I personally own a Kubota LX, serious tractor. It's my daily driver around home. The other day, I was out driving around my backyard, doing some loader work, and bouncing around. When you look at these tractors, the ride of them can be pretty rough sometimes, because you're essentially sitting on top of an axle with not a real plus complicated seat underneath of yourself. I was getting bopped around and I was looking down here underneath the seat, thinking doesn't this deluxe tractor have a suspension seat on it. I'm used to seeing suspension, adjustment knobs right down here underneath the seat, in the middle. If you look at our zero term mowers, you're going to have big knobs down here or all the Cab tractors and their nice deluxe climate enclosed seats are going to have some pretty clear adjustment knobs down there. Sitting here looking at this tractor, I didn't see one. I was bouncing around my yard and just annoyed with myself. What the world? Why doesn't this have a suspension seat? Even went into the parts department. I walked past on a shelf in here, an air ride undercarriage for a long time. I even took that undercarriage home thinking, "I need to rectify this problem somehow and see if I can put this underneath my seat." Got a bunch of wrenches out and started turning them. When I got my seat lifted off, found it sure enough, there's a feature on this seat. There is a spring suspension that's just adjusted in a really unique way. For the decade or more that I've been around these machines, I never realized the adjustment was there.
When I went and removed that seat and started looking, I realized that in fact, there is a spring suspension underneath this LX series tractor. The same suspension is also used over on the standard L models and on the back of the machine, right underneath the seat, there's this T handle that comes out the back that you can turn in or out in order to adjust the weight sensitivity on that seat. Now I'm about 180 pounds. I would say that this seat from the factory was probably set for somebody that was about 250. It was so tight that I was bouncing up and down on the machine. It didn't give at all, but by coming back here and loosening this up again, I was able to get a little bit more ride out of that really smoothing out the ride of the tractor and making it overall more comfortable to operate.
A little embarrassed to actually admit this but I had no idea that this adjustment was back here. I figured, well, if I didn't know more than likely, a lot of you don't know either. If you got a standard L or an LX or a B 2650, 3350 series tractor, I'm not sure exactly how far this goes back. You're going to find the adjustment for your suspension undercarriage here at the back of the machine.
That's a little tip for those of you that own this series tractor, or maybe it'll help smooth that ride out for you a little bit, maybe in know, save your back or not knock your teeth out one of these times. You're going to find on these smaller tractors, say your BX and small B series machines there is no real suspension undercarriage. As we get up into the LX and standard L and bigger machines, there's going to be some suspension in there to help smooth the ride out for you. This one just has a unique place to make that adjustment.
