Vent/Gripe...........

[ehenry]

I love my little BX22. Its as handy and the thumbs on your own hands.....BUT..... To the Kubota engineers/designers whom i'd love to punch in the mouth, poke in the eyes, kick in the knees and elsewhere......WTH were yall thinking or do you just have dainty, small girl hands??

I"m through griping now.

Hope everyone has a good weekend. Cook something good tonight and have a few cold ones!!!!

 

[bucktail]

I got to meet some engineers and project management from IBM in a previous job and I'm going with the small dainty hands guess

 

[ehenry]

I"m in the IT field. Have been for going on 40 years and I've met my share of IBM engineers, Customer Advocates are great but those that call themselves project managers with their PiMP certification and couldn't manage their way out of a wet paper sack.

 

[SidecarFlip]

Japanese do have small dainty hands.

 

[D2Cat]

Were not they referred to as sub compact utility tractor? Sub, meaning smaller than compact utility tractor. When the features of a tractor or put on a small frame things have to be smaller, closer together, modified or left off.

SCUT vs CUT

 

[bucktail]

Were not they referred to as sub compact utility tractor? Sub, meaning smaller than compact utility tractor. When the features of a tractor or put on a small frame things have to be smaller, closer together, modified or left off.

SCUT vs CUT

You can't just shrink the whole effen tractor unless you expect unless you expect it to be run by subcompact utility people

 

[Daren Todd]

I tun into issues with that at work on a daily bases. The designers of the turbo oil drain lines for the JD 6090 engine. You need hands the size of a toddlers to start one of the bolts for the drain line.

Also the oil line for the fuel injection pump on a Deutz 914L series engine. Same thing applies. Line installs into the engine block directly behind the injection pump. Last one I replaced, I had to bribe the petite secretary to come out in the shop and start the banjo fitting for me. After that I could reach it with 2 fingers and a wrench She looked at me a little odd when I came inside the office and starting asking who had the smallest hands

 

[D2Cat]

You can't just shrink the whole effen tractor unless you expect unless you expect it to be run by subcompact utility people

Bucktail, you may have meant that as humorous, even though I didn't notice a , but it's correct. Just like that thread about those little Japanese trucks that get imported. (with those seats all the way back, you still need to be shorted than 5"-11" to get your knees under the steering wheel)

I have a B7100, and it's not designed for anyone to much bigger!!

I never buy clothes without trying them on: shirts, jeans, socks, shoes, you name it. They're made in countries with small people! Large is relative. Long is relative. When I order a shirt that is Large/Tall I have no idea what I'm getting. Sleeves end about 3" above my wrist!

Ok, you get the picture.

 

[skeets]

Yup you be a big ol boy too

 

[ehenry]

Just so yall know, my gripe...and I cuss about it every time I have to do it, is checking and adding hydraulic fluid. Its crazy where Kubota put the dipstick and the fill cap. I had to replace several hoses and rebuild a cylinder on BH just the other day. Checking and putting fluid in is a PIA. I have a B7300 and its no problem.

 

[lugbolt]

Fuel filters are fun.
So is the HST fan.

As I said many times, it's just a glorified lawn mower that happens to have a 3ph, backhoe, and loader. Remove those, and that's exactly what it is...a lawn mower.

...Carry on.

 

[skeets]

Yep keep believing that

 

[bucktail]

I'm actually surprised at how well I fit on my L1500dt. The clutch brakes and hand throttle are all easy to run. It's easier for me to run the high low range and 4wd levers with my heel than my hands and the foot throttle is a little dangerous as you can get your foot stuck between it and the brakes. But given that a 240lb gaijin doesn't show up in any Japanese human factors in engineering reference books I think that they did ok.

 

[ehenry]

I'm not going to complain to hard given that I inherited the tractor. Its just a PIA work on certain aspects of it. BTW, I've done the hydrostat fan replacement. I did CV boots and joints while I was at it too. It wasn't bad at all since you don't have to slide the engine forward on a BX22 to get the shaft out.

 

[shootem604]

On the L245DT I moved the seat back to accommodate my leg length, but overall it is a ideally sized tractor. Working on it so far hasn't been too bad, more open than most modern vehicles, so no complaints.

 

[GeoHorn]

The oil filter on a 2005 Buick Century kept me pizzed off ...(can't remove it without spilling oil all over the starter-motor and harness ...and can't use an oil filter wrench because it'll short-out against the UNPROTECTED starter motor terminal)...until I tried to put engine oil into my M4700 without a lot of it going all over the shop floor.


I had to use a loong transmission-funnel... onto which I'd shoved a looonger hose... to get the oil from the 2-gal jug into the oil-filler-port of the engine... but better WATCHOUT that the funnel doesn't over-flow because the filler-port won't take it at the same speed as the jug will dispense it and you'll already have BOTH HANDS FULL holding the funnel with one and the jug with the other while observing that the port doesn't overflow before the funnel!!

I think it's pay-back from the war!

 

[RCW]

The oil filter on a 2005 Buick Century kept me pizzed off ...(can't remove it without spilling oil all over the starter-motor and harness ...and can't use an oil filter wrench because it'll short-out against the UNPROTECTED starter motor terminal)...until I tried to put engine oil into my M4700 without a lot of it going all over the shop floor.


I had to use a loong transmission-funnel... onto which I'd shoved a looonger hose... to get the oil from the 2-gal jug into the oil-filler-port of the engine... but better WATCHOUT that the funnel doesn't over-flow because the filler-port won't take it at the same speed as the jug will dispense it and you'll already have BOTH HANDS FULL holding the funnel with one and the jug with the other while observing that the port doesn't overflow before the funnel!!

Geo - -reminds me of filling the power steering pump on a 2007 Buick Lacrosse.....practically a 3-handed job....