Compact Tractor

I have been looking for a specific model of Kubota Compact for about 3 years a BX25D when I have found one for sale it is either ragged out and abused to death or the seller wants new off the lot price for 12 year old tractor.

The search has ended! Dealer contacted me the other day and told me he had just taken a 2012 one owner BX25D with 233 hours in on trade that was in mint condition and dealership serviced since it was bought new. It was mine for $13,500 if I wanted it. Probably because he knows I will buy another $5000 worth of stuff to go with it LOL Which I did today when I went and paid for it BX25Ds came standard with the bucket and backhoe but not the belly mower. So I bought the heavy welded Mower Deck, a 3pt tiller and a box blade to go with it bringing the total price to $18,700. When I owned the big Landscape Company I ran 3 BX25Ds and they are little work horses and I have kicked myself in the backside for years now for not keeping one of them and letting them go with the sale of the Landscape Company.

I can't enough good about the Kubota BX series of Tractors in general. The 3 I ran had 5000+ hours on each and still worked and ran like champs pretty much 12-16 hours per day 6 days per week. They were real easy on the diesel fuel, Lifted 550 pounds easy, pretty fast diggers with the backhoe (We installed over 2000 ornamental ponds in some pretty tight City Back Yards), Mowed 30 acres worth of commercial lots with them every week, loaded and spread mulch with them, did snow removal with them. dug trenches for downspout diversion pipes with them where a trencher would not fit do the job. Yeah I am real fond of BX25Ds. So to pick up a basically 8 year old new one in mint condition with only 233 hours on it for $13,500 is like a dream come true. New BX with the same set up I got would cost $30,000+ Patience and a bit of luck paid off!!!!

 

Nice!!!
Don't know if I'd dress up all sexy and stuff then get on it and run it?

 

Nice find , I run a G5200 and a B2150 loader and back hoe ,
JD 917 with lawn deck on 3point .
The JD runs a yanmar diesel .
Sloth

 

Great find! Like a Swiss army knife on wheels.

 

Very handy and very nice.

 

I'm working on my Kubota today.
Mainly just rebuilding a cheap rusty heavy duty plow to be post apocalyptic duty.
Take good care of yours.

 

Might have to put on the Elli Mae Wig and little (Errr BIG) Black Dress and maybe even the red stilettos when running it LOL

 

If it was only GREEN!!

 

I've got a little MF 1020 ,, no loader ,, just 3 point hitch attachments. Bush hog , scrape blades , hole digger ,, but I'd sure like to have something bigger, with a FE loader. But, at the moment , I've got a guy that's storing a Bobcat S175 at the house , and letting me use it as I need to ,, but I'm working out of town, and am not home long enough to use it. WTF.

 

We wait'n? Not much else is going on nowadays !

 

@ditch witch will smack you silly if you try to take hers.

 

I've had good results with a ragged old cut-off t-shirt that I tie up high & tight in front.

The only drawback is that I tan like a drag queen.

 

I still have the Oliver 1755 and the Massey 285

I love the Oliver, it was in parts in my Mother In Laws Barn and she told me if I could put it back together and get it running it was mine. Took a Month of rebuilding from the frame up. Never did get a straight answer from my BIL why he literally took the entire top half and engine completely apart and walked away from it.


I don't lover the Massey so much, we call it the MF'r Can't turn the damn key without something breaking on it. It does however weigh 12,000 pounds and can lift 5000 pounds. Of Course that is when the front axle weld breaks and goes through the side wall of a month old tire when it lands and just to really make my day not only bends the rim but outs a 6" crack in it.



SO a whole lot of blacksmithing and welding later and a new tire and rim it works again and blew a hydraulic hose 30 minutes after the picture was taken.


Going to keep the Oliver in the barn and will keep using the MF'R until something like the upper or lower Hydraulic pump goes out and then it is scrap metal. It just gets old having to spend as much or more time working on a tractor than you do working with a tractor LOL.

The little BX25D can do most of the jobs these two do other than the mowing, raking and hay baling and pulling the big disc that Oliver does. And the lifting logs onto the sawmill, dragging big logs out of the woods and the heavy bucket work like lifting 2000 bulk bags over the hog feeders........... Which is when one of the NEW hydraulic lines popped and dropped the buck and bulk bag on the feeder smashing it beyond repair. MF'R!!!

 

Reminds me, I need to get my 9N fired up again

 

Need to trade that thing up for one of those new-fangled 8Ns. More hp.

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I like the colors red and gray. I have one old red farmall cub running ,one old red farmall super A and one old gray ford jubilee running now. The old red farmall super A is running also and has almost new set of tires all around.I also have two other cubs that are complete except for one without a gas tank that I will use for parts. Both of them were running when I bought them. I also have two old red farmall super H, one that my daddy bought new in 1951 when we had cows and had just bought 400 acresThe one daddy bought needs a manifold tires and tires,then it's ready. I'm going to put the gray one last ( a 1951think) it's a ford jubilee that's also running good. To me I think the old were the best. The one I let go that I ought to have kept was a farmall F12 with steel tires and wheels, no flats on that one. I'm always in the market for a really good farmall. Old women,old red tractors and old guns are the things I really care for.

 

When I was a kid , 10 yrs or so ,, my grandpa would put me to plowing the fields of soybeans , or hilling up the corn before it got to tall with an old farmall cub. I would work them fields all day long , and loved it. Some of my best memories from growing up.

 

And the new/used little tractor came home last night. All total after buying more add on things than I had intended but fully expected to when I walked the dealers implement lot. It came in at $18,700. 2012 BX25D, 233 hours on it, one owner (A lawyer that traded up for a bigger LA model), Regular Scheduled Dealership service/maintenance since it was first sold. I did have to buy a new mower deck for it the BX25s came standard with the backhoe and no mower deck. Funny thing is the Trailer it is sitting on I bought in 2001ish to haul the BX22s around from job site to Job site and is the only piece of equipment I kept after selling the landscape company. Paid $1000 for that trailer new off the dealers lot back then...... A whole lot more expensive now days for the same trailer......Of Course the BX22s back then were $17,000 new with bucket, mid mount mower and backhoe. Still wish I had kept one of the BX22s when I sold the LS Company.



The most important new toy I bought with the BX25D is the 3pt Tiller 50" wide and as demonstrated by the salesman it eats through even hard packed clay. Dropped $3500 on the Commercial model instead of getting the lighter built consumer model that was $1300 less. Also picked up a used and very abused bed shaper with a mulch and drip line layer for $200 it needs some heating and blacksmithing done to it but a couple of days in my shop and it will be all pounded straight, re-welded and functioning good again, dealer was going to dump it on their scrap iron pile so I made a offer Will gladly spend $200 on a tool that needs some work VS $2500 for a new one that does the same job. The tiller though will save me thousands of hours of work vs using the disc and big rear tine walk behind tiller....... Often wonder how many miles I have walked up and down rows behind that tiller over the years.


Backhoe comes off this morning and the tiller goes on and I get into the fields and start busting some dirt today

 

I could put that beast to work for a couple hours. My "yard" is more like a "grass" floored quarry than lawn.

 

Have you even thought about what you're going to do in all of that free time you're going to have with the time you're going to be saving with 3pt hitch tiller. That's going to be a back saver for sure. Congrats on finding that great deal.