Re: Re: City Boy buying first tractor needs advice

Posted by F14 on January 12, 2003 at 05:19:49 from (216.204.137.212):

In Reply to: Re: City Boy buying first tractor needs advice posted by Bob on January 11, 2003 at 19:31:17:

...If you plan to pull a 5 or 6-foot bush hog in heavy brush you'll need 45+ hp to get anything done...

I guess that depends on what you mean by "get anything done". It'll go a lot faster with 45 horsepower for sure, but I've mowed some pretty serious brush up to and including 2" alders and poplars with my 5' Woods and an 18 horse JD750 diesel. Slow going, but it WILL do it. Had one feller tell me it wasn't possible while leaning on the fender of my tractor and looking at a field I'd just done it to.

I suspect some of the difference is made up by the extra torque of a diesel over the evquivalent horsepower-rated gas engine.

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