tacticalturnip
Elite Member
If you're moving up and down the hill, as opposed to riding across it, you'll be better off no matter what machine you choose.
Take your time, look at all the options available to you; buying too small of a machine is one of the worst mistakes one can make, because you're going to correct the decision eventually, and it'll cost you more in the long run. I say this having gone through it.
Moved to a new property, it beat the hell out of my Deere D160, so I purchased a Cub Cadet XT3 GSX. That was a great garden tractor, but I realized what I needed was a "real" tractor. Two years later I sold the Cub Cadet and purchased a Deere 1025R. Well, suddenly I realized how useful a loader was, and a 3 point hitch, and how much I hated swapping over the mowing deck; not quite 3 years later I sold it and bought my Kioti. I was able to use the crazy market to sell the Deere for more than I paid, but I was lucky.
Had I thought it through I would have kept the D160 for mowing, and purchased something like my Kioti 2610 from the start. Don't get me wrong, this was a learning experience, but hindsight is 20/20 lol.
Take your time, look at all the options available to you; buying too small of a machine is one of the worst mistakes one can make, because you're going to correct the decision eventually, and it'll cost you more in the long run. I say this having gone through it.
Moved to a new property, it beat the hell out of my Deere D160, so I purchased a Cub Cadet XT3 GSX. That was a great garden tractor, but I realized what I needed was a "real" tractor. Two years later I sold the Cub Cadet and purchased a Deere 1025R. Well, suddenly I realized how useful a loader was, and a 3 point hitch, and how much I hated swapping over the mowing deck; not quite 3 years later I sold it and bought my Kioti. I was able to use the crazy market to sell the Deere for more than I paid, but I was lucky.
Had I thought it through I would have kept the D160 for mowing, and purchased something like my Kioti 2610 from the start. Don't get me wrong, this was a learning experience, but hindsight is 20/20 lol.
