Buying Advice 2720 or 3720

[Martian]

Post pictures and videos please! I am looking into a zero turn as well as a 2520 or 2720, so the more information the better!

I would get a 2720. I have a 3120 and the 2720 is the same HP just a smaller frame. Personally I think the 3120 is to big of a frame for the HP.

 

[watersniper]

I will DEFINATELY post pics and YouTube video. I suspect I might be hand shoveling my 650' drive for half the winter though.... Word from the dealer last week was items were on order.

Your pal,

Debbie Downer

 

[Martian]

I will DEFINATELY post pics and YouTube video. I suspect I might be hand shoveling my 650' drive for half the winter though.... Word from the dealer last week was items were on order.

Your pal,

Debbie Downer

Wow. How long are they saying? You should ask them to give you some sort of a loaner, at least a snowblower, sure they would lend you a used something during the wait. Talk about long hard back breaking work. Especially for a nice deep wet snow.

 

[watersniper]

They won't take any money until the items are in. Thus I have a purchase agreement but no loan documents signed or money put down yet. I guess in the meantime I am saving money and I have built in workouts ahead! Heck I need to lose a few LBS anyway.

 

[JDTank]

They won't take any money until the items are in. Thus I have a purchase agreement but no loan documents signed or money put down yet. I guess in the meantime I am saving money and I have built in workouts ahead! Heck I need to lose a few LBS anyway.

Still, why does one buy a tractor, to use IT instead of your body. I believe there is a tool for EVERYTHING, you just have to look for it, and you will find a tool with a purpose. If it can be done with a tool or piece of equipment over back breaking labor, I am all for it. That is exactly why I want my 2520, not just save my back, but save time as well.

****, when I get mine, I plan on getting 2 of the biggest utility carts John Deere has (17P isn't it?) and building a extension off the first cart to hook up a second to it, road train on the lawn! I'll get all that pile moved in one trip!

 

[Martian]

Still, why does one buy a tractor, to use IT instead of your body. I believe there is a tool for EVERYTHING, you just have to look for it, and you will find a tool with a purpose. If it can be done with a tool or piece of equipment over back breaking labor, I am all for it. That is exactly why I want my 2520, not just save my back, but save time as well.

****, when I get mine, I plan on getting 2 of the biggest utility carts John Deere has (17P isn't it?) and building a extension off the first cart to hook up a second to it, road train on the lawn! I'll get all that pile moved in one trip!

He has it on order and won't be here until half way through winter. Since he hasn't paid for it until its in there's no deal for a loaner. The reason he's hand shoveling is because he wont have his tractor.

I will DEFINATELY post pics and YouTube video. I suspect I might be hand shoveling my 650' drive for half the winter though.... Word from the dealer last week was items were on order.

Your pal,

Debbie Downer

 

[BethesdaEC]

Still, why does one buy a tractor, to use IT instead of your body. I believe there is a tool for EVERYTHING, you just have to look for it, and you will find a tool with a purpose. If it can be done with a tool or piece of equipment over back breaking labor, I am all for it. That is exactly why I want my 2520, not just save my back, but save time as well.

****, when I get mine, I plan on getting 2 of the biggest utility carts John Deere has (17P isn't it?) and building a extension off the first cart to hook up a second to it, road train on the lawn! I'll get all that pile moved in one trip!

Don't waste your time or money on a cart. By the time you fill it with the tractor, wrestle it onto the tow bar, back it up to the dump pile and then wrestle the dump mechanism you could have made two extra runs with the bucket. Of course it never dumps out on the first try so you got to move forward because the first half of the pile is preventing the rest from coming out. Now you have this long low pile that needs to be cleaned up so you use the loader to clean it up and at this point you could have made another two runs. I just moved an old stump dump next to the house down to the bottom of the property, I must have made 70 to a 100 runs to move it all at about 8 minutes a run I would have killed myself after the first couple of runs if I did it with a cart.

 

[Gizmo2]

Don't waste your time or money on a cart. By the time you fill it with the tractor, wrestle it onto the tow bar, back it up to the dump pile and then wrestle the dump mechanism you could have made two extra runs with the bucket. Of course it never dumps out on the first try so you got to move forward because the first half of the pile is preventing the rest from coming out. Now you have this long low pile that needs to be cleaned up so you use the loader to clean it up and at this point you could have made another two runs. I just moved an old stump dump next to the house down to the bottom of the property, I must have made 70 to a 100 runs to move it all at about 8 minutes a run I would have killed myself after the first couple of runs if I did it with a cart.

Bought our JD650, FEL/BH in 1988. Sold all the lawn carts and trailers we used behind our 2 garden tractors in 1989. Just sayin!

 

[BethesdaEC]

Bought our JD650, FEL/BH in 1988. Sold all the lawn carts and trailers we used behind our 2 garden tractors in 1989. Just sayin!

I sold my lawn cart a couple of months ago, it hadn't moved since I bought the tractor.

 

[JDTank]

He has it on order and won't be here until half way through winter. Since he hasn't paid for it until its in there's no deal for a loaner. The reason he's hand shoveling is because he wont have his tractor.

I know that, I was just saying in general, that's what anyone buys one for. I'm not giving him the gears for shoveling.

As far as the utility carts go, I know for sure they will serve 1 good purpose. When we buy bags of horse bedding, we have to carry them from the house to the barn, which is about 500 feet one way. 50 bags at 40 lbs a bag and your tired pretty quick! With a cart I could load some in there and some in the bucket, be done in 2 trips!

