy thanksgiving to my American side of the family. Whether October or November, we all have a lot to be thankful for in North America, even in light of recent times. May we not take that for granted.

A few years ago, it was a perfect storm - my (now ex-)wife and I were having serious arguments, I had one of the worst colds I have ever had (stoned on NyQuil), it was Christmas Eve (which I hate working anyway) and I had to do an intake gasket on the dealership owner's father-in-law's Buick...

Mr. K, Vic: I loved the site when I joined up, it is still one of my 3 daily stops on the Internet. I've learned a lot from this community of fellow Kubotaphiles, and it is a small part of what made me change career directions into Heavy Equipment Mechanic (well, I'm an apprentice right now...

The LA203/LA243 series loader is really slick - you can have it off in 5 minutes once you know how to do it. I only remove it to let the better half mow or to get the grille guard and engine side cowlings off, otherwise it's on the tractor most of the time. The BX series is a great line...

Hi Bob Buy a FEL and grille guard for your BX. It's well worth it. I bought mine used with the FEL attached, and can't imagine not having it on there apart from pulling it off so the wife can mow (less dangerous for her, the surrounding equipment and environment!). The loader will lift up to...

Not sure how new you're wanting, but if you want something recent I'd recommend one of the BX's. My BX1850 does pretty much what I need a compact tractor for. You might want a 2360 or 2660 if you want a bit more power, but I haven't had power issues with mine - it breaks traction before it...

Hi Sooeyman I still have a crack through the brake light cover on mine from the previous owner. It might be an idea to see if the BX2660's lamps look like the BX1850/1860's, as my BX1850 part manual shows part number K2581-6278-0 for the lens and K2581-6276-0 for the cover around the lens...

Wasn't it VW back in the sixties that said "ugly is only skin deep?" (I wasn't even a thought of a whisper of a twinkle in my dad's eye at that point, but this is what I hear . . .) One way or another, how a machine is styled, as it was mentioned earlier in posts, is second to its ability to...

Hi Edgett I have a BX1850, and got the LandPride 50" reverse rotation tiller. My little squirt of a tractor has plenty of PTO power for the tiller, and you have approx. 5 HP more than I do. You'll be amazed at what your BX will do. Glad to see you joined the Orange side, not the Blue, Red or...

Nice job - looks plenty strong for what a Kubota can pull. I built one as well, but used a Class II instead of class III/IV receiver (pics on another thread). Yours looks like a simpler, more elegant design. I could have used a drawbar as the basis for mine, but the drawbar cost alone was...

Don't you just love that feeling when it snows and you don't have to make excuses to the wife to just go out and play (er, I mean, "work") in the snow? This was our 2nd winter with our Kubota and I wish it snowed more here this winter. Heck, I was out the other day moving the snow piles around...

Thanks Fellas! What you say makes a lot of sense, as there are a few open pit coal mines/power generation station complexes a few miles west of us on Wabamun Lake. Whether this old relic came from there or somewhere else who knows. All I know is that it's heavy and solid enough to be the...

You know, I've noticed that in our area as well - used equipment for compact tractors is usually 3/4 of the price of new equipment, and it's hard to know what they've been used for at times. That's the primary reason we've been saving up and buying new equipment from our dealer. As it is, they...

This also depends on who is going to operate it. I am comfortable with a gear tractor, but I happen to feel a LOT more confident putting my wife on an HST unit, as she is not as familiar with farm equipment. As well, I will agree that it is a little less work with a loader, and it's nice to be...

I will definitely agree that these units will lose traction before powering out - in low range even my BX with a hydro trans will chew 4 nice little holes in the ground before it would ever bog out - at least if I'm using the HST correctly and not trying to blow it up by "over-pedal-gearing"...

Save up and buy the Land Pride RTR0550. It's worth it, just make sure you get the slip clutch. We bought one for our BX last year, and it's an awesome little unit. The reverse rotation works great, because it mixes the soil more thoroughly. I'm itching for spring already to go play in the...

I pulled a piece of scrap iron out of the trees here last summer. It's been there for at least 23 years, from before the previous owners from what I hear. It's about 4 ft wide, and weighs about 250 lb. I plan to modify it to have 3-pt hitch brackets, add scarifying teeth and make a driveway...

This spring the wife and I are going to get a post hole auger for our BX. We need to put in about 600 ft of fence, and although I've used a clamshell digger a lot around here, I'm too lazy for 600 feet of it. We are also going to plant some trees, and apparently something called a Stuewe pot...

Joe There are a few different styles of "weave" bead when a person welds, depending on type of material, thickness, weld method used, etc. I generally don't zig-zag in my welds in a sawtooth pattern, but with stick use a "u" shape, alternating back and forth between each piece, and use a...

I don't cringe. We are all at different stages of learning in various areas of our lives, and this is what coming together and learning from each other is all about. It's what "community" is all about. Hey, on another thread I learned that the proper term for something I described was "clevis...