I may have posted this before, but we spent a few months of conversations defining what my wife really wanted for a mower. I prefer a ZT for mowing but she hates them and she likes mowing so they were out. Actually nothing wrong with the 500 hour ZT we had. Due to her disdain for it, we gave it to our son when he needed a mower.
I was leaning toward a BX with loader and backhoe mostly to get a little backhoe and a tractor small enough to use on the yards and maybe a little bush hog for the orchard and field full of trees. She really just wanted a small machine with a mid mount mower. We visited a dealership and test drove a BX, T, and GR. The GR was eliminated pretty quickly. It cost as much as the bare BX and didn’t drive nearly as smoothly. The BX outfitted the way I would have wanted it was a bit north of $20K. The way she wanted it (no loader, no backhoe) was $13K. The T was more like $5500. I was mildly surprised at how much the BX, which looks to me like a tricked out lawn tractor, felt like a real tractor in miniature rather than a big lawn mower.
The BX is a sweet little machine but we just couldn’t justify to ourselves parting with that much extra money for what little use I would have gotten out of the TLB aspects considering we already have the L. And for just mowing a couple of yards it didn’t make sense to us to drop $13K plus whatever a small bush hog costs on a configuration that would have limited it to mowing lawns and the orchard/tree field.
If you’d get enough use out of BX to not give you heartburn over the price tag, I wouldn’t hesitate to pick up a BX. It likely won’t mow as quickly as a ZT but some prefer MMM and don’t care about 20 minutes or whatever extra time it takes to mow.
