Drew you need to be careful working so hard on your new place then driving back to Pa and working again. We are not spring chickens anymore
how right you are. I could hardly get out of bed this morning my back hurt so much, was up at 4am taking pain killers. Not much fun...
getting an epidural on my lower back tomorrow; hope that helps, but of course, I need to cool it.
and how am I going to do that?...
I have my back belt cinched on tight...and onward I go.
Kyle, the 4wd was "only" about 1200 more I think, but I purposely avoided it to get lighter steering feel and less maintenance. Plus the land is like a pool table. and since I don't think this sandy soil under the grass will make mud (I drove my 8000 pound truck on it after five inches of rain in two days and zero denting...amazing.)
I could see no use for 4wd on that property. up here in PA, wouldn't buy one without it.
if I was going to use this for ground engaging/tilling or snowblower work, absolutely go with 4wd. But I have other equipment for that; this is just an admittedly archaic substitution for a zero turn mower. And boy that optional seat was cushy. It was raining constantly so I took one little trip out with the cart on it to pick up sticks, and got soaked on the way back. the rear tires are 26x12x12 Multitracs and they did just fine on the wet lawn. Not like I'm going to cut it like that anyway; I was just driving around.
I'm paying 150 a week to mow the place until I can get there, which seems like a lot but the poor guy is cleaning up a lot of unattended to areas, better him find the barbed wire than me. Lot of poison ivy and he is using roundup on it. so it's a lot more than just mowing, and the more he wants to do fine. I'll start mowing it the end of this month, and then hopefully this guy, who does wonderful work (a Washington NC fireman who does this on the side) can do the lawn when I take off on a trip.
