If you can do without the HST it opens a lot of possibilities. I don't think a gear tractor is that hard to get used to, esp given some instruction on it. A 4WD JD 790 (27hp) with FEL new would be around 11k-12k or so and has the ground clearance you want.
Big lot, little tractor??
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garbageman
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No, you spent more, alot more. Maybe 23K /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
RobertN
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To really see the difference in loader visibility, jump on a skid steer for a few minutes. When I get back on my Kubota I really notice how much I lean to look at the sides so I can see that bucket /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
My old('87 era) B8200 is square hood, with sqaure frame loader aint too bad to work with, but a slope hood would be nice. Too bad those "new" Farmall's don't have the offset culitvision like the A-B-Cub series; then you could see the bucket /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
My old('87 era) B8200 is square hood, with sqaure frame loader aint too bad to work with, but a slope hood would be nice. Too bad those "new" Farmall's don't have the offset culitvision like the A-B-Cub series; then you could see the bucket /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
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Visibility is a very nice and important feature. It is more comfortable for the operator if you aren't straining your neck all day watching the FEL. It is also safer if you can see everything without obstructions.
Here's a link to a video of what it looks like from the operator's seat of a Power Trac PT425 while changing from the palllet forks to the small bucket with teeth. The visibility is outstanding, compared to a tractor with a hood out front. It's kind of grainy, but it gets the point across. The video is in windows media format and is about 360K in size.
(On a side note, that's a complete change of implements in 28 seconds, while holding a video camera in my right hand and operating everything with my left hand. That includes the steering wheel, the loader joystick and quick attach lever, which are both on the right side of the steering wheel, and never getting out of the operator's seat. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif )
Here's a link to a video of what it looks like from the operator's seat of a Power Trac PT425 while changing from the palllet forks to the small bucket with teeth. The visibility is outstanding, compared to a tractor with a hood out front. It's kind of grainy, but it gets the point across. The video is in windows media format and is about 360K in size.
(On a side note, that's a complete change of implements in 28 seconds, while holding a video camera in my right hand and operating everything with my left hand. That includes the steering wheel, the loader joystick and quick attach lever, which are both on the right side of the steering wheel, and never getting out of the operator's seat. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif )
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( (On a side note, that's a complete change of implements in 28 seconds, while holding a video camera in my right hand and operating everything with my left hand. That includes the steering wheel, the loader joystick and quick attach lever, which are both on the right side of the steering wheel, and never getting out of the operator's seat. )
)</font> MossRoad, please go directly to the safety forum and post a message on how not to video tape while using your PT so that others may learn from your potential mistake! I can see it now...FLASH...MossRoad kills pet/wife/child/house/garage/etc/ because he was looking through a video camera and operating with one hand. LOL. Glad none of that REALLY happened. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif John
)</font> MossRoad, please go directly to the safety forum and post a message on how not to video tape while using your PT so that others may learn from your potential mistake! I can see it now...FLASH...MossRoad kills pet/wife/child/house/garage/etc/ because he was looking through a video camera and operating with one hand. LOL. Glad none of that REALLY happened. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif John
Boone
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I have 30 acres and use a B7500 Kubota.
For hogging check out a picture I had posted. The field on the right looked like the left brush side before brush hogging. The trail to the pasture looked like the rest of the woods.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forumfiles/261143-100-0006_IMG_3.JPG
For hogging check out a picture I had posted. The field on the right looked like the left brush side before brush hogging. The trail to the pasture looked like the rest of the woods.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forumfiles/261143-100-0006_IMG_3.JPG
Boone
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Here is a picture of the B7500 skidding a log up the hill on my place.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forumfiles/265005-uphill%20skidding.jpg
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forumfiles/265005-uphill%20skidding.jpg
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Yes, I'm guilty, guilty, guilty!!! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Well, I think I've come to the conculsion that..
1. For what I want.. I cant afford new. I would want it big enough to haul some good size trees, but convenient enough for my wife to drive. I really think that I'm into the 20k neighborhood. Hard to justfiy
2. As for inexpensive tractors, they are gear drive, and used farm tractors. That is fine.. I can wait till the time is right, and get my wood when the conditions are right.
3. The wife is gonna have to suck it up and drive the gear transmission when she NEEDS to get out of the drive.
4. If I have a big, diesel burning machine... I will have to fight off my dad and brother to stay on it. Either of them would come over on a snowy day and plow my driveway.
Looks like a 6 to 10k farm tractor for me... maybe a little more. All kinds of cheap horsepower.. not so clean and shiny that I would be worried about beating it out through the brush. That will give me plenty of power to run any kind of attachment I will ever use.
Can't wait to close the deal on the land.. and have a EXCUSE to start tractor shopping. Year 1 is just going to be cleaning up blow downs and deadfalls. Think I can do all of that with my dad's artic cat 500.
I'll have lots of fun looking for the best buy on a used farm machine.
Anyone think I'm being foolish?
JP
1. For what I want.. I cant afford new. I would want it big enough to haul some good size trees, but convenient enough for my wife to drive. I really think that I'm into the 20k neighborhood. Hard to justfiy
2. As for inexpensive tractors, they are gear drive, and used farm tractors. That is fine.. I can wait till the time is right, and get my wood when the conditions are right.
