New kubota tractor advice

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thunder86

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Southern Indiana
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Bobcat ct4045
I currently have a b2601, r4 tires and I'm really disappointed with it. Been an ongoing issue. I have a tiller, brushhog, boxblade with it.
Kubota now does 84 months on the L series and I'm considering getting the L3901 with R1 tires and grapple.
I'll include some pictures of my projects because I need help on which grapple and considerations on a disc harrow. Projects are clearing areas for food plots in woods, some unworkable hillsides that cannot be tilled will go into native shrubs. Small trees I want to grapple the roots out of the ground. I want to move trees/brush piles around that I take chainsaw too. I also want to grapple old stumps out of ground if possible. I need to grapple larger rocks put of ground.
My current tractor gets hung up pulling a box blade on my old logging trail I wanting to till up. It gets stuck while moving brush piles around slides around causing me to get stuck against tree or stumps. I want something when I hit the gas it goes straight and doesn't slide.
Disc considerations. I feel I have to have a disc because I have a 10 acre open fallow field I want switchgrass in and it needs to be either burned or disc every few years to keep it in switchgrass. I also want to disc it in the winter to enhance native forbs. My current tractor is perfectly fine for this field but it's all it could maintain. I want a disc I don't have to add weight too. If I did get the disc could I also trade in my tiller for extra cash help? 90% of this field hasn't been worked in 10+ years I think. Would I be extremely disappointed getting rid of my tiller?
How does a disc hold up to rocks and roots i miss on the woods I'm clearing? I had about an acre dozer off and there's still some roots/sticks lots of rocks. I understand pick them up but your always gonna miss something. How well will a disc hold up?
 
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Big rocks I'd like to grapple out of the ground. My current tractor won't get these out even with a tooth bar.
 

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What size rocks can a disc hold up to? Some of my pictures are not loading but this is an acre I had dozed off and I ran my tiller across it at the shallow most setting and 5 bolts broke out of it. Would a disc be more forgiving?
 

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Some of these smaller trees I'd expect to be able to grapple them out by the roots. I don't think I got pictures of the old stumps.
 

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This is an idea of what I was trying to pick up and move with my b2601 which was unable to pick it up and was sliding, back end coming off the ground, got stuck on the stump whiling sliding. Getting old.
 

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You could get a 100hp tractor but it’ll be pointless without leverage and weight is a big factor.
 
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You could get a 100hp tractor but it’ll be pointless without leverage and weight is a big factor.
What size do recommend? The L series is 1,000 pounds heavy than what I'm used to.
 
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A box blade is capable of anchoring practically any sized tractor if it catches large roots of boulders. A larger machine will have greater fel capacity, but I have yet to see a loader that couldn't be over loaded.
R4's do not excel in mud. Sounds like R1's would keep you from sliding around.
I guess my point is that a larger L series tractor has limitations also, and you should either take smaller bites at your tasks or buy larger and work within the machine's capability.
 
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maybe logging chains are the way to go, i feel like you need a dozer more then a tractor from the photo's
 
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" I want something when I hit the gas it goes straight and doesn't slide."

Hire or rent dozer to do the rough work and put the finishing touches on the land with tractor you have now,it might be cheaper in the long run.
 

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