Compact Tractor

Does the bx25 have a turbo?

 

Sweet deal for you! Congrats.

 

It is a little workhorse 4 acres tilled, 5 gallons of diesel used and no complaints at all. It only bogged down when I missed a 100 feet of landscape fabric in one raised row and sucked it all up in the tines. 10am -6pm to get it done. It is not very level because I was ripping up old raised rows.

You can put a turbo on just about anything but Kubota did offer a Turbo on the BX25 that was part of the extra 5k I spent on it. I run a wood chipper and needed a few more HP and it according to specs gives it some more torque at lower RPMs so it should not bog down on larger diameter crap going through the chipper/shredder. In researching the Turbo add on was suggested for a few applications like the chipper. Don't know if it makes a difference or not but will find out soon enough

 

Nice. How much time did that little machine save ya today ??

 

2 days from now I would just be finishing up the tilling using the big rear tine tiller. I like my BCS Walk Behind, make no mistake I DO NOT LOVE IT (Used a stock photo of one,) but mine is the same, I am just to lazy atm to walk out and take a pic of it. have yet to see where it is worth the Thousands it cost.

 

Id change the way you use the machine loads and keep it stock without the add on turbo , Longer life as it was designed .. I run my Kubota hard as well but when it is bogging down , I change the speed of the traction , Till / snowblower //

Sloth

 

For most applications stock is fine there are a few though where the Turbo does add benefit like the wood chipper. My BX 22s didn't have the turbo option and the bog down when using the Chipper was sustained and took too long to recover from it. The New Holland same HP had a turbo and might bog for a second but picked right back up almost instantly. If I run the chipper and don't see a real difference in performance, I can always take the turbo off and put it on the might use someday parts rack. Can't remember the short list of applications the turbo was recommended for as most did not apply to me other than the chipper shredder. If I only rarely ran it I would not even consider a Turbo but when I do run it it runs for a week solid shredding tree crowns and the thinner slab off of the sawmill. Would hit the 1.5" - 3" stuff and it would choke the BX22 up for several minutes. It would fly through the under 1.5" crap. I am by no stretch of the imagination a mechanical genius and just go by what I see performance wise. Running the tiller yesterday all day I was more than content with performance for that application.

What did annoy me was having to take the mower deck off to run the tiller. Can't lower the tiller without lowering the mower deck at the same time. Guess I could have ran a 1" strap from side to side to keep the deck up since it is gravity drop. LOL learned real fast that the loose tilled dirt eventually pushes the deck up and out of the front hanger cradle and into the rear wheels. All things considered though taking the mower deck off and putting it back on is not hard....... except getting the pto shaft on if you have big hands. It is pretty tight between deck and tractor for a big guy.

 

Nice, but did you know that they sell JD Green paint, and decals too! I'm just finishing up restoring an old two-row field cultivator, it was rusty with a little red paint, but now it is a green thing of beauty.

 

If someone gave me a brand new JD for free, the first thing I would do is sell it and buy a couple of JUNK Nortracks from China and be money ahead. Only Green that will ever be on this farm is Oliver Green

 

I run a Vermeer 925 chipper ,, Im not a lover of my PTO driving a chipper due to vibration thru the machine and the gears bearings felling the hard knot or worse .. it's a direct hard drive..
My 925 has belts from the engine and flywheel mass holding the cutting blades while the feed in is adjustable ,, I slice up to 6" on it. thousands of hrs on it ..
Thats just my thoughts .
I run a tiller ,auger in sand soil , snowblower ,loader, backhoe with root rake thumb ,forks on a quick swap loader ,,Grapple with hyd teeth ..
Sloth

 

Agreed, if we're are talking about a brand new John Deere, but I'm talking about tractors built prior to 1975. Hell, some of them are older than me!

 

I just fixed a JD 790 from Cheq with Yanmar engine ,, not bad , but JD pricing is full on nutz

 

Just about every tractor today, regardless of brand, has a Yanmar engine. The only thing that John Deere builds in Waterloo is the really big stuff. Years ago farmers were willing to pay extra green to get the Green, because it was worth it. Unless you are going for something above 60 hp it isn't worth it now. When my Father got out of farming he had a JD 3020 and 4020, and swore that they would last forever...or as long as they made rebuild kits. I'm still using his last tractor, a JD 830, that was built in West Germany in 1974. It is 40 hp and I have all of the two-row equipment needed to garden or to farm...I also have a rebuild kit in the barn.
I've been wanting a gas burner for some time, but I can't decide if I want a JD or maybe a Ford 8N, 9N, etc.. If I go with the Ford it's gonna be the prettiest JD Green Ford tractor you ever saw.
JD Green is good camo, don't want some nosey Revenuer asking, "What you gonna do with all that corn?".

 

I have an N9 for 300 bucks . search out Bowser BC
Not mine , but Im always helping PIF //

 

$300 !! People pay that much for a peddle tractor that needs work!

 

Decided to give it a bit of a stress test this morning and took it through some raw unmowed orchard grass pasture. The Tiller impressed me greatly it chewed right through the biggest clumps and to my amazement had very little grass wrapped around the tine shaft. The little diesel engine didn't stutter pulling through it.





Will have to go over it a couple more times in a few weeks after the grass has rotted down some. LOL tore out some huge clumps of orchard grass like that one on the right side of the pic. Should have burned it off and then mowed it before tilling but I wanted to abuse the tractor and tiller and she how they fared in the raw untouched spring stuff. Might put a few hogs on it to clean some of the grass up over the next couple of weeks.

 

Trying something different on the farm this year that I have wanted to do for a long while. Building raised beds by taking the soil out from between the raised beds instead of actually raising the beds up. I really did not want to do it with the massey bucket and have 7.5 feet between rows. I think they are turning out pretty good. Takes about 2 hours to get the soil out from between each 150' row and going to take longer to put the 2x16"x 12' post oak planks on the borders but about 5' between rows and each row 40" wide. This is a real wet section of field and the goal is to get great drainage going on without having to put a bunch of field tile in. Thinking about going 32 inches on the height by back filling with the mountains of dirt I am creating. LOL the one I took the picture from while standing on is 4x the size of the one at the other end. Since I use plastic mulch and drip tape the height and getting too dry would not be a problem. As it is the beds are 8" high now and going to fill the other 8" for 16" with composted manure and till it together. Won't day it would be easy as I would either have to load the dirt on the massey bucket and drive centered over the rows and shovel in or load wheel barrows and dump it in........ either way involves using the Mexican Backhoe. In hind sight I should have build one at a time and filled the dirt and manure from the sides and then built the next one LOL. Only 7 rows to fill so it shouldn't kill me

 

Run a skid steer ?? Wheeled
Just load a bucket and take it to the area , go backwards and the pop the front wheels up turn on the backs and drop the bucket ,, then getting back on the backs to spin is easier ..
Less skid marks on the ground , yur underwear gets less as you get good !!
Sloth

 

No Skidder Little tractor is working easy enough. I tilled down to the hard pack clay so just scooping out loose soil and then skimming the clay surface to slick it out. Just a lot of back and forth boring monkey work LOL first bucket full of skimmed clay let me know the left front tire was low on air pressure though. That stuff is moist and HEAVY so a bit of excitement when I backed out to the end of the row and made the cut to turn and just about put the new tractor on its side when it leaned on the half flat tire.......... Quick reaction dropping the bucket all the way down corrected it

 

I'm putting a turbo on mine, but the warranty expired last century.