I would expect that as you continue to grow, you will need to be good at fitting the right tool to the right job. Bigger is sometimes better, but tends to eat more fuel and cost you more money.
Have fun with the 'new' tractor. Hope it pays for itself.
Thanks.
In my line of farming, and once you jump into large square baling, you must maximize 2 things: acreage and speed. Of course there’s other factors, but acreage x speed is what creates efficiency and profits.
I’ve sat up many a night trying different scenarios. I think the one I am in right now from a farming perspective is about as efficient as it gets.
Trust me when I say, there’s a few pieces I’d like to have, but haven’t bought because they are more of a “want” than a “need”.
On the property maintenance end, it’s an uphill battle because every immigrant and citizen around here has a pickup truck, a trailer, zero turn & chainsaw and is willing to work Saturday or even Sunday for “beer money”.
I’m actually more frustrated at the difficulty of finding large scale property maintenance work in the “off season”. I try to specialize in bigger jobs to not get into a race to the bottom for little 3 hour jobs.
But in regards to now having 2 loader tractors: I always found myself leaving a hayfield with the 535B, driving it back to shop and hooking up field mower to do contract mowing. Constant “roading”. I put 400 hours/year on it over the last 3 years. Not a recipe for longevity-especially with complicated electronics.
I feel a lot better having 2 of them.
