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B 2 O: Did your previous NH maybe have "position control"? That give full, accurate hydraulic control of 3 point up/down movement and is pretty much standard on larger tractors. Kubota gave the little BX a less costly type of 3 point setup that is less precise and has a fairly hair-trigger...

Happy: Welcome here. You have a lot of good, honest advice here, maybe not all saying the same thing because everyone's situation is unique in some way. My ideas are along a slightly different track. First, you are just retired and recovering from a shoulder operation. May you have a full...

I had a BX2230, largely the same as the BX220. We changed over from belly mower to 3 point operation often as I never liked either mowing with the FEL and a 3 pt contraption mounted or doing loader/implement work with the deck snagging just about everything. The changeover got easier and...

Thinking about it a bit more, the 60 inch measurement would make sense if it was referring to the distance between the rear tires, centerline to centerline, not the inside to inside distance. That would mean the rear tires would contact the ground at least 5ft, apart for a 6 ft cutter, which...

1.5 mm. = about 1/8 inch 1.5 meters, maybe? Which happens to be almost 60 inches!

Shorthand: EX = excavator

Not necessarily. Different applications may require changes to the mounting points, orientation of external components like air intake, pulleys, etc. Same basic engine with mods for specific uses. I think there are subtypes that identify factory versions of these motors.

Interesting thread with sound, thoughtful comments, IMHO. Tractors had drawbars long before the 3 point hitch came along and what they pulled had long tongues (like a hay wagon). Modern highway-use trailers mostly lack a long tongue and tractor drawbars are usually fairly short, posing a...

One other suggestion to minimize this problem. Before you disconnect the loader or other hydraulic attachment, always try to cycle the controls often enough that the cylinders settle into a fully neutral condition. If you leave one with some weight on it, gravity will pressurize the line and...

Sorry to hear of your frustrating experience. I have to wonder if those lift arms are slightly bent or misaligned somehow. There were some things I didn't like about the mower on my BX - the PTO shaft comes to mind - but the lift arms and front brackets were never a problem over many years and...

Unless you have very heavy mowing, steep hills or a really heavy 6ft cutter, the L3800 should be Ok.

I had the 54" deck with my BX for only one reason: my trailer wasn't wide enough to take the 60" one. Otherwise, the 60" would have been fine. Easily enough power for either size, as noted, the wider deck would have given a smaller cutting radius.

The short wheelbase comment is very true. I often found using a crosshatch, or X, pattern helped make an area more even. If you just go back and forth, it's very hard to get the height adjustments just right so you gather material in the high areas and deposit it in the low spots. You can...

With sympathies for the circumstance and an appreciation for irony, that "little muddy spot" has at least a foot of standing water. Leaves me wondering how closely you eyeballed the situation before taking the plunge. Worry not, most everyone who has equipment has either already done something...

" Up, float, down? " More like Up, Hold, Down. No position control to preset the "Hold" height. Takes some practice but you get used to it for most work. Grading with something like a box blade can be tricky.

I successfully used a standard size Speeco PHD on my BX for many years but it required one simple modification. The Speeco unit came with 3 or 4 holes in the long tube from the top link to the auger gearbox for adjusting the u-shaped bracket to reach the lower links on different tractors. It...

Yes ! Very small, gentle movements to find the exact point where the tension is released. Always did this at idle rpm.

I put 1,000+ hours on my BX2230 and will ditto dlsmith's comments exactly. * Rattles like marbles in a tin can when cold, gets better as it warns up. * Let it warm up at a fast idle for several minutes, then rev it up to working speed. * Hydraulic flow (which runs most everything), is weak...

About those "extra uses". I had a Uniforest winch for several years for tree clearing (good trouble-free unit, by the way), and found it pulled much faster than a recovery type winch, even with the tractor at idle. Unless it was slowed a down a bunch through pulley blocks, I never felt it...

It has been quite a while, but I found seats that could fit on my tractors at Tractor Supply with some weekend tinkering. They weren't exact matches to the OEM seat but they worked well.