Looking at a new bx1880 with 48" mmm and loader. My local dealer is the murphy family dealership in Washington pa. Anyone ever deal with them?
Storage is an issue for me as well. This is what I did to compress deck storage.I have limited storage area and I've always heard a smaller deck mows better. When i was a kid we had an old bolens articulated mower with a 3' deck it mowed real nice.
Good idea!Storage is an issue for me as well. This is what I did to compress deck storage.
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I purchased the bx1880 just because of its smaller size so it would fit in my storage shed the 2380 has larger tires and with a cab would of been to high to get in the door.Looking at a new bx1880 with 48" mmm and loader. My local dealer is the murphy family dealership in Washington pa. Anyone ever deal with them?
Im planning to use the drawbar instead of a ballast box. How much weight will i need?You shouldn't need weights on the drawbar for anything. If you needed weights, they're usually ballast for when using the loader. For that, you're better with a ballast box that goes on the 3ph. Then it lifts itself, you don't have to lift the weights on.
You will need some ballast when using the FEL. I went cheap and bought the cheapest and smallest 2 in. cargo carrier. I use four concreteblocks 16x16x4 about 90 lbs each that I already had. The manual recommends about 420 lbs.Forgot about the rear wheel weights and quick connect pallet forks. I heat with wood so the forks will help out with lifting logs. The drawbar is for pulling a trailer around the yard moving firewood. My dealer says i shouldn't need any weights on the drawbar. You guy own these tractors I don't yet. What do you guys think?
There's a couple companys that make a drawbar with a 2"×2" hitch reciever and a bar to hang suitcase weights on. Titan attachments and heavy hitch are a couple I found.I've never heard of someone using the drawbar for weights. How do the weights attach to it? Ballast boxes are really cheap, seems quite unusual what you're planning.
Are that bar and suitcase weights cheaper than a ballast box? I think a ballast box would be easier to work with, and you can fill it with anything heavy - I have old bricks in mine, but sand, dirt, stones, even water I guess would work. So the only cost is the ballast box itself, and they're relatively cheap. With the receiver and suitcase weights, you're going to need to lift each suitcase weight onto the drawbar. With a 3ph ballast box, you just back up to it, hook up, lift the 3ph and you're off.
Each to their own I guess, but sometimes the most common solution has a reason for it.
This will be something to keep in mind. ThanksI would recommend getting a quick hitch and putting it on the 3 point permanently. You could use the QH to attach many implements to it including a towing hitch on a drawbar. Here is an example of using the QH with barbell weights as ballast when moving rocks. View attachment 54526