Re: I need help with tractor purchase. Mowing 7 ac

Posted by Charlie in NY on September 13, 2006 at 12:23:58 from (68.191.185.89):

In Reply to: Re: I need help with tractor purchase. Mowing 7 ac posted by AceandGary on September 13, 2006 at 04:51:47:

I'm with Leland on this. My property is 20 acres. I'd mow around the house and garage/lawn with a small riding mower - $200 to $300 for sale along the road most neighboorhoods - and, in your case, put the other 6-1/2 acres to meadow until the trees get established. I have 25 chickens in a 60 x 30 ft enclosure that they keep groomed (now mowing needed) and a couple garden spots of about 1/4 acre each. I rotary cut maybe two acres (which contains the two gardens) and the other 17 acres are my woodlot for the Royall furnace/water heater and "hunting preserve". A Ford 640 (similar to the "N" series) is well and plenty for all of my plowing, mowing, lifting, scraping and dragging
needs. Once the gardens are plowed and planted I cultivate with a Troy-Bilt Horse. I could get by a long time with that and a 14 Hp lawn tractor, but the 640 is just more fun; though it consumes about as much work as it saves for my needs. It goes places a lawn tractor (or conventional 4X4 on/off road vehicle) never could.

Lawn is sterile and no better than desert, IMHO.

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