Re: Need Advice on What Tractor/brand to Purchase?

Posted by paul on April 28, 2004 at 06:55:30 from (66.60.196.131):

In Reply to: Need Advice on What Tractor/brand to Purchase???? posted by D. MAC (St. Louis, MO) on April 28, 2004 at 06:20:07:

Color is not important to me, so I won't list any particular color.

If you do tilling or snow blowing or fine mowing, you want a real slow set of gears.

For snow blowing or baling you want a live pto - this makes most any pto job more fun, but for some operations it's really important.

For a loader, power steering really helps. Look for a tractor with a beefy front axle. You need live hydraulics - can fit a front pump on the motor in many cases.

If you look at small compact diesel engine tractors, you want front wheel assist. For older heavier tractors, they work fine with rear wheel only drive. The compacts are almost all to small to bale with, and they run out of traction & weight before they run out of hp for most bigger tasks.

So many implements are 3pt these days, sure is nice to have a standard cat1 3pt hitch.

For really small plots of land, 1/2 acre, a tiller works better than a plow. For larger plots, 5 acres or more, a plow & a disk work better. Generally.

Just kinda the features that I see as importabnt for different jobs.

For your current 1/2 acre needs the small Yanmar might be a better choice than a big 70hp monster, but not sure what your future plans are, you quickly run out of capibility with the little guy if you expand or wish to do more challenging operations. Log dragging is a particularly dangerous one in your list, a small tractor will quickly flip over if the log becomes caught on something. One person's log is another person's twig, so not sure what you need for that.

--->Paul

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