Garden Tractors

[kpcola]

Does anyone make the Garden Tractors anymore. The ones you can add attachments . The ones smaller than a subcompact but bigger than lawn tractors.

 

[Yander]

Closest thing to that is the JD700 series, but get your $$$ out as they are not cheap. You could probably buy a SCUT for a little more or even the same/less money depending on the make of the SCUT.

But yeah, they will sell you one. I think Cub has a pretty nice GT also but no experience with either.

Simplicity use to have, think they still do, a Legacy that was as you describe.

 

[kpcola]

Thanks I'll check those out. I have a Cub Cadet with 54" deck but its just a lawn tractor . It does well but often need more for gardening and landscaping.

 

[Like Tractors]

Are you suggesting this doesn't qualify as a garden tractor?

 

[oldnslo]

Are you suggesting this doesn't qualify as a garden tractor?

Depends on the size of your garden

 

[stevem5215]

I guess it depends on the attachments you want. That determines size, capability and especially cost. Sure there's Subcompact sized versions. None of them are cheap.

 

[Yander]

Are you suggesting this doesn't qualify as a garden tractor?

Yes it is, and so is this!

 

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[MESSMAKER]

Husqvarna had one,the last time I looked.

 

[jaydee325]

Does anyone make the Garden Tractors anymore. The ones you can add attachments . The ones smaller than a subcompact but bigger than lawn tractors.

The only one left in the true garden tractor segment is Deere with their X500 or X700 series tractors.

Simplicity used to make an awesome garden tractor in the Legacy model, but that model is no longer offered. Their top of the line is probably close to the Deere X500 series.

Husqvarna or Cub Cadet top line offerings are built to a price point and therefore, if you look at them, they will seem lightly built compared to the Deere offerings.

All of the above offer rear tillers, front snowblowers, grass collection attachments and many others.

However, if your landscaping needs have you thinking front end loader, none of the above offer that. Deere does show a kind of front most johnny bucket but that is just a bulk material transfer tool in my mind.

So, if thinking a front end loader, then SCUTs such as the Deere 1 series or the [AFFILIATE=1, nofollow=true, newwindow=true, title="Kubota"]Kubota[/AFFILIATE] BX series is pretty much it. (I just mentionded Deere and [AFFILIATE=1, nofollow=true, newwindow=true, title="Kubota"]Kubota[/AFFILIATE] because of the familiarity of these. There are others in the SCUT category such as Massy Ferguson, LS, etc.)

 

[tacticalturnip]

Cub Cadet had the XT3, which was a rough equivalent to the X5 series Deere, though not as polished. It was one hell of a rugged machine, equipped with a shaft drive, Kohler Command, power deck lift, power steering, and a differential lock. MTD never put much into advertising them, and they were only sold at dealers; Stanley killed it off for this year after assuming full control.

The XT3 didn't come with a sleeve hitch, but one was available, which opens up a world of possibilities.

They're an absolute bargain on the used market at this point, because they have very poor resale value, but they're great machines. I absolutely loved mine, and only got rid of it to move to a larger machine.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

OR just buy a used Wheel Horse 8 speed,

you can easily make them into anything you would want in a garden tractor, and they were built to last!

SR

 

[tacticalturnip]

OR just buy a used Wheel Horse 8 speed,

I'm not sure, as I'm not a Wheel Horse guy, but I think that machine has been modified...

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I'm not sure, as I'm not a Wheel Horse guy, but I think that machine has been modified...

Just a little.

SR

 

[AndyMA]

I have a Deere X748SE 24 HO Yanmar Engine, True Cat 1 3PT I have a 5 foot york type rake, a 54 inch from mount blower adn 60" mid mount deck
12 years old and still going strong

 

[nova3930]

Not sure about new but I see old ones come up for sale around here pretty regularly for next to nothing, lotta times with implements included. Get one with implements for a few hundred bucks you come out ahead even if you have to work on it

 

[rScotty]

Does anyone make the Garden Tractors anymore. The ones you can add attachments . The ones smaller than a subcompact but bigger than lawn tractors.

I don't know if they still do, but I know what you are talking about. Yanmar and [AFFILIATE=1, nofollow=true, newwindow=true, title="Kubota"]Kubota[/AFFILIATE] - and about a dozen others - used to make tiny versions of their larger tractors. They had all the same features as much larger tractors, but were under 15 hp and weighed about 1100 lbs.
Very popular in the 1970/80s for the suburbanites.

I mention those two because they are the best known but there were others with the same features all the way back to the Farmall Cubs. Regular 3pt hitches, PTO, Turf tires.

 

[nova3930]

I mention those two because they are the best known but there were others with the same features all the way back to the Farmall Cubs. Regular 3pt hitches, PTO, Turf tires.

Case made some that looked very much like shrunken versions of their ag tractors. I almost want one just for the novelty

 

[2manyrocks]

Does anyone make the Garden Tractors anymore. The ones you can add attachments . The ones smaller than a subcompact but bigger than lawn tractors.

You might search here: https://www.tractorhouse.com/listin...Type=Diesel&Horsepower=*24&Transmission=Hydro

 

[tacticalturnip]

Case made some that looked very much like shrunken versions of their ag tractors. I almost want one just for the novelty

Can't forget the generation that followed!