kubota 5800mx or 5200mx or john deere 5055

[Luke'sScreenName]

I got 2 more attachments on the way, a disc harrow and front grapple.

What grapple did you get?

 

[fattball]

What grapple did you get?

DH1572 HARROW And SGC1060 Grapple

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

I have the SGC1572 which is one step more "heavy duty" and a foot wider. If I could go back I would get what you have. Just a lot of weight out front (882lbs vs 414lbs). I have 600lbs of concrete and loaded tires and it will still bounce the tractor around if I'm not careful.

 

[fattball]

Im mostly gonna use it for fighting black berry bushes, I tried with the loader and rototiller yesterday and lost the war. I spent hours pulling, cutting, hammering etc the twisted bushes out of the rototiller. Ill ever get the roto near blackberries again. I got 2 acres of them at my other property and some here, 10 feet of them beat the rototiller. Ill use the grapple to grab them and drag them off for burning.

 

[fattball]

One thing I hate so far about the tractor is the seat. It bottoms out every few seconds and Is giving me mini concussions and whiplash. I need to figure out a better shock system and new seat or something. I need a hans device to keep my head in place.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

One thing I hate so far about the tractor is the seat. It bottoms out every few seconds and Is giving me mini concussions and whiplash. I need to figure out a better shock system and new seat or something. I need a hans device to keep my head in place.

You have increased the seat spring setting? Took me a few tries to get it just right.
I hope the root grapple works. Mine doesn't work so well unless they are super thick.

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

For blackberry bushes and similar stuff, I'd use a BXpanded Piranha Tooth Bar to uproot as much as I could and would then carry it off with the grapple. Then I'd go over it with a rotary cutter, not a finish mower.

 

[fattball]

I need to get a rotary cutter also. I just got off the tractor the Shear bolt lost the war vs a small rock. 2nd day and shear bolt is gone I need to buy a few of them I guess no more tractorn till Monday. I thought she was on fire w hen the bolt broke it smoked a bunch.

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

As you have figured out, the rototiller is not designed or intended for brush clearing. You would be well advised to park it and wait until you have the proper equipment to do the clearing.

 

[fattball]

I was not brush clearing I was just tilling my field I tilled last year with a 300.00 tiller. I tired the blackberries yesterday and only made it 10 feet. This is my planting field it only has some small stuff growing on it mostly grass. I just got unlucky that that small rock got wedged just the right way. Ive gotten most of the bigger rocks out of the field in the last few years so there are only ones up to the size of the rock in the pictures in there nowdays. How much do shear bolt cost and are they easy to replace?