Recent content by PaulL

I have an MX on 15 acres in NZ. Our land is pretty dry, and the MX is perhaps a size too large given the grass is sparse and not a lot of trees. But it does the driveway well, and I'd rather be one size too large than one size too small. The MX is good buying - a lot of metal for your money. The...

If they don't know they're from their, they shouldn't be posting on the internet? ;-) I often have difficulty with left from right. Some people are very strongly "handed", I'm not. I'm mostly ambidextrous, I write with my left hand (a very sinister thing), and play sports right handed...

There's a captain. And the captain must be sober. The helmsman, however........ Had a friend who used to take his teenage daughter out on the yacht, she had a boat master's certificate. He could drink and sail. She was in charge.

I have noticed that the brochures are often wrong. I think the workshop specs are written by technicians. The brochures are written by marketing people. I imagine the former to be a crusty old guy who knows tractors, and the latter to be a pretty young thing with a marketing degree who's never...

Doesn't mean you blew it. Sometimes, like you, they don't want to screw around. If it's a fair offer they take it. My dealer (in rural NZ, where things are a bit different) just gave me the Kubota price list to them, and told me the deal he'd do, said they don't negotiate. His deal was fair...

I've purchased from Messicks before, and directed to a mail forwarder to get it forwarded.

I'd be inclined to leave the solenoid unplugged, and open the hood and push the solenoid to stop the tractor each day. Advantages: 1. Potentially no need to replace fuses 2. Not that hard 3. If the fuse blows again, it tells you it's not the solenoid (or not only the solenoid). If it doesn't...

Are you sure there aren't some options or other elements that you've missed on the Kubota website? I find it unusual for dealers to be completely dishonest, what they're saying may be true if you squint at it in a particular way. For example, delivery fees or the like may be additional to Kubota...

On my B2601 I installed a chain to the end of the chute, and a rope with dog clip so I can clip it around the right side handle. I pull it up when I drive into the shed (door not wide enough to enter with chute down), and I pull it up when I mow past stuff that might damage it. I found that...

I'm not a workshop mechanic on these. But you have no replies, so I'll give one anyway. Logically it's a short somewhere, or some component flowing more current than it should intermittently (no special thinking needed there). Short seems more likely, but in concept you could get some sort of...

I seem to recall a video - maybe Messicks - showing how to adjust the stops on the steering for the BX. It looked like they allowed materially tighter turns.

I'll ask the obvious question - why not just keep both tractors? A 2wd loader tractor, and a 4wd mower tractor. Sounds ideal to me.

My mistake.

I would still spend the time to answer the question in your other thread whether a rotary cutter is the right implement for you. You haven't answered how often you're mowing and how tidy you want it. You may find that an RFM is all you need - and you could go 90 plus inches in an RFM. They're...

A rotary cutter for the first cut. You can usually borrow or rent. Once the first cut is done though, the question is what you'd use ongoing. That (to me) comes down to how often you want to mow, and what you want it to look like. If you are mowing once a year and it's heavy terrain that will...