MSRP, base build
Top of the BX80 range and the last step before the B series: 23.3 gross hp from a 61.1 cu in three-cylinder against the BX2380's 21.6 from 54.8 cu in. Frame, 6.6 gal tank, 6.2 gpm pump and 680 lb hitch all carry over unchanged from the cheaper models.
1.09 PTO hp per $1,000 of list price
As published by the maker
On the price: The maker's own published starting figure for the base build. A dealer adds a loader, a deck and freight on top.
Lift figures are the maker's and are quoted at whichever point the maker chose; the about page explains why two loaders with the same number do not lift the same pallet.
Comes with
From owner discussion and long-term write-ups
Gathered from owner reports
Owners treat the BX2680 as the sub-compact you buy when snow is the real job. It turns up repeatedly on long gravel drives with a front blower, a heated cab and a rear blade, on semi-commercial snow routes, and in the White Mountains clearing two feet with an oversized three-point blower and a pusher box. The extra power over the BX2380 is specifically what owners point to for blowing, and the single upgrade they credit most is filled rear tires - beet juice is described as a complete game changer for climbing inclines with snow in front and for keeping the back end from stepping out sideways.
In summer it is a capable little machine well past what its size suggests. Owners have dragged a 72-inch land plane to regravel roads, run a six-foot rotary cutter on hilly ground, and pulled a 2,680 lb trailer with the three point. The limits are the loader and the frame. Usable lift is around 600 lb, and owners note that a grapple weighing 200 lb comes straight off that, leaving about 400 lb for what you are actually picking up - one owner moves one log at a time with forks and calls his uncle with a B-series for anything faster. Stability is the other limit and the reports are pointed: owners describe going up on three wheels crossing a tree root, nearly flipping on wooded slopes with the tires already filled, and finding ditches genuinely unstable. Wheel spacers help, and adding a cab gives some of that gain straight back.
The complaints that cluster are about build and dealers rather than design. Owners report a mower deck bracket welded wrong so the deck kept detaching on one side, a deck shell welding fault that stopped the blades and stalled the tractor, sun-damaged front tires on a machine with under ten hours, and a cracked weld on the loader stand - and in two of those cases the dealer initially insisted nothing was wrong or that the owner had caused it. The machine is also tightly packaged: one long-term owner rerouted his own fuel line because the filter clearance was so tight, and says the tank cannot be cleaned without either twelve hours of his own labour or six of a mechanic's.
Summarised from public owner discussion, not from testing. Nothing here was measured by this site, and a report that recurs is not the same as a defect rate.
Cross-shopped against
Same brand or same size, nearest in price
Kubota
Five more horsepower than the BX1880 for about $3,800 more, on the identical BX80 chassis, LA344 loader and drive-over deck. That single step is the whole BX buying decision, and 21.6 hp is where most of the volume lands.
Spec sheet & owner notes
Kubota
Cheapest diesel tractor Kubota sells in the US at $12,798 base, and the 16.6 hp D722 is the compromise that buys that number. It mows an acre or two and moves light loads; it is not the one to buy if a loader bucket will be full most days.
Spec sheet & owner notes
Kubota
A factory backhoe is the entire point, and it is why the MSRP sits about $11,400 above a BX2380 running the same 21.6 hp engine. The BT603 hoe and LA340 loader ship as one Kubota-built package rather than a dealer-fitted afterthought.
Spec sheet & owner notes