I want to ask you a technical question. How do you clean your creek gravel? What horse power machine do you use and is it 4 wheel drive? Is a bobcat better? The gravel gets 12 inches deep in places and is very hard to do by hand. I would need a machine that is made for hard work. I don't want to break the transmission or anything else doing this type of work . This probably would be the hardest thing I would do with this machine. I looked at the Kabotas and mahindras but really don't have the buget for a tractor right now. I have someone now that will charge $45 per hour to do it with a bobcat. The county is suppose to put colverts in and I hope this fixes the problem so I won't have to keep doing this. Tractors are less expensive than the bobcats, I've been considering both but am going to wait for now to see what the county does.
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ToadHill
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I clean out the spring gravel every year with my Kioti 35 hp tractor and loader. In low range it has more than enough power to do the job.
Robert_in_NY
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I would prefer a tractor over a skidsteer for working in creeks
mahlers
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I find it's really tough to get good traction in my creek, so I tend to use the backhoe for everything. The loader will just dig in and the wheels will start spinning...
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mahlers said:
An excavator or backhoe would be the best but both are expensive and only are useful for one or two things (well, bigger excavators are a little more useful). Given the option of a skid steer and a tractor for the task I would go with the tractor. It has better clearance, better traction (if you have R-1's) and is more useful in that you have the 3pt hitch that would allow you to use a box blade or rear blade also if you want the option of pulling material.