 

[PioneerMan]

Or you could try and get that bedding on pallets and get forks! )

 

[BethesdaEC]

I know that, I was just saying in general, that's what anyone buys one for. I'm not giving him the gears for shoveling.

As far as the utility carts go, I know for sure they will serve 1 good purpose. When we buy bags of horse bedding, we have to carry them from the house to the barn, which is about 500 feet one way. 50 bags at 40 lbs a bag and your tired pretty quick! With a cart I could load some in there and some in the bucket, be done in 2 trips!

Get pallet forks, the 2520 will carry 1000 lbs comfortably, that is two trips and you can throw the pallets in the pickup that way you just scoop them out of the pickup. Beats loading into a cart and then unloading at the barn. Look at the Artillian forks, they are light and strong and leave more lifting capacity for payload.

 

[Martian]

Get pallet forks, the 2520 will carry 1000 lbs comfortably, that is two trips and you can throw the pallets in the pickup that way you just scoop them out of the pickup. Beats loading into a cart and then unloading at the barn. Look at the Artillian forks, they are light and strong and leave more lifting capacity for payload.

Completely agree. Pallet forks are a lot more versatile. Only reason to ever get a utility trailer is if you have a lawn tractor w/o a fel. Can do a lot more and a lot easier with forks.

 

[JDTank]

The pickup is only a half ton, no way in **** would I put a 2,000 lb skid into a half ton pickup truck, that is careless and stupid.

That only leaves one option, we have to do 2 trips when we get these bags, 25 bags per trip. When we get home with them, sure I could put them on a pallet to get to the barn, but they have to be unloaded at the other end and carried inside anyways, so really, a cart works just as well.

 

[jenkinsph]

The pickup is only a half ton, no way in **** would I put a 2,000 lb skid into a half ton pickup truck, that is careless and stupid.

That only leaves one option, we have to do 2 trips when we get these bags, 25 bags per trip. When we get home with them, sure I could put them on a pallet to get to the barn, but they have to be unloaded at the other end and carried inside anyways, so really, a cart works just as well.

Depends on the 1/2 ton truck you have, some are rated 3,000 lbs. + by the manufacturer.

Curious why you can't drive the truck to the barn and unload?

 

[BethesdaEC]

The pickup is only a half ton, no way in **** would I put a 2,000 lb skid into a half ton pickup truck, that is careless and stupid.

That only leaves one option, we have to do 2 trips when we get these bags, 25 bags per trip. When we get home with them, sure I could put them on a pallet to get to the barn, but they have to be unloaded at the other end and carried inside anyways, so really, a cart works just as well.

1/2 ton pickups haven't had a 1/2 rating since the 80's. A modern F150 will typically be rated for 2000 to 3000 lbs. As for the carts, you really seem to be set on getting them, we are just trying to impart some wisdom and prevent you from spending money on an awkward solution when your money would be spent towards purchasing pallet forks. I had a cart from my lawn tractor before my 2520 and once I purchased the 2520 I never used it again. I finally got tired of it taking up space and sold it on craigslist.

Go through the logistics of moving a load with the trailer, first you need to drop your rear ballast box or implement so you can tow it with your draw bar. Now you can't safely use your loader because you don't have a counterweight. If you want to use your loader anyways to load the trailer you will need unhook the trailer, fill it and attempt to reconnect the trailer which is going to be very heavy. Now stay away from the hills because you rear tires are going to be very light.

 

[Martian]

1/2 ton pickups haven't had a 1/2 rating since the 80's. A modern F150 will typically be rated for 2000 to 3000 lbs. As for the carts, you really seem to be set on getting them, we are just trying to impart some wisdom and prevent you from spending money on an awkward solution when your money would be spent towards purchasing pallet forks. I had a cart from my lawn tractor before my 2520 and once I purchased the 2520 I never used it again. I finally got tired of it taking up space and sold it on craigslist.

Go through the logistics of moving a load with the trailer, first you need to drop your rear ballast box or implement so you can tow it with your draw bar. Now you can't safely use your loader because you don't have a counterweight. If you want to use your loader anyways to load the trailer you will need unhook the trailer, fill it and attempt to reconnect the trailer which is going to be very heavy. Now stay away from the hills because you rear tires are going to be very light.

Right on. Were not saying your way is wrong. It will work. There's just a lot of easier more practical ways to do it.

 

[JDTank]

Oh don't get me wrong I completely understand there are better ways.

The road that leads to our barn is not so much a road as it is a trail. Since we get 6 months of rain here, the ground out to our barn is very soft all year round. It's a fight to get out there and back on the best of days, 4X4 or not. It's number 1 on the project list. It is about 700 feet long and I intend to do it the right way so we will never have a problem again. I am going to have the ground prepped for asphalt and pave it. That way we will never have to worry about it again.

Plus, if I have it paved, it gives me an excuse to buy a power broom for the front of the tractor.

I can see the cart being useless if a tractor is around for sure. I guess I find the idea so good right now because I don't have one yet! :laughing:

 

[jenkinsph]

I think anyone interested in homesteading, small farm and or raising some animals is well served with a tractor and a 3/4 ton pickup.... very useful.

 

[JDTank]

I think anyone interested in homesteading, small farm and or raising some animals is well served with a tractor and a 3/4 ton pickup.... very useful.

Completely agree.

I just couldn't afford to purchase a 3/4 ton this time around, but the next one will definitely be a 3/4 ton diesel.