EOD Retired
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Yander, this is my first owned tractor but I've operated others that we had on the homestead years ago. They were larger and quite old so not a good comparison. I use my 425 mostly for a small firewood business so I do some logging with various size pine trees. I load 10' log sections up to about 33" diameter onto a trailer to haul to my place for processing. These are green and quite heavy. Often they're right at my loader limit so I'd rather have a 35 HP or so but didn't want to spend that much. I have to use chains from the bucket to lift, hence the grapple is needed. I use my side by side to plow snow but recently had a huge snow fall which required the FEL in order to open up our long driveway. Worked very well.