Another vote for a foot-shift Honda.

I go around every field everyday from early March till July and ride every field levee every other day. And do all that again while growing the second rice crop. I would have the bottom part of the frame gone in about 3yrs. Frame completely gone in about 6yrs. It’s not as bad now that we are only planting 1/3 of what we were planting a couple years ago. I was tending to 1500ac if rice then. Only 600ac now.

yall ever looked into installing solid aluminum skid plates they sell whole pans that protect the entire underside seems like it would be cheaper/easier to replace the plate every so often instead of swapping frames

The newer Honda’s come with a heavy plastic skid plate under them. That’s the first thing I removed because lots of mud,sticks and grass gets held up in there and there is no way to wash it out. It rusts out all the metal parts against the skid plate. Once you remove the skid plate and the mud and debris can fall thru. I have cut out worn fram and welded on solid cold roll on an old bike. You ain’t waring that out.

so its the rust that gets them not actually being scuffed up worn out just rusting out I could see that driving around in a rice patty

No Sir. When we bought the 420s, they came with the skid plate. From talking to other farmers that had them prior to us, they told us about the rusting issues. That’s why we remove the skid plate. The older models have exposed frames under the engine which is where we wear them out from the constant travel around and thru the fields.

Sounds like y'all need to cut some grass every once in a while. 😃

Don’t be coming up in here making sense.
Most of the fields I just have enough room to pass with the 4 wheeler. I do try to keep it sprayed but I found out gly causes cancer so now I’m screwed.

Of course lol

Why not mount some strips of HDPE board. Wouldn’t hold mud and would protect the frame.

Gots to watch out for that gly

Thanks for all the advice, guys. I appreciate it.

Honda an i dont even think there is a decently close second anymore..manual foot shift an ride it till the wheels fall off..which will be awhile..also im 25 an i take good care of my stuff cause i cant afford to get anothern if i break what i got😁

Foot shift Honda



You were 8-9 yrs old when I joined this site. Lol

I was 9😁

I am still using one that is Older than you are
1986 Honda Big Red 250
It only has 3 wheels though

Heyyy😀We had a couple 3 wheelers pass through when i was a little feller...i still remember some of my family huntin withem before they got 4 wheelers. They was easy to flip if you got a little foolish onem😁