Recent content by Kirt

No need to be sorry, and sincere respect to your 1800 hours, sir. I shall not achieve that mark in my remaining lifetime. At some point (hopefully not soon) a well cared for BX23s will come on the market with under 1000 hours. 🙂 There are electronic levels that have Bluetooth. As far as cheap...

Oh yeah, I’m definitely not suggesting this has anything to do with safety. It’s also fair to say that me owning a tractor of any kind is more likely to shorten my life than extend it. 😎 My personal bucket level issue has to do with digging/scooping material and leveling it after moving it. A...

I’d love to have the experience, or even have enough and frequent work to develop the skill, which I want to make clear I respect. I even have some degree of experience from my own childhood. Our family business was a tractor salvage. Most of my loader usage was chaining things up and lifting...

Agree that inclines and such are yet another element in the problem. I do think it’s possible to indicate both with the same device, if that matters to anyone. I completely agree that if you use your loader a ton, you will develop a feel for it.

Hey, I’ve got nothing against “roll your own” solutions at all. And if there’s no interest, I’ll just make one for myself and no hard feelings whatsoever. As for offering beta services for free (pretty sure it was intended tongue in cheek), the one thing I’ve learned from doing woodworking...

Hi all, newbie here... I've searched the forums and there are several threads about bucket level indicators for various flavors of Kubota (I have a BX23s). While I would love to be one of you handy-dandies who use your machine so much you have an innate feel for bucket tilt, that's really not...