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I'm buying a Kubota L3301 HST. W an LA 525 Loader/66" Quick Disconnect bucket, 4 Position valve and 3 point hitch. Decided on Ag tires - loaded with citrate - 23,400 for that.
Adding an engine block heater for the Northeast, a rear work light. Also adding Quick Disconnect forks for the front (heat with wood and pellets.. have a small farm growing here also.. and I can see me stabbing and grabbing/curling up brush with the pallet forks.
Adding a LandPride RCR1260 60" Rotary cutter for brush hogging in the back fields.
Adding a third function valve and Frostbite Grapple for the front.
I really was looking at doing a backhoe with thumb on back but sales guy really talked me out of it - I was looking to use it to hold trees/logs while I buck them up for firewood, drag felled trees around, dig up some boulders in the fields, do some stone wall maintenance on the property, etc. But he said I'd use it a couple times or few times an then want to sell it and for that price, I could rent a mini excavator every year for a couple weekends for 8 years and still not quite be even.
An attachment later will be a plow or a tiller as we learn more what we want to do with gardening after the first year here. And I'll be buying a snowblower attachment when they start getting manufactured again this summer.
Anybody think I'm going crazy here or missing anything?
Our property is about 22 Acres. 12 of those are pasture/field that haven't really had animals on them for about 35 years so a lot of brush hogging to do each year at first here. We have about 1 acre of what I would consider finish grass - and the Husqvarna lawn tractor will do there. Then the rest is woods and some wet woods/swampy areas. Property seems to really stay wet in a few spots - and soft.
We live here but we are also doing some small "hobby" farming on the side. We have a few sheep right now and their lambs, will be expanding that. Will be adding a couple beef critters over time and have about 100 chickens due to arrive fairly soon. I plan on harvesting firewood from the property and woods here and this summer's big chore is going to be cutting a lot of trees and brush down along the stone wall for the fence installer who is coming to put up a perimeter fencing around 10ish acres. Kids are still small enough that they aren't going to be holding any logs up and helping me move them around to saw bucks. I work full time in IT - and wanted to make processing firewood easier on my time (and back) and the stone wall needs some maintenance in spots, and I may give the grapple a try at some smaller logs. Plus we have a stream running through the far back woods and I'd like to clear some paths out to it and build a log bridge over it (not big at all, but just big enough to need a log bridge when the water is high in spring/late winter).
Did the Ag tires because I plan on entering the fields through gates we are putting into the fenceline along the road so I won't need to worry about hurting a finished lawn. Plus some of those mucky spots scare me a bit and the Ags give me a little more confidence. Plus I plan on having to shovel (with FEL) and Snowblow out to the chicken coop and the winter barn for the sheep and cows for feeding and watering - not terribly far distances and fairly flat, but like the idea of having the Ags for traction.
I was originally just doing the pallet forks - but at the last minute I asked them to add the third function valve and grapple - mostly because I feel like I'll want both eventually and I'd rather not pay to trailer it back to them to install the valve later (I'm not the most mechanically inclined person out there yet).
Also having them weld corner chain hooks on the bucket for some log and brush work and plan on throwing a shackle on the draw bar for dragging where needed.
And for the tilling vs plowing - I imagine us someday putting gardens in over about an acre and maybe planting a dozen fruit trees over the next couple years and a couple dozen fruit bushes. Nothing crazy.
Adding an engine block heater for the Northeast, a rear work light. Also adding Quick Disconnect forks for the front (heat with wood and pellets.. have a small farm growing here also.. and I can see me stabbing and grabbing/curling up brush with the pallet forks.
Adding a LandPride RCR1260 60" Rotary cutter for brush hogging in the back fields.
Adding a third function valve and Frostbite Grapple for the front.
I really was looking at doing a backhoe with thumb on back but sales guy really talked me out of it - I was looking to use it to hold trees/logs while I buck them up for firewood, drag felled trees around, dig up some boulders in the fields, do some stone wall maintenance on the property, etc. But he said I'd use it a couple times or few times an then want to sell it and for that price, I could rent a mini excavator every year for a couple weekends for 8 years and still not quite be even.
An attachment later will be a plow or a tiller as we learn more what we want to do with gardening after the first year here. And I'll be buying a snowblower attachment when they start getting manufactured again this summer.
Anybody think I'm going crazy here or missing anything?
Our property is about 22 Acres. 12 of those are pasture/field that haven't really had animals on them for about 35 years so a lot of brush hogging to do each year at first here. We have about 1 acre of what I would consider finish grass - and the Husqvarna lawn tractor will do there. Then the rest is woods and some wet woods/swampy areas. Property seems to really stay wet in a few spots - and soft.
We live here but we are also doing some small "hobby" farming on the side. We have a few sheep right now and their lambs, will be expanding that. Will be adding a couple beef critters over time and have about 100 chickens due to arrive fairly soon. I plan on harvesting firewood from the property and woods here and this summer's big chore is going to be cutting a lot of trees and brush down along the stone wall for the fence installer who is coming to put up a perimeter fencing around 10ish acres. Kids are still small enough that they aren't going to be holding any logs up and helping me move them around to saw bucks. I work full time in IT - and wanted to make processing firewood easier on my time (and back) and the stone wall needs some maintenance in spots, and I may give the grapple a try at some smaller logs. Plus we have a stream running through the far back woods and I'd like to clear some paths out to it and build a log bridge over it (not big at all, but just big enough to need a log bridge when the water is high in spring/late winter).
Did the Ag tires because I plan on entering the fields through gates we are putting into the fenceline along the road so I won't need to worry about hurting a finished lawn. Plus some of those mucky spots scare me a bit and the Ags give me a little more confidence. Plus I plan on having to shovel (with FEL) and Snowblow out to the chicken coop and the winter barn for the sheep and cows for feeding and watering - not terribly far distances and fairly flat, but like the idea of having the Ags for traction.
I was originally just doing the pallet forks - but at the last minute I asked them to add the third function valve and grapple - mostly because I feel like I'll want both eventually and I'd rather not pay to trailer it back to them to install the valve later (I'm not the most mechanically inclined person out there yet).
Also having them weld corner chain hooks on the bucket for some log and brush work and plan on throwing a shackle on the draw bar for dragging where needed.
And for the tilling vs plowing - I imagine us someday putting gardens in over about an acre and maybe planting a dozen fruit trees over the next couple years and a couple dozen fruit bushes. Nothing crazy.