3. The wife is gonna have to suck it up and drive the gear transmission when she NEEDS to get out of the drive.
4. If I have a big, diesel burning machine... I will have to fight off my dad and brother to stay on it. Either of them would come over on a snowy day and plow my driveway.
Looks like a 6 to 10k farm tractor for me... maybe a little more. All kinds of cheap horsepower.. not so clean and shiny that I would be worried about beating it out through the brush. That will give me plenty of power to run any kind of attachment I will ever use.
Can't wait to close the deal on the land.. and have a EXCUSE to start tractor shopping. Year 1 is just going to be cleaning up blow downs and deadfalls. Think I can do all of that with my dad's artic cat 500.
I'll have lots of fun looking for the best buy on a used farm machine.
Anyone think I'm being foolish?
JP
Bird
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Anyone think I'm being foolish? )</font>
Not at all.
Not at all.
fishman
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A 7800 with FEL and box blade should come in at about $15k plus tax. Not much more than what you are talking about and you get new with hydro. Forget the backhoe, forget the midmount mower (you've got your Cub), get an inexpensive boxblade and bushhog at Tractor Supply and be happy. Wife happy too, and that is also very important. Who knows, if you play this right (Honey, I bought this new tractor so that you could use it ...) you might be able to get some more toys down the road. Doesn't sound like you have much time to tinker with machinery and a tractor that is ready to "fart around" whenever you are is really, really nice.
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<font color="blue"> Anyone think I'm being foolish? </font>
Nope. Do what fits your budget best.
Nope. Do what fits your budget best.
Fishman-
Well.. I used up my "I got this tractor so you could use it card" with the Cub!!
I fly a corportate jet for a living. I am gone one week, then home a week. I like tinkering. No kids, just two dogs.
I just think that 10k for a used tractor, and 5k in maintenance reserve and implements (lots of implements) would allow me to get more use out of the tractor. The not shiny and new factor would allow me to feel better about USING it.
I realize that a larger farm tractor is not going to be as convenient for getting in and around the woods.. But I'm not looking to use it to mow the lawn, or snowblow around the house.. I've got the cub for that.
This year was real mild for snow. My wife only works at home now (a professional photographer) She doesn't HAVE to get out of the driveway by 8am like before.
I think she will use it very little.
With the price difference.. I could even have a grand sitting aside for a occasional small excavator rental or other (better and easier to hire out) kind of jobs.
Anyone think a two wheel drive with good chains and weights wouldnt work for this?
A dumb question.. Do all farm tractors have either a "posi traction" type rear end? Or a pedal type differential lock? Or do you have to worry about one wheel only getting the power?
Thanks
JP
Well.. I used up my "I got this tractor so you could use it card" with the Cub!!
I fly a corportate jet for a living. I am gone one week, then home a week. I like tinkering. No kids, just two dogs.
I just think that 10k for a used tractor, and 5k in maintenance reserve and implements (lots of implements) would allow me to get more use out of the tractor. The not shiny and new factor would allow me to feel better about USING it.
I realize that a larger farm tractor is not going to be as convenient for getting in and around the woods.. But I'm not looking to use it to mow the lawn, or snowblow around the house.. I've got the cub for that.
This year was real mild for snow. My wife only works at home now (a professional photographer) She doesn't HAVE to get out of the driveway by 8am like before.
I think she will use it very little.
With the price difference.. I could even have a grand sitting aside for a occasional small excavator rental or other (better and easier to hire out) kind of jobs.
Anyone think a two wheel drive with good chains and weights wouldnt work for this?
A dumb question.. Do all farm tractors have either a "posi traction" type rear end? Or a pedal type differential lock? Or do you have to worry about one wheel only getting the power?
Thanks
JP
Bird
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Do all farm tractors have either a "posi traction" type rear end? Or a pedal type differential lock? )</font>
Well, sort of. I have seen a positraction type, but if I'm not mistaken, they're pretty rare. And many do not have a differential lock, as such, however they nearly all, if not all, have separate pedals for right and left brake, so if one wheel spins, you can step on the brake for that one wheel in order to force the power to the other wheel.
Well, sort of. I have seen a positraction type, but if I'm not mistaken, they're pretty rare. And many do not have a differential lock, as such, however they nearly all, if not all, have separate pedals for right and left brake, so if one wheel spins, you can step on the brake for that one wheel in order to force the power to the other wheel.
Bird-
Thanks.. I never really thought of that.
Like I said before.. I was in my twentys when my dad got rid of the farm machinery. I was flying around as the captain of a million plus dollar airplane.. But couldn't be trusted with the 40HP AC farm tractor!!
Now I realize he was just hogging all the seat time!!
Looking forward to buying an old beast to play on.
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JP
Thanks.. I never really thought of that.
Like I said before.. I was in my twentys when my dad got rid of the farm machinery. I was flying around as the captain of a million plus dollar airplane.. But couldn't be trusted with the 40HP AC farm tractor!!
Now I realize he was just hogging all the seat time!!
Looking forward to buying an old beast to play on.
/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
JP
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