Recent content by atitus

I cannot comment on the BX23 and it's special mount situation. I have the BX1880 and even with the lower HP the grass catcher works great for grass and leaves. If you have huge area or don't mow frequently, I suppose lack of dump from chair could be an issue. But it has pretty decent capacity...

I had this happen once. It locks into place so I never paid much attention. However it's definitely possible to not have it fully seated and the lock will still engage, and then it leaked. As others have said make sure no dirt or junk in there, and make sure it's fully seated, before rotating...

3-5 sec is a long time for it to do it then stop. Many many rotations in that time. By any chance does it happen at specific point in your yard? High spot maybe? Could the spindle be contacting the ground?

To make life easier consider wheel mod. That's what I did. Drill holes in the feet and add free rotation wheels. You also have to drill new holes in the legs to offset the height added by the wheels. Should be a factory option IMHO. Not difficult with the right tools. You need drill bits...

Short answer to your question is yes, it's meant to be fixed mounted, legs are right length. Once you have it on the 3pt, lift up a bit on the bagger to take the weight off and tighten the height adjustment on the 3pt. This will take the weight off so your can stow the legs. If you can't lift...

I'll be honest that I don't have a great many years of experience with agg equipment so maybe others here will chip in as to how impactful this is, but: the PTO shaft for the bagger is very short. When the bagger is properly mounted to the fixed mounts, the PTO shaft is dead straight shot from...

I'll throw one more thing out there, the bagger package included for me a second adjustable three point arm; I think the base tractor includes only one adjustable. You could probably make it work without that , but it does help greatly in getting it on and off smoothly.

I can't comment on Sawdust's post because I only have the 80 series BX, but that sounds like a pretty shocking difference. On the 80 series you definitely don't remove the three point hitch. You can see in the picture in my post I linked above there are pins that you simply pull out (no tools...

GreX here is a post I made a while back. Picture shows what the 3 point arms should look like, attached to the fixed mount brackets. When you buy the collector (bagger) should come with these...

When you say this are you referring to rear bagger? It should be attached to fixed mount points, not the movable 3pt hydraulic lift arms.

One thing I forgot to add, the working rpm for the PTO is definitely not full throttle.

I have a BX1880 purchased in 2018 in the summer. Dealer delivered it and explained how to use it. Sadly I've learned from this site that not all dealers do that, which is really a shame. Key things have already been shared here. Run the engine at low rpm until it warms up ( for me I run until...

For those commenting on the 'sync' of the augers, I see from the pics that most of these blowers have a sticker inside, upper left corner. This sticker indicates the expected auger position. Mine says "one up, one down" and has a picture

BX2816

So I've got this on my BX. This is my fifth year. I'm in MA so it's not as heavy used as if I was in Buffalo or something, ha! Probably used it on average a dozen times a season. I have areas with some inclines where u need to pick the blower up fairly high while I position it then lower back...