TODAYS SEAT TIME

[Toddxyz]

J - for? If you mean model its a Mahindra 2126.

If you mean purpose its because I am nearing retirement and mostly just want one. I only have about 1 acre of property, just a lawn really. But the lawn is pretty poor and I am contemplating fill and drag, box blading, or maybe even tilling. Plus I have done everything basically with a shovel to this point - clearing snow, small lawn projects, fixing culvert under my driveway, etc. My back is not what it used to be.

 

[LouNY]

Enjoy and have a bit of fun, hydrostatic transmissions are noisy whinny things, but they are easy to operate and learn to use.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Congrats on your first tractor !!

gg

 

[Jstpssng]

J - for? If you mean model its a Mahindra 2126

I was asking what tractor you had bought.
Purpose will evolve as you learn to use it; with a good counterweight, that'll lift more than you ever can.
Did you get a loader? If so I suggest at least one bucket hook but preferably 2, one mounted above each loader arm.

 

[Toddxyz]

Yeah, got the loader for sure. Put on a couple of bucket hooks yesterday mounted above the arms.

 

[grsthegreat]

Ive owned both, love the HST way more than the old stick. What noise.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Ive owned both, love the HST way more than the old stick. What noise.

You know, all the whining noise you USED TO HEAR before it made you go deaf. ha ha ha

SR

 

[Thomas]

Congrats on the new investment Your bones and muscles will be thanking you in years to come.

 

[Toddxyz]

The good thing about doing everything with picks and shovels and wheel barrows is that it is some serious exercise. I didn't really mind it that much except it took forever to get anything done and at my age its getting increasing harder to do, kind of dinged my back up 2 times already this year.

I am also a runner and mountain biker and everybody wants me to get an e-bike. But I am trying to hold off on that too for as long as I can. Hoping to make it to 70 before caving in and getting a power assist bike. I guess my thinking here is ultimately to put off the day its just going to be in a wheelchair. I see way too many people much younger than me with serious health issues most of which were completely avoidable.

Sorry for the PSA on health and exercise, looks like I am hijacking this thread a bit. Future posts will be more on topic. But yeah, the tractor is meant to take some of the wear and tear off my body.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

4.0 so far in the 5088 running the chisel plow. Probably do another 6.0 with the disc